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This is a list of the United States athletes who won an Olympic medal since 1992. Summer Olympics 1992 Barcelona ... Gold: United States women's national soccer team.
Campbell was inducted into the Indiana University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1982, and United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 1992. In June 2012, Campbell was voted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. [10] (nytimes.com). He is also present in the National Track and Field Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and remains the only ...
Swimmer Michael Phelps and President George W. Bush on August 10, 2008, at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing.Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. [11] [12] Dara Torres is the third-most decorated female American Olympic athlete after Jenny Thompson and Katie Ledecky, celebrated not only for her athletic achievements but also for defying age norms in competitive sports.
He set an NCAA record in the long jump, which stood for seven years, and is a charter member of both the Indiana Track and Field and IU Athletic halls of fame. June 1981, at age 50 Bell long jumped 20'-0 1/2" and ran the 100 meters in 12.22.
Cody Miller, 2016 Olympic gold medalist; Fred Tyler, 1972 Olympic gold medalist swimmer; John Kinsella, 1968 silver and 1972 Olympic gold medalist swimmer—Sullivan Award winner 1970; Gary Hall, Sr., 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympic medalist swimmer; Lesley Bush, Olympic gold medalist diver; Jim Montgomery (1976 Olympics/3 Gold Medals 100 free, 2 ...
After Spitz's return to the United States following the 1972 Olympics, he landed several lucrative corporate endorsement contracts. He earned about $7 million in a two-year period. [56] "A million dollars in 1972 would be equivalent to more than $10 million today," Spitz said in 2007. "I did very well, thank you very much."
Frederick Carlton Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper whose career spanned from 1979 to 1996, when he last won the Olympic long jump.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she became the oldest cycling gold medalist, when she won the women's road time trial race, defending her gold medal from Beijing 2008. She repeated her success at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning third gold in a row and setting a new record. [8] Oldest female cycling gold medalist 42 Kristin Armstrong [8] Athletics