Germany
Sailing (2 gold)
1988 | 1992 | 1996 | HP | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Soling | gold | fourth | gold | 21600 |
21600 |
Together with Bernd
Jäkel and Jochen
Schümann.
B. 1873-11-05, London, England, UK, emigrated as an infant to Australia;
D. 1935-01-10
Athletics & Tennis (3 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze)
1896 | HP | |
---|---|---|
800 m | gold | 6400 |
1500 m | gold | 6400 |
Marathon | dnf | 150 |
Men's Singles | 1st rd | 65.9 |
Men's Doubles | bronze | 1920 |
14395.9 |
Although he competed in both tennis tournaments, he never won a single match.
He lived from 1895 to 1899 in London, so his trip to Athina did not take as long as could be expected for an Australian
Olympic Comptitor nr 21
Olympic Competitor nr 663
B. 1877-04-30, Paris, France; D. 1917-01-02
Cycling (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1896 | HP | |
---|---|---|
Time Trial, 333m | fifth | 1000 |
Sprint | bronze | 2560 |
10000 m | silver | 4000 |
100 km | gold | 6400 |
13960 |
Olympic Competitor nr 99
B. 1868-01-28, Limerick, Ireland, emigrated to and competed for the USA;
D. Ireland, 1938-04-04
Track and Field (3 gold, 1 silver)
1900 | 1904 | 1908 | bonus | HP | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hammer Throw | gold | gold | gold | 24000 | 48000 | |
56-lb Weight Throw | silver | 3000 | ||||
Discus Throw | 7th | fourth | 2520 | |||
Discus Throw, freestyle | 9th | |||||
10200 | 12000 | 7320 | 24000 | 53520 | ||
Tug of War | (*) | fifth | 375 | |||
10200 | 12000 | 7695 | 24000 | 53895 |
The father of modern hammer throwing, Flanagan raised the world record in
sixteen installments from 44.47m in Ireland in 1895(°) to 56.20m in
1909 after emigrating to the United States. His best Olympic record (1908)
was 51.92m. He was fourth in the discus at St.Louis and second in throwing
the 56-lb weight.
(*) He also helped the USA to second or third place in the tug-of-war in
1900, but this medal is disputed, as it appears that spectators helped the
American team. Apparently the Americans only competed hors-concours against
the winners, since they could not free themselves from the Discus competition,
which was conducted at the same time. He took fifth place in the same event
in 1908.
(°) Hammer throwing was not yet an Olympic event in 1896, so he was
prevented from a possible fourth gold medal.
Olympic Competitor nr 786
Olympic Competitor nr 117
Olympic Competitor nr 118
USA
Figure Skating (1 gold)
1964 | 1968 | HP | |
---|---|---|---|
Ladies' Singles | sixth | gold | 10560 |
10560 |
Olympic Competitor nr 699
France
Fencing - Épée (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | HP | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Épée, Individual | gold | bronze | silver | QF | 21146.875 |
Épée, team | gold | QF | bronze | 2979.4 | |
24126.275 |
Olympic Competitor nr 568
the Netherlands
Rowing (2 gold)
1988 | 1992 | 1996 | HP | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Double Sculls | gold | 12000 | ||
Double Fours | fifth | 1125 | ||
Eights | gold | 4800 | ||
17925 |
Germany
Bobsledding (2 silver)
1968 | 1972 | HP | |
---|---|---|---|
Two-man | silver | silver | 10000 |
Four-man | fifth | fifth | 1500 |
11500 |
Twice together with Josef "Pepi" Bader
Written 2000-11-28 -last modified 2002-10-28
This page is part of the site "Full Olympians" by Herman De Wael. See here for a full Introduction.