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The Bangladesh team at the 2009 IMO Serbia's team for the 2010 IMO Zhuo Qun (Alex) Song (Canadian), the most highly decorated IMO contestant with 5 golds and 1 bronze medal Maryam Mirzakhani (Iran), the first woman to be honored with a Fields Medal, won 2 gold medals in 1994 and 1995, getting a perfect score in the second year.
In December 2008, two male athletes (Fuahea Semi and Taniela Tufunga) were selected to travel to Germany for training, although only one of them would compete at the Olympics. [1] [2] [3] Semi was eventually selected as Tonga's candidate to compete in the Games, and was presented by his German sponsors under a new name, "Bruno Banani".
Of the athletes who participated in two or more Summer Olympics in two different sports, 49 are Swedish and 23 of them participated in the home Olympics in Stockholm 1912. Gwynne Evans , [ 2 ] Leo Goodwin , Frank Kugler [ 1 ] and Joe Lydon [ 2 ] are the only athletes to win medals in three different sports.
The most widely accepted inception date for the Ancient Olympics is 776 BC; this is based on inscriptions, found at Olympia, listing the winners of a footrace held every four years starting in 776 BC. [2] For the first thirteen Olympics, the stadion footrace was the only event contested, [10]: p. 145 [19] and victory in that sprint was so ...
Nguyen Quoc Toan: 21 May 2022 Southeast Asian Games: Hanoi, Vietnam [5] Clean and Jerk 190 kg Nguyen Quoc Toan: 21 May 2022 Southeast Asian Games: Hanoi, Vietnam [6] Total 340 kg Nguyen Quoc Toan: 21 May 2022 Southeast Asian Games: Hanoi, Vietnam [7] 89 kg Snatch 155 kg Nguyễn Quốc Toàn: 16 May 2023 Southeast Asian Games: Phnom Penh ...
Tonga competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] It was the nation's tenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Vietnam competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from July 27 to August 12, 2012. This was the nation's eighth appearance at the Olympics, having missed the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, because of the Soviet boycott. The Vietnam Olympic Committee (VOC) sent the nation's largest delegation to the Games since 1980. A total of 18 ...
He became the first skeet shooter to win three gold medals in Olympic history having previously won in 2008 and 2012. [ 26 ] The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables.