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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...
IMPORTANT NOTE: If a relevant sub-project already exists for an individual's sport, please add them to that sub-project and not this portal. Sports Auto Racing Fast & Furious Indianapolis 500 NASCAR National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame Baseball Main project: Baseball National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Negro League Baseball Notable people in baseball
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...
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...
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 ...
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Lithuanian Americans who are Americans by citizen but are of Lithuanian descent or were born in Lithuania. Lithuanians began coming to the US as early as 17th century. Until about 1870s immigrants from the Lithuanian territory were mostly noble. Towards the end of 19th century peasant Lithuanians started to settle in the mining areas of the US such as Pennsylvania and other industrial areas lik...
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 with ...
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization that constitutes one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America. Teams play in the American League (AL) and National League (NL), which operated as separate legal entities from 1901 and 1876 respectively. In 2000, the leagues merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball. The organiza...
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 international a...
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 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 ...
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 b...
Scope of Project===Famous/Notable 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
This project focuses on people who have made significant contributions to the automobile industry including race car drivers.
This project is for anyone who has coached, including at the assistant and associate levels, at the collegiate level. NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA, and other college-level associations are all welcome, as are both men's and women's coaches.
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 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...
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-...
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...
This project focuses on the athletes representing the United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Please note that the list below is of course incomplete; your help with this project is greatly appreciated!Names in bold designate medallists.==Alpine Skiing==* Ted Ligety ==Figure Skating==* Gracie Gold * Ashley Wagner ==Freestyle Skiing==* Gus Kenworthy ==Nordic Combined==* Bill Demong =...
College Football Hall of Fame Web site: 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. ==Gold Medal Award Recipients* A...
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...
Includes both Court (or "Real") Tennis and Lawn Tennis (commonly called "Tennis") Court Tennis description: limited to members of the International Tennis Hall of FameInternational Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum web site (including list of inductees):
Bare-knuckle boxing (also known as bare-knuckle, prizefighting, or fisticuffs) is the original form of boxing, closely related to ancient combat sports. It involves two individuals fighting without boxing gloves or other padding on their hands.The difference between a streetfight and a bare-knuckle boxing match is an accepted set of rules, such as not striking a downed opponent.===Early History...
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...
==日本のスポーツ - Japanese Sports==
A page to gather profiles of people who have played for Sweden's national ice hockey team Tre Kronor. The first Swedish national team participated in the 1920 Olympics and played their first game on April 23rd, an 8–0 victory over Belgium. The men's team has since played 2078 games (as of 2019-05-23*). The women's national team played their first games in April 1987 in an international tourname...
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...
At one time, baseball in the United States was segregated. The Blacks played with the Negro Leagues! 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 beginning in 19...
Belgium ‧ 2012 ‧ Summer Olympics== België ‧ 2012 ‧ Olympische Zomerspelen== Belgique ‧ 2012 ‧ Jeux Olympique d'été== Belgien ‧ 2012 ‧ Olympische Sommerspiele =DEELNEMERS* ë_op_de_Olympische_Zomerspelen_2012===Atletiek* ===Badminton===Gewichtheffen===Gymnastiek===Hockey===Judo===Kanovaren===Paardensport===Roeien===Schietsport===Tafeltennis===Tennis===Triatlon===Wielersport===Zeilen===Zwe...
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...
Please note that this refers to the hall of fame for American football , not association football (soccer) . Pro Football Hall of Fame Web site: of Famers by Year of EnshrinementSammy Baugh *1963 Bert Bell *1963 Joe Carr*1963 Earl (Dutch) Clark *1963 Harold (Red) Grange *1963 George Halas *1963 Mel Hein
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...
Legende Športa /Sports Legends =* / Soccer=====NK Hajduk Split=== Hajdukova stranica , momčadi Hajduka , Torcida * Ante Dorić (1926-2011) Founder of Torcida* Luka Kaliterna (1893-1984)* Fabijan Kaliterna (1886-1952)* Veljko Poduje (1907-1993)* Šime Poduje (1905-1966)
This project focuses on the athletes who are likely to represent China at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Once Olympic trials have been held, the list will be refined to cover only those confirmed to be Olympians in 2014.Please note that the lists below are incomplete; indeed, the lists for some sports have not been started at all yet. Your help with this project is greatly appreciated!==The...
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...
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 tour...
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...
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 includes list of famous croatian sports workers:* Hrvatski športski djelatnici - Hr list from wikipedia * Croatian sports executives and administrators - En list from wikipedia * Hrvatski Nogometni Savez / Croatian football federation , Official website Note: Free update and add a profiles on the list belowA* Dragutin Albrecht* Vojko AndrijaševićB* Luka Bajakić* Josip Barač * Mirko...
SPORT : football =• AFRICA ‧ ===Democratic Republic of the Congo ‧ RDC==•==•* FR: FR * EL: EL ==•—A—* Patrick APATAKI ‧ ‧ • Ngondola ASSOMBALANGA ‧ ‧ •—B—* Dikilu BAGETA ‧ ‧ • Jean-Kasongo BANZA ‧ ‧ • Yannick BAPUPA ‧ ‧ • Cédric BASEYA ‧ ‧ • Mbala Mbuta BISCOTTE ‧ ‧ • Eric BOKANGA ‧ ‧ • Gladys BOKESE ‧ ‧ • Janvier Besala BOKUNGU ‧ ‧ • Yannick BOLASIE ‧ ‧ • Ngoy BOMBOKO ‧ ‧ • Serge Lofo BONGELI ...
Honorary Citizens of Kaunas City (Lithuania) ==is a project made to honour and gather people who have been awarded Kaunas city awards. Honorary citizens award is given to people for Kaunas city proclamation in Lithuania and abroad by activities and work in arts, science, culture, sports and society matters. Crystals of Kindness are the awards of Kaunas City Mayor. It is a symbolic crystal of gl...
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...
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...
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 SILVA ‧ 29-sep 1927 ‧ • * 1956 ...
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...
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame is a hall of fame established in 1955 to "preserve the record of Canadian sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canada's heritage of sport." It is located at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. There are 604 honoured members of the hall.==History==The Hall, first known as the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, was founded in 1955 through the effo...
People that have a Genealogy link to Sally Pamela Dobson Atkinson Smith Hawkins
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...