Olympics Exam 2 - FLASHCARDS - Athletes to remember (1)
Who won six gold medals and set a single-Games
record with eight total medals at the 2004 games in Athens?
Michael Phelps
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?
Christa Rothenburger
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?
Carl Lewis
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
Michael Johnson
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
Hermann Maier
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.
Emil Zatopek
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.
Jim Thorpe
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
Oscar Swahn
Won gold in the 400 meter sprint at the 1924 Paris games
Eric Liddel
Henie has won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies’ figure skater
Sonja Henie
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
Eddie Eagan
American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
Jesse Owens
What events did Jesse Owens compete and win gold?
• 200m 20.7 seconds
• Long Jump 8.06 meters
• 100m 10.3 seconds
• 4x100m Relay 39.8 seconds
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
Luz Long
Won gold in decathon at 1948 summer in London and 1952 summer in Helsinki
Bob Mathias
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
Fanny Blankers-Koen
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
Abebe Bikila
Also known as Muhammad Ali. Won the light heavyweight gold medal at 1960 olympics in Rome
Cassius Clay
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
Wilma Rudolph
U.S. swimmer who won an incredible seven
gold medals and broke seven world records. Events
Freestyle and Butterfly.
Mark Spitz
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
Olga Korbutt
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
Franz Klammer
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
Eric Hienden
Gymnast where for her performance on the
uneven bars, she was awarded the first-ever perfect score of 10.0
Nadia Comaneci
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
Edwin Moses
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
Greg Louganis
Why were the 1956 Melbourne and Stockholm games boycotted?
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
Why were the 1972 Montreal games boycotted?
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
Why were the 1980 Moscow games boycotted?
Because of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan
Why were the 1984 games in Los Angeles boycotted?
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
When did the first black African female olympic champion join hands with South Africa’s first individual medal winner after Apartheid?
At the 1992 games in Barcelona
Who was the first Aboriginal athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal for Australia?
Cathy Freeman
Who had the honor of lighting the Olympic torch at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 games in Sydney?
Cathy Freeman
Who is the canoeist who became the first athlete in any sport to win two medals in each of five Olympic Games?
Birgit Fischer
At what games did Michael Phelps beat Mark Spitz’s 7 medal record?
At the 2008 games in Beijing
Which olympic games did Usain Bolt beat Michael Johnson’s record?
At the 2008 games in Beijing
Who holds the most olympic medals in snowboarding?
Shaun White
How many gold medals did Missy Franklin win at the 2012 olympics in London?
four gold medals
Who are the olympic volleyball duo that won Olympic gold medals in 2004, 2008, and 2012?
Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh
When did Canadian ice hockey dominance start and end?
Started in 1920s and ended in 1950s
