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Mary Low (1948 - d.)

British equestrian ~ Gold Medallist at the 1972 Olympic Games.

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Georges, Count de la Falaise (1866 - 1910)

He participated in Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the gold medal in the sabre, defeating fellow French fencer Henri Masson in the final. He also participated in Fencing at the 1...

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David George Brownlow-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter MP (1905 - 1981)

David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG (9 February 1905 – 22 October 1981), styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports officia...

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William

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Col. John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever MP (1886 - 1971)

Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor V, 1st Baron Astor of Hever DL (20 May 1886 – 19 July 1971) was a British military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor ...

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Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton (1879 - 1951)

Neville Stephen Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton, OBE (6 February 1879–9 February 1951) was a British military officer and artist. He was a son of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton and gr...

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Eleanor Holm (1913 - 2004)

Eleanor G. Holm (December 6, 1913 – January 31, 2004) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. She is best known for having been suspended from the 1936 Summer Olympics team a...

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Ran Laurie MP (1915 - 1998)

William George Ranald Mundell Laurie (4 May 1915 – 19 September 1998), known as Ran Laurie, was a British physician, rowing champion and Olympic gold medallist. His younger son is the actor and write...

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Harold Abrahams MP (1899 - 1978)

Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Ch...

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Judith B Rowley MP

Judy Grinham MBE (born 5 March 1939) is a British Olympic swimmer. She was born in the London suburb of Hampstead and grew up in Neasden. She married Pat Rowley in Neasden in 1960, in St. Catherine's C...

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Dr. Benjamin Hooper McLane Spock (1903 - 1998)

Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary ...

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Britton Chance (1913 - 2010)

Britton Chance (July 24, 1913 – November 16, 2010) was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry an...

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Carly Patterson MP

Allen, Collin, Texas, United States

Carly Patterson is a retired American gymnast who was on the senior U.S. national team in 2003 and 2004. She is best known for being the 2004 Olympic all-around champion and a member of the 2003 gold m...

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Tim Daggett MP

East Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

Tim Daggett is an American gymnast and an Olympic gold medalist. He is best known for winning the team gold medal and the individual pommel horse bronze at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He a...

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Gabby Douglas MP

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Gabby Douglas is an American artistic gymnast. As a member of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won gold medals in both the individual and team all-around competitions. ...

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Kyla Ross MP

Aliso Viejo, Orange, California, United States

Kyla Ross is an American artistic gymnast who was a member of the gold medal-winning US Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Ross was born on October 24, 1996 in Honolulu, H...

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Nino

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Maribel Vinson (1911 - 1961)

Maribel Yerxa Vinson-Owen (October 12, 1911 – February 15, 1961) was an American figure skater and coach. She competed in the disciplines of ladies singles and pair skating. As a single skater, she...

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Courtney Kupets MP

Athens, Clarke, Georgia, United States

Courtney Kupets is an American gymnast. She is best known for her 2003 and 2004 all-around national championships; her membership on the 2002 and 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and 2004 O...

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Tracee Talavera MP

Tracee Talavera is a retired artistic gymnast of Mexican-American descent who competed for the United States at the Olympics and World Championships. She was the 1981 and 1982 U.S. National All-around ...

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McKayla Maroney MP

Laguna Niguel, Orange, California, United States

McKayla Maroney is an American artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal-winning US Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is also the 2011 world vault champion and 2012 Ol...

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Samantha Peszek MP

Samantha Peszek is an American national team gymnast. She was a member of the United States' 2008 Olympic women's gymnastics team that won the silver medal and the 2007 World Championships team that wo...

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Bridget Sloan MP

Pittsboro, Hendricks, Indiana, United States

Bridget Sloan is an American gymnast. She is the 2009 All-Around World Champion and the 2009 All-Around U.S. National Champion. Sloan was a member of the silver medal U.S. women's gymnastics team at th...

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Albert Gutterson (1887 - 1965)

Albert Lovejoy Gutterson (August 23, 1887 - April 7, 1965) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. He competed for the United States in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockh...

