Steph Rice has been one of the top individual medley swimmers in the world in since 2006. She has gained a sizeable collection of silver (2) and bronze (5) medals at the World Championships, but broke ...

Yvonne Godard had the following podium finishes at major championships: 1st in the 1931 European Championships 100 metres Freestyle, 3rd in the 1931 European Championships 400 metres Freestyle.

John Eke was a promising young cross-country and long-distance runner, who won the Sundbyberg cross-country race in 1908, but he emigrated to the United States in 1909. Settling in Jamestown, New York ...

Dick McGlynn played for the Massachusetts high school hockey power, Catholic Memorial, until 1966. He then went to Colgate University where he became one of that school’s greatest hockey players ever.

Dance: 2003 World Championships (14); 2004 World Championships (15); 2005 World Championships (18); 2001 European Championships (17); 2002 European Championships (15); 2003 European Championships (11) ...

Yelena Romanova was one of the world's top female distance runners in the early 1990s. After finishing fifth at the 1987 World Championships in the 3K and fourth at the 1988 Olympics, Romanova won her ...

Eino Penttlä first practiced cross-country skiing and shooting before he started javelin throwing at the age of 15. He won his first Finnish championship in 1926, when he was only 19, repeating in ...

Andrzej Gronowicz had the following podium finishes at the Flatwater World Championships: 2nd 1974 C2 1000 m (with Jerzy Opara), 3rd 1973 C2 500 m (with Jerzy Opara), 3rd 1977 C2 1000 m (with Jerzy ...

Charles de Beaumont had the following podium finishes at major championships: 1st in the 1950 British Empire Games Épée Individual, 1st in the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Épée Team ...

Wolf-Dietrich Oschlies started his international career as a junior. After a fourth place with the eights at the 1969 Junior World Championships, he won a silver medal in coxed fours in 1970. Oschlies ...

Aleksandr Privalov came late to sports. Military patrol was a standard practice in the Soviet Army and Privalov soon became interested in the event. But unlike other early Soviet biathletes he was not ...

East German middle distance runner Waltraud Kaufmann was eliminated in the heats of the 800 at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. She earned a silver medal at the 1962 European Championships and placed eighth ...