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After missing a decisive split that put him over 1:30 behind the race leader, it was the Olympic Champion Samuel Sánchez who won the hilliest stage of this year's tour.
Former world champion Block, and double Olympic champion, both looked past their best trailing in behin Campbell who was never behind.
Defending Olympic champion Bukhalov's disqualification was not disclosed in the official report.
The defending world champions were Norway's Ola Vigen Hattestad and Johan Kjølstad while the defending Olympic champion were Norway's Øystein Pettersen and Petter Northug.
Former Olympic champion Maurizio Damilano, creator of the name and of a method of fitwalking, has contributed to the development of the discipline in Italy.
Douglas was an excellent Middleweight boxer becoming Olympic champion at the 1908 Games held in London.
After his active career Marchetto has been coach for the Italian speed skating team, having success with skaters like Roberto Sighel (world champion 1994) and Enrico Fabris (olympic champion 2006).
Also known for the Michael Phelps incident where the Olympic champion had his picture taken while smoking from a marijuana pipe.
At the age of 72, Sweden's 100 metre running deer double-shot event champion Oscar Swahn won in the team event to become the oldest Olympic champion ever.
Pre race favourites were the winner of last two events: Urs Huber, runner-up of the last two events and former olympic champion: Bart Brentjens and number three of the last two events: Mike Mulkens.
January 15 - Eduard Ivanov, 73, Soviet ice hockey player, World and Olympic champion.
Anders Peter Nielsen (1867–1950), Danish sport shooter Olympic champion
At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Mkrtchyan reached the finals, where he faced off against the division reigning Olympic Champion, Kim Il of North Korea.
She was born in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia province, the same region as double Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie.
Dan Beery, American competition rower, Olympic champion and world champion.
Alistair Brownlee: Olympic Champion 2012, 2011 & 2009 ITU Triathlon World Champion, 2010 & 2011 ETU Triathlon Champion
2013 - Edwards was also nominated for the 2013 Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year Award, eventually won by Christine Ohuruogu, the reigning 400m world champion and 2008 Olympic champion.
Christine Scheiblich-Hahn (born December 31, 1954 in Wilsdruff, Sachsen) is a German rower and Olympic champion.
Bruno Cipolla (born 1952), an Italian rowing coxswain and Olympic champion
Tommie Smith set the world and Olympic records with a time of 19.83 seconds and became the 200-meter Olympic champion at the 1968 Summer Olympics, which were held in Mexico.
The 2008 event hosts were Jonny Moseley, Olympic champion in moguls skiing, and Jenn Brown.
:Not to be confused with Darren Barber, a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion.
Ian Thorpe - swimmer; five time Olympic champion, eleven time World Champion, four times World Swimmer of the Year, 2000 Young Australian of the Year
Notable alumni from Fernieside Primary School include Olympic Champion Allan Wells
The novel also details the heroics of several dozen Spartans, including their king, Leonidas, the Olympic champion Polynikes, a young Spartan warrior named Alexandros, and the Spartan officer Dienekes.
He is a member of the "Donny Chain Gang", a training group of some the best northern riders such as Olympic Champion Ed Clancy, Ben Swift and Russell Downing.
During his reign as the 100 metre Olympic champion, he also appeared on postage stamps and was awarded Trinidad and Tobago's highest honour, Trinity Cross, in 1978.
Adelheid "Heidi" Schmid (after marriage: Adelheid Grundmann-Schmid) (born 5 December 1938 in Klagenfurt) is a former German fencer, world champion and Olympic champion in foil competition.
Skating for the USSR, he became Olympic 10,000 m Champion at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo, only 0.05 seconds ahead of Tomas Gustafson, becoming the youngest male Olympic champion in the history of Olympic speed skating at an age of 19 years and 9 days.
Ingrid Mickler-Becker (née Ingrid Becker; born September 26, 1942 in Geseke, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion.
