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unusual facts about The Olympic Champion



Josef Petersen

As the only Danish writer he thrice won Olympic silver medals of art for his prose-lyric tales with Antique Greek athletic motives Euryale (1924), Argonauterne (Eng. The Argonauts) (1932) and Den Olympiske Mester (eng. The Olympic Champion) (1948).


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Allan Erdman

After retirement he worked as a coach at CSKA Moscow, raising such competitors as the Olympic champion Lyubov Galkina.

Gates of Fire

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.

Hurstville Oval

The club benefited from the membership of Dunc Gray, the Olympic champion, who also established his home and business just a kilometre away from the track.

Olga Zabelinskaya

Zabelinskaya is the daughter of the Olympic champion former cyclist Sergei Sukhoruchenkov.

Rüdiger Stenzel

In a race in 1994 he defeated the Olympic champion Fermín Cacho but finished seventh in the European Championships in Helsinki where Cacho won gold.