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| Bernard Lagat |
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Person | Kenya | 2004 Summer Olympics |
Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat (b. December 12, 1974, Kapsabet, Kenya) is a middle and long distance champion athlete who now represents the United States. In July, 2008, Lagat won the US Olympic Trials in the 1500m and 5000m, making the Olympic team in...
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| Ian Thorpe |
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Person | Australia | 2000 Summer Olympics |
Ian James Thorpe OAM (born 13 October 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales), also known as the Thorpedo or Thorpey, is a former Australia freestyle swimmer. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and in 2001 he became the...
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| Scott Anderson | Person | Australia |
Scott Warren Anderson (born June 26, 1968 in Oamaru) is a former field hockey goalkeeper from New Zealand, who finished in eighth position with the Men's National Team, nickname Black Sticks, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
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| Thomas Anderson | Person | Australia | |||
| Michelle Andrews | Person | Australia |
Michelle ("Shelley") Andrews (born November 19, 1971 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is a former field hockey midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team, best known as the Hockeyroos, that won the gold medal at...
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| Alyson Annan | Person | Australia |
Alyson Regina Annan OAM (born June 21, 1973 in Wentworthville, New South Wales) is a former field hockey player from Australia, who earned a total number of 228 international caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored 166 goals. Playing...
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| Peter Antonie | Person | Australia |
Peter Thomas Antonie (born May 11, 1958 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former rower from Australia of high acclaim, having competed in a large number of international events. He won gold medals in the men's lightweight (max 72.5kgs) single scull at...
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| Jenny Armstrong | Person | Australia | |||
| Dale Begg-Smith | Person | Australia |
Dale Begg-Smith (born January 18, 1985 in Vancouver, Canada) is an Australia freestyle skier. Begg-Smith won the gold medal for Australia, his adopted country, in the men's moguls event at the 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin, Italy. He is only...
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| Tracey Belbin | Person | Australia |
Tracey Lee Belbin OAM (born June 24, 1967 in Tingalpa, Queensland) is a former field hockey player from Australia, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. There she won the gold...
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| Steven Bradbury |
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Person | Australia |
Steven Bradbury (born October 14, 1973 in Camden, Sydney) is a former Australian short track speed skater.
Bradbury is most well-known for his memorable and unlikely gold medal win in the men's short track 1000 metres event at the Salt Lake City...
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| Michael Brennan | Person | Australia |
Michael Brennan OAM (born October 15, 1975 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is a field hockey midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won gold at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Summer...
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| Travis Brooks | Person | Australia |
Travis Brooks (born July 16, 1980 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a field hockey forward from Australia, who won the golden medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He made his international debut in Canberra, on February...
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| Graeme Brown | Person | Australia |
Graeme Allen Brown OAM (born April 9, 1979 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is a professional cyclist from Australia, who started cycling in 1995 at seventeen years of age.
He is a member of Rabobank (cycling), which is a professional cycling team on...
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| Ian Browne | Person | Australia |
Ian Browne, also known as "Joey" Browne (born June 22, 1931) is a former Australia track cyclist who along with Tony Marchant won the 2000 m tandem event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Unusually tall and strongly built for a cyclist,...
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| Sharon Buchanan | Person | Australia |
Sharon Lee Buchanan OAM (born March 12, 1963 in Western Australia) is a retired field hockey forward, who competed in three Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1984.
Buchanan earned selections in four Olympic hockey squads and was...
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| Lauren Burns | Person | Australia | |||
| Dean Butler | Person | Australia |
Dean Butler OAM (born January 26, 1977 in Warwick, Queensland) is a field hockey defender from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
He is nickname Butts, and played club hockey...
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| Maureen Caird | Person | Australia |
Maureen Caird (born September 29, 1951) is a former Australia track athlete, who specialised in the sprint hurdles. In 1968, she became the youngest-ever individual Olympic athletics champion, at age 17, when she won gold in Mexico City.
Born in...
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| Ashley Callus | Person | Australia |
Ashley Callus (born March 10 1979) is an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer, who won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Coming from Brisbane, Queensland, and of Maltese origin, Callus, graduated in Iona...
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| Alisa Camplin |
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Person | Australia |
Alisa Camplin OAM (born November 10, 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australia aerial skier who won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Camplin finished third, a bronze medal. She is the first Australian to win medals...
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| Naomi Castle | Person | Australia |
Naomi Castle (born May 29, 1974 in Sydney) is an Australia water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Castle was the captain of the Australian team at the 2004 Summer Olympics where they placed 4th.
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| Boy Charlton |
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Person | Australia |
Andrew Murray Charlton (12 August 1907 – 10 December 1975), known popularly as Boy Charlton, was an Australia freestyle swimmer of the 1920s and 1930s who won a gold medal in the 1500m freestyle at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He set five...
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| Natalie Cook | Person | Australia |
Natalie Louise Cook OAM (born January 19, 1975) is an Australia professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist.
Cook was born in Townsville, Queensland. She was the dux of her school, Corinda State High (located in the western...
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| Brad Cooper | Person | Australia |
Bradford ("Brad") Paul Cooper (born July 19 1954 in Singapore) was an Australia freestyle and backstroke swimmer of the 1970s, who won a gold medal in the 400 m freestyle at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He is the only Australian to have won...
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| Lionel Cox | Person | Australia |
Lionel Cox (born February 26, 1930 in Brisbane, Queensland) was a road bicycle and track cyclist from Australia, who won the silver medal in the Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. In the final he was...
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| Lorraine Crapp | Person | Australia |
Lorraine Joyce Crapp (born October 17, 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a former Olympic swimming champion representing Australia. She competed in two Olympic Games the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Lorraine was schooled in...
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| Betty Cuthbert |
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Person | Australia |
Elizabeth ("Betty") Cuthbert (born April 20, 1938 in Merrylands, New South Wales) is an Australia athlete, and a four-fold Olympic champion.
During her career, she set world records at 60 metres, 100 yards, 200 metres, 220 yards and 440 yards....
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| John Davies |
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Person | Australia |
John G. Davies (born May 17 1929 in Willoughby, New South Wales) was an Australia breaststroke swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s who won a gold medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. After retiring from swimming, he...
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| Liam De Young | Person | Australia |
Liam de Young OAM (born December 10, 1981 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a field hockey defender from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by beating title holders The Netherlands in...
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