Jörg Balke later married his non-Olympian teammate Rosemarie Klute and after the wedding of their daughter, Tina, to Olaf Hense, they became his parents-in-law. Rosemarie and Jörg Balke were later ...

José Luis Sánchez was a sprinter who competed in three Olympic Games (1968, 1972, 1976) for Spain. He was capped 72 times for Spain. Sánchez was a 12-time Spanish sprint champion, winning the 100 ...

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 ...

Field hockey mid fielder Aribert Heymann was a member of the first German team to win an Olympic hockey medal, when they beat Belgium 3-0 to win the bronze medal at Amsterdam in 1928. He won 12 ...

The Reverend Bob Richards was a theology professor in California when he qualified for the U.S. Olympic team as a pole vaulter in 1952. The duel for the gold medal was waged between Richards and ...

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 ...

Steve Sertich played hockey for Roosevelt High School in Virginia and then for Colorado College. Prior to playing for the US National Team in 1975-76, he played in the German Bundesliga in 1975-75 ...

Risto Hurme was probably the most successful Finnish pentathlete internationally in the 1970s, although he never won a Finnish modern pentathlon title. His biggest accomplishment was winning the ...

Achille Piccini played as a central defender or defensive midfielder. He was born and raised in Carrara, where he played his first seasons as a regular in the Prima Divisione. In 1933 he moved to ...

Jürgen Bachmann was an East German swimmer who reached the semi-finals in the 200m butterfly at the 1960 Rome Olympics. A member of SC DHfK Leipzig, Bachmann was the 1961 national champion in the 100m ...

Middle- and long-distance runner Arthur Hannemann was eliminated in the heats of the 1,500 metres at the 1960 Rome Olympics and placed 27th four years later in Tokyo. These two competitions were his ...

Five days later she entered the 7.5km race. After the start of the race, the young athlete realised that she had grabbed one ski from one pair and another from a different pair. The left ski was ...