Great Olympians

Biographies - JO

Job - Joh - Jol - Jon - Jor - Jou - Joy


Henri Jobier

Olympic Competitor nr 257


Knut Johannesen

Norway
Speed Skating (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
1956 1960 1964 HP
10000 m silver gold bronze 16200
5000 m 8th silver gold 10656
1500 m 9th 11th - 224
500 m - 20th - 1
27081

His gold at 10000 m at Squaw Valley was with a world record that beat the previous best by 46 seconds !


Claes Edvin Johanson

B. 1884-11-04, Sweden; D. 1949-03-09
Greco-Roman Wrestling (2 gold)
1912 1920 1924 HP
Middleweight A (-73 kg) gold 28857.6
Light heavyweight (-82.5 kg) gold
Heavyweight (+82.5 kg) rd1
28857.6


Carl Hugo Johansson

Sweden
Shooting (2 gold, 3 bronze)
1912 1920 1924 HP
Free Rifle, 3 positions fourth 12th 1984
Free Rifle, prone 8th
Free Rifle, team gold sixth 7th 2325
Military Rifle, Free position 23rd 0.256
Military Rifle, 300m, prone sixth 160
Military Rifle, 600m, prone gold 1600
Military Rifle, team bronze 1169
Military Rifle, 300m, prone, team fifth
Military Rifle, 600m, prone, team bronze
Military Rifle, 300m, standing, team bronze
Military Rifle, 300m & 600m, prone, team sixth
7238


Greta Johansson

Sweden
Diving, Swimming (1 gold)
1912 HP
Platform (5 & 10m) gold 9600
100 m Free-style R1:4 4.55
4x100 m Free-style Relay fourth 400
10005


Hjalmar Johansson

B. 1874-01-20, Sweden; D. 1957-09-30
Diving, Swimming, Athletics (1 gold, 1 silver)
1906 1908 1912 HP
Combined Platform sixth 2320
Platform, plain and fancy (5 & 10m) fourth
Platform, plain (5 & 10m) gold silver 8800
100 m Free-style eighth 192
200 m Breaststroke 12th 45
Standing Long Jump 19th 1.8
11359


Ivar Johansson

B. 1903-01-31, Norrköping, Sweden; D. 1979
Wrestling (3 gold)
Greco Roman 1928 1932 1936 HP
Greco-Roman, -72 kg gold 19395
Middleweight (-75 kg) R3
Greco-Roman, -79 kg gold
Free-style, -79 kg gold 9600
28995

One of only three wrestlers to have won gold medals in both styles.
(see Kalle Anttila, Wilfried Dietrich, Kristjan Palusalu, Carl Westergren, Rudolf Svensson, Hamit Kaplan)
He was also eight times European Champion.


G. Johin

Olympic Competitor nr 739


Horace Thomas "Tiny" Johnson

B. 1889, Great Britain; D. 1966-08-12
Cycling - track
1908 1920 HP
Tandem silver 3750
Sprint (1000 m) silver 6000
Team Pursuit silver 3000
50 km dnf 0.0096
12750


Michael Johnson

USA
Track and Field (5 gold)
1996 2000 HP
200 m gold - 6400
400 m gold gold 12800
4 x 400 m gold gold 3200
22400

Not, as often said, the first person to do the double on 200 and 400 meters. Marie-Josée Perec did that slightly earlier, and Valerie Brisco-Hooks 12 years earlier. Johnson did become, in Sydney, the first man to take the 400 m title a second time.


Phyllis Wyatt Johnson

B. 1886-12, Great Britain; D. 1967-12-02
Figure Skating
1908 1920 HP
Pairs silver bronze 7645
Women fourth 2400
10045

(112 HP)


Rafer Johnson

B. 1934-08-18, Hillsboro, TX, USA
Athletics (1 gold, 1 silver)
1956 1960 HP
Decathlon silver gold 15600
15600


Jolliet

Olympic Competitor nr 346


Andrée Joly

competed in 1932 as

Andrée Brunet

B. 16/9/1901, Paris, France; D. 1993
Figure Skating (2 gold, 1 bronze)
1924 1928 1932 HP
Pairs bronze gold gold 28800
Women's Individual fifth 11th - 1596
30396

Won the Pairs medals together with her husband Pierre Brunet. They also won four World titles (26,28,30,32).
Their son Jean-Pierre was one of only two skaters ever to win against Dick Button.


Benjamin Jones

B. 1882, Great Britain
Cycling (2 gold, 1 silver)
1908 HP
5000 m gold 4800
20 km silver 3000
Team Pursuit gold 3600
Sprint (660 yds) SF:3 68.25
Sprint (1000 m) fin 1200
12668


E.T. Jones

Olympic Competitor nr 1389


Georgina Jones

Olympic Competitor nr 767


John Jones

Olympic Competitor nr 1600


Leisel Jones

B. 1985-08-30, Katherine, Australia
Swimming (3 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze)
2000 2004 2008 HP
100 m Breast stroke silver bronze gold 16200
200 m Breast stroke silver silver 8000
4x100 m Medley Relay silver gold gold 6300
30500


Marion Jones (1)

Olympic Competitor nr 771


Marion Jones (2)

USA
Track and Field (3 gold, 2 bronze)
2000 2004 HP
100 m gold 6400
200 m gold 6400
Long Jump bronze ac 3840
4 x 100 m bronze ac 640
4 x 400 m gold 1600
18880

She was aiming for five gold medals at Sydney. In the sprints she was further ahead of the field than anyone dared believe, but her technique let her down in the long jump. On the final day, it was technique yet again that left her with only bronze, when her teammates proved far worse at the relays than the Jamaicans and Bahamians. Jones made up for it in the 4x400 metres though, when it was her third leg that laid the foundation for an emphatic win. After confessing to taking illegal substances, the IOC stripped her of all titles and performances in December 2007


Jonet-Pastré

Olympic Competitor nr 475


T.H. Jordan

He played cricket for "France" in 1910 so I class him as French

Olympic Competitor nr 1392


Georges Jourdan

Olympic Competitor nr 665


André Jousseaumé

B. 1894-07-27, Yvré l'Évêque, Sarthe, France; D. 1960-05-26
Equestrianism - Dressage (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 HP
Dressage, individual fifth fifth silver bronze fifth 13145
Dressage, team gold silver gold fourth sixth 7140
Military, individual - - dnf -
Military, team - - dnf 4
20289

One of the greatest French riders, from the famous Cadre Noir at Saumur, he had a military career, becoming a colonel in 1952. He took part in five Olympic Games over a period of 24 years. He was twelfth in the three-day event of 1948.


Marc Jousset

Olympic Competitor nr 461


Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner-Kersee

B. 1962-03-06, East St-Louis, Ill, USA
Track and Field (3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
1984 1988 1992 1996 HP
Long Jump fifth gold bronze bronze 23475
Heptathlon silver gold gold 37800
61275

Her mother had named her after the Mrs. Kennedy because she knew her daughter would later become 'first lady' at something. At college, after she had already set the Illinois long jump record, she concentrated on basketball, until she met Bob Kersee, who pushed her back to track and field and whom she married on 11/1/1986. In 1986, she set two world heptathlon records and in 1987 became world champion with a third and still only total over 7000 points. Also in 1988 she took a share of the world long jump record.
Injury prevented her from competing in the Atlanta heptathlon.
She had an unsuccessful stint in Professional Basketball after Atlanta but returned to the track early in 1997.
World Champion at Long Jump in 1987 and 1991, at heptathlon in 1987 and 1993.


Written 2001-05-23 - last modified 2002-10-30

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