He finished 3rd in the 200m at the Drake Relays with a time of 21.10 into a headwind of 1.1 m/s behind World and Olympic Champion Jeremy Wariner and Jamaican Richardo Williams.
Jean-Yves Le Déroff (born September 15, 1957 in Inezgane, Souss-Massa-Drâa, Morocco) is a French sailor and Olympic champion.
Josef Carl Peter Neckermann (5 June 1912 in Würzburg – 13 January 1992 in Dreieich) was a German equestrian and Olympic champion.
In July, the first MTB XC Olympic Champion Bart Brentjens contacted Jukka to join his professional team, Trek-Brentjens MTB Racing Team.
Kustaa Pihlajamäki (1902–1944), Finnish freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion
Håkon Brusveen (Olympic champion in 15 km at (Winter Olympics 1960)
He, with Olympic champion Zhu Qinan and Li Jie, beat South Korea with 1,786 points to win the first gold of the Games.
Luis Mari Lasurtegui Berridi (born March 28, 1956 in Pasaia, Guipúzcoa ) is a Spanish competition rower and Olympic champion.
He retired after the Atlanta Olympics, but returned for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he assisted headcoach Maurits Hendriks and Holland once again became an Olympic champion.
Fourth in the race was the subsequent 1988 Olympic champion Andre Phillips of the United States.
Mary Lou's Flip Flop Shop, a children's television series featuring Olympic champion gymnast Mary Lou Retton, was created to motivate young children to believe in themselves and get moving.
He represented Italy in Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 80 kg, and won the silver medal, upsetting two-time Olympic champion Steven López of the United States in the quarterfinals.
After realizing his dream, McDull set himself another target: to become an Olympic champion just like female windsurfer Lee Lai Shan.
November 8, 2012 Kazakhstan London Olympic champion Olga Rypakova got the Olympic Council of Asia award as the best Asian athlete, along with Zulfiya Chinshanlo and Ilya Ilyin.
Zabelinskaya is the daughter of the Olympic champion former cyclist Sergei Sukhoruchenkov.
Orca sponsors a number of leading triathletes, including recently retired Olympic champion Hamish Carter, ITU athletes including Kris Gemmell, Courtenay Atkinson, Tim Don and Debbie Tanner, and Ironman competitors including Craig Alexander and Cameron Brown.
Matson Track was named for Pampa High’s only Olympic champion, Randy Matson.
Ski legend Franz Klammer of Austria, then age 22, won his Olympic gold medal at Patscherkofel, dramatically edging out defending Olympic champion Bernhard Russi of Switzerland by 0.33 seconds in the 1976 Downhill.
On October 28, 2010 Olympic champion gymnast Dominique Dawes, working for Yahoo Weekend News and Independent Investigations Group (IIG), tested Power Balance bracelets for their claim that they improve balance, flexibility and strength.
At one stage during the mid-1990s, Riley was the girlfriend of Norwegian Olympic champion speedskater Johann Olav Koss.
He was also the first coach of French Olympic champion Guy Drut, winner at the subsequent 1972 Olympics.
Nazyr Mankiev, Honoured Master of Sports, Beijing Olympic Champion, winner of Greco-Roman wrestling world cup;
This was controversial because the 1992 Olympic Champion was a woman, Zhang Shan of China.
The official opening ceremony took place on 20 July 2008, with the participation of Pál Schmitt, president of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, Veszprém-born Olympic champion hammer thrower Balázs Kiss and János Debreczenyi, Mayor of Veszprém.
William Earl Buchan (born 1935), American sailor and Olympic champion
Natalia Shaposhnikova (born 1961), former Soviet gymnast, two-time Olympic champion, who resides and coaches gymnastics in Woodland Park.
As the defending 500 m Olympic Champion and world record holder, he won silver at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, being beaten by Eric Heiden.
Georgios Zaimis (1937-), Greek sports sailor, Olympic champion in 1960