Great Olympians

Biographies - CH

Cha - Che - Chi - Cho - Chr - Chu

Louis Chaillot

B. 1914-03-02, France
Cycling, Track (3 gold)
1932 1936 HP
Sprint silver bronze 9840
Tandem gold 8000
17840

Alfred Chalk

Olympic Competitor nr 1597

Vladislav Chalupa

Olympic Competitor nr 1571

Captain Harry Dwight Chamberlin

B. 1887-05-19, USA; D. 1944-09-29
Equestrianism (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1920 1928 1932 HP
Three-day Event, Individual sixth fourth 3080
Three-day Event, Team fourth gold 2500
Dressage, Individual 15th 24
Jumping, individual 18th silver 5005
Jumping, team fifth 9th bronze 1573
12182

Ernest Chambers

B. 1907-04-07, London, England, Great Britain; D. 1985-01-29
Cycling - Track
1928 1932 1936 HP
Tandem silver silver QF 11789.25
Sprint - QF - 861
12650.25

Henri Chammartin

B. 1918-07-30, Switzerland; D. 2011-05-30
Equestrianism - Dressage (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 HP
Individual sixth 8th 8th gold 9th 12130
Team silver bronze silver bronze 3608
15738

There was no team competition at Roma.

Charles Champaud

Olympic Competitor nr 177

Émile Champion

Olympic Competitor nr 1032

Michel Champoudry

Olympic Competitor nr 1046

Capt. Dhyan Chand Bais

B. 1905-08-28, Allahabad, India; D. 1979-12-??
Hockey (3 gold)
1928 1932 1936 HP
Hockey gold gold gold 19200
19200

The greatest of all hockey players, he learned the game in the Indian Army and had a dazzling international career between 1926 and 1936, days when Indian hockey was incomparably the best in the world. Chand played centre forward in the teams which won the Olympic gold medals in 1928 and 1932 and he captained India to their third successive title in 1936. In those three tournaments, India scored an aggregate of 102 goals to three. During a tour of New Zealand in 1935, Chand scored 201 goals out of 584. In 1947-8 he made his parting appearance at international level as captain of the team which India sent on a goodwill demonstration tour of East Africa. The magic touch of Chand was all his own, a gift of nature.
In the 1936 Olympic final, he scored six goals in India's 8-1 win over Germany.
His brother Roop Singh Bais was also on the team in 1932 and 1936, and his son Ashok Kumar won bronze in 1972.

Alexandre Chantelat

Olympic Competitor nr 723

Chantriaux

Olympic Competitor nr 1468

Bertrand Chanu

Olympic Competitor nr 595

Chapau

Olympic Competitor nr 1142

Chaput

Olympic Competitor nr 1558

Jean-Baptiste Charcot

Olympic Competitor nr 417

Serguei Charikov

Russia
Fencing, Sabre (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1996 2000 2004 HP
Sabre, individual silver R2 QF 6361.8
Sabre, team gold gold bronze 5760
12121.8

Charlot

Olympic Competitor nr 1513

Andrew Murray "Boy" Charlton

B. 1907-08-12, Australia; D. 1975-12-10
Swimming (1 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
1924 1928 1932 HP
400 m Free-style bronze silver sixth 7920
1500 m Free-style gold silver SF:4th 10728
4x200 m Free-style Relay silver - - 1000
19648

Jules Charpentier

Olympic Competitor nr 852

Jacques Chastanié

Olympic Competitor nr 887

Georges Chaudoir

Olympic Competitor nr 598

Joey Cheek

USA
Speed Skating (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
2002 2006 HP
500 m sixth gold 7040
1000 m bronze silver 6560
1500 m fourth 9th 1760
15360

Chen Jing

B. 1968-09-20, Wuhan, China, moved to Taipei and represented Chinese Taipei from 1996 on
Table Tennis (1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
1988 1996 2000 HP
Women's Singles gold silver bronze 20250
Women's Doubles silver fifth rd3 4168.5
24418.5

The Olympic champion of Seoul had defected to Taiwan and faced the Barcelona champion, Deng Yaping, in the Atlanta final.

