In 2004 , she married Simon Fairweather , Australian archery gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor from the 2000 Sydney Olympics .

Her uncle Yoshinobu Miyake was a gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in weightlifting at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics .

His program produced numerous NCAA champions and most recently Athens Olympics medalists Veronica Campbell ( two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor and a bronze for Jamaica in sprints ) and Deena ( Drossin ) Kastor .

Strength sports like weightlifting , powerlifting and bodybuilding have always held favor among Iranians and with the recent success of world record-holding super-heavyweight lifter Hossein Reza Zadeh , or Sidney Olympics gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor , Hossein Tavakoli , the sport has been returned to a rather high status .

He considers Hamish Carter , gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 2004 Summer Olympics event , one of his heroes .

Irish athletics has seen a heightened success rate since the year 2000 , with Sonia O'Sullivan winning two medals at 5,000 metres on the track ; gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1995 World Championships and silver at the 2000 Sydney Olympics .

She won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor hoop at the 2000 World Cup Final in Glasgow and then gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics after a hoop fumble by then-World champion , Alina Kabaeva .

She made her Olympic debut and won the bronze individual all-around medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics with a total score of 106.700 ( ribbon 26.725 , clubs 26.950 , ball 26.525 , hoop 26.500 ) behind two Russians , silver medalist Irina Tchachina and gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor Alina Kabaeva .

He is a two-time medalist at the All-Africa Games , and trains under his personal and head coach Daniel Igali , a former Nigerian-born Canadian wrestler who won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester .

After his running career , Cochran coached his younger brother Roy Cochran , who won two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1948 Summer Olympics .

Cooper also competed in the 400 metre hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico serving as Great Britain 's third-string athlete in this event , behind gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor David Hemery and bronze medallist John Sherwood .

Georgia Tech 's Angelo Taylor won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics .

In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics , Li Xiaoshuang won the men 's all-around gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor

The host nation Greece failed to add to the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor by Michalis Mouroutsos at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , though Alexandros Nikolaidis and Elisavet Mystakidou both won silver .

Ernst Kyburz ( 14 August 1898 – 16 October 1983 ) was a Swiss freestyle wrestler who won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1931 European Championships in the middleweight category .

Morris Marshall Kirksey ( September 13 , 1895 - November 25 , 1981 ) was an American track and field athlete and rugby union footballer who won two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1920 Summer Olympics .

Wayne McCullough , a gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the Commonwealth Games and a world champion in the Bantamweight division and an olympic silver medalist at the 1992 Summer Olympics representing Ireland is a native of the Shankill .

Witold Woyda ( May 10 , 1939 – May 5 , 2008 ) was a Polish fencer who won four Olympic medals in the foil between 1964 and 1972 , including two gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1972 Summer Olympics .

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , he repeated his second-place performance in the men 's 400-meter individual medley event , finishing behind gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor and fellow American Rod Strachan .

At the 2008 Olympics Estrada won against Argentina 's Ezequiel Maderna but lost to the eventual gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor England 's James DeGale 5-11 in his second bout .

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , he coached decathlete Caitlyn Jenner ( then Bruce Jenner ) and sprinter Millard Hampton to gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor .

In judo , the club has produced gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in Cécile Nowak and Catherine Fleury , who both won golds in their respective weight classes at the 1992 Summer Olympics .

Penelope ( `` Penny '' ) Heyns ( born 8 November 1974 ) is a former South African swimmer , who is best known for being the only woman in the history of the Olympic Games to have won both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events - at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games - making her South Africa 's first post-apartheid Olympic gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor following South Africa 's re-admission to the Games in 1992 .

She competed in the individual sabre event at the 2004 Summer Olympics but was upset in the quarterfinals by eventual gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor Mariel Zagunis of USA .

Future married couple Susi Susanti and Alan Budikusuma won the nation 's first 2 gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in the women 's and men 's singles events respectively at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics .

The Southeast Asian Games torch was relayed around the stadium by 4 athletes , and was finally passed on to Susi Susanti , 1992 Summer Olympics gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in Badminton .

Among notable shooters is Kateřina Emmons , who won the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor 2008 Summer Olympics .

