Great Olympians

Biographies - WA

Wac - Wag - Wah - Wai - Wal - Wan - War - Was - Wat - Way


Anita Wachter

B. 1967-2-12, Austria
Alpine Skiing (1 gold, 2 silver)
1988 1992 1994 HP
Combined gold silver - 9400
Giant Slalom 7th silver fourth 4600
Super-G fifth 9th 9th 1240
Downhill dnf - - -
Slalom dnf - dnf -
15240

Overall World Cup Winner in 1993.


Katrin Wagner

competed in 2008 as

Katrin Wagner-Augustin

B. 1977-10-13, Brandenburg, then GDR, Germany
Canoeing (4 gold, 1 bronze)
2000 2004 2008 HP
K4 500 m gold gold gold 19200
K2 500 m gold 4800
K1 500 m fourth bronze 4160
28160


Otto Wahle

B. 1879-11-05, Austria; D. 1963-08-11
Swimming (2 silver, 1 bronze)
1900 1904 HP
100 m Freestyle (silver) 0
200 m Freestyle finalist 100
440 yds Free-style bronze 1920
880 yds Free-style fifth 4750
1000 m Freestyle silver
1 mile Free-style fourth 1200
200 m Obstacle Course silver 6000
10100 3870 13970

The 100 m event at Paris is not listed in all sources, but seems to have been a separate, official event (Information supplied by the IASF, according to the Hungarian authors) The event is notably completely absent in Mallon.

Olympic Competitor nr 1271


Erick Wainaina

B. 1973-12-19, Kenya
Athletics (1 silver, 1 bronze)
1996 2000 2004 HP
Marathon bronze silver 7th 10440
10440


Jan-Ove Waldner

Sweden
Table Tennis (1 gold, 1 silver)
1992 1996 2000 2004 HP
Singles gold R16 silver fourth 18832.425
Doubles R1:2nd QF R3 QF 1034.132
19866.557


Carolyn Waldo

B. 1964-12-11, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Synchronized Swimming (2 gold, 1 silver)
1984 1988 HP
Solo silver gold 10400
Duet gold 4800
15200


Charles Waldstein

Olympic Competitor nr 70


René Waleff

Olympic Competitor nr 1465


Edmond Wallace

Olympic Competitor nr 565


Richard Wallace

Olympic Competitor nr 614


Joseph Wallis

Olympic Competitor nr 1689


Kerri Walsh

B. 1978-08-15, San Jose, CA, USA
Beach Volleyball (2 gold)
2004 2008 HP
Beach Volleyball gold gold 16000
16000

Twice together with Misty May-Treanor


Hals Walter

Switzerland
Rowing (2 gold, 1 bronze)
1924 1924 2000 2004 HP
Coxless Fours bronze 1920
Coxed Fours gold gold 9600
Eights R1:2 - 287
11807


Wang Hao

B. 1983-12-01, Changchun, China
Table Tennis (1 gold, 2 silver)
2004 2008 HP
Singles silver silver 10000
Doubles R4 39.56
Team gold 1600
11639.56


Wang Meng

China
Shorttrack (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
2006 2010 HP
500 m gold gold 12800
1000 m silver gold 10400
1500 m bronze SF:6th 2564.32
3000 m Team fourth gold 2000
27764.32

(13360)


Wang Nan

B. 1978-10-23, Fushun, China
Table Tennis (4 gold, 1 silver)
2000 2004 2008 HP
Singles gold QF silver 14146.875
Doubles gold gold 9600
Team gold 1600
28346.875


Wang Tao

China
Table Tennis (1 gold, 2 silver)

(143 HP)


Wang Yifu

B. 1960-12-04, Liaoyang, Liaoning, China
Shooting (2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 HP
Air Pistol gold silver silver gold 31200
Free Pistol bronze 8th silver sixth sixth 10454.4
41654.4


Archibald Warden

Olympic Competitor nr 762


Warenhorst

Olympic Competitor nr 408


Jeremy Wariner

B. 1984-01-31, Irving, TX, USA
Athletics (3 gold, 1 silver)
2004 2008 HP
400 m gold silver 10400
4 x 400 m gold gold 3200
13600


Arthur Warncke

Olympic Competitor nr 1451


Thomas Wassberg

Sweden
Nordic Skiing (4 gold)
1976 1980 1984 1988 HP
15 km 15th gold - - 6410
50 km - - gold dnf 6400
4 x 10 km fourth fifth gold gold 5775
30 km - fourth 14th 42nd 1616
20201


Markus Wasmeier

Germany
Alpine Skiing (2 gold)
1988 1992 1994 HP
Giant Slalom 19th dnf gold 4801.1
Super-G dnf 9th gold 4920
Downhill sixth fourth dnf 1840
Combined 7th fifth 36th 1150
12711.6


Kathryn Watt

Australia
Cycling (1 gold, 1 silver)
1992 1996 HP
Individual Pursuit silver 8th 6384
Road Race gold 9th 9840
Road Race, Time Trial fourth 2400
18624


Wattelier

Olympic Competitor nr 298


Ch. Waydelich

Olympic Competitor nr 740


Marshall Wayne

USA
Diving (1 gold, 1 silver)
1936 HP
Platform gold 6400
Springboard silver 4000
10400


Written 2000-12-22 - last modified 2002-10-30

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