Chen Ruolin

B. 1992-12-12, Jiangshu, China
Diving (2 gold)
2008 HP
Platform gold 6400
Synchronized Platform gold 4800
11200

Chen Yanqing

China
Weightlifting (2 gold)
2004 2008 HP
-58 kg gold gold 19200
19200

Chen Zhong

China
Taekwondo (2 gold)
2000 2004 HP
+67 kg gold gold 19200
19200

Julia Chepalova

B. 1976-12-23, Komsomolsk-na-Amur, Russia
Cross-Country Skiing (2 gold, 1 bronze)
1998 2002 2006 HP
Sprint gold 6400
10 km, Classical style bronze 26th 2560.064
Combined Pursuit 5 km + 10 km sixth 1440
Combined Pursuit 5 km + 5 km sixth
Pursuit 7.5 km + 7.5 km ninth
30 km, Free-style gold 15000
15 km, Free-style, mass start fourth
30 km, Free-style, mass start silver
4 x 10 km - - gold 1600
27000.064

Sergei Chepikov

B. 1967-01-30, Khabarovsk, Russia
Biathlon (2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze) & Nordic Skiing
Biathlon 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 HP
10 km bronze fourth gold - - - 8560
4 x 7.5 km gold silver silver - fourth silver 5625
20 km fourth 10th 8th - 8th fourth 4095.3
15 km Mass Start fifth 1000
Nordic Skiing 19280.3
4 x 10 km - - - fifth - 250
19530.3

The first Olympian competitor who managed to score medals as member of three different teams: the Soviet Union in 1988, the Unified Team in 1992, and Russia in 1994. Andrei Lavrov later went one better by doing the same thing, but with three gold medals.
In 1998, without a rifle, he was part of the Russian Cross-Country relay team, but he returned to biathlon.

Chevrand

Olympic Competitor nr 1303

Nadeshda Chishova

B. 1945-09-29, from Leningrad (now St-Petersburg), Russia
Track and Field (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1968 1972 1976 HP
Shot Put bronze silver gold 24300
24300

Choi Eun-Kyung

Korea
Fasttrack (2 gold, 2 silver)
2002 2006 HP
500 m 7th 400
1000 m sixth fourth 2240
1500 m silver silver 8000
3000 m team gold gold 3200
13840

Choi Minho

B. 1980-08-18, Korea
Judo (1 gold, 1 bronze)
2004 2008 HP
-60 kg bronze gold 12720
12720

Eugène Choisel

Olympic Competitor nr 775

Christian Christensen

Olympic Competitor nr 798

Fred Christian

Olympic Competitor nr 1411

Iwanka Christova

B. 1941-11-19, Bulgaria
Track and Field (1 gold, 1 bronze)
1968 1972 1976 HP
Shot Put sixth bronze gold 18000
18000

Chun Lee-Kyung

B. 1976-01-06, Chollabuk-do, Republic of Korea
Shorttrack (4 gold, 1 bronze)
1994 1998 HP
1000 m gold gold 11200
3000 m, team gold gold 2800
500 m 15th bronze 2567.5
16567.5

Viktor Chukarin

B. 1921-11-09, Mariupol (later Zhdanov), Ukraine; D. 1984-08-25
Gymnastics (7 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
1952 1956 HP
Individual Combined gold gold 12800
Team gold gold 3200
Parallel Bars silver gold 2600
Pommeled Horse gold bronze 2240
Vaults gold 7th 1700
Floor Exercises 29th silver 1000
Rings silver 7th 1100
Horizontal Bar fifth fourth 650
25290

Won the individual combined in 1956 by the smallest margin of 0.05 pts from Takashi Ono.
He won two World Championships, in 1954 (equal first with Valentin Muratov) and 1956.

Written 2002-09-12 - last modified 2002-10-28

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