At the 2008 Summer Olympics he reached the last eight , losing to the eventual gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor , Matteo Tagliariol .

Beckie Scott , gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in the women 's cross country skiing pursuit race in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , Utah also makes her home in Canmore .

< /ref > In the Sydney Olympics of 2000 , Audley Harrison ( who has Jamaican heritage ) became Britain 's first heavyweight gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor .

Wayne is home to the Ice Vault ice rink , where world-class figure skaters such as Johnny Weir and Stéphane Lambiel train and 1992 Olympic figure skating gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor Viktor Petrenko coaches .

Bernd Klingner ( born 28 January 1940 ) is a German sports shooter who won a gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the small bore rifle , three positions event .

Yuriy Borzakovskiy , who took home the gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the men 's 800-meter run at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , was born in Kratovo .

Leonard Leisching ( born 11 September 1934 ) is a former boxer from South Africa , bronze medalist at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver .

The replacement question was also criticised as flawed ; it described John Pius Boland as an `` Olympic gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor '' even though the medals received by winners at the 1896 Olympics were actually silver .

These included former politicians Mohammad Ali Najafi ( former Vice President under Mohammad Khatami and Minister of Education under Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ) , Ahmad Masjed-Jamei ( former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance under Khatami ) , Masoumeh Ebtekar ( former Vice President under Khatami and spokeswoman of Iranian students in Iran hostage crisis ) ; sportsmen Hadi Saei ( Taekwondo athlete and gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in 2004 Summer Olympics ) , Rasoul Khadem ( wrestler and gold medalist in 1996 Summer Olympics ) and Alireza Dabir ( wrestler and gold medalist in 2000 Summer Olympics ) ; and even Parvin Ahmadinejad , sister of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .

( Two women have won Olympic gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in both races in the same year : Valerie Brisco-Hooks in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , and Marie-José Pérec , in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta . )

It was named for gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor decathlete Dan O'Brien following the 1996 Summer Olympics , and underwent a $ 2.5 million renovation in 2011-12 .

Johnson is a member of the track and field team for the Arizona State Sun Devils , and is coached and trained by Dan O'Brien , gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in the decathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , Georgia .

On the west side of the Kibbie Dome is the Dan O'Brien outdoor track & field stadium , which hosted its first meet in 1972 and was renamed in 1996 for the Olympic gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor world champion and former world record holder in the decathlon .

Yana Klochkova , who won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in swimming at the Athens and Sydney Olympic Games was awarded the title `` in recognition of Klochkova 's outstanding services to Ukraine and her efforts to build up the country 's reputation in the Olympic arena . ''

Shirley 's career personal best score of 8036 points was achieved at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , where he finished 15th behind gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor Christian Schenk of East Germany .

Four alumni participated in the swimming and volleyball events in the Beijing Olympics , including Athens Olympics swimming gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor Ai Shibata .

Four years later , at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris , Paavo Nurmi won five gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor in track events `` wearing a conspicuous pair of white Karhu running spikes '' .

Viorica Daniela Silivaș-Harper ( ; born May 9 , 1972 ) , best known as Daniela Silivaș , is a Romanian former gymnast who is most famous for winning six medals ( three gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor two silver , and one bronze ) in women 's artistic gymnastics at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , Korea .

In 2012 , gymnast Gabby Douglas performed the Dougie upon winning the U.S. Olympic trials and 2012 Summer Olympics U.S. gymnastics team gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor vault silver-medalist McKayla Maroney taught Jenna Hager , daughter of former President of the United States George W. Bush , how to do the Dougie while the gymnastics team was touring London on top of a doubledecker bus .

Paul Neumann ( 13 June 1875 in Vienna – 9 February 1932 in Vienna ) was an Austrian swimmer and physician , who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and became the first Austrian gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor ever .

It is also used by Tanyu Kiryakov , who won gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 10 m Air Pistol at the Olympic Games in Seoul 1988 .

Ecuador has won only two medals in the Olympic Games , both gained by 20-km ( 12 mi ) racewalker Jefferson Pérez , who took gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1996 games and silver 12 years later .

Ecuador has won only two medals in the Olympic Games , both gained by 20 km racewalker Jefferson Pérez , who took gold olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1996 games , and silver 12 years later .