Great Olympians

Biographies - ANA

Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos

represented Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
Athletics - Track & Field & Weightlifting

	1906	HP
Men's Shot Put	ac	162
Men's One-Handed lifting	9th	120
		282

Olympic Competitor nr 3051

1906-04-27-16:30 - Athletics - Shot Put - AC (162)
1906-04-27-17:00 - Weightlifting - One-handed - ninth (120)

Gerasimos Anagnostou

B. 1880, Volos, Greece
Shooting

	1924	HP
Men's Free Rifle, prone	24th	0.2
		0.2

Douglas Thomas "Doug" Anakin

B. 1930-11-06, Chatham, Ont., Canada; D. 2020-04-25
Bobsleigh & Luge (1 gold)

	1964	HP
Men's Singles Luge	dnf	-3.38
Four−Man Bob	gold	4800
		4800.000384

Kandiah Anandarajah

B. 1938-12-04, from Selangor, represented Malaysia
Hockey

	1964	HP
Men's Team	R1:5th	65
		65

Borislav Ananiev

B. 1955-12-11, represented Bulgaria
Canoeing - Sprint Canadian (1 bronze)

	1976	1980	HP
Men's Canadian Singles 500 metres	fourth		1600
Men's Canadian Singles 1000 metres	fourth		1600
Men's Canadian Doubles 500 metres		bronze	1920
			5120

Akhmed Anarbayev

B. 1948-05-30, Norilsk, Russia, represented the Soviet Union
Aquatics - Swimming

	1968	HP
Men's 400 metres Freestyle	R1:25th	0.1
		0.1

The Madmen note that he competed from Frunze, and list him as Kyrghyz. Considering his Islamic given name, it would indeed seem possible that he was born in Siberia of Kyrghyz origins. I shall follow suit.

Omar Anas

B. 1933, Omdurman, Sudan
Shooting

	1960	HP
Men's Small−Bore Rifle, Three Positions	QU:73rd	-10.26
Men's Small−Bore Rifle, Prone	QU:82nd	-12.40
Men's Free Rifle	37th	-3.60
		0.0006

Mircea Anastasescu

B. 1931-03-18, București, Romania
Canoeing - Flatwater Kayak

	1952	1956	1960	HP
Men's Kayak Singles 1000m	SF:6th			4.32
Men's Kayak Doubles 1000m		fourth		1200
Men's Kayak 4x500m Relay			sixth	160
				1364.32

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Anastasi

B. 1934-09-06, Philadelphia, Penn., USA
Fencing

	1964	1968	HP
Men's Foil, Individual		R2:5th	-2.11
Men's Foil, Team	R1:3rd	R1:3rd	30.53
Men's Épée, Team	R1:3rd		7.78
			38.3111

Georgios Anastasiadis

from Al-Qahira, Egypt
Athletics - Track & Field

	1906	HP
Men's 800 metres	R1:4th	10.88
Men's 1500 metres	ac	39.56
		50.44

I class the Greeks from Egypt as Greeks.

Olympic Competitor nr 2910

1906-04-25-17:00 - Athletics - 800 m, round one - fourth (10.88)
1906-04-27-16:00 - Athletics - 1500 m, round one - AC (39.56)

Themistoklis Anastasoglou

represented Smyrna
Gymnastics

	1906	HP
Individual combined (5 events)	23rd	0.192
		0.192

Olympic Competitor nr 2847

1906-04-25-15:30 - Gymnastics - Individual combined (5 events), day one
1906-04-26-16:00 - Gymnastics - Individual combined (5 events), day two - 23rd (0.192)

Mallon's book on the 1906 Olympics mentions he was from Smyrna.

Sotirios Anastasopoulos

represented Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloniki, Greece)
Athletics - Track & Field

	1906	HP
Men's 100 metres	R1:3rd	0.158
Men's 400 metres	R1:ac	2.884
		3.042

Olympic Competitor nr 2881

1906-04-25-16:00 - Athletics - 100 m, round one - third (0.158)
1906-04-27-16:30 - Athletics - 400 m, round one - AC (2.884)

Svetlana Anastasovska

competed in 1988 as

Svetlana Obućina

B. 1961-04-26, Beograd, Serbia, represented Yugoslavia
Handball (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1980	1984	1988	HP
Women's Team	silver	gold	fourth	7500
				7500

Written 2011-10-07 - last modified 2024-08-17

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