Great Olympians

Biographies - GRI

Matthew Owen "Matt" Gribble

John William Grieb

B. 1879-11-13, Philadelphia, Penn., USA; D. 1939-12-10
Athletics - Track & Field & Gymnastics (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1904	HP
Men's All-Around Athletics Championship	sixth	720
Men's Turnverein Gymnastics, Combined	52nd	-6.30
Men's Turnverein Gymnastics, Apparatus work	90th	-14.19
Men's Turnverein Gymnastics, Field sports	silver	750
Men's Turnverein Gymnastics, Team	gold	1200
		2670

Olympic Competitor nr 1781

• 1904-07-01-10:00? - Gymnastics - Turnverein - Individual gymnastics - 90th
• 1904-07-02-10:00? - Gymnastics - Turnverein - Individual athletics - second (750) - Individual combined - 52nd - Team - first (1200)
• 1904-07-04-10:00? - Athletics - All-Around Championship - sixth (720)

Walter Grieb

William Earl "Bill" Griebenow

Alan Grieco

Hans Grieder

Edwin Grienauer

John Grier

Gertrude Gries

Joachim Griese

Angelika Grieser

Manfred Klaus Walter Grieser

Manfred Grieshofer

Werner Grieshofer

Frita Griesser

Elizabeth Joyce "Joy" Grieveson

Arthur Griez von Ronse

Olympic Competitor nr 6413

• 1912-07-11-09:00 - Fencing - Épée, individual, round one - third (Q)
• 1912-07-12-12:00 - Fencing - Épée, individual, quarterfinals - fourth (0.042)

David Griff

Alfred Griffin

David Griffin

John Allen "Jack" Griffin

Kenneth Julian "Kenny" Griffin

Lorna Joann Griffin

Richard B. Griffin

Tom Griffin

Olympic Competitor nr 4803

• 1908-10-26-15:15 - Rugby - final - won (2400)

Thomas James "Tommy" Griffin

Winifred Clare Griffin

Stuart Lane 'Stu" Griffing

David Griffith

(Delorez) Florence Griffith

Florence Griffith Joyner

B. 1959-12-21 Los Angeles, CA; D. 1998-09-21, Mission Viejo, CA, USA
Athletics - Track & Field (3 gold, 2 silver)

	1984	1988	HP
Women's 100 m	-	gold	6400
Women's 200 m	silver	gold	10400
Women's 4 x 100 m	-	gold	1600
Women's 4 x 400 m	-	silver	1000
			19400

In 1987, after a brief retirement, she started a program of weight-lifting, under the eyes of her coach and husband, Al Joyner, brother of Jackie Joyner. This helped her to three gold medals and two world records that stood until her death. She died, aged just 39, of a heart and brain seizure.
Her remarkable success and her death sparked rumours of drug use. No tests ever revealed banned substances, but her retirement in 1989, shortly before the introduction of mandatory random drug testing, fueled further speculation.

June Marcia Griffith

Steven Jerome "Steve" Griffith

William Griffith

Harold Arthur Jones "Art" Griffiths

Arthur Griffiths

Olympic Competitor nr 5737

• 1912-07-07-02:00 - Cycling - Road - Road Race, Time Trial - 90th

William Salterlee "Bill" Griffiths

Cecil Griffiths

David "Dave" Griffiths

David Griffiths

Olympic Competitor nr 5413

• 1912-07-04-12:00 - Shooting - Small-Bore Rifle - 24th (0.16)
• 1912-07-05-10:00 - Shooting - Small-Bore Rifle, Disappearing Target - 29th (0.016)

Peter Griffiths

Philip W. "Phil" Griffiths

In the 1974 Commonwealth Games he competed for England.

Stephen "Steve" Griffiths

William Edward Griffiths

Marcel Grifnée

Everardus "Evert" Grift

Oto Grigalka

Apolinaras Grigas

Martha Griggs

Roberto Giacomo Grigis

Giovanni Grignolo

Gert Rudolf Grigoleit

Anca Grigoraș

Cristina Elena Grigoraș

Georgios Grigoriou

Presumably from Thrace, in 1896 still part of the Ottoman Empire.

