Richie Wurster was US long track all-around champion in 1965-66 and almost a decade later, in 1975. He was also runner-up in 1970 and 1971. Wurster also won the North American long-track championship ...

A 200 specialist, Galina Malchugina was also an essential member of the Soviet and Russian 4x100 relay teams. She competed at three Olympic Games, winning a 4x100 relay bronze in 1988, silver in 1992, ...

Friedrich Hidding played field hockey for Club Raffelberg Duisburg and won the West German Championships in 1951 and 1953. In 1952 he moved for one season to Oberhausener THC. For the German national ...

After winning the 1928 Final Trials, the 27-year-old Mildred Wiley of the Boston Swimming Association tied for second at the Olympics, but lost a jump-off – with Carolina Gisolf of Holland. She won ...

From 1910 to 1917, Harry Hebner held all the world backstroke records. He won 35 AAU titles in freestyle and backstroke events, including the 150y backstroke for seven straight years from 1910. Hebner ...

Gail Sontgerath was an alternate to the 1959 Pan American team but in 1960 she won the AAU all-around and balance beam, easily making the 1960 Olympic team. She competed at the 1962 World ...

As a 200 freestyler, Mary Wayte was one of the top swimmers in that event in the 1980s. She swam collegiately at the University of Florida, and was a US National team member from 1981-88. In 1983 at ...

Jon Mårdalen came from the traditional ski county Telemark, and was primarily a cross-country specialist, although he placed fourth in the 1923 Holmenkollen Nordic combined event. After returning home ...

Jörg Wischmeyer was a West German triple jumper who started with the mixed German team at the 1960 Roma Olympics, where he was eliminated in the qualifying round. In 1959 and 1961 he was West German ...

Klaus Jacob was a member of the East German coxed fours silver medal crew at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. In his early years, he rowed in the coxless pairs with Manfred Gelpke, winning the national title ...

The Reverend Bob Richards was a theology professor in California when he qualified for the U.S. Olympic team as a pole vaulter in 1952. The duel for the gold medal was waged between Richards and ...

American John Rich studied in New York and Boston and later taught in Los Angeles. He attended art classes at night while working during the day as an illustrator for the Minneapolis Times. Rich was ...