

Siia projekti soovime Genist kokku koguda tuntumaid Eesti sportlasi aga ka sporditegelasi (ROK presidendid, spordiajakirjanikud, jms.) läbi kõigi ajajärkude. Kuna see projekt Eesti sport kipub liiga mahukaks muutuma - on tulnud ettepanek teha selle asemel eraldi projektid , nagu: Eesti sport - ujujad Eesti sport - tõstjad Eesti sport - suusatajad Eesti sport - maadlejad Eesti sport...
Swedish celebrities with initial focus on the top 100 historical swedes. Geneastar list of celebrities with known relatives Notable famous Swedes.
This is a project for those who have been involved with the NBA.The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world. It has thirty franchised member clubs (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada), and is an active member of USA Basketball ...
The following list is of notable footballers from Italy. This list includes living and deceased Italian well-known people linked to the world of Italian football that are present on GENi as well as on The English Wikipedia.
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...
is an individual or team sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take ...
New Zealand national rugby union team=The New Zealand national rugby union team , called the All Blacks , represents New Zealand in men's rugby union, which is known as the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cups, in 2011 and 2015 as well as the inaugural tournament in 1987.* Nickname: All Blacks * Emblem: Silver Fern* Union: New Zealand Rugby Union * Head Coach: Ian Foster ...
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 pitcher...
The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball franchise based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and played at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Former U.S. Senator Herb Kohl was the long-time owner of the team, with John...
Olympic Movement ‧ since 1850 Participants • Sports • Hosts Vanderlei Cordeiro DE LIMA - marathon - lights the Olympic Flame Opening Ceremony Rio 2016 Olympic Games - Maracana stadium Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, 05 August 2016. © EPA/Lukas SCHULZE NL • XYZ • EN • [ FR] • [ DE] • [ EU] • [ETC] • • • Special Olympics historic actores William Penny BROOKES ‧ x ‧ Pierre de FRED...
The Philadephia 76ers (also commonly known as the Sixers ) are an American professional basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 and originally known as the Syracuse Nationals , they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA, and one...
History of the New Jersey Nets =The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in New York City. The Nets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home games at the Barclays Center, located in the borough of Brooklyn. They are one of two NBA teams located in New York City; t...
The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Clippers play their home games at the Staples Center, an arena shared with the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National B...
The United States competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022. Please check back as Olympians are added to this project. Alpine skiing Breezy Johnson Paula Moltzan Nina O'Brien Mikaela Shiffrin Biathlon Susan Dunklee Clare Egan Deedra Irwin Joanne Reid Jake Brown Sean Doherty Leif Nordgren Paul Schommer Bobsled Th...
This project focuses on the athletes expected to represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Please note that the list below is of course incomplete; your help with this project is greatly appreciated!=Biathlon=Based on their Nations Cup ranking in the 2016-2017 Biathlon World Cup, the United States qualified 5 men and 5 women.=Curling===Men's==Based on ...
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) and are one of the Original Six teams of the league. Founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seasons the team was called the Detroit Falcon...
This is a project for people who have achieved some degree of notability in the world of ice speed skating. Ideally, we will add the profiles of all internationally-competitive speed skaters for whom we have built trees on Geni.> Definition: a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating include long-...
A project to recognise the great achievements of Australian Athletes=> Archery: *Carole Toy*Christopher Blake*David Anear*David Barnes*Deonne Bridger*Graeme Telford*Grant Greenham*Jackson Fear*Jane Waller*Jo-Ann Galbraith*Kate Fairweather*Lexie Feeney*Matthew Gray*Maureen Adams*Melissa Jennison* Michael Naray *Michelle Tremelling*Myfanwy Matthews*Rodney Wagner*Scott Dumbrell*Scott Hunter-Russel...
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...
