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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leo Massa played baseball at Red Bank High School in New Jersey, eventually getting a tryout with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But he turned to cross-country skiing, winning the 1958 US championship, and ...

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).

Joe Jackson entered the U.S. Marine Corps in 1901 as an enlisted man, won the distinguished marksman badge in 1913, and was promoted to an officer in 1917. Jackson was the first great internationally ...

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 ...

Albert Glandaz was a sailing enthusiast who competed in the ½-1 ton class at the 1900 Olympics. He served as President of the French Federation of Rowing Clubs and the French Yacht Racing Association, ...

Biathlete Alois Kanamüller competed at both the 1976 Innsbruck and the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics in the individual 20 km events. He placed 34th and 29th, respectively. In 1978 and 1979 he won ...