The most renowned inhabitant is Kees Verkerk who won many speed skating medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor a gold medal in the 1968 Winter Olympics .

He participated at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris for the United Kingdom and won three medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor the silver medal in the 2500 metre event beating the Frenchman Jacques Chastanié to second place and a bronze medal in the 4000 metres steeplechase .

Isolde Kostner ( born 20 March 1975 ) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won two bronze medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1994 Winter Olympics and 1 silver medal at 2002 Winter Olympics .

( Louis Richard ) Bruno Julie ( born July 11 , 1978 ) is a Mauritian bantamweight boxer who won a number of medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor international tournaments and competed in the 2008 Olympics when he won the first-ever Olympic medal for the island of Mauritius

his first Olympics as a coach were the 1988 Seoul Games ; under his reign the eventing team won gold medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1992 Barcelona , 1996 Atlanta , and 2000 Sydney Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing games , and Matthew Ryan won an individual gold medal in 1992 and Andrew Hoy won an individual silver medal in 2000 .

The previous highest individual achievements for India were two silver medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor by Norman Pritchard , an Englishman born in India , at the 1900 Paris Olympics and one silver medal won by the 2008 flagbearer Rajyavardhan Rathore at the 2004 Athens Olympics .

Zou was the second Chinese Olympian to receive three gold medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor a single Olympic Games , following Li Ning who first achieved the feat at the 1984 Summer Olympics , and was the most successful Chinese athlete at the Beijing Olympics , with the most gold medal wins .

Markus Antonius Rogan ( born 4 May 1982 in Vienna ) is an Austrian swimmer , who won two silver medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Short Course Championships in Manchester .

Nellie Vladimirovna Kim ( Russian : ; born 29 July 1957 ) is a retired Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics .

Valentina Vadimovna Popova ( ) ( born September 25 , 1972 in Bratsk ) is a Russian weightlifter who won two olympic medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor the silver medal in the 63 kg class at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal in the 75 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics .

Arnold Clas Robert Thunberg ( 5 April 1893 – 28 April 1973 ) was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 ( along with a silver and a bronze medal ) and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz .

Katharina `` Käthe '' Anna Krauß ( sometimes spelled Krauss ; 29 November 1906 – 9 January 1970 ) was a German track and field athlete , who won three gold medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 1934 Women 's World Games in London and a bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , where she was also on the German 4 × 100 m relay team .

SJSU alumni have won 19 Olympic medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor including seven gold medals ) dating back to the first gold medal won by Willie Steele in track and field in the 1948 Summer Olympics .

At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona , Miloșovici won a total of four medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor placing third in the all-around , second with the Romanian team , tying with Hungarian Henrietta Ónodi for the vault gold medal , and winning floor exercise with a perfect score of 10.0 .

His first of seven Olympic medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor achieved in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , where he won the silver medal at the vault with a score of 19.150 , which was 0.050 short of gold medalist Viktor Chukarin .

Géza Imre ( born 23 December 1974 ) is a Hungarian fencer , who has won two Olympic medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor the Épée competitions , a silver medal in 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and a bronze medal in 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta .

Ninety-nine of those medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor won at Summer Olympic Games , with the sole Winter Olympic Games medal being the silver won by Annelise Coberger in alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics ( the first Winter Games medal ever by an individual from the Southern Hemisphere ) .

She broke through to the top ranks at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won silver medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor the 50 m and 100 m freestyle , both times vanquished by Inge de Bruijn , and a bronze medal with the Swedish relay team .

At the 1960 Summer Olympics , the federation won two medals olympics.olympic_medal_honor reigning British West Indies 800 m champion George Kerr took the bronze medal in his speciality , and a team of Kerr , James Wedderburn , Gardner and Mal Spence won a second bronze in the 4×400 metres relay .