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In the cycling match sprint final, German Toni Merkens fouled Dutch Arie van Vliet. Instead of disqualification, Merkens was fined 100 German reichsmarks and kept the gold medal. [32] In one of the football quarter-finals, Peru beat Austria 4–2 but Austria nonetheless advanced to the next round under very controversial circumstances. As a ...
Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a British former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. [1] In 1981, he was both the IAAF Golden Sprints and IAAF World Cup gold medallist.
Francis was a Canadian 100 metres sprint champion himself (1970, 1971 and 1973) and a member of the Canadian team for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Francis was also Canada's national sprint coach for nine years. Johnson's first international success came when he won 2 silver medals at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia.
Paralympic sprinter Alessandro Ossola had one of the best days of his life on Sunday – and it had nothing to do with his racing. Ossola may have failed to qualify for the final of the T63 100 ...
Reynaud Syverne "Rey" Robinson (born April 1, 1952) is a former American athlete, one of the world's top sprinters in the early 1970s.. At age twenty on July 1, 1972, Robinson finished second to Eddie Hart in the 100 meters at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, equalling the world record at 9.9 seconds.
American sprinter Sha’Carri ... Richardson had appeared to punch her ticket to the Covid-delayed Tokyo Games after she won the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene ...
Thirteen years after her first Olympic win, she won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the most decorated 100 m sprinter at the Olympic Games. At the biennial World Athletics Championships, Fraser-Pryce is one of the most decorated athletes in history, winning ten gold, five silver medals and a bronze.
Sprinter Issam Asinga, who set the under-20 world record in the 100 meters, is suing Gatorade. In the lawsuit, he alleges that the company gave him a product with a banned substance, leading to a ...