Iosif Chirilă had the following podium finishes at the Flatwater World Championships: 1st 2005 C4 500 m (with Silviu Simioncencu, Florin Popescu, and the non-Olympian Loredan Popa), 1st 2007 C4 1000 m ...

Elaine Watt would marry Victor Hugo-Vidal, horse and riding trainer, although they later divorced. Watt rode Connecticut Yankee at the 1956 Stockholm Olympic equestrian events, placing 30th in ...

Alfred von Chmielowski was an Austrian stamp artist, painter and graphic artist. He studied from 1916-25 at the Vienna (Wien) Academy of Fine Arts, and then undertook numerous study trips abroad. Von ...

Rower Jürgen Plagemann was a member of the eights at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics that won the silver medal. The boat from Ratzeburger RC was the so-called Deutschland-Achter (Germany Eight), which won the ...

Nataša Janić was born to Serbian-Croatian parents, and her father Milan Janić won silver at the 1984 Olympics in kayak. She won her first medal at the 2000 European Junior Championships with gold in K ...

Klaus-Uwe Will was an East German flatwater canoeist who finished sixth with the K4-1,000 meters squad at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. Two years later, he won a K4-1,000 silver medal at the World ...

Hans-Jürgen Schüler played water polo and was named to the East German national team, which finished second at the 1966 European Championships and sixth at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The team was ...

After winning the 1964 AAU title, Toby Gibson boxed for the US at the 1964 Olympics, and then turned professional. He had a short pro career, fighting only in 1965, winning all four of his bouts. He ...

Cyclist Julius Maus was a German living in the US since 1931. He finished 32nd 30th in the individual road race at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, and was in the German team that finished eighth. Maus ...

Bob James sailed Flying Dutchman with his younger brother, David James, at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. They grew up learning to sail on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. James represented the Yacht ...

Hermann Smiel finished 76th in the 320 km individual road race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, which was held as an individual time trial. This helped Germany finish sixth in the team road race in ...

Guido De Felip competed in the Antwerpen Olympics a month shy of his 16th birthday. As the coxswain for Ercole Olgeni and Giovanni Scatturin, he led the Italian boat to victory in the coxed pairs ...