Bart Conner ( born March 28 , 1958 , in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American former gymnast who , as a member of the goldolympics.olympic_medal_honormen 's gymnastics team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games won an individual gold on the parallel bars .
Perry 's most successful swimming student was his nephew , Don Schollander , a five-time Olympic goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics .
At the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne , despite competing with a sprained ankle , Rotman won both the C-1 10000 m and the C-1 1000 m events , equaling Swede Gert Fredriksson 's performance who , at the same Olympics , won goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorboth individual kayak events .
He won three goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , becoming , along with Helene Madison of United States , the most successful athlete there .
Discuss thrower Virgilijus Alekna is the most successful Olympic athlete of independent Lithuania , having won goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorin the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens games , as well as a bronze in 2008 Beijing Olympics and numerous World Championship medals .
It is worth noting that the first Soviet Olympic goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 1988 Seoul Olympics , Marina Lobatch , was a Belarusian .
Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz ( ; born September 30 , 1980 ) is a Cuban boxer who won goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in the bantamweight ( 54 kg ) division .
In the second round he faced the toughest opponent of his young career , Hadi Saei of Iran who had won goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat both the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships and the 2004 Olympic Games .
Hadi Saei Bonehkohal ( , born June 10 , 1976 in Rey ) is a former Iranian taekwondo athlete who became the most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history after winning goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 2008 Summer Olympics .
2002 World champion Mikhail Nestruyev of Russia had attained a score of 591 to break a new Olympic record in the qualification round , until Chinese shooter and six-time Olympian Wang Yifu caught him up on the last shot to grab his second Olympic goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe first being done in Barcelona 1992 ) in the event by an immensely thin 0.2-point margin , finishing with a total of 690.0 to 689.8 .
He became Russian champion in 2003 and 2004 but did not participate in the 2004 Summer Olympics as his country chose to send Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov , who had lost to him but eventually won Olympic goldolympics.olympic_medal_honor
Bente Skari won the Olympic goldolympics.olympic_medal_honor2002 , but did not defend her status , having retired after the 2003 World Championship .
Only three years after his defection , he was at the 1984 Olympics as the individual coach of all-around champion Mary Lou Retton and uneven bars goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorJulianne McNamara .
Stories covered extensively by Lacy included the Grand Slam tennis titles won by Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe two decades apart , Wilma Rudolph 's three track & field goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , and Lee Elder playing at Augusta National in 1975 as the first black golfer in The Masters tournament .
In 2002 , Alisa Camplin competing at the 2012 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City became Australia 's first female Winter Olympics goldolympics.olympic_medal_honor.
Yevgeny Viktorovich Sadovyi ( ; born 19 January 1973 ) is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer who won three goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona and was subsequently chosen by `` Swimming World magazine '' as the Male World Swimmer of the Year .
The success of Halina Konopacka , a Polish athlete who won goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe discus throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics , inspired Walasiewicz to join the local branch of Sokół , a Polish sports and patriotic organization active among the Polish diaspora .
In the 2006 Winter Olympics men 's event , 39-year-old Canadian Duff Gibson beat countryman and world champion Jeff Pain to become the oldest individual goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the Winter Games .
And María Caridad Colón from Cuba , future goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorin Javelin Throw at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow , Soviet Union , won gold in Javelin Throw and bronze in the Shot Put event .
His grandson , Jimmy Shea , competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , Utah in his honor , winning goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe Skeleton .
Kim Il ( born July 25 , 1971 ) is a North Korean wrestler who won Olympic goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorin men 's freestyle wrestling , light flyweight ( –48 kg ) , in 1992 and 1996 .
Markov was also the coach of compatriot Tereza Marinova ( between 1997 and 2008 ) , who won goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe same discipline at the 2000 Olympics .
Jonathan Scott Sieben , OAM ( born 24 August 1966 ) is an Australian former butterfly swimmer of the 1980s , who won goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 200-metre butterfly at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Olympics .
Pedro Nolasco won a bronze in boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics and in 2004 Félix Sánchez won a goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 400 meter hurdles .
Outside of the two top high jumpers , Antonietta Di Martino and Ruth Beitia had also performed well that season and 2004 Olympic goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorYelena Slesarenko was another strong contender .
Peter Maxwell Evans ( born 1 August 1961 ) is an Australian former breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s , who won four Olympic medals , most notably a goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 4×100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet .
The town is known for its freestyle skiing centre whose operator is the Winter Olympic goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorAleš Valenta .
Eric Arthur Heiden ( born June 14 , 1958 , in Madison , Wisconsin ) is an American former long track speed skater and road cyclist who won all of the men 's speed skating races , and thus an unprecedented five individual goldolympics.olympic_medal_honor, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid , New York , United States .
The following year , she began her career as a coach , helping put a 14-year-old Eric Heiden on the road to the 1980 Winter Olympics , where he won five goldolympics.olympic_medal_honor.
These games also saw gymnast Vitaly Scherbo equal the record for most individual goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat a single Games set by Eric Heiden in the 1980 Winter Games , with five .
Mark Anthony Kerry ( born 4 August 1959 ) is an Australian former backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s , who won three Olympic medals , including a goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics as the backstroker for the `` Quietly Confident Quartet '' .
When Bill Johnson won downhill goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 1984 Winter Olympics on the Flexon Comp , the boot became a major force in the high-end market .
Naoto Tajima , who won goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe triple jump ( setting a new world record in that event ) , and bronze in the long jump , in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , was born in Iwakuni .
Ōshima also participated in the same event in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , but came in sixth place , while teammates Naoto Tajima and Masao Harada took the goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorsilver medals , respectively .
The minor medallists in that event , Naoto Tajima and Masao Harada , were the top two in the long jump here and took goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorsilver in the triple jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics two years later .
Among them were Käthe Krauß ( who won two silvers in the sprints ) , 1936 Berlin Olympics champion Gisela Mauermayer ( who won the discus and a silver in the shot put ) and Lisa Gelius , who completed a usual double of silver in the hurdles and goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe javelin throw .
From 1934 to 1939 Schröder was the second ranked shot putter in Germany behind Gisela Mauermayer ( who had won shot put goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 1934 Women 's World Games and discus gold at the 1936 Summer Olympics ) .
She won goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 1934 European Aquatics Championships ( with Willy den Ouden , Rie Mastenbroek and Ans Timmermans ) and 1936 Summer Olympics ( with den Ouden , Mastenbroek and Tini Wagner ) in the women 's 4×100 m freestyle relay .
It is the birthplace of Kelemen Mikes , famous Hungarian political figure and essayist and Ecaterina Szabo , goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorgymnast at the 1984 Olympics .
Belgian Hubert Van Innis took two goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorand one silver and would add to his tally twenty years later in Antwerp .
At the 1980 Olympics he was , together with Frank Ullrich the dominant biathlete taking goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorin the 20 km and on the relay and bronze in the 10 km .
Kelly 's father John B. Kelly , Sr. won two goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 1920 Summer Olympics , capturing both the single scull ( 1x ) and the double scull ( 2x ) .
Born in São Bernardo do Campo , São Paulo , Hoyama broke the Brazilian record of most goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorin the Pan American Games , which used to belong to the Brazilian swimmer Gustavo Borges and participated in every Olympic game since debuting as an Olympian at the 1992 Olympic Games and competed in the 2012 Olympic Games , where he plans to retire as an Olympian .
Deborah Compagnoni ( ; born 4 June 1970 ) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 1992 , 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics .
Apart from the royal family the most famous person from Lage Vuursche is athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen , four times goldolympics.olympic_medal_honorin the 1948 Summer Olympics .