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Olympic Movement ‧ since 1850 Participants • Sports • Hosts NL • EN • [ FR] • [ DE] • [ EU] • [ETC] • • • Special Olympics historic actores William Penny BROOKES ‧ ‧ Pierre de FREDY, baron de COUBERTIN ‧ 1863-1937 ‧ * Evangelis ZAPPAS ‧ ‧ ‧ initiatives a/o founder PARA-lympics Eunice Kennedy SHRIVER ‧ ‧ founder SPECIAL Olympics ‧ Sir Ludwig GUTTMANN ‧ 1899-1980 ‧ neuro...
Includes both Court (or "Real") Tennis and Lawn Tennis (commonly called "Tennis") Court Tennis description: Not limited to members of the International Tennis Hall of Fame International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum web site (including list of inductees):
Legende Športa /Sports Legends Nogomet / Soccer NK Hajduk Hajdukova stranica , momčadi Hajduka , Torcida Luka Kaliterna (1893-1984) Fabijan Kaliterna (1886-1952) Veljko Poduje (1907-1993) Šime Poduje (1905-1966) Gajo Raffanelli (1913-1988)
This project focuses on people who have made significant contributions to the automobile industry including race car drivers.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes. Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance w...
Siia projekti soovime Genist kokku koguda tuntumaid Eesti sportlasi aga ka sporditegelasi (ROK presidendid jms) läbi kõigi ajajärkude.
This project is dedicated to all those who have made baseball America's pastime. Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitch...
FOUNDERS & CONTRIBUTERS Walter Camp , known as the "Father of American Football" is the person who founded the rules for what we know as American Football. Fielding Yost invented the position of linebacker, co-created the first ever bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl, with then legendary UM athletic director Charles Baird, invented the fieldhouse concept that bears his name, and supervised the...
A project intended to record all the Comrades Gold medal winners on our Geni tree (but not limited to Gold medal winners): Heroes are usually associated with fanfares, limelight and maximum exposure, which is generally the case with Comrades Marathon, with the winners, especially in the modern age, being accorded huge worldwide TV and media coverage. We remember all past "Heroes" and not just t...
This project is a place to list famous and "historic" Olympians and perhaps connect them to Geni profiles. Youngest Olympic Champions in History The youngest athlete to participate at the Modern Olympics was Dimitrios Loundras of Greece who was 10 years, 216 days old when he competed in men's team parallel bars gymnastics at the 1896 Games in Athens. Inge Sørensen of Denmark was 12 yrs,...
The modern Olympics have been taking place since 1896 (Winter Olympics since 1924). This project is designed to identify the people who have had the incredible skill and perseverance to win a medal. Archery: Simon Fairweather Athletics: Harold Abrahams - Olympic gold 100m runner - 1924 Gold medal winner, 100 yard Sebastian Coe Cathy Freeman Gerd Kanter Estonian Discus Throwe...
Scope of Project Famous Cricketers from around the world. Books "100 Great Westindian Test Cricketers, " by Bridgette Lawrence with Reg Scarlett. Links Cricket Test cricket List of West Indies Test cricketers West Indies Cricket: A Select Bibliography of Resources List of West Indies women Test cricketers Women's Test cricket Cricket
Please note that this refers to the hall of fame for American football , not association football (soccer) . Pro Football Hall of Fame Web site: Hall of Famers by Year of Enshrinement
The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it is both a museum and a hall of fame. It holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League (NHL) records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup. Originally in Kingston, Ontario, the Hockey Hall of Fame was first established in 1943 under the leadership of James T...
The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in international men's football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the governing body for football in Brazil. They are a member of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) since 1923 and also a member of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) since 1916. Brazil is the most successf...
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, and the honoring of persons who have excelled in playing, mana...
SPORT : football • AFRICA ‧ Democratic Republic of the Congo ‧ RDC FR: [ égorie:Footballeur_congolais_( RDC) FR] EL: [ Κατηγορία:Ποδοσφαιριστές_από_τ η_Λαϊκή_Δημοκρατία_του_Κονγκό EL] —A— Patrick Apataki ‧ ‧ • Ngondola Assombalanga ‧ ‧ • —B— Dikilu Bageta ‧ ‧ • Jean-Kasongo Banza ‧ ‧ • Yannick Bapupa ‧ ‧ • Cédric Baseya ‧ ‧ • Mbala Mbuta Biscotte ‧ ‧ • Eric Bokanga ‧ ‧ • Gla...
The 1969 New York Mets season was the team's eighth as a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise and culminated with them winning the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. They played their home games at Shea Stadium. The team was managed by Gil Hodges. The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets", a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1...
Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is the world's most popular sport. This project is for listing the profiles of football players with an international career . For profiles to be eligible they should: be Public, with a photo and biography be connected to the World Tree be inter...
Brasi ‧ 2012 ‧ Summer Olympics Summer : GOLD [Au] ‧ 20x ‧ SIL-ver ‧ 25x ‧ BR-onze: 45x ‧ ALL ‧ 2015 ‧ ♀+♂ ‧ SPORTERS GOLD SILVER BRONZE SPORTS FLAG BEARERS SPORTS & WINNERS before 2012 TRACK & FIELD 1952 ‧ ♂ ‧ high jump ‧ 1.98 ‧ BRO • José Telles da CONCEIÇÃO ‧ 23-mai 1931 ‧ • 1952 ‧ ♂ ‧ triple jump ‧ 16.22 ‧ GOL • Adhemar Ferreira da ...
London 2012 Summer Olympic Games - Events and Results: Main Page This page will be adapted for Rio 2016! This sub-project of the London 2012 Summer Olympics project is the Main Sports Events and results page, listing all events taking place and in due course results as they happen. In order to make the page more manageable there are separate pages for the following disciplines: Athl...
The Championships, Wimbledon , or simply Wimbledon (25 June – 8 July in 2012), is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. Wimbledon traditions include a strict dress code for competitors, the eating of strawberries and cream by the spectators, and Royal patronage. The to...
College Football Hall of Fame Web site: The National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame represents the highest level of achievement for players and coaches, a shrine for amateur football. Of the nearly 5 million players and coaches who have participated in college football in the last 141 years, just over a thousand have been inducted into the Hall.
At one time, baseball in the United States was segregated. The Blacks played with the Negro Leagues! The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginni...
Belgium ‧ 2012 ‧ Summer Olympics DEELNEMERS ë_op_de_Olympische_Zomerspelen _2012 Atletiek Badminton Gewichtheffen Gymnastiek Hockey Judo Kanovaren Paardensport Roeien Schietsport Tafeltennis Tennis Triatlon Wielersport Zeilen Zwemmen Belgian OLYMPIANS with life-long-respects & -proud Archery : ⓿ ‧ x ‧ ⓵ ‧ 11x ‧ ⓶ ‧ 6x ‧ ⓷ ‧ 3x ‧ ❹ ‧ ❺ ‧ ❻ ‧ ❼ ...
This project celebrates gymnasts who have competed on the U.S. national team. Both past and present gymnasts, male and female, are covered by the scope of the project. The fields of gymnastics in the United States include artistic, rhythmic, acrobatic, and trampoline and tumbling (T&T). When adding a gymnast to the project, please list them under the proper heading(s) and include their years ...
Marathon Runners From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 miles and 385 yards),[1] that is usually run as a road race. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon (the namesake of the race) to Athens. The m...