In 2005, Alois Schloder became the seventh German ice hockey player to be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. His career started as a forward, but he later switched to ...

Kidd was the only man to win basketball gold with Team USA at Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008 as part of the 'Redeem Team'. Born in San Francisco to an African-American father and Irish-American mother, ...

Lev Mukhin took up boxing in 1951 and after two years of boxing won the Soviet junior heavyweight titles in 1953 and 1954. In 1955, Mukhin won silver at the Soviet Championships, which he repeated in ...

In 1912 Percy Mann placed third in the AAA 880y and was the winner at the Kinnaird meeting and the Olympic Trials. He was at his best at the Stockholm Olympics and, after winning the fastest of th ...

Piet Wernink completed the crew of the 6.5 m yacht Oranje, along with the brothers Joop and Berend Carp. Wernink was later a director of Wernink N.V., a company for concrete and building materials.

West German flyweight wrestler Paul Neff participated in three consecutive Olympic Games in the freestyle division, in 1960 and 1964 with the mixed German team, and in 1968 for West Germany. In Roma ...

Michael von Grünigen took up skiing at the age of three and first gained international attention by winning a silver medal in the slalom at the 1987 Junior World Championships. He made his senior ...

Henry Slack competed for the University of Chicago. He was a Chicago native but worked as a superintendent of a soap factory in 1907 in Somerville, Massachusetts when he married Georgiana Graham.

Jim Zylker started playing for the San Francisco Vikings when he was only 8-years-old, and stayed with them throughout his amateur career. The club had been founded by his grandfather, Derk de Ruiter ...

Foil fencer Helga Stroh placed fourth with the women’s foil team at the 1960 Roma Olympic Games. In 1957 she earned the team silver medal at the Worlds. Domestically she fenced with Hermannia FC ...

Born in Tehran to an Armenian-Persian family, Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan took up wrestling in 1986. After winning the 1990 European junior title, Ter-Mkrtchyan, who competed in the Greco-Roman flyweight ...

Malcolm Cannon had the following placements at major international championships - Men: 1966 World Championships (18th); 1962 European Championships (12th); 1963 European Championships (12th); 1966 ...