Great Olympians

Biographies - ST

Sta - Ste - Sto - Stp - Str - Stu

Karl Gustaf Staaf

Olympic Competitor nr 885

Allen Stack

USA
Swimming (1 gold)
1948 1952 HP
100 m Backstroke gold fourth 12000
12000

Stagliano

Olympic Competitor nr 706

Konrad Stäheli

B. 1866-12-17, Egnach, Thurgau, Switzerland; D. 1931-11-05
Shooting (4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1900 1906 HP
Military Rifle 24th 0.12
Free Rifle, combined 9th silver 3160
Free Rifle, standing 14th 4
Free Rifle, kneeling gold 1600
Free Rifle, prone 23rd 0.064
Free Rifle, team gold gold 2800
Free Pistol bronze 4400
Free Pistol, 50m fourth
Free Pistol, team gold 1600
Military Revolver fourth 1200
Military Revolver, Gras Model 12th 30
8164.064 6630.1 14794.2

Olympic Competitor nr 1181

Spiridon Stais

Olympic Competitor nr 68

Josef Stalder

B. 1919, Switzerland; D. 1991
Gymnastics (1 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze)

His real name was Josef Stalder-Fuchs.
His sixth place on the horse in 1948 was actually an eighth. three finns (Heikki Savolainen, Veikko Huhtanen and Paavo Aaltonen) had shared a gold medal, and a silver and bronze was also awarded (those people would be called fourth and fifth from 1952 onwards. Two other people also shared the sixth (eighth) place, so actually ten people were sixth or higher.
(106 HP)

Dawn Staley

USA
Basketball (3 gold)
1996 2000 2004 HP
Basketball gold gold gold 19200
19200

Member of the US Basketball team that won gold at Atlanta, Sydney and Athina.

Stanley Stanczyk

B.1925-05-10 Armstrong, WI, USA ; D. 1997-07-03
Weightlifting (1 gold, 1 silver)
1948 1952 HP
Light-heavyweight gold silver 12600
12600

F. Stapleton

Olympic Competitor nr 1294

Sergey Starikov

Soviet Union
Ice Hockey (2 gold, 1 silver)
1980 1984 1988 HP
Team silver gold gold 12600
12600

Renate Stecher

Born Renate Meissner, 1950-05-12, Süptitz, Germany
Track and Field (3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
1972 1976 HP
100 m gold silver 10400
200 m gold bronze 8960
4 x 100 m gold silver 2600
21960

She was the first woman to break 11 seconds for the 100 metres, and did a clean sweep of titles at 100 and 200 metres at the European Championships at Helsinki in 1971 and the Olympics at München. In 1973 she not only lowered the 100 metres World record to 10.8, but also the 200 metres to 22.1.

Britta Steffen

B. 1983-11-16, Schwedt, then GDR, Germany
Swimming (2 gold, 1 bronze)
2000 2004 2008 HP
50 m Freestyle gold 6400
100 m Freestyle gold 6400
4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay (fourth) (fourth) fifth 378
4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay (bronze) 64
4 x 100 m Medley Relay 9th 40
13282

Waldemar Steffen

Olympic Competitor nr 841

Hans Peter Steinacher

B. 1968-09-09, Austria
Sailing (2 gold)
2000 2004 2008 HP
Tornado gold gold 9th 16200
16200

Three times together with Roman Hagara

Matthias Steiner

B. 1982-08-25, Wien Austria, competing for Germany
Weightlifting (1 gold)
2004 2008 HP
-105 kg 7th 10200
+105 kg gold
14040

M. Steitz

Olympic Competitor nr 1570

Sverre Stenersen

Norway
Nordic Combined (1 gold, 1 bronze)
1952 1956 1960 HP
Nordic Combination bronze gold 7th 14040
14040

Ingemar Stenmark

Sweden
Alpine Skiing (3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
1976 1980 1988 HP
Giant Slalom bronze gold - 8960
Slalom dnf gold fifth 7400
16360

Albin Stenroos

Finland
Track & Field (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1912 1924 HP
Marathon gold 9600
10000 m bronze 2560
Cross-Country sixth 800
Cross-Country, Team silver 1000
3000 m Team ht:2nd 325
14285

