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15 Squadron RE

He later went on to reach the rank of Lieutenant General in the British Army and is the only Victoria Cross recipient to ever win an Olympic Gold medal, which he achieved in the 1924 Olympic Games.

Daly Cherry-Evans

Cherry-Evans was named after one of his English-born mother's favourite British athletes, 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games Decathlon Gold Medallist Daley Thompson.

Leonard Marshall

She had a son, Rod Milburn Jr., who is the son of Olympic Gold Medal winning high hurdler Rod Milburn.

My Best Friend, General Vasili, Son of Joseph Stalin

Vsevolod Bobrov excelled in both football (soccer) and ice hockey, and led the Soviet ice hockey team to victory in the 1956 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, earning himself an Olympic Gold Medal.

Paul Unruh

He was drafted into the army, however, and missed out on an opportunity to win a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Port Lincoln

Weightlifter Dean Lukin, who won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Super heavyweight division at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, was a tuna fisherman who shot to fame as a weightlifter in the 1980s.

The Bob Mathias Story

The story of the first man to win two consecutive Olympic Gold Medals in the Decathlon in London in 1948 and in Helsinki in 1952.

Wes Kittley

Former Tech athletes coached by Kittley would go on to win 3 Medals in the 2012 Olympic Games: Olympic Gold medalist in the 4x400 Relay Michael Mathieu, Olympic Bronze medalist in the 4x400 Relay Shereefa Lloyd, and Olympic Silver medalist in the 10,000M Sally Kipyego.


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2001–02 Canada men's national ice hockey team

It was the first Olympic gold medal for Canada in men’s ice hockey since the Edmonton Mercurys won gold at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.

Arthur Cusack

Arthur Cusack was the coach of Olympic Gold medal winner David Theile, who won gold in the 100m backstroke in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and the 1960 Rome Olympics.

Brent Dancer

His father, Barry Dancer, coached the Australian side at the 2004 Athens Olympics where Australia won a gold medal, the only men's field hockey Olympic gold medal the team has ever won.

Broadbridge Heath

The Grenadian Olympic Team trained at the Centre in the weeks preceding the London 2012 Olympic Games, at which Kirani James won Grenada's first Olympic gold medal in the men's 400m.

Burghley House

Lady Victoria Leatham, antiques expert and television personality, followed her father, Olympic gold-medal winning hurdler and runner, IAAF President and MP David "Burghley" Cecil, the 6th marquess by running the house from 1982 to 2007.

Carmen on Ice

In 1988 Katarina Witt, who played the title role, had won her second olympic gold medal at the winter games in Calgary with a free skating to Carmen.

Cheung Chau

Lee Lai Shan, a windsurfer, won Hong Kong's first Olympic gold medal in 1996.

Choctaw Tribal School System

In the mid-1990s, Billy Mills, the second Native American ever to win an Olympic gold medal, met and spoke to the school body.

Daphnis et Chloé

American figure skater Sarah Hughes won an Olympic gold medal skating to selections from Daphnis et Chloé at the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002.

DeHart

DeHart Hubbard, athlete who was the first African-American to win an individual Olympic gold medal

Don Barksdale

He joined the team in Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics, and became the first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal in basketball.

Givi Kartozia

He won an Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1956 and a bronze medal in 1960, competing for the Soviet Union.

Gojko Kačar

His uncle Slobodan Kačar won the Light Heavyweight Olympic Gold medal in boxing in 1980 competing for Yugoslavia.

Hamadou Djibo Issaka

While crowds and the press cheered him, British former Olympic Gold Medal rower Steve Redgrave criticised Djibo Issaka's inclusion.

Hitoshi Saito

He defeated Cho by decision, and won the final against Henry Stöhr to capture his second Olympic gold medal.

Hurdling

In the 1932 Olympics, Bob Tisdall famously won the Olympic Gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles in World Record time, but was not credited with the record due to knocking over a hurdle.

John Mayasich

Mayasich played on both the 1956 Olympic silver medal team in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy and the 1960 Olympic Gold Medal team in Squaw Valley, California.

Leslie Deniz

Her team mate at ASU, Ria Stalman, won the 1984 Olympic gold medal in a tight competition.

