Great Olympians

Biographies - WA

Wac - Wag - Wah - Wai - Wal - Wan - War - Was - Wat - Way

Anita Wachter

B. 1967-2-12, Austria
Alpine Skiing (1 gold, 2 silver)

	1988	1992	1994	HP
Combined	gold	silver	-	9400
Giant Slalom	7th	silver	fourth	4600
Super-G	fifth	9th	9th	1240
Downhill	dnf	-	-	-
Slalom	dnf	-	dnf	-
				15240

Overall World Cup Winner in 1993.

Katrin Wagner

competed in 2008 as

Katrin Wagner-Augustin

B. 1977-10-13, Brandenburg, then GDR, Germany
Canoeing (4 gold, 1 bronze)

	2000	2004	2008	HP
K4 500 m	gold	gold	gold	19200
K2 500 m	gold			4800
K1 500 m		fourth	bronze	4160
				28160

Otto Wahle

B. 1879-11-05, Austria; D. 1963-08-11
Swimming (2 silver, 1 bronze)

	1900	1904	HP
100 m Freestyle	(silver)		0
200 m Freestyle	finalist		100
440 yds Free-style		bronze	1920
880 yds Free-style		fifth	4750
1000 m Freestyle	silver
1 mile Free-style		fourth	1200
200 m Obstacle Course	silver		6000
	10100	3870	13970

The 100 m event at Paris is not listed in all sources, but seems to have been a separate, official event (Information supplied by the IASF, according to the Hungarian authors) The event is notably completely absent in Mallon.

Olympic Competitor nr 1271

• 1900-08-11-07:45 - Swimming - 1000 m Freestyle, heats - fifth time (Q)
• 1900-08-11-10:00 - Swimming - 200 m Freestyle, heats - first (Q)
• 1900-08-11-10:30 - Swimming - 200 m Obstacle Course, heats - first (Q)
• 1900-08-12-14:00 - Swimming - 1000 m Freestyle, final - second (4000)
• 1900-08-12-14:30 - Swimming - 200 m Freestyle, final - DNS (100)
• 1900-08-12-15:15 - Swimming - 200 m Obstacle Course, final - second (6000)

Erick Wainaina

B. 1973-12-19, Kenya
Athletics (1 silver, 1 bronze)

	1996	2000	2004	HP
Marathon	bronze	silver	7th	10440
				10440

Jan-Ove Waldner

Sweden
Table Tennis (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1992	1996	2000	2004	HP
Singles	gold	R16	silver	fourth	18832.425
Doubles	R1:2nd	QF	R3	QF	1034.132
					19866.557

Carolyn Waldo

B. 1964-12-11, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Synchronized Swimming (2 gold, 1 silver)

	1984	1988	HP
Solo	silver	gold	10400
Duet		gold	4800
			15200

Charles Waldstein

Olympic Competitor nr 70

• 1896-04-08-10:30 - Shooting - Military Rifle day one
• 1896-04-09-09:00 - Shooting - Military Rifle - AC (1.543)

René Waleff

Olympic Competitor nr 1465

• 1900-08-25-11:15 - Rowing - Eights, heat two - DNF (500)
• 1900-08-25-14:45 - Rowing - Coxed Pairs, heat one - first (Q)
• 1900-08-25-16:30 - Rowing - Coxed Fours, heat two - DNF (129)
• 1900-08-26-15:30 - Rowing - Coxed Pairs, final - second (5000)

Edmond Wallace

Olympic Competitor nr 565

• .1900-06-01-15:00? - Fencing - Épée, Individual, round one, pool 4 - second (Q)
• 1900-06-07-09:00 - Fencing - Épée, Individual, quarter-final - first (Q)
• 1900-06-10-09:00 - Fencing - Épée, Individual, semi-final - second (Q)
• 1900-06-13-15:00? - Fencing - Épée, Individual, final, day one
• 1900-06-14-15:00? - Fencing - Épée, Individual, final, day two - sixth (640)

Richard Wallace

Olympic Competitor nr 614

• 1900-06-05-10:00? - Fencing - Épée, Individual, round one, pool 9 - first (Q)
• 1900-06-07-09:00 - Fencing - Épée, Individual, quarter-final - first (Q)
• 1900-06-10-09:00 - Fencing - Épée, Individual, semi-final - AC (44.76)

Joseph Wallis

Olympic Competitor nr 1689

• 1900-10-28-15:00 - Rugby - match two - final classification - second (1640)

