West German rower Michael Reinartz, brother of Anton and Stefan Reinartz, finished fifth, and last, in the final with the coxed eights at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. With his club Kölner ...

Geoff Vanderstock won the 1968 Olympic Trials 400H, breaking the world record in the process. At the AAU meet he was second in 1966, fifth in 1965, and sixth in 1967. Vanderstock competed for Mt. San ...

Ralph Purchase was the coxswain for the Cal/Berkeley eight at the 1948 Olympics. Though Cal had had an indifferent season, losing twice to Washington during the year, they defeated the Huskies in the ...

John Friedberg was a sabre fencer who attended college at the University of North Carolina. Friedberg won two gold medals in team sabre at the Pan American Games, winning in 1991 and 1995. He was the ...

Heike John was a West German backstroke swimmer who was eliminated in the heats and semi-finals over 200 and 100 metres, respectively, at the 1976 Montréal Olympics. At the 1977 European Championships ...

Travis Mayer grew up skiing in western New York at Holiday Valley Ski Area. In high school, he moved to Killington Mountain School in Vermont to concentrate on skiing, making the US Ski Team when he ...

Charles Davies was a finalist in the AAA 440 y in 1906 (4th) and 1907 (3rd) and a semi-finalist in the 400 m at the 1908 Olympic Games. He was a member of the Polytechnic Harriers team which set a UK ...

Paul Samson competed in both swimming and water polo at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. Samson swam in the heats of the 4x200 freestyle relay. Samson swam for the Illinois Athletic Club. He attended the ...

A member of the large Swedish team, Yngve Stiernspetz won a gold medal in the Swedish System Team competition, an event only held at the 1912 Stockholm and 1920 Antwerpen Olympics. A volunteer with ...

Barclay Livingstone had the following podium finishes at major championships: 2nd in the 1959 Pan American Games 5.5 metres class (with Melville Gould and Jerome Conway).

As a young boy, Floyd Bedbury wrote down his goals as winning city, state, and national championships in speed skating. He later said he didn't know about the Olympics or he would have included that ...

Before he took part in his first Winter Olympics, Hans Eidenbenz won the 1921 Swiss Ski Championship, which was equivalent to Nordic combined. At Chamonix, he competed in the 18 km cross-country, the ...