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unusual facts about Gold Medalist



Joey Roach

However, in December 1985 he would lose a unanimous decision to 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist Paul Gonzales.

Regal Classic

Regal Classic was trained by Olympic Games equestrian Gold Medalist and Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Jim Day.


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ABC Funfit

Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton hosted the series, assisted by the "Funfit Kids" (Ericka Pazcoquin, Bradley Kane, Melissa Kern and Efrain Bracero).

Alexandra Proklova

In her first JGP event in Košice, Slovakia, she won the silver medal with a total score 3.97 points less than gold medalist Karen Chen.

Alliance for Climate Education

ACE presented their climate presentation in tandem with prominent professional winter athletes, including two-time Olympic gold medalist Seth Wescott, Olympic silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler and five-time X Games gold medalist Nate Holland.

Anoka High School

Briana Scurry - Olympic gold medalist and Women's World Cup champion as goalkeeper for U.S. Women's National Soccer Team

Ballymore, County Cork

The area has a strong sporting tradition and is home of Ballymore Athletic which is where the world renowned local athlete and 1995 World Athletics Championship gold medalist in the 5,000m race Sonia O'Sullivan trained from an early age.

Barbados National Stadium

But Barbados' past World Championships in Athletics gold-medalist Ryan Brathwaite has publicly condemned the current state of the National Stadiums' track infrastructure.

Byung-chul

Kim Byong-Cheol, South Korean taekwondo practitioner, gold medalist at the 1992 Olympics

Challenging Impossibility

Chinmoy’s training culminated when he held a public demonstration of his feats of strength at age 73 in the presence of strength experts such as 5-time Mr. Universe Bill Pearl, 3-time Mr. Olympia Frank Zane, 2002 World’s Strongest Man Hugo Girard and 9-time Olympic Gold-Medalist Carl Lewis.

Claydon High School

Ex gold medalist Jamie Baulch visited the school on 19 October 2011 with the Jamie Baulch Academy.

Cloister Inn

Notable alumni include Ian Caldwell, author of the bestselling novel The Rule of Four, which was set at Princeton and includes several scenes that take place at Cloister; as well as Chris Ahrens, gold medalist in the Men's Eights event while Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Clyde Hart

Another one of his pupils, Greg Haughton, won bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and he currently coaches Sanya Richards, the top-ranked female 400 runner in the world in 2007 and the 2012 Summer Olympics gold medalist.

Cornwall, Prince Edward Island

Jared Connaughton, Canadian Sprinter, 2005 Canada Games gold medalist 100m & 200m

Dooly County, Georgia

Notable Dooly County residents include former governor George Busbee; former U.S. senator Walter F. George; the late Jody Powell, press secretary and aide to Jimmy Carter during his governorship and U.S. presidency; and Roger Kingdom, an Olympic gold medalist in track and field.

East St. Louis Senior High School

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, graduated 1980, three time Olympic gold medalist in track and field.

Gerda Weissensteiner

She finished seventh in the 2-woman bobsleigh (with the former biker Antonella Bellutti, gold medalist in cycling) at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Gopi Kukde

He is a Gold medalist from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art for his college campaign for the film Meera, by Gulzar.

Grande-Digue, New Brunswick

Joël Bourgeois, 3000m steeplechase runner, 2-time competitor at the Olympic Games and gold medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games.

Grant Potter

Potter was the Gold medalist of the 2010 Worlds Masters Stage Race, 2009 U.S. Masters National Champion, 2010 UCI Worlds top 5 finisher, 2010 Deutschlandsberg Worlds TT winner among many other titles.

Hoppers Crossing, Victoria

Hoppers Crossing is the home of Australian Olympic Gold Medalist Russell Mark and his wife Lauryn, a triple Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist.

I Remember Me

The interviews included movie director Blake Edwards, United States Olympic soccer gold medalist Michelle Akers, and a high school senior in Connecticut, bedridden for two years who is transported by ambulance to his high school graduation.

Imani Hakim

She is best known for her role as Tonya Rock on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris as well as portraying Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas in The Gabby Douglas Story.

IProf India

iProf's current CEO, Sanjay Purohit, an Indian Institute of Technology Bombay post graduate and gold medalist from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, left his position as the managing director of a New York based business transformation firm and moved back to India to create the opportunity for students to get an adequate education despite the lack of good instructors and limited classroom programs in tier two and tier three cities in the country.

