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unusual facts about Olympic Medals



Eastern Carolina League

It was his involvement with the Eastern Carolina League that cost him his amateur status and his Olympic medals.

National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan

The most recent Olympics in Beijing 2008 marked the country's fourth appearance and first Olympic medal wins, with Rasul Boqiev winning bronze in the Judo under 73 kg category and Yusup Abdusalomov winning the silver medal in the freestyle wrestling under 84 kg category.


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1976 Winter Olympics medal table

Liechtenstein won its first Olympic medals: two bronzes by Willi Frommelt and Hanni Wenzel in the alpine skiing slalom events.

2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres

In the process of running a personal best to win the championship, Ohuruogu also got Kathy Smallwood-Cook's 29 year old British national record (from the 1984 Olympics) that had so far evaded her through her career; a career that had included two Olympic medals including the gold in 2008, and a previous World Championship.

Daniela Blume

For that leap, the jury scored by 9.5, the highest score of the show, but the public decided that the winner was Gervasio Deferr (winner of three Olympic medals), so Daniela was third.

Franconia, New Hampshire

In the 21st century Franconia has been known as the home of skier Bode Miller who has accumulated several Olympic medals.

Ioana Olteanu

Ioana Olteanu (born 25 February 1966 in Drăcșenei, Teleorman) is a Romanian rower who has won three Olympic medals in the eights competition.

Kornelia Ender

Ender trained from a young age and won her first Olympic medals as a 13-year-old at the 1972 Olympics in Munich: three silver medals, including one in the individual 200 m individual medley, finishing behind Australia's Shane Gould.

Li Yuejiu

One of their daughters is Anna Li, who competed for the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team during the 2007 through 2010 seasons and at the same Pauley Pavilion where her parents won the Olympic medals.

Mercersburg, Pennsylvania

In the 1980s, Mercersburg had a dominant swimming program, with two of its students, Betsy Mitchell and Melvin Stewart, winning olympic medals.

Nicholas Donnelly

In 1882, on the death of his half sister Mary Boland (née Donnelly), he became guardian of her seven children, five girls and two boys, Patrick and John Pius Boland (who won two olympic medals in 1896 and became an MP for South Kerry).

Ondrej Cibak Whitewater Slalom Course

As a training facility, it is home course for canoe slalom's most highly decorated athlete, Michal Martikán, who has five Olympic medals, two of them gold, and for Elena Kaliská, who also has two Olympic golds.

Panama at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Panama won its first-ever Olympic medals at these Games, and did not win another Olympic medal until Irving Saladino won gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Paul Foerster

Paul J. Foerster (born November 19, 1963 in Rangely, Colorado) is an American Olympic medalist in sailing, who has won a total of three Olympic medals during his career.

Portugal at the 1976 Summer Olympics

The long-distance runner and future marathon olympic champion Carlos Lopes conquered, here in Montreal, the first of its two olympic medals.

San Jose State University

SJSU alumni have won 19 Olympic medals (including seven gold medals) dating back to the first gold medal won by Willie Steel in track and field in the 1948 Olympics.

Sullivan County, Missouri

Bud Houser - Winner of multiple Olympic medals in track & field events.

Veronica Cochelea

Veronica Cochelea-Cogeanu (born 15 November 1965 in Voinești, Iași) is a Romanian rower who has won four Olympic medals.