Kerri Walsh

B. 1978-08-15, San Jose, CA, USA
Beach Volleyball (2 gold)

	2004	2008	HP
Beach Volleyball	gold	gold	16000
			16000

Twice together with Misty May-Treanor

Hals Walter

Switzerland
Rowing (2 gold, 1 bronze)

	1924	1924	2000	2004	HP
Coxless Fours		bronze			1920
Coxed Fours	gold	gold			9600
Eights	R1:2	-			287
					11807

Wang Hao

B. 1983-12-01, Changchun, China
Table Tennis (1 gold, 2 silver)

	2004	2008	HP
Singles	silver	silver	10000
Doubles	R4		39.56
Team		gold	1600
			11639.56

Wang Meng

China
Shorttrack (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

	2006	2010	HP
500 m	gold	gold	12800
1000 m	silver	gold	10400
1500 m	bronze	SF:6th	2564.32
3000 m Team	fourth	gold	2000
			27764.32

(13360)

Wang Nan

B. 1978-10-23, Fushun, China
Table Tennis (4 gold, 1 silver)

	2000	2004	2008	HP
Singles	gold	QF	silver	14146.875
Doubles	gold	gold		9600
Team			gold	1600
				28346.875

Wang Tao

China
Table Tennis (1 gold, 2 silver)

• Men's Singles - fifth 1992, silver 1996 (65 HP)
• Men's Doubles - gold 1992, silver 1996 (78 HP)

(143 HP)

Wang Yifu

B. 1960-12-04, Liaoyang, Liaoning, China
Shooting (2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)

	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	HP
Air Pistol			gold	silver	silver	gold	31200
Free Pistol	bronze	8th	silver	sixth	sixth		10454.4
							41654.4

Archibald Warden

Olympic Competitor nr 762

• 1900-07-07-15:00? - Tennis - Men's Doubles round one - lost (430.5)
• 1900-07-08-15:00? - Tennis - Men's Singles round two - lost (717.5)
• 1900-07-08-15:00? - Tennis - Mixed Doubles round one - won (Q)
• 1900-07-10-15:00? - Tennis - Mixed Doubles semi-finals - lost (1560)

Warenhorst

Olympic Competitor nr 408

• 1900-05-22-13:10 - Sailing - 1-2 ton class (1) - sixth (160)
• 1900-05-25-13:20 - Sailing - 1-2 ton class (2) - fifth (250)

Jeremy Wariner

B. 1984-01-31, Irving, TX, USA
Athletics (3 gold, 1 silver)

	2004	2008	HP
400 m	gold	silver	10400
4 x 400 m	gold	gold	3200
			13600

Arthur Warncke

Olympic Competitor nr 1451

• 1900-08-25-11:00 - Rowing - Eights, heat one - third (DNQ), then admitted to final
• 1900-08-26-17:30 - Rowing - Eights, final - fourth (800)

Thomas Wassberg

Sweden
Nordic Skiing (4 gold)

	1976	1980	1984	1988	HP
15 km	15th	gold	-	-	6410
50 km	-	-	gold	dnf	6400
4 x 10 km	fourth	fifth	gold	gold	5775
30 km	-	fourth	14th	42nd	1616
					20201

Markus Wasmeier

Germany
Alpine Skiing (2 gold)

	1988	1992	1994	HP
Giant Slalom	19th	dnf	gold	4801.1
Super-G	dnf	9th	gold	4920
Downhill	sixth	fourth	dnf	1840
Combined	7th	fifth	36th	1150
				12711.6

Kathryn Watt

Australia
Cycling (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1992	1996	HP
Individual Pursuit	silver	8th	6384
Road Race	gold	9th	9840
Road Race, Time Trial		fourth	2400
			18624

Wattelier

Olympic Competitor nr 298

• 1900-05-15-09:00? - Fencing - Foil, Individual round one day two (Q)
• 1900-05-16-09:00? - Fencing - Foil, Individual quarter final - DNS (0.031)

Ch. Waydelich

Olympic Competitor nr 740

• 1900-06-28-14:00? - Croquet - singles 1 ball - third (2560)
• 1900-07-04-14:00? - Croquet - singles 2 balls, day one - won (Q)
• 1900-07-11-14:00? - Croquet - singles 2 balls, day two - first (6400)

Marshall Wayne

USA
Diving (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1936	HP
Platform	gold	6400
Springboard	silver	4000
		10400

Written 2000-12-22 - last modified 2002-10-30

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