List of qualified athletes=These are the athletes who have officially qualified to represent the U.S. at the 2020 Olympics, with the list continually growing as qualification events are completed. Please check here for additional athletes. The United States sent 613 athletes to compete in 35 sports. The opening ceremony flag bearers, as chosen by their fellow athletes, were basketball Sue Bird ...
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, 24...
This project focuses on the athletes who are representing Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.==The Athletes=====Archery===* Alec Potts * Ryan Tyack* Taylor Worth* Alice Ingley===Athletics===* Liam Adams* Dane Bird-Smith* Peter Bol* Josh Clarke* Rhydian Cowley* Chris Erickson* Ryan Gregson* Alex Hartmann* Luke Mathews* Sam McEntee* David McNeill* Brendon Reading* Jef...
The 2019 Rugby World Cup is the ongoing ninth Rugby World Cup and is being held in Japan from 20 September to 2 November. This is the first time the tournament has been held in Asia and outside the traditional heartland of rugby union.=Team Leaders=* Argentina : Mario Ledesma (coach), Pablo Matera (captain)* Australia : Michael Cheika (coach), Michael Hooper (captain)* Canada : Kingsley Jones (...
Sochi 2014 >>> Welcome to the umbrella project for the Sochi Winter Olympics !==Overview==] The 2014 Winter Olympic Games , officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games , are scheduled to take place in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia from 7 to 23 February 2014.The Sochi Games will be the first ever hosted by the Russian Federation, and the first Winter Games held in Russia or the Soviet Unio...
Rugby is a collective name for the family of team sports of rugby union and rugby league, as well as the earlier forms of football from which both games, as well as Australian rules football and gridiron football, evolved.The two variants of Gridiron football — Canadian football and, to a lesser extent, American football — were once considered forms of rugby football but are seldom now referred...
This project focuses on the athletes who are representing Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 313 athletes will participate in 36 sports, 175 events.= Please click here for the official Team Canada roster ===The Athletes=====Archery===* Crispin Duenas - Ontario* Geircy Triffeault Picard - Québec===Athletics===* Kelsie Ahbe, Toronto* Mohammed Ahmed, St Catharines, O...
This project focuses on the athletes who are representing The Bahamas at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.==The Athletes=====Athletics===* Trevor Barry* Adanaca Brown* Chris Brown* Devynne Charlton* Latario Collie-Minns* Tynia Gaither* Steven Gardiner * Jeffery Gibson * Adrian Griffith * Shavez Hart* Michael Mathieu* Shaunae Miller -- private profile * Stephen Newbold* D...
This project focuses on the athletes who are representing the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Please note that the lists below are incomplete; indeed, the lists for most sports have barely been started. Your help with this project is greatly appreciated!= Update: Please click here for the official Team USA roster , regularly updated. ===The Athletes=====Arche...
Women’s gymnastics made its debut in the 1928 Olympic Summer Games held in Amsterdam, and Netherlands’ female gymnasts won the gold medal. The members of the 1928 Olympic gold winning Dutch team were: * Coach: Gerrit Kleerekoper * Alida van den Bos * Estella Agsteribbe * Jacomina van den Berg (1909-1996)* Petronella Burgerhof * Elka de Levie (survived)
The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016 ), officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad , and commonly known as Rio 2016 , is a major international multi-sport event in the tradition of the Olympic Games due to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016.A record number of countries are participating in a record number of sports. More than...
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. In March 2011, Canada won the right to host the event, the first time the country would host the tournament and the third time it has been held in North America. Matches were played in six cities across Canada in five time zones. The tournament be...
London 2012 Summer Olympic Games ==Events and Results: Main PageThis 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:== Athletics == Aquatic Events >*Diving>*Swimming>*Sync...
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 act...
The Hartford Whalers were an American professional ice hockey team based for most of its existence in Hartford, Connecticut. The club played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1972 until 1979, and in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1979 to 1997. Originally based in Boston, Massachusetts, the team joined the WHA in the League's inaugural 1972 season, and was known as the New Englan...