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Siin on Eesti, Eestiga seotud või Eestist pärit olümpiavõistlejad ja ka olümpiamedalite võitjad. Puudustest, vigadest ja täpsustustest palun teavitada Henn Sarve vt ka: Eesti Olümpiakomitee veebileht Eesti Olümpiamängudel Martin Klein - kreeka-rooma maadlus - hõbe - 1912 - Stockholm - ( vt Wikipedia ) Alfred Neuland - tõstmine 67,5 kg - kuld - 1920 - Antwerpen - ( vt Wikipedia...
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...
1972 Munich Olympics Massacre of Israeli Athletes The Munich massacre is an informal name for an attack that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September. The kidnappers killed eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German p...
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. Alpine Skiing (Winter): Kjetil André Aamodt (1971 - ) Paul Accola (1967) Émile Allais (1912 - 2012) Sébastien Amiez (1972 - ) Debbie Armstrong (1963 - ) Wolfgang Bartels (1940 - 2007)
The Olympic Order is the highest award of the Olympic Movement and is awarded for particularly distinguished contributions to the Olympic Movement, i.e. recognition of efforts worth of merit in the cause of sport. It was established in May 1975 by the International Olympic Committee as a successor to the Olympic Certificate. The Olympic Order originally had three grades (gold, silver and bronze...
This project focuses on the athletes who represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.==The Athletes=====Alpine Skiing===* Erik Guay * Jan Hudec * Manuel Osborne-Paradis * Benjamin Thomsen * Morgan Pridy* Phil Brown* Trevor Philp* Mike Janyk* Brad Spence* Larisa Yurkiw* Marie-Michele Gagnon* Erin Mielzynski* Marie-Pier Préfontaine* Brittany Phelan* Elli Terwiel===Biathlon===* Brendan...
Lithuania sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. In 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Lithuania did not participate due to economic difficulties and political controversies surrounding the National Olympic Committee. In 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Lithuania was not invited by Germany due to Memelland/Klaipėda region controversy. In 1940, Lithuania lost...
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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...
The Winter Olympic Games occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924.The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936 and then were interrupted by World War II. They resumed in 1948 and were celebrated every four years. The Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years until 1992, when the governing body for ...
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...
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...
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...
===All sailing enthusiasts are welcome!=== - rich and poor - small dinghies and big yachts - sport sailors and free souls - different kinds of people may love sailing, eg. Humphrey Bogart , Albert Einstein , John F. Kennedy , and Grace Kelly . Extra links:*What a fascinating story of a 100 year old sailboat and all it's owners.
Notable Lithuanian sportspeople is a project made to honour Lithuanian athletes, sports referees, doctors and coaches who have attained or helped to attain for sportsmen outstanding achievements in sports. Categories: * Top 10 winners of national and internatonal tournaments* National, continental or World record holdersOnly public or MP profiles may be part of the project.Sources: Wikipedia: L...
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 ma...
Uruguay ‧ 2012 ‧ Summer Olympics* OLYMPIANS==2012 - nominated & selected* ‧♂‧ 400m hurdles ‧ Andrés SILVA ‧ x ‧ wiki-en ‧ score: ‧ * ‧♀‧ 400m hurdles ‧ Déborah RODRÍGUEZ ‧ x ‧ ‧ score: ‧ ====Cycling* ‧♂‧ road race ‧ Jorge Adelbio SOTO Pereira ‧ Salto 08-aug 1986 ‧ wiki-en ‧ score: ‧ ====Road*====Football* TEAM: • Coach ‧ Óscar TABÁREZ ‧ x ‧ [wiki-en] ‧ • 1-GK ‧ Martín CAMPAÑA ‧ 29-may 1989 ‧ ...
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 ...
---under-construction---2022-IV-26-di-07:63---jMVu--collegae welkom! Canada ‧ 2012 ‧ Summer Olympics The main-project focuses on the Olympic-Movement and the history of this Global-wide contest of free sporters & athletes and all future winners -a/o- participating sporters who will be part of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Since some sports are still holding their national team trials ...
Paralympics Tokyo ‧ 2020-'21 ‧ Participating Committees ‧ ======participating committees ~ deelnemende landen* ALG : Algeria ‧ 42x* ANG : Angola** X ‧ x ‧ ** X ‧ x ‧ * ARG : Argentina ‧ 37x* AUS : Australia ‧ 177x* AUT-EU : Austria = Oostenrijk - etc. ‧ 24x* AZE : Azerbaijan ‧ 12x * B.. : Bahrain** ‧ x ‧ ** ‧ x ‧ * BLR : Belarus ‧ 11x* BEL-EU : Belgium ‧ 31x* BER : Bermuda** ‧ x ‧ * BHU : Bhuta...
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 ...
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-...
This project focuses on the athletes who represented Canada at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.