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Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and activities to 5 million participants and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries. [2]
Through the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, 178 Michigan student-athletes and coaches had participated in the