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Kevin

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Tasha Schwikert MP

Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

Tasha Schwikert is a retired American gymnast and a member of the United States Gymnastics Hall of Fame. She was a member of the 2003 U.S. women's team that won the USA's first World team title and the...

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Peter Vidmar MP

Peter Vidmar is an American gymnast and Olympic medalist. He won gold medals in the men's all-around team competition and the pommel horse competition, as well as a silver medal in the men's all-around...

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Andrew (Andy) Murray MP

Andy Murray is a Scottish professional tennis player. Murray is the only British player to reach the Wimbledon men's singles final in the open era, as well as the first British player in over a hun...

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Kim Zmeskal MP

Dallas, Texas, United States

Kim Zmeskal is an American gymnastics coach who was a former national and world gymnastics champion in the early 1990s. In 1989, at the age of 13, Zmeskal became the U.S. Junior National Champion. Sh...

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Shawn Johnson MP

Shawn Machel Johnson (born January 19, 1992) is a retired American artistic gymnast. She was the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and all-around and floor exercise silver medalist, the 2007 all-...

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Chellsie Memmel MP

West Allis, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Chellsie Memmel is an American gymnast. She is the 2005 World All-Around Champion, making her the third American woman, after Kim Zmeskal and Shannon Miller, to become World Champion in the All-Around....

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Shannon Miller MP

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Shannon Lee Miller is a former artistic gymnast from Edmond, Oklahoma. She was the 1993 and 1994 World All-Around Champion, the 1996 Olympics balance beam gold medalist, the 1995 Pan Am Games all-aroun...

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James Rector (1884 - 1949)

) John "James" Alcorn Rector (June 22, 1884 - March 10, 1949) was an American athlete. He was the first Arkansas athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. James Rector was born in Hot Springs, Ark...

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Jamie Dantzscher MP

Jamie Annette Dantzscher (born May 2, 1982 in Canoga Park, California, U.S.) is a retired American gymnast. She was a member of the bronze model-winning United States women's artistic gymnastics team a...

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Jared

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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Dawn Fraser MP

Dawn Fraser AO, MBE (born 4 September 1937) is an Australian champion swimmer and politician. She is one of only three swimmers to win the same Olympic event three times – in her case the 100 metres fr...

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James Thompson MP

James Thompson (born 18 November 1986) is a South African rower. He won a gold medal in the Men's lightweight coxless four event at the 2012 Summer Olympics James grew up in Cape Town before heading ...

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Kerri Strug MP

Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States

Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is a retired American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona. She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that repres...

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Fanny Blankers-Koen MP (1918 - 2004)

Fanny Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a 30 year old mother of two, during a time when many dis...

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Charlotte Reinagle Sterry MP (1870 - 1966)

Charlotte Cooper Sterry nee Cooper (1870-1966) "All time tennis legend, five times Wimbledon Ladies Singles champion and first woman ever to become an Olympic Champion Charlotte Reinagle Cooper w...

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Jesse Owens MP (1913 - 1980)

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens born September 12, 1913 died March 31, 1980 (complications due to Lung Cancer) nickname "Jesse", The Buckeye Bullet, JC Owens buried Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicag...

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Hannes Petter Kolehmainen (1889 - 1966)

Juho Pietari "Hannes" Kolehmainen (9 December 1889, Kuopio – 11 January 1966) was a Finnish long-distance runner. He is considered to be the first of a generation of great Finnish long distance runners...

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Johnny Weissmuller MP (1904 - 1984)

American swimmer (Olympic gold-medalist) and actor, known as the 'original Tarzan'. (For more information, see Wikipedia... ) Johnny Weissmuller was born in 1904 in Hungary, which then was part of ...

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Bart Conner MP

Bart Conner born March 28, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois married Nadia Comăneci Bart Conner is a former American gymnast who, as a member of the gold medal-winning men's gymnastics team at the ...