Linköpings ASS

Lars Frölander (2001-): Olympic gold medal winner, 100 m butterfly

Lošinj

Agostino Straulino (b. October 10, 1914 in Mali Lošinj; d. December 14, 2004 in Rome) was an Italian sailor and sailboat racer, who won one Olympic gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics (Helsinki) and one silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne) in the Star class, and eight consecutive European championships (1949–56) and two world championships (1952–53) in this class and was world champion in the 5.5m-class.

Lotus 108

Chris Boardman’s Olympic gold medal winning bike was on display at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London, in a temporary exhibition which ran from 16th March to 20th June 1993, entitled "SuperBike: An Exhibition on the Olympic Gold Medal Bicycle", and was later returned to Lotus Engineering.

Macarthur Girls High School

Counted amongst "The Old Girls" is the Olympic gold medal winning runner Betty Cuthbert and SBS Dateline presenter Yalda Hakim, International fashion model Robyn Lawley, Fashion Model Rachel Rutt

Maple Bluff, Wisconsin

Connie Carpenter-Phinney - Olympic speed skater, Olympic gold medal winner in road cycling

Mhardeh

Ghada Shouaa, the first Syrian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, was born in Mhardeh as well as Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch.

Milton-Union High School

Bob Schul,won 1964 Olympic Gold Medal (Tokyo, Japan), 5000M Run

Morten Frost

During his tenure as coach, the Danish national squad achieved over 20 major international wins, including an Olympic gold medal in 1996, six gold medals and three silver medals at the European Championships in 1996, the men's singles titles at the 1995 and 1996 All England Championships, and a gold, two silver and four bronze medals at the World Championships in 1995.

Moulton, Lincolnshire

Johnny Douglas (1895-7), Olympic gold medal winner in boxing and captain of the England Cricket Team

National Maritime Museum Cornwall

Champions like the Ventnor planing hydrofoil; the Flying Dutchman Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Superdocious for short) in which Rodney Pattisson won a gold medal at the Mexico Olympics; Rita, the Laser in which Ben Ainslie won an Olympic gold medal in Sydney; and "Defender II"

Olivier Philippaerts

Together with his father and brother, and Olympic Gold Medal winner Jos Lansink, he finished third at the 2012 Piazza di Siena FEI Nations Cup of Italy.

Patscherkofel

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.

Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham

Lord Harris is the co-owner of the Olympic gold medal-winning horse Hello Sanctos ridden by Scott Brash in the team show jumping event at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

Rob McClanahan

McClanahan was played by Nathan West in the 2004 Disney movie Miracle, which starred actor Kurt Russell as coach Herb Brooks and which told the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic gold medal win.

Runnemede, New Jersey

St. Teresa Regional School is a PreK-8 Catholic elementary school, that was once attended by Olympic Gold Medal-winning figure skater Tara Lipinski, and operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden.

Rupert Campbell-Black

Although initially portrayed as a brutish, womanizing, adulterous cad, Campbell-Black's character is later somewhat redeemed through his triumphant winning of an Olympic gold medal for Great Britain.

Sandnes Ulf

Nils Voss, a 1912 Olympic gold-medal winner in gymnastics, became the club's first President.

Sergey Bulygin

During his career he won an Olympic gold medal as part of the Soviet Union 4 x 7.5 km relay team in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and 4 gold medals and a silver at World Championships.

Shannon Kelley

Kelley began dating Mary Lou Retton, winner of the Olympic gold medal in the Gymnastic Individual All-around competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, while in college.

Silver City, Mississippi

Spencer Haywood, participated on the US Olympic gold medal winning basketball team, then played professionally.

Thorell

Sven Thorell (1888-1974), Swedish boat constructor, winner of Olympic Gold Medal in sailing in Amsterdam 1928

Tufte

Olaf Tufte, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic gold medal winner

W. A. Hewitt

Hewitt was honorary team manager of three consecutive Olympic gold medal winning hockey teams, the Winnipeg Falcons (1920), Toronto Granites (1924), and Toronto Varsity Grads (1928).

West Milton, Ohio

Bob Schul - the only American to have won an Olympic gold medal in the 5000 metre.

Women's sport in Australia

In 1988, at the Seoul Olympics, the Australian women's hockey team Hockeyroos, became the first Australian women's team sport to win an Olympic gold medal.

Yana Kudryavtseva

Yana's father, Aleksey Kudryavtsev was an elite swimmer and won an Olympic gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in the 4×200 m freestyle.

Zhivko Atanasov

His mother, Yordanka Donkova, is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships.