Summer Olympics Flashcards
Which country hosted the Summer Olympics in 1976, but failed to win a single gold medal?
Canada
At the 1908 Olympics, City of London Police defeated Liverpool Police to win gold in which event?
Tug of war
Who defeated home favourite Luz Long to win the long jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
Jesse Owens
At which Games did the Olympic flame first burn throughout the three-month period of competition?
Amsterdam 1928
In Beijing in 2008, who added a cycling gold medal to the rowing silver she had won four years earlier?
Rebecca Romero
Which seven-a-side indoor sport was reintroduced to the games in Munich for the first time since 1936?
Handball
Which country won its first ever Olympic Gold medal in Los Angeles in 1984, in the Men’s Free Pistol Shooting?
China
In 1968, cyclists Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin both won individual titles as well as taking gold in which other event that has since been dropped from the Games?
Tandem
At the Melbourne Games in 1956 British gold medallist Dick McTaggart was also awarded the Val Barker Trophy, given to the competitor with the best style and technique in which sport?
Boxing
Which famous American Second World War general finished fifth in the modern pentathlon in Stockholm in 1912, after a poor performance in the shooting?
Patton
On which gymnastics apparatus did Nadia Comaneci achieve a perfect score of twenty points to win the gold medal in Montreal?
Asymetric Bars
The Hungarian fencer Aladar Gerevich won gold medals at how many successive games?
Six
Father and son Charles and Richard Burnell both won gold medals for Britain in 1908 and 1948 respectively; in which sport?
Rowing
At which Games did Teofilo Stevenson become the first boxer to win three Gold Medals in the same weight division?
Moscow 1980
Twelve of the thirteen Men’s Swimming events in Montreal were won by Americans. which Briton won the other event, in world record time?
David Wilkie
When the Games were held in South Korea in 1988, which sport was included for the first time, with the home nation winning the Men’s Singles and Women’s Doubles?
Table Tennis
Who was the manager of the Great Britain football team at the 1948 Olympic Games?
Matt Busby
Italian Klaus Dibiasi won three consecutive gold medals in which sport from 1968 onwards?
Diving
Who were the surprise gold medallists in the first Women’s Olympic Hockey tournament, in Moscow in 1980?
Zimbabwe
Competitors in which athletics event at the 1932 Los Angeles games had to run an extra lap, because an official forgot to change the lap country?
3,000m steeplechase
In 1948, Sweden were stripped of their team gold medal in which sport after Gehnall Person was disqualified because he wasn’t a commissioned officer?
Dressage
In 1926, Olympic gold medal winning swimmer Gertrude Ederele became the first woman to achieve which famous sporting feat?
Swimming the English Channel
In Beijing in 2008, which athlete ran the anchor leg for the Jamaican Men’s Sprint Relay team that won the gold in world record time?
Asafa Powel
In which sport did Darrell Pace win the Gold in 1976 and 1984, and the Team Silver in 1988?
Archery
Harold Sakarta, who won a weightlifting silver medal in 1948, later played which character in the film Goldfinger?
Oddjob
Italian-born Angelo Parisi won bronze for Britain, then gold and silver medals for France; in which sport?
Judo
Which French player won the Women’s Singles Tennis gold medal at the Antwerp Games of 1920? She also won six Wimbledon titles during her career.
Suzanne Lenglen
Which team event was discontinued after the 1936 Olympics, when Argentina defeated Great Britain to take the Gold Medal?
Polo
Who won his first Olympic Sailing medal as a 19 year old in Atlanta, when he took silver in the Laser?
Ben Ainslie
What was unusual about the rerun final of the Men’s 400 Metres at the 1908 Games, won by Wyndham Halswelle?
He was the only competitor left
