Gold Medal Alphabet A-Z Game

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          Todd Lane on January 3, 2005 at 4:40 am #10211

          How about this.. alphabet game, using only gold medalists…
          First Name for the letter, list number of medals, years, events

          starting with….

          A….

          Alberto Juanterno Cuba aka El Caballo- The Horse
          400/800 double in Montreal

        • Member
          alex on January 3, 2005 at 5:59 am #39729

          Bob Hayes, USA
          100 meters, 4*1 relay anchor, Tokyo 1964

        • Participant
          fraek on January 3, 2005 at 7:23 am #39730

          Cathy Freeman, Australia
          400m gold sydney 2000

        • Member
          alex on January 3, 2005 at 7:29 am #39731

          Donovan Bailey, Canada
          100 and 4*100 Gold, Atlanta 1996

        • Participant
          fraek on January 3, 2005 at 7:50 am #39732

          Edwin Moses, USA
          400mH gold, Montreal 1976 & L.A. 1984

        • Participant
          CoachKW on January 3, 2005 at 8:22 am #39733

          Frank Shorter
          Marathon in Munich 1972

        • Participant
          CoachKW on January 4, 2005 at 7:45 pm #39734

          Gail Devers

          100 meters 1996,2000?

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          x-king on January 5, 2005 at 12:21 am #39735

          [i]Originally posted by KW[/i]
          Gail Devers

          100 meters 1996,2000?

          (Gail Devers

          100 meters Gold 1992 & 1996)

          Harold Abrahams (GBR)
          100 meters Gold 1924

        • Participant
          Todd Lane on January 5, 2005 at 10:20 pm #39736

          X-King- Very nice, the CoF music is playing in my head right now.

          I—
          Irena Privalova (Russia)

          2000- 400h Gold in her first year of ever running them.

          Top Contender in the 100 for early to mid 1990’s.
          Bronze in 92 in 100, silver in 4×100.

        • Participant
          rong on January 5, 2005 at 10:25 pm #39737

          JJK

          does that count as 2 js and a k?

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on January 6, 2005 at 8:47 am #39738

          Kenny Harrisson

          1996 Olympic Triple Jump Champ in one of the best TJ competitions of all time. American record holder.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Member
          alex on January 6, 2005 at 9:59 am #39739

          Lee Evans, 400m in Mexico City, 1968

        • Member
          x-king on January 6, 2005 at 10:43 pm #39740

          M – Maurice Greene (The GOAT)

          100m & 4x100m relay gold in 2000 Sydney Olympic Games

        • Participant
          CoachKW on January 7, 2005 at 1:20 am #39741

          Noureddine Morceli -1500 meter gold in Atlanta (thanks in part to El G falling)

        • Participant
          simon on January 7, 2005 at 6:17 pm #39742

          Otis Davis USA – 400m gold in 1960 (Rome)

          (The only male ‘O’ to qualify!! There are a few female Olga’s though!)

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          CoachKW on January 7, 2005 at 7:35 pm #39743

          Peter Snell
          1960 Rome 800 meters
          1964 Tokyo 800 meters & 1500 meters

          Arthur Lydiard’s star pupil

          Q should be 400 times easier…. :spin:

        • Participant
          QUIKAZHELL on January 8, 2005 at 3:30 am #39744

          400x easier 😉

          Quincy Watts 1992 400m gold medalist

        • Participant
          CoachKW on January 8, 2005 at 9:09 pm #39745

          I wanted to put Quik on Q, but Big Ups for the correct answer! 😎

          Roger Kingdom
          110 High Hurdles
          1984 Los Angeles
          1988 Seoul

          Currently an assistant coach at California University of Pennsylvania

          :rolleyes:

        • Participant
          QUIKAZHELL on January 8, 2005 at 11:07 pm #39746

          hahaha. The only gold medal I won are conference championships.

        • Member
          Carson Boddicker on January 8, 2005 at 11:22 pm #39747

          Shawn Crawford–2004 Athens 200m gold..

        • Participant
          Todd Lane on January 8, 2005 at 11:51 pm #39748

          [i]Originally posted by QUIKAZHELL[/i]
          400x easier 😉

          Quincy Watts 1992 400m gold medalist

          Good one, Quincy was the Jeremy Wariner of the day, only better. Had one great year and that was it.

          I remember the ’91 World Champs, Quincy dislocated his jaw in the semi finals, throwing up after his leg of 4×4, came back to run the next day in the finals.

        • Participant
          CoachKW on January 10, 2005 at 8:03 am #39749

          Tommie Smith
          200 meters 1968 Mexico City

        • Member
          800prince on January 13, 2005 at 10:44 am #39750

          Udo Beyer-shot put gold 76 a couple other medals as well. Possibly the strongest man ever.

        • Participant
          QUIKAZHELL on January 13, 2005 at 10:48 am #39751

          Veronia Campbell, JAM
          200 meters 2004 Olympics

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          CoachKW on January 13, 2005 at 8:23 pm #39752

          Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz — Polish Vaulter who won the Gold in 1980 wilth a then world record jump of 18′ 11 1/2″

          Was locked in a titanic dual with the Russian Volkov and was just being ridden by the Russian fans. After the winning vault, he pops up in the pit and gives the crowd the “up yours” move with the hand slap to the inside of the opposite elbow and the raised clenched fist.

          It doesn’t get much better than that to shut up a hostile crowd!

          I believe he passed away a few years ago.

        • Participant
          Todd Lane on January 13, 2005 at 10:14 pm #39753

          Yury Sediky

          I’ve butchered his name….world record holder in hammer,
          76,80 golds, 84 silver

          I believe 330 or so for world record.

        • Member
          alex on January 13, 2005 at 11:17 pm #39754

          What about X?

          Xiang Liu, 2004 Athens, 110m hurdles

        • Member
          x-king on January 15, 2005 at 12:42 am #39755

          I can’t find any winners who’s name start with a ‘Z’.

          Zhu Jianhua (CHN) (World High Jump record-holder in 1984 at 2.39m) won Bronze in the HJ in LA 1984…that is about as close as it gets for the ‘Zs’…

        • Participant
          QUIKAZHELL on January 15, 2005 at 7:10 am #39756

          There hasssssss to be one!!!

        • Member
          x-king on January 15, 2005 at 4:33 pm #39757

          [i]Originally posted by QUIKAZHELL[/i]
          There hasssssss to be one!!!

          I thought the topic was only about Olympic Gold medallists, but it doesn’t actually say that int he first message, so Quickazhell you are correct, there has been a Gold medallists on the ‘World scene’ whose name started with a ‘Z’:

          Zdzislaw Hoffmann (POL) (Won Gold medal in the the Men’s Triple Jump in the 1983 Helsinki WCH)

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on January 15, 2005 at 8:25 pm #39758

          How the heck do you pronounce that name.

          ELITETRACK Founder

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