Gaetan Boucher ( 1000 m and 1500 m in 1984 ) , Catriona Le May Doan ( 500 m in 1998 and 2002 ) , Cindy Klassen ( 1500 m in 2006 ) , Clara Hughes ( 5000 m in 2006 ) and Christine Nesbitt ( 1000 m in 2010 ) are Canada 's gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in speed skating .

Australia has generally been a world power in Olympic swimming since the 1956 Melbourne Olympics : swimmers like Shane Gould , Dawn Fraser , Ian Thorpe and Kieren Perkins have taken multiple gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor .

Elliott was unfortunate to miss out on selection for the 1500m at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , losing out to the eventual gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor silver medallists , Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram , and the world record holder at the time , Steve Ovett .

Scown 's son-in-law is Rob Waddell , who won a rowing gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 2000 Olympics .

Born in Budapest , he is the son of Imre Németh who won the Olympic gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the hammer throw at the 1948 Summer Olympics .

Athletics was the only discipline which saw participation of recent Olympic gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor , with American sprinter Alice Brown taking part in women 's 100-metre run , and West German Claudia Losch competing in shot put .

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , Alex Schwazer , the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in the 50-kilometer race walk in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , tested positive for EPO and was disqualified .

Somjit Jongjohor ( , , ; born January 19 , 1975 ) is an amateur Thai boxer best known for winning gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in the flyweight division at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships and at the Beijing 2008 Olympics .

The first time he watched the sport on television was during the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer where one of his heroes , Chae Ji-Hoon , took gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 500 m and silver in the 1000 m for South Korea .

While the work he did in the late 1960s in Finland is generally acknowledged to have led to the renaissance in Finnish distance running in the 1970s ( with Pekka Vasala winning gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1500 metres at the 1972 Munich Olympics and Lasse Virén winning gold in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres at the 1972 Olympics and the 1976 Montreal Olympics ) , his coaching experiences in Mexico and Venezuela were less successful .

Turkson competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , Georgia , where he was stopped in the second round of the men 's heavyweight division ( – 91 kg ) by Cuba 's defending champion and later gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor Félix Savón after a knock-out in the first round .

Guy Drut ( born 6 December 1950 ) is an Olympic champion and politician who won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the 110m hurdles .

By the time the 1932 Summer Olympics arrived , the 18-year-old American swimmer Eleanor Holm had already cut 2 seconds off her world record , and Holm easily defeated Mealing by 2 seconds to claim the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor

Joan Benoit Samuelson ( born May 16 , 1957 ) is an American marathon runner who won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , the year that the women 's marathon was introduced .

Cretzmeyer excelled in several track and field events , including long jump , high jump , and javelin , representing his school from 1934 until 1936 , the year that he both graduated and was also an alternate for the Berlin Summer Olympics , in the hurdles event ( the actual team was world recordholder Forrest Towns , who won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor and Fritz Pollard , Jr. , who won bronze ) .

Emil Zátopek ( ; 19 September 1922 – 22 November 2000 ) was a Czechoslovak long-distance runner best known for winning three gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki .

Hicham El Guerrouj won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor for Morocco at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 1500 metres and 5000 metres and holds several world records in the mile run .

They were part of the US Tennis Team at the Athens Olympics in 2004 , where they lost in the quarter-finals to eventual gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor Fernando González and Nicolás Massú of Chile .

Figure skater Alexei Yagudin became a gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor skating to this music in the 2002 Winter Olympics .

The most successful students are Alexei Urmanov the 1994 Winter Olympics champion , Alexei Yagudin the 2002 Winter Olympics сhampion , a four-time World Champion ( 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2002 ) , and Evgeni Plushenko the 2006 Winter Olympics champion , 2014 Winter Olympics gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor , two-time Olympic silver medalist , and three-time World champion .

When he was 15 , he was chosen for the national senior squad , number two to the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the Moscow Olympics , Duncan Goodhew .

In August , Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Yong-dae won mixed doubles gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games , beating Lilyana Natsir and Nova Widianto of Indonesia .

Tiffany Lisa Cohen ( born June 11 , 1966 ) is an American former swimmer who was a double gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1984 Summer Olympics ( 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle ) .

He won two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp , in the 200 m and 400 m events , both times with Swedish Thor Henning as silver medalist .

