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.

Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass competed at the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal in the 15 km at the Calgary Olympics. Mikkelsplass also won the 15 km at Holmenkollen in 1981, the same ...

In his youth, Andrzej Sztolf competed in both ski jumping in athletics, notably in high jumping and pole vault. His abilities were best in the ski jump, joining the junior national team in 1956. A ...

In 1948 Aage Larsen teamed up with the Danish single sculls champion from 1946-48, Ebbe Parsner to win their first Danish double sculls title the same year. This victory earned them a trip to that ...

André Béhotéguy was a top all-around athlete who won a silver medal in rugby football at the 1924 Paris Olympics. In rugby he competed for Aviron Bayonnais from 1919-24 and then for US Cognaçaise from ...

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 ...

Michael Murach won the welterweight title at the 1937 European Championships and at the next championships two year later he was eliminated by England’s Robert Thomas in the quarter-finals. At the ...

Todd Wilson was a member of the US Nordic team for nine years, with his best international finish a seventh at the 1991 World Winter University Games. He competed at two Winter Olympics and the World ...

Weightlifter Max Walter was European Champion in 1935. He then finished a disappointing eighth at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the featherweight division. He finished third at the 1937 World ...

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 ...

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 ...