Olympics Exam 2 - FLASHCARDS - Athletes to remember (1)

Question 1

Who won six gold medals and set a single-Games
record with eight total medals at the 2004 games in Athens?

Answer 1

Michael Phelps

Question 2

Which athlete won the 1000m speed skating title and seven months later, earned a silver medal in cycling to become the only athlete ever to win medals in the Winter and Summer Olympic Games in the same year?

Answer 2

Christa Rothenburger

Question 3

Who was the athlete that was awarded the 100m gold, meaning he had successfully defended his 1984 Olympic title, after Ben Johnson was disqualified for using steroids?

Answer 3

Carl Lewis

Question 4

Which athlete became the first man in Olympic history to run and win both the 200m and 400m? His victory over 200m in 19.32 seconds established a new world record. His record was later beaten by Usain Bolt

Answer 4

Michael Johnson

Question 5

Who was the athlete who took a spectacular fall in the downhill, flying off the slope at 120km/h and remaining air-bound for more than 3.5 seconds. He courageously recovered to earn gold medals in both the super-G and the giant slalom

Answer 5

Hermann Maier

Question 6

Czech long-distance runner who won the 5,000m,
successfully defended his 10,000m title and then took
his third gold medal in his first-ever marathon to
complete a triple.

Answer 6

Emil Zatopek

Question 7

Native American from Oklahoma, won the pentathlon and decathlon by huge margins. He was later disqualified when it was discovered that he had accepted a modest sum to play baseball before the Games. But in 1982, the IOC decided to reinstate him and gave his medals back to his daughter.

Answer 7

Jim Thorpe

Question 8

Swedish shooter who competed at three Olympic games and won six medals, including three gold. Swahn holds records as the oldest Olympian at the time of competition, the oldest person to win gold, and the oldest person to win an Olympic medal

Answer 8

Oscar Swahn

Question 9

Won gold in the 400 meter sprint at the 1924 Paris games

Answer 9

Eric Liddel

Question 10

Henie has won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies’ figure skater

Answer 10

Sonja Henie

Question 11

only person to win a gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in different disciplines. Boxing at 1920 summer olympics and bobsledding at 1932 Lake placid winter

Answer 11

Eddie Eagan

Question 12

American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

Answer 12

Jesse Owens

Question 13

What events did Jesse Owens compete and win gold?

Answer 13

• 200m 20.7 seconds
• Long Jump 8.06 meters
• 100m 10.3 seconds
• 4x100m Relay 39.8 seconds

Question 14

Won the silver medal in the long jump behind Jesse Owens at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Also known for embracing Jesse Owens and walked arm in arm through the stadium with Jesse Owens to celebrate their triumphs while Adolf Hitler watched from the stands

Answer 14

Luz Long

Question 15

Won gold in decathon at 1948 summer in London and 1952 summer in Helsinki

Answer 15

Bob Mathias

Question 16

Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning her the nickname “the Flying Housewife”, and was the most successful athlete at the event

Answer 16

Fanny Blankers-Koen

Question 17

Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He is the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his and Africa’s first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, he won his second gold medal

Answer 17

Abebe Bikila

Question 18

Also known as Muhammad Ali. Won the light heavyweight gold medal at 1960 olympics in Rome

Answer 18

Cassius Clay

Question 19

She stormed to gold in the 100m, 200m and
4x100m relay, breaking three world records in the
process. She was dubbed “The Black Gazelle” by the
European press for her speed, beauty and grace

Answer 19

Wilma Rudolph

Question 20

U.S. swimmer who won an incredible seven
gold medals and broke seven world records. Events
Freestyle and Butterfly.

Answer 20

Mark Spitz

Question 21

Soviet gymnast nicknamed the “Sparrow from Minsk”, she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team

Answer 21

Olga Korbutt

Question 22

Gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, winning the downhill alpine skiing by a margin of 0.33 seconds with a time of 1:45.73

Answer 22

Franz Klammer

Question 23

Who won all five speed skating events from 500m all the way up to 10,000m, setting an Olympic record in every one? He became the first person in Olympic history to win five gold medals in individual events at the same Games

Answer 23

Eric Hienden

Question 24

Gymnast where for her performance on the
uneven bars, she was awarded the first-ever perfect score of 10.0

Answer 24

Nadia Comaneci

Question 25

At the 1976 Montreal games, he won the 400m hurdles in world record time. His winning margin was eight meters, the largest in the event’s history

Answer 25

Edwin Moses

Question 26

American Olympic diver who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics on the springboard and platform. He is the only man and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games

Answer 26

Greg Louganis

Question 27

Why were the 1956 Melbourne and Stockholm games boycotted?

Answer 27

Cambodia, Egypt and Lebanon did not compete in Melbourne due to a boycott regarding the Suez Crisis. The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland all boycotted the Melbourne Olympics in protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary

Question 28

Why were the 1972 Montreal games boycotted?

Answer 28

An African boycott was organized by Tanzania to protest the fact that the New Zealand rugby team had toured apartheid South Africa and that New Zealand was scheduled to compete in the Olympic Games

Question 29

Why were the 1980 Moscow games boycotted?

Answer 29

Because of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan

Question 30

Why were the 1984 games in Los Angeles boycotted?

Answer 30

Although a revenge boycott led by the Soviet Union depleted the field in certain sports, 140 National Olympic Committees took part, which was a record at the time. Good feelings prevailed to such an extent that at the Opening Ceremony the athletes broke ranks to join in spontaneous dancing, something usually reserved for the Closing Ceremony

Question 31

When did the first black African female olympic champion join hands with South Africa’s first individual medal winner after Apartheid?

Answer 31

At the 1992 games in Barcelona

Question 32

Who was the first Aboriginal athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal for Australia?

Answer 32

Cathy Freeman

Question 33

Who had the honor of lighting the Olympic torch at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 games in Sydney?

Answer 33

Cathy Freeman

Question 34

Who is the canoeist who became the first athlete in any sport to win two medals in each of five Olympic Games?

Answer 34

Birgit Fischer

Question 35

At what games did Michael Phelps beat Mark Spitz’s 7 medal record?

Answer 35

At the 2008 games in Beijing

Question 36

Which olympic games did Usain Bolt beat Michael Johnson’s record?

Answer 36

At the 2008 games in Beijing

Question 37

Who holds the most olympic medals in snowboarding?

Answer 37

Shaun White

Question 38

How many gold medals did Missy Franklin win at the 2012 olympics in London?

Answer 38

four gold medals

Question 39

Who are the olympic volleyball duo that won Olympic gold medals in 2004, 2008, and 2012?

Answer 39

Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh

Question 40

When did Canadian ice hockey dominance start and end?

Answer 40

Started in 1920s and ended in 1950s