Jörg Balke later married his non-Olympian teammate Rosemarie Klute and after the wedding of their daughter, Tina, to Olaf Hense, they became his parents-in-law. Rosemarie and Jörg Balke were later ...

Field hockey mid fielder Aribert Heymann was a member of the first German team to win an Olympic hockey medal, when they beat Belgium 3-0 to win the bronze medal at Amsterdam in 1928. He won 12 ...

At the 1976 Olympics, Liudmyla Aksenova won bronze in the 4×400 and was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 400. In addition to her Olympic bronze, she won golds in the 4×1 lap and 4×2 laps relay at ...

Kurt Bausback rowed for the US in several international events between 1983 and 1988. He won gold medals at the Pan American Games, in the coxed four in 1983 and the eight in 1987. Bausback won a ...

West German rower Michael Reinartz, brother of Anton and Stefan Reinartz, finished fifth, and last, in the final with the coxed eights at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. With his club Kölner ...

Aleksandr Skvortsov played most of his career with one club – Torpedo Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) from 1973-89, but never won a medal at the Soviet Championships. In 1989 Svortsov played one season ...

Fernand Arnout had the following podium finishes at major championships: 3rd in the 1928 Olympics Lightweight class (302.5 kg). He set three lightweight world records in 1926-28 – two in the snatch ...

William Herzog competed in three events at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. He competed in the individual all-around (105th); the individual all-around, apparatus work (96th); and the individual ...

Acknowledged as India's greatest ever goalkeeper, Thangaraj initially played as a centre-forward before switching positions. He played for India between 1954 and 1968 and was a member of the team that ...

Double Olympic champion Oleg Saitov was a formidable welterweight, whose technical prowess saw him named the best boxer at Sydney 2000. Oleg Elekpayevich Saitov was born in the city of Novokuybyshevsk ...

De Jumilhac was a racehorse owner and breeder. Two of his best known horses were Maguelonne who took part in the 1928 Aintree Grand National, which was won by the legendary Tipperaray Tim at odds of ...

Leo Massa played baseball at Red Bank High School in New Jersey, eventually getting a tryout with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But he turned to cross-country skiing, winning the 1958 US championship, and ...