Olympic Competitor nr 192

• 1896-04-10-14:00 - Athletics - Marathon - DNF (60)

He is listed as being from Thracia, but also member of Ethnikos of Athina. We might consider him as being from the Ottoman Empire.

Rayna Ivanova Grigorova

Mihai Grigorovici

Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovsky

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Grigoryev

He competed from Minsk and is regarded as Belarussian by the OlyMADMen. But he moved to Belarus together with his coach and there is nothing else to connect him to Belarus, so I shall continue to class him as Russian.

Leonid Grigoryev

Oleg Grigoryev

Sergey Grigoryev

Adhemar Grijó Filho

Jan Grijseels

Olympic Competitor nr 5498

• 1912-07-06-13:30 - Athletics (track & field) - 100 m, round one - AC
• 1912-07-10-10:30 - Athletics (track & field) - 200 m, round one - second (Q) (of two)
• 1912-07-10-16:00 - Athletics (track & field) - 200 m, semifinals - sixth (-2.27)

Konrad Grilc

Hildegard Grill

(Hans Harald) Anders Grillhammar

Amedeo Grillo

Gabriela Dagmar Grillo

Luís Manuel Pereira Grilo

Giorgio Grilz

Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi

The son of Grace Kelly and grandson of Jack Kelly.

Chantal Grimard

Ricardo Grimau

Jean-Pierre Grimaud

Eric G. Grimbeek

Lynette Kay "Lyn" Grime

John Carl Grimek

Betty Grimes

Charles Livingstone Grimes

Doris Grimes

Hamil O. Grimes

Grimm

Olympic Competitor nr 1106

• 1900-07-29-14:00? - Gymnastics - Individual combined, day one
• 1900-07-30-14:00? - Gymnastics - Individual combined, day two - AC

Grimm János

Wilhelm Grimmelmann

Olympic Competitor nr 6329

• 1912-07-10-11:30 - Gymnastics - Team combined, Free system - third (640)

Bärbel Grimmer

Gerhard Grimmer

Geoffrey Richard Grimmett

He fought in one match in round one.

Mark Grimmette

Bjørn Grimnes

Félix Grimonprez

Kari Aalvik Grimsbø

Stuart Ian Grimshaw

Gudmund Grimstad

Alan Joseph Grindal

Brittney Yevette Griner

Basketball Champion at Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris. Between 2021 and 2024 she spent some months in a Russian prison for Marihuana possession.

Wendy Elizabeth Griner

Frederick "Fred" Grinham

B. 1881-11-22, St. Pancras, Greater London, Great Britain, became a US citizen in 1900; D. 1972-03, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Cycking - Track

	1904	HP
Men's 1/4 mile	R1:3rd	81
Men's 1/3 mile	SF	430.5
Men's 1/2 mile	SF	430.5
		942

Olympic Competitor nr 1944

• 1904-08-02-14:30? - Cycling - Track - 1/2 mile - heat four - second (Q)
• 1904-08-02-15:10? - Cycling - Track - 1/2 mile - semi-final two - AC (430.5)
• 1904-08-03-16:20? - Cycling - Track - 1/4 mile heat three - third (81)
• 1904-08-04-16:10? - Cycling - Track - 1/3 mile heat two - second (Q)
• 1904-08-05-14:30? - Cycling - Track - 1/3 mile semi-final one - AC (430.5)

Judith Brenda Grinham

Lars Grini

Sergey Grinkov

B. 1967-02-04, Moskva, Russia, represented the Soviet Union in 1988
Figure Skating (2 gold)

	1988	1992	1994	HP
Pairs	gold		gold	14000
				14000

Together with Katya Gordeyeva.

Ronald Sydney "Ron" Grinstead

Anatol Grințescu

Born in Moldavia, which formed part of Romania from 1919 to 1940. But as he represented Romania after that time, he must be considered Romanian.

