In 2005, Alois Schloder became the seventh German ice hockey player to be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. His career started as a forward, but he later switched to ...

Kidd was the only man to win basketball gold with Team USA at Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008 as part of the 'Redeem Team'. Born in San Francisco to an African-American father and Irish-American mother, ...

Lakshya Sen’s rapid rise in the world of badminton has been nothing short of meteoric. From being a kid who was competing at the junior level not too long ago, Lakshya Sen has now beaten the legends ...

Triple Olympic champion Ivar Johansson achieved the rarest of feats in Los Angeles in 1932 as he sealed gold in both styles of wrestling and two different weight categories. Born in the town of ...

In 1912 Percy Mann placed third in the AAA 880y and was the winner at the Kinnaird meeting and the Olympic Trials. He was at his best at the Stockholm Olympics and, after winning the fastest of th ...

West German flyweight wrestler Paul Neff participated in three consecutive Olympic Games in the freestyle division, in 1960 and 1964 with the mixed German team, and in 1968 for West Germany. In Roma ...

Piet Wernink completed the crew of the 6.5 m yacht Oranje, along with the brothers Joop and Berend Carp. Wernink was later a director of Wernink N.V., a company for concrete and building materials.

Lev Mukhin took up boxing in 1951 and after two years of boxing won the Soviet junior heavyweight titles in 1953 and 1954. In 1955, Mukhin won silver at the Soviet Championships, which he repeated in ...

Marian Sandu had the following finishes at major championships – 1998 World Championship: 54.0 kg. Greco-Roman (2nd); 1990 World Championship: 52.0 kg. Greco-Roman (4th); 1997 World Championship: 54.0 ...

The Reverend Bob Richards was a theology professor in California when he qualified for the U.S. Olympic team as a pole vaulter in 1952. The duel for the gold medal was waged between Richards and ...

Leslie Smith skied for Middlebury College and was the first four-time All-American at that school, well-known for its many skiers. Smith skied one World Cup year for the US, in 1974-75. In 1976 she ...

Ștefan Tașnadi was a Romanian heavyweight lifter who won a silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, albeit in the absence of the dominant lifting nations from the Soviet-bloc. Tașnadi competed ...