Ivana Maksimović

She is a daughter of Serbian sports shooter and Olympic gold medalist Goran Maksimović.

Justina Chen

From 2007 to 2008, Justina toured across the US with Olympic Gold medalist Hannah Teter to promote her upcoming book, Girl Overboard, and the "Go Overboard" challenge grants co-sponsored by Youth Venture and Burton Snowboards.

Kenneth M. Karas

On May 16, 2008, Karas sentenced Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery to 46 months in prison for his part in a multimillion-dollar fake-check scheme.

Laurentian High School

Glenroy Gilbert Olympic Athlete Gold Medalist 4x100m relay Atlanta 1996,

Lawrence Morgan

Although the Australian Olympic team consisted of big names like Herb Elliott, Dawn Fraser and Murray Rose, Morgan was the only dual Gold Medalist.

Lázaro Vargas

Lázaro Vargas Álvarez (born January 18, 1964, in San Miguel del Padrón) is a Cuban baseball player and Olympic gold medalist.

Lee Vernon McNeill

McNeill made a name for himself in 1985 when he defeated Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis in the semifinals of the 100-meter dash at the USA outdoor track and field championships.

Leo Randolph

Randolph was a product of the Tacoma Boys Club amateur program, along with fellow Olympic Gold Medalist Sugar Ray Seales, and future world champions Rocky Lockridge and Johnny Bumphus.

Marcell Allmond

Later in the year he finished second, less than 100 points behind future Olympic Gold Medalist Bryan Clay in the decathlon at the 1999 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.

Maria Rodriguez

María Ángeles Rodríguez (born 1957), Spanish field hockey player and 1992 Olympic gold medalist

Matej Beňuš

His elder sister Dana Mann is also a gold medalist from the world championships in canoe slalom.

Mirano

Federica Pellegrini (born 1988), Olympic swimmer, multiple world-record holder and Olympic gold medalist.

Natalie Burgener

At the age of eighteen, Burgener moved from Kansas to Colorado Springs, Colorado to work and train as a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOC), under her head coach Zygmunt Smalcerz, gold medalist for the flyweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, representing Poland.

Nathan Jendrick

In 2006, Jendrick founded the online swimming-related radio show Deck Pass which was later acquired by Wasserman Media Group along with TimedFinals.com, which Jendrick ran with co-host and business partner Scott Goldblatt, a US Olympic gold medalist.

Nick D'Arcy

On 31 March 2008, D'Arcy was charged with assault after a brawl with former Commonwealth Games triple gold medalist Simon Cowley on the night of D'Arcy's naming in the Australian Olympic team.

Nykirke

Olaf Tufte – competition rower, two times Olympic gold medalist

Parker, Texas

Nastia Liukin, gymnast, 2008 Olympic Individual All-Around Gold medalist, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars.

Pyrros Dimas

At a time when Greek success at the Olympics was limited, he and Voula Patoulidou (the surprise gold medalist at the 100m hurdles) became instant national heroes.

Rezazadeh Stadium

The stadium is named after Olympic Gold medalist and world record weightlifter Hossein Rezazadeh.

Roland Thöni

His best year was 1972, which he opened with a bronze medal in the slalom at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, finishing behind his cousin Gustav and Francisco Fernández Ochoa, the gold medalist from Spain.

Shahid Ali

Shahid Ali Khan (born 1964), field hockey gold medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics from Pakistan

Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Yukio Kasaya, winner of the normal hill event, was the first ever Winter Olympic gold medalist for Japan, while Wojciech Fortuna was the first ever Winter gold medalist for Poland.

South Florida Bulls

A nationally recognized women's sailing program at USF is coached by Allison Jolly the gold medalist in the first olympic women's sailing event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Sundsvalls SS

The most famous swimmers is Olympic gold medalist on 100m Butterfly Lars Frölander and Olympic bronze medalist Anna-Karin Kammerling.

Tonga at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

The semifinal appearance of Sekona guaranteed him a bronze medal, which he shared with Jack Massey of England—another semifinalist who lost to gold medalist of the event, Brandon Allan of Australia.

Vyacheslav Ivanov

Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov, Russian rower who became the first three-time Olympic gold medalist in the single scull event

Wu Jiani

Along with their daughter, Wu and Li have been the coaches for several elite athletes, including the Caquatto sisters: World Silver Medalist Mackenzie Caquatto and Pan American Games triple Gold Medalist Bridgette Caquatto.