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SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — A year before the Winter Olympics, the U.S. Ski Team just had a performance to remember. The women’s squad won medals in four out of five events at the ...
The United States entered as the defending Olympic champions while Jamaica was the reigning world champions from 2015, having defeated the Americans there. Great Britain entered with the fastest time recorded that year (3:25.05 minutes), which it had achieved to win the 2016 European title .
represents entities that did not participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics. The American final team, after winning the men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2016 Olympics. From left to right: Nathan Adrian, Ryan Held, Michael Phelps, and Caeleb Dressel. Medalists in the men's 85 kg weightlifting event.
The Olympics (with Germany and Japan barred from competing) returned after a 12-year hiatus, with American Gretchen Fraser (then of Vancouver, WA, later of Sun Valley, ID) winning the first two U.S. Olympic ski medals – and they came on the same day, Feb. 5; the combined downhill had been run the previous day and when she won the slalom, it ...
Katharina Schmid (née Althaus, born 23 May 1996) is a German ski jumper.She is a seven-time world champion, including one individual title and six team titles, as well as a two-time Olympic silver medalist, making her one of the most decorated athletes in the history of ski jumping.
Liensberger in Stockholm, February 2019. Katharina Liensberger (born 1 April 1997) is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer, [2] and specialises in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.
Charlotte Cooper. The first modern Olympic Games to feature female athletes was the 1900 Games in Paris. [3] Hélène de Pourtalès of Switzerland became the first woman to compete at the Olympic Games and became the first female Olympic champion, as a member of the winning team in the first 1 to 2 ton sailing event on May 22, 1900.
South Africa men's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the third-place playoff of the 2015 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations. [26] Team roster. The following is the South Africa squad in the men's football tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The team of 18 players was officially named on 14 July. [27] Head coach: Owen Da Gama