Sten Stensen

B. 1947-12-18, Drammen, Norway
Speed Skating(1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
1972 1976 HP
5000 m bronze gold 8960
10000 m bronze silver 6560
15520

Ondrej Stepanek

B. 1979-11-28, Brandys nad Labem, then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic
Canoeing, Slalom (3 gold)
2000 2004 2008 HP
C2 fifth bronze silver 10395
10395

Three times together with Jaroslav Volf

Teofilo Stevenson Lorenzo

B. 1952, Cuba.
Boxing (3 gold)
1972 1976 1980 HP
Heavyweight gold gold gold 57600
57600

Winner of the bowing heavyweight at München, Montreal, Moskva.
He wrote his name (in '72 and '76) as Tiofilo Stevenson.

Adolf Stockhausen

Olympic Competitor nr 1675

Elvis Stojko

Canada
Figure Skating (2 silver)
1992 1994 1998 2002 HP
Men's Individual 7th silver silver 8th 11334
11334

Sharon Stouder

USA
Swimming (3 gold, 1 silver)
1964 HP
100 m Butterfly gold 8000
100 m Free-style silver 4000
4 x 100 m Free-style Relay gold 1600
4 x 100 m Medley Relay gold 1600
15200

Josef Straßberger

B. 1894-08-20, Kolbermoor, Bayern, Germany; D. 1950-10-12
Weightlifting (1 gold, 1 bronze)
1948 1952 HP
Heavyweight (+82.5 kg) gold bronze 13440
13440

Strasser

Olympic Competitor nr 1104

Giacomo Stratta

Olympic Competitor nr 1525

Agostino Straulino

Italy
Sailing (1 gold, 1 silver)
1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 HP
Star fifth gold silver fourth 20312.5
5.5 meter Class fourth 1500
21812.5

Three times the partner of Nicolo Rode in the Star.

Strausz Gyula

Olympic Competitor nr 792

Shirley Strickland

competed from 1952 as

Shirley De la Hunty-Strickland

B. 1925-07-18, Guildford, Western Australia
Track and Field (3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)
1948 1952 1956 HP
80 m Hurdles bronze gold gold 34560
100 m bronze bronze rd1:3rd 5130.76
200 m fourth 1600
4 x 100 m silver fifth gold 3562..5
44853.26

A finish-foto would later show that she had finished third, not fourth, in the 200 m  at London, but the official result of the race will not be changed.

Thoralf Strømstad

Norway
Nordic Skiing (2 silver)
1924 HP
Individual Nordic Combined silver 6000
50 km silver 4000
10000

Kim St-Pierre

Canada
Ice Hockey (3 gold)
2002 2006 2010 HP
team gold gold gold 19200
19200

Member of the Canadian Ice Hockey team that won gold in Salt Lake City, Torino and Vancouver.

Christine Stückelberger

B. 1947-05-22, Switzerland
Equestrianism - Dressage (1 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
1972 1976 1984 1988 1996 2000 HP
individual 15th gold 9th bronze 17th 22nd 14272.5
team 7th silver silver silver sixth 7th 3696
17968.5

Leon Štukelj

B. 1898-11-12, Maribor, Slovenia, D.1999-11-09
Gymnastics (3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
1924 1928 1936 HP
Individual combined (7 events) gold bronze 32nd 8960
Team combined fourth bronze sixth 1320
Floor Exercises 46th 0
Vault fourth 28th 92nd 400
Parallel Bars 20th 7th 22nd 100.35
Horizontal Bar gold 23rd 35th 1600
Rings fourth gold silver 3750
Pommeled Horse 12th 10th 39th 35
Sidehorse Vault 17th 1
Rope Climbing 10th 25
16191.35

He studied Law and took part in gymnastics events for 14 years, ending at Berlin
Presented at Atlanta as the oldest surviving gold medallist (almost 98 years old), he jumped onto the podium with as much grace as Vitaly Scherbo and Nadia Comaneci.
He lived to be almost 101.

Written 2001-02-15 - last modified 2002-10-29

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