Great Olympians

Biographies - TE

Ted - Tel - Ter - Tet - Tew - Tex

Levan Tediashvili

B. 1948-03-15, Gegmoubani, Kakheti, Georgia, represented the Soviet Union
Wrestling, Freestyle (2 gold)

	1972	1976	HP
Middleweight	gold		19200
Light-heavyweight		gold
			19200

He beat the brothers John and Benjamin Peterson in successive Olympic finals.

Léon Tellier

Olympic Competitor nr 419

• 1900-05-22-13:20 - Sailing - 0-1/2 ton class (1) - third (640)
• 1900-05-24-13:30? - Sailing - 0-1/2 ton class (2) - fourth (400)

Terrier

Olympic Competitor nr 1176

• 1900-07-29-14:00? - Gymnastics - Individual combined, day one
• 1900-07-30-14:00? - Gymnastics - Individual combined, day two - AC

Maurice Terrier

Olympic Competitor nr 1583

• 1900-09-11-09:00 - Cycling - Track - Sprint, round one - AC (-2.25)

Henry Terry

Olympic Competitor nr 1395

• 1900-08-19-11:00 Cricket - day one
• 1900-08-20-11:00 Cricket - day two - lost (2000)

Johannes Terwogt

Olympic Competitor nr 1502

• 1900-08-25-16:30 - Rowing - Coxed Fours, heat two - first (Q2)
• 1900-08-26-14:30 - Rowing - Coxed Fours, final two - second (3000)

Hannah Teter

B. 1987-01-27, Belmont, VT, USA
Snowboarding (1 gold, 1 silver)

	2006	2010	HP
Half-Pipe	gold	silver	15600
			15600

John Walter Beardsley Tewksbury

B. 1876-03-21, Ashley, Pa., USA; D. 1968-04-25, Tunkhannock, Pa.
Track and Field (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)

	1900	HP
60 m	silver	4000
100 m	silver	4000
200 m	gold	6400
200 m Hurdles	bronze	2560
400 m Hurdles	gold	6400
		23360

He brought the ability of a top-class sprinter to the rather underdeveloped 400-metres hurdles, previously tought of as a European speciality.
After graduating from University in 1899 as a dentist, he returned to Pennsylvania and would never have been heard of again, but for a piece of coincidence. The US Olympic coach visited Tunckhannock in search of early american glassware, of which the Tewksburies had a large collection.
He was unable to find a hurdles stretch near his home town so he trained in the cemetary, hurdling over gravestones.
He would practice dentistry until 1946 and visited the Roma Olympics as a tourist, aged 84.

Olympic Competitor nr 814

• 1900-07-14-10:30 - Athletics Track -  100 m, round one - first (Q)
• 1900-07-14-10:45 - Athletics Track -  100 m, semi-finals - first (Q)
• 1900-07-14-11:15 - Athletics Track -  100 m, final - second (4000)
• 1900-07-14-11:55 - Athletics Track - 400 m Hurdles, semi-finals - first (Q)
• 1900-07-15-14:00 - Athletics Track - 60 m, semi-finals - first (Q)
• 1900-07-15-14:45 - Athletics Track - 60 m, final - second (4000)
• 1900-07-15-16:15 - Athletics Track - 400 m Hurdles, final - first (6400)
• 1900-07-16-15:00? - Athletics Track - 200 m Hurdles, semi-finals - second (Q)
• 1900-07-16-15:30? - Athletics Track - 200 m Hurdles, final - third (2560)
• 1900-07-22-14:00? - Athletics Track - 200 m, semi-finals - second (Q)
• 1900-07-22-14:30? - Athletics Track - 200 m, final - first (6400)

Andreas Tews

B. 1968-09-11, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, represented the German DR in 1988
Boxing (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1988	1992	HP
Flyweight	silver		15600
Featherweight		gold
			15600

Texier

Olympic Competitor nr 314

• 1900-05-20-10:00? - Sailing - Open class - DQ (200)
• 1900-05-22-13:10 - Sailing - 1-2 ton class (1) - seventh (100)
• 1900-05-24-13:20? - Sailing - 1/2-1 ton class (1) - eighth (64)
• 1900-05-25-13:20 - Sailing - 1-2 ton class (2) - sixth (160)
• 1900-05-27-13:30 - Sailing - 1/2-1 ton class (2) - sixth (160)
• 1900-08-11-07:45 - Swimming - 1000 m Freestyle, heats - 13th time (25.6)
• 1900-08-11-10:00 - Swimming - 200 m Freestyle, heats - 20th time (1)
• 1900-08-11-11:00 - Swimming - 200 m Backstroke, heats - 15th time (15)
• 1900-08-15-09:00 - Swimming - 4000 m Freestyle, heat two - fourth - 10th time (100)

Texier

Olympic Competitor nr 315

• 1900-05-20-10:00? - Sailing - Open class - DQ (200)
• 1900-05-22-13:10 - Sailing - 1-2 ton class (1) - seventh (100)
• 1900-05-24-13:20? - Sailing - 1/2-1 ton class (1) - eighth (64)
• 1900-05-25-13:20 - Sailing - 1-2 ton class (2) - sixth (160)
• 1900-05-27-13:30 - Sailing - 1/2-1 ton class (2) - sixth (160)

Written 2000-12-14 - last modified 2002-10-31

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