Great Olympians

Biographies - JUR


Emil Juracka

B. 1912-06-11, Wien, Austria; D. 1944-02-21
Handball (1 silver)
1936 HP
Men's Team silver 2000
2000


Alberto Jurado González

B. 1902, Guayaquil, Ecuador; D. 1984
Athletics
1924 HP
Men's 100 m R1:5th 0.000000000078
Men's Long Jump 29th 0.024
0.024000000078


Enrique L. Jurado

B. 1911-07-15, represented the Philippines
Wrestling - Freestyle
1936 HP
Men's Bantamweight (-56 kg) 12th 60
60


(Alvaro) (Vilela) Jurandir

B. 1938-12-19, São Paulo, Brazil
Football
1960 HP
Men's Team R1:2nd 287
287


Nicolae Juravschi

His name was transliterated back and forth from Cyrillic in 1988 as

Nikolai Zhuravsky

Moldova
Canoeing, Canadian (2 gold, 1 silver)
1988 1992 1996 HP
C2, 500 m gold fourth silver 11250
C2, 1000 m gold fourth fifth 8437.5
19687.5

This Moldovan won two gold medals at Seoul as a Soviet. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, he crossed the border into Romania and won two fourth places at Barcelona. After the Olympics he moved back to now independent Moldova. In 1994 he convinced his partner of 1988, Viktor Reneisky of Belarus to join him in Kishinev and together they represented Moldova at Atlanta. The spelling of his name in 1988 is an oddity of course, since Moldovan (which is actually a form of Romanian) is normally written in the Latin script. The soviet authorities transposed his name into cyrillic and the western media transposed this back into Latin, but using English-Russian transposition rules.


Valeriu Jurcă

B. 1939-04-08, Ploiești, Romania
Athletics - Track & Field
1964 HP
Men's 200 metres R1:6th -4.21
Men's 400 metres Hurdles R1:22nd 0.6
0.600021


Rūdolfs Jūrciņš

B. 1909-06-19, Rīga, Latvia, then part of Russia; D. 1947
Basketball
1936 HP
Men's Team Rep2 2.87
2.87


Vítězslav Jureček

B. 1960-05-25, Šumperk, Czechia, represented Czechoslovakia; D. 2011-05-18
Biathlon
1984 HP
Men's 10 km Sprint 13th 25.6
25.6

Born in Czechia, but competing from a club in Slovakia, he also died in Slovakia. Yet there is no mention of him in any Slovakian on-line sources, only in Czech ones. He must be considered Czech.


Jurek Eszter

B. 1936-11-24, Budapest, Hungary
Figure Skating
1952 HP
Women's Singles 23rd 0.384
0.384


Miroslav Jurek

B. 1935-10-28, Boskovice, Czechia, represented Czechoslovakia
Athletics - Track & Field
1960 HP
Men's 5000 metres R1:5th 2.29
2.29


Arvīds Jurgens

B. 1905-05-27, Rīga, Latvia, then part of Russia; D. 1955-12-17
Football & Ice Hockey
1924 1928 1932 1936 HP
Men's Football R2 26.38
Men's Ice Hockey R1:4th 8.6
34.98


Emile Jurgens

Olympic Competitor nr 5376


Franciscus Jurgens

Olympic Competitor nr 7187


Maarten Constant Maria Jurgens

B. 1944-08-18, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Equestrianism - Eventing
1972 HP
Three-Day Event, Individual dnf -10.32
Three-Day Event, Team dnf -
-10.32


Oto Jurģis

B. 1904-07-12, from Riga, represented Latvia; D. 1973-10-07
Athletics - Track and Field
1936 HP
Men's Javelin Throw 13th 38.4
38.4


Peter Juric

B. 1958-05-04, Radstadt, Austria
Cross-Country Skiing
1984 HP
Men's 15 km 35th -2.10
Men's 30 km 33rd -2.26
Men's 4 x 10 km Relay 11th 16
16.00356


Vid Dezsö Juricskay

B. 1934-08-12, from Victoria, represented Australia
Canoeing - Canadian Sprint
1964 HP
Men's Canadian Doubles 1000 metres Rep:6th 50
50


Pavle "Pavao" Jurina

B. 1955-01-02, Našice, Croatia, represented Yugoslavia; D. 2011-12-02
Handball (1 gold)
1980 1984 HP
Men's Team sixth gold 3520
3520


Vicentije "Vice" Jurišić

B. 1909-03-23, Šibenik, Croatia, then part of Austria, represented Yugoslavia; D. 1993-08-06
Rowing
1936 HP
Men's Coxed Fours Rep:4th 12.9
Men's Eights Rep:3rd 34
46.9


Franjo Jurjević

B. 1932-11-22, Bjelovar, Croatia, represented Yugoslavia
Gymnastics
1952 HP
Men's Individual All-Around 149th -
Men's Team All-Around 19th 0.4
Men's Floor Exercise 148th -
Men's Horse Vault 25th 0.025
Men's Parallel Bars 120th -
Men's Horizontal Bar 151st -
Men's Rings 156th -
Men's Pommeled Horse 174th -
0.425


Aleksejs Jurjevs

B. 1909-10-12, from Rīga, represented Latvia; D. 1985-10
Road Cycling
1936 HP
Men's Road Race, Individual ac 0.000015
Men's Road Race, Team ac 20.25
20.250015


Jaroslav Jurka

B. 1949-07-08, Olomouc, Czechia, represented Czechoslovakia
Fencing
1976 1980 HP
Men's Foil, Individual R2:5th Bar1 18.183
Men's Épée, Individual R3:4th Bar3 428.13
Men's Épée, Team sixth 160
606.313


Andrzej Robert Henryk Jurkiewicz

B. 1907-05-29, Ivano-Frankivsk, then part of Austria, now in Ukraine, represented Poland; D. 1967-08-02
Art Competitions
1948 HP
Painting - Graphic Arts AC 2.873
2.873


Edward Jurkiewicz

B. 1948-01-22, Pruszcz Gdański, Poland
Basketball
1968 HP
Men's Team sixth 320
320


František Jursa

B. 1933-05-01, Brno, Czechia, represented Czechoslovakia
Cycling - Road & Cycling - Track
1956 HP
Men's Road Race dnf -13.32
Men's Road Race, Team dnf -
Men's Team Pursuit SF 430.5
430.5


Written 2002-10-30 - last modified 2023-11-03

This page is part of the site "Full Olympians" by Herman De Wael. See here for a full Introduction.