Leonid Grinyov

Olympic Competitor nr 5779

• 1912-07-07-08:00 - Fencing - Foil, individual, round one - fifth

Ragnar Gripe

Olympic Competitor nr 6951

• 1912-07-20-11:00 - Sailing - 8 Meter class, race one - sixth
• 1912-07-21-11:00 - Sailing - 8 Meter class, race two - sixth - final ranking joint fifth (500)

There are six sailors mentioned for the KSSS 1912 yaght, but the crews had to be limited to five, so two of these sailors sailed just one race, not both, but it is unknown who.

Carl Gripenstedt

Ebba Gripenstedt

Philip Salvatore "Phil" Grippaldi

Disqualified in 1976 for use of anabolic steroid.

Carlo Grippo

Albert Grisar

Olympic Competitor nr 7125

• 1920-07-07-11:50 - Sailing - 8 Meter class (1919 rating), race one - third
• 1920-07-08-12:20 - Sailing - 8 Meter class (1919 rating), race two - third
• 1920-07-09-10:40 - Sailing - 8 Meter class (1919 rating), race three - third - final ranking third (1280)

Alfred Grisar

Olympic Competitor nr 7231

• 1920-07-26-17:00 - Polo - semifinal two - lost (Qb)
• 1920-07-28-16:00 - Polo - consolation - lost (800)

Eugène Grisar

Adolphe Jules Grisel

Olympic Competitor nr 3

• 1896-04-06-15:30 - Athletics Track - 100 m heat one - fourth (68)
• 1896-04-06-16:25 - Athletics Field - Discus Throw - AC (736.8)
• 1896-04-06-17:10 - Athletics Track - 400 m heat one - third/fourth (574)
• 1896-04-07-14:40 - Athletics Field - Broad Jump - AC (736.8)
• 1896-04-10-10:00 - Gymnastics - Parallel Bars - AC (35.9)

Boris Andreyevich Grishayev

He competed for a team from Volgograd, Russia, so the MADMen class him as Russian, but I prefer to go by the birthplace and would have called him Ukrainian. However, both the English and Russian Wikipedias list his birthplace as Volgograd (or even Stalingrad), so I shall instead assume that the listing in the MADMen database (of his birthplace as Sumy, Ukraine) is faulty - and class him indeed as Russian.

Sergey Nikolayevich Grishchenko

Alla Vladimirovna Grishchenkova

Oksana "Pasha" Grishchuk

B. 1971-03-17, Odessa, Ukraine, represented Russia
Figure Skating (2 gold)

	1992	1994	1998	HP
Ice Dance	fourth	gold	gold	15500
				15500

Twice winner of the Ice dancing together with Yevgeny Platov.

Her fan website calls her by the nickname Pacha.

Alexey Grishin

B. 1979-07-18, Minsk, Belarus, then in the Soviet Union
Freestyle Skiing (1 gold, 1 bronze)

	1998	2002	2006	2010	2014	HP
Aerials	8th	bronze	fourth	gold	15th	20298.75
						20298.75

Anatoly Kuzmich Grishin

Boris Dmitriyevich Grishin

Yevgeny Borisovich Grishin

Yevgeny Romanovich Grishin

The best sprinter in the 1950's and early 1960's. He held the 500 and 1500 metres world records from 1955 to 1958. In 1952 he was also in the soviet cycling team. (not in the Olympics, though). The gold at the 1500 m  in Squaw Valley was shared with Roald Aas.

Alfredo Grisi Solorzano

Louis Grisius

Eugène Grisot

Olympic Competitor nr 4004

• 1908-07-17-10:00 - Archery - York Round (men), day one
• 1908-07-18-10:00 - Archery - York Round (men), day two - 19th (1.85)
• 1908-07-20-10:00? - Archery - Continental Style (men) - first (7200)

Werner Grissmann

Daniel Gritsch

It is not certain whether this athlete should be considered an Olympian. The goalkeeper for the preliminary match (against the Soviet Union) is not known, and Gritsch was not used in any of the other five matches. In order to have the same count as the OlyMADMen, I accept him, but in any case he must be considered having only played in the qualification match.

Louis Grivel

Igor Anatolyevich Grivennikov

Zakharin Mikhaylov Grivev

Alfred Grixti

Paola Grizzetti

Written 2002-09-08 - last modified 2024-09-11

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