Great Olympians

Biographies - TO

Tob - Tod - Tol - Tom - Ton - Tor - Tot - Tou

Gary Tobian

USA
Diving (1 gold, 2 silver)
1956 1960 HP
Platform silver silver 8000
Springboard gold 6400
14400

Mark Todd

New Zealand
Equestrianism - Three-day Event (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
1984 1988 1992 2000 2008 HP
Three-day Event, individual gold gold dnf bronze 17th 28807.5
Three-day Event, team sixth bronze silver - fifth 2425.5
31233

Todoresku

Olympic Competitor nr 705

Montagu Toller

Olympic Competitor nr 1407

Philip Tomalin

Olympic Competitor nr 1402

Alberto Tomba

B. 1966-12-19, San Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna, Italy
Alpine Skiing (3 gold, 2 silver)
1988 1992 1994 1998 HP
Slalom gold silver silver - 12400
Giant Slalom gold gold disq dnf 12800
Super-G dnf - - - -
25200

Tomba 'La Bomba' became the first to retain the Giant Slalom title.
He won his first World Championships (at last) in 1996, at Slalom and Giant Slalom.
World Cup Overall winner in 1995.

Dimitrios Tombrof

Olympic Competitor nr 34

James Tomkins

B. 1965-08-19, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Rowing (3 gold, 1 bronze)
1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 HP
Coxless Pairs bronze gold 22400
Coxless Fours gold gold 19200
Eights fifth 1000
42600

Member of the "oarsome foursome" that won gold in 1992 and 1996, together with Nicholas Green and Michael McKay. In Sydney the two remaining members of the crew raced in separate boats, and both avoided Steven Redgrave who had chosen their category to win his fifth consecutive gold medal in.
In Athina he won his third rowing gold

(19950)

Alexander Tomov

B. 1949-04-03, Bulgaria
Wrestling - Greco-Roman (3 silver)
1972 1976 1980 HP
+ 100 kg silver silver silver 19800
19800

Giuseppe Tonani

B. 1890-10-02, Milano, Italy; D. 1971-10-01
Weightlifting & Tug-of-War (1 gold)
1920 1924 1928 HP
Heavyweight (+82.5 kg) gold 7th 10200
Tug of War fifth 500
10700

Émile Torcheboeuf

Olympic Competitor nr 1022

Julius Torma

Slovakia
Boxing (1 gold)
1948 1952 1956 HP
-67 kg gold QF 14152.5
-75 kg QF
14152.5

Gwendolyn Lenna "Gwen" Torrence

USA
Track and Field (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1988 1992 1996 HP
100 m fifth fourth bronze 5676
200 m sixth gold - 7040
4 x 100 m - gold gold 3200
4 x 400 m - silver - 1000
16916

Dara Torres

B. 1967-04-15, Los Angeles, California, USA
Swimming (4 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze)
1984 1988 1992 2000 2008 HP
50 m Free-style - - - bronze silver 7216
100 m Free-style - 7th - bronze 2960
100 m Butterfly - - - bronze 2560
4 x 100 m Free-style Relay gold bronze gold gold silver 12880
4 x 100 m Medley Relay - (silver) - gold silver 3330
28946

Member of the American relay team that won gold in Los Angeles, Barcelona and Sydney.
After making the American teams from 1984 to 1992, she returned out of retirement to have her best olympics in 2000, finally also managing individual medals.
And then she added a fifth medal in the relays in 2008, aged 41.

Regla Torres Herrera

B. 1975-02-12, Havana, Cuba
Volleyball (3 gold)
1992 1996 2000 HP
team gold gold gold 19200
19200

Member of the Cuban Volleyball team that won gold at Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney.
At 17 she was the youngest on the team in Barcelona, so she has a few more Olympics to come.

Jayne Torvill

B. 1957-10-07, Nottingham, England, Great Britain
Figure Skating - Ice Dance (1 gold, 1 silver)
1980 1984 1994 HP
Ice Dance fifth gold silver 17812.5
17812.5

Tatyana Totmyanina

Russia
Figure Skating (1 gold)
2002 2006 HP
Pairs fourth gold 10000
10000

Twice together with Maksim Marinin.

Touche

Olympic Competitor nr 1173

Georges Touquet-Daunis

Olympic Competitor nr 1042

Written 2000-12-03 - last modified 2002-10-31

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