British snowboarder Mia Brookes became slopestyle world champion at the age of 16, and looks set to be one of the sport’s leading lights for many years to come. Born in Sandbach in the north of ...

Elfriede Steurer was Austrian champion in 100 metres (1948 and 1952), 200 metres (1954), 4×100 relay (1943 and 1954), and 80 metres hurdles (1943-1948, 1950, 1953, and 1954). In the 1950 European ...

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Miguel Altube was a member of the gold medal winning team at the 1979 Pan American Games as well as of the silver medal winning teams at the 1983 and 1987 Pan American Games.

Alexander Cushing, a landowner in Squaw Valley – an uninhabited valley overlooking Lake Tahoe and perched 1,900 metres above sea level in California’s Sierra Nevada and 300 kilometres east of San ...

Sven Johanson came to the United States in 1951 from Korpika, Sweden. He tried to make the 1956 US Olympic team, after winning the 1955 North American cross-country championships, but did not get ...

Elaine Tanner was arguably Canada’s biggest swimming phenomenon of the late-1960s, beginning with her breakout performance at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. She had been swimming ...

Ice hockey is a fast, fluid and exciting team sport featuring two teams of six players (a goaltender and five skaters) on ice. It draws big crowds at the Olympic Games thanks to the drama and tension ...