Only two bronze medals were awarded to the team : one in judo , by Ilias Iliadis , an Olympic gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , and the other in rowing , by Alexandra Tsiavou ( sixth in Beijing ) , and Christina Giazitzidou .

Emil Ernst Väre ( 28 September 1885 – 31 January 1974 ) was a Finnish wrestler who won the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in the lightweight class at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics .

`` Ergänzungs-Jagdgruppe Merseburg '' at the time was under the command of `` Major '' ( Major ) Gotthard Handrick , the 1936 Olympic gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor and former commander of `` Jagdgruppe 88 '' of the `` Condor Legion '' during the Spanish Civil War .

Sergey Viktorovich Koplyakov ( ; born 23 January 1959 ) is a Russian-Belarusian swimmer who won two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor competing for the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics .

In 1998 , he won the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor clocking the fastest time in all four runs , the first in Olympic history in the men 's singles to do so ( Vera Zozula of the Soviet Union did that feat in the women 's singles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , New York . )

Martial arts like judo have also brought many medals to this country , namely Elnur Mammadli who conquered gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the European Championships and 2008 Summer Olympics in the -73 kg category .

Edwin Corley Moses ( born August 31 , 1955 ) is an American former track and field athlete , who won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics .

Denise Lewis , of Jamaican heritage , won heptathlon gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 2000 Sydney Olympics , a games where 13 of Britain 's 18 track and field representatives had Afro-Caribbean roots .

Melvin Emery `` Mel '' Patton ( November 16 , 1924 – May 9 , 2014 ) was an American track and field athlete , who won two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1948 Summer Olympics .

Henry Carr ( November 27 , 1941 – May 29 , 2015 ) was an American track and field athlete who won two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , Japan .

Major Derek Swithin Allhusen , CVO ( 9 January 1914 – 24 April 2000 ) was an English equestrian who was a 54-year-old grandfather when he rode Lochinvar to team gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor individual silver medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico .

She also won Burghley Horse Trials in 1976 ( on 'Warrior ' ) , and competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , winning team gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor Great Britain , alongside Richard Meade , Reuben Jones and Derek Allhusen .

The Manor was bought in 1946 by Major Derek Allhusen , who achieved fame as a horseman winning team gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor individual silver at the 1968 Summer Olympics .

Reg coached Judy Grinham when she won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1956 Summer Olympics and Edna Child at the 1950 British Empire Games .

She thus became only the third woman in history to do the 800 m and 1500 m double ( after Tatyana Kazankina of the Soviet Union in 1976 and Svetlana Masterkova of Russia in 1996 ) , and Britain 's first double gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the same games since Albert Hill in 1920 .

The 1996 winners , Michael Johnson and Gail Devers , each won two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at that year 's Olympics in Atlanta .

The most famous athlete ever to have represented Sparta is the former 800 metres world record-holder and current 1000 and 800 metres distance indoors world record-holder Wilson Kipketer , who won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor representing Sparta in three successive editions of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics , and took medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens .

Three Belgian athletes have won Olympic gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor : Tia Hellebaut ( high jump , 2008 ) , Gaston Roelants ( 3000 m steeplechase , 1964 ) and Gaston Reiff ( 5000 m , 1948 ) .

In October 1968 , Tommie Smith and John Carlos , while being awarded the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor bronze medals , respectively , at the 1968 Summer Olympics , donned human rights badges and each raised a black-gloved Black Power salute during their podium ceremony .

Elena Dementieva was the reigning champion having won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 2008 Olympics in Beijing .

Both Hasely Crawford , the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor , and Don Quarrie , the silver medallist , in the 1976 Montreal Olympics 100 m event have expressed the belief that with Williams there a faster time , possibly a new world record , would have happened .

He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in the 200 metres where he reached the final and finished 5th ( Pietro Mennea took the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor .

Another long-distance runner , Lasse Virén ( born 1949 ) , won a total of four gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor during the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics .

At the Athens Olympics in August 2004 , Andreev made the third round , and lost only to the eventual gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor , Chilean Nicolás Massú .

He was coach of David Nalbandian when he reached the final of the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and was coaching Nicolás Massú at the 2004 Athens Olympics , where the Chilean won two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor .

Former athlete Otis Davis , who won two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in track and field events at the 1960 Summer Olympics , works at Union City High School as coach , mentor and verification officer .