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Nadia Comăneci MP

Nadia Comăneci Born November 12, 1961 Married Bart Connor Nadia Comaneci is one of the most-celebrated gymnasts in the history of the sport. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec, Can...

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Abebe Bikila MP (1932 - 1973)

Abebe Bikila (አበበ ቢቂላ) (August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was a two-time Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia. Abebe Bikila grew up in a typical village setting and received some church education...

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Gerd Kanter MP

Tallinn, Harjumaa

Gerd Kanter (sündinud 6. mail 1979 Tallinnas) on eesti kettaheitja. Pärast 1. klassi lõpetamist läks ta koos vanematega Tallinnast elama Vigalasse ning asus õppima Vana-Vigala põhikooli. Keskkooli lä...

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Sir Chris Hoy MP

Sir Christopher Andrew "Chris" Hoy, MBE (born 23 March 1976 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish track cyclist representing Great Britain and Scotland. He is a multiple world champion and Olympic Game...

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Captain Mark Phillips MP

"Captain Mark Anthony Peter Phillips, CVO, ADC(P) (born 22 September 1948) is a British Olympic gold-medal-winning horseman and ex-husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he had two children. He rem...

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Elizabeth Beisel MP

Elizabeth Beisel is an American college and international swimmer who specializes in backstroke and individual medley events. She has won a total of four medals in major international competition, thre...

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Rebecca Adlington MP

Rebecca "Becky" Adlington , OBE (born 17 February 1989), is a British freestyle swimmer. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in the 400 m and 800 m, breaking the 19 year-old world record ...

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Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips MP

Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips , MBE (born 15 May 1981) is the second child and only daughter of Princess Anne, the Princess Royal and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips .

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Ruta Meilutyte MP

Plymouth, UK

Ruta Meilutyte was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1997. She has two brothers who are at university in the UK. Her mother died when she was only four years old and she was raised by her grandmother, Aldon...

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Alexandra Raisman MP

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Alexandra (Aly) Raisman (born May 25, 1994, in Needham, Massachusetts) is an American artistic gymnast who is a three-year member of the U.S. national gymnastics team. Raisman trains at Brestyan's Gymn...

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Jordyn Wieber MP

DeWitt, Clinton, Michigan, United States

Jordyn Wieber is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2011 World All-Around Champion and is competing for the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where won the gold medal in the team competi...

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Ivano Balić MP

[ ] Ivano Balić (born April 1, 1979 in Split) is a Croatian handballer. He is considered to be one of the best handball players in the world and was voted 6 times in a row most valuable player in maj...

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Bradley Marc Wiggins MP

Bradley Marc Wiggins , CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British professional track and road cyclist, riding for the UCI ProTeam Team Sky. He won the 2012 Tour de France, becoming the first British winner ...

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Bruce Jenner MP

Calabasas, CA, USA

William Bruce Jenner is a former U.S. track and field athlete, motivational speaker, socialite, and television personality. Jenner is principally for winning the gold medal for decathlon in the Montr...

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Mariel Zagunis MP

Mariel Zagunis is an American sabre fencer. She won the gold medals in the individual sabre at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is only the second American ever to have won a ...

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Abby Wambach MP

Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach is an American professional soccer player, coach and Olympic gold medalist. She played college soccer for the University of Florida, where she was a member of a national uni...

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Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave CBE DL MP

WIP - CJB construction site!

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Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CBE MP

Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CBE (born 23 March 1929) - English former athlete. Ran the first mile in less than 4 minutes. Became a distinguished neurologist and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, bef...

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Kerri Walsh MP

Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States

Kerri Lee Walsh-Jennings, better known as Kerri Walsh, is an American professional beach volleyball player. Along with teammate Misty May-Treanor, she won the gold medal in women's beach volleyball a...

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Liz McColgan MP

Scotland

Elizabeth ("Liz") McColgan (née Lynch) MBE (born 24 May 1964) is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the ...

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Carlos Alberto

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Rosa Maria

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Wyndham Halswelle (1882 - 1915)

Wyndham Halswelle (30 May 1882 – 31 March 1915) was a British athlete. He won the controversial 400 m race at the 1908 Summer Olympics, becoming the only athlete to win an Olympic title by a walkover. ...

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Arthur William Charles Wentworth Gore (1868 - 1928)

Arthur Gore Born: January 02, 1868 Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England Died: December 01, 1928 International Tennis Hall of Fame Holding the record for most tournament appearances at Wimbledon with 3...

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Ritva

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Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, KBE MP

Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, KBE, often known as Seb Coe, is an English former athlete and politician. Seb Coe is considered one of the greatest middle-distance runners of all time. He won the B...

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Alvin Christian Kraenzlein MP (1876 - 1928)

Alvin Christian Kraenzlein (December 12, 1876 – January 6, 1928) was an American athlete. He was the first sportsman to win four Olympic titles in a single Olympic Games. As of 2008[update], he is stil...

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Alexander Nikolaievich

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Jeannie Michelle Alice

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Hannes Waldemar

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Félix

Havana, Havana, Cuba

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Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent, CBE MP

Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent, CBE born October 10, 1970 married Demetra Koutsoukos Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent is an English rower and broadcaster. During his rowing career, he won 10 world cham...

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Edoardo Mangiarotti MP (1919 - 2012)

The Italian fencer, Edoardo Mangiarotti , was the most decorated fencer in the history of the sport. He won a record 13 Olympic medals (six gold, five silver, two bronze) in fencing from 1936 to 1960 -...

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Dario Mangiarotti (1915 - 2010)

Dario Mangiarotti competed in two Olympic Games, winning gold in the 1952 team épée, and two silvers, in the 1948 team épée, and the 1952 individual épée. He grew up in a fencing family as his father, ...

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Mark Andrew Spitz MP

Mark Andrew Spitz Born 10 Feb 1950 in Modesto, California USA. Son of Arnold Spitz and Lenore Sylvia Smith American swimmer, winner of seven gold medal victories in one Olympiad. And, each of...

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Carol Zilli MP

from Olympics at SportsReference.com and Wikipedia Carol Lewis was a top long jumper for the United States in the 1980s. She is the sister of Carl Lewis, possibly the greatest ever track & field at...

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Carl Lewis MP

Medford, Burlington, New Jersey, United States

Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is considered by many to be the greatest track & field athlete of all time. With nine Olympic gold medals, 10 Olympic medals, and eight gold medals at...

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Mahé Drysdale MP

Alexander Mahé Owens Drysdale , MNZM (born 19 November 1978 in Melbourne, Australia) is a New Zealand rower and five-time World Champion single sculler. He won Bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for S...

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Valerie Adams MP

Valerie Kasanita Adams (formerly known as Valerie Vili), ONZM (born 6 October 1984) is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning women's Olympic champion and three-time World champion, two-ti...

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Ryan Lochte MP

Daytona Beach, Florida, United States

Ryan Steven Lochte (born August 3, 1984) is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist (three gold, two silver, one bronze). As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×20...

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Alicia Sacramone MP

Alicia Marie Sacramone is an American artistic gymnast. Sacramone began gymnastics at the age of eight, began competing in the elite ranks in 2002 and joined the U.S. national team in 2003. At the U....

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Michael Phelps MP

Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Michael Phelps is an American swimmer, most notable for being the most decorated Olympian of all time with 19 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for gold medals (15) and gold medals in indi...

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Launceston Elliot MP (1874 - 1930)

Launceston Elliot (9 June 1874 – 8 August 1930) was a Scottish weightlifter. He was the first British Olympic champion. Launceston Elliot was born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, after which ...

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Dmitriy

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Aleksandr

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Marion Farquhar (1879 - 1965)

) Marion Jones Farquhar (born November 2, 1879 in Gold Hill, Nevada, USA – March 14, 1965) is a former American female tennis player. She won the women's singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S. Cham...

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Petria

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Lauren

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Matthew

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Simon

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Grant

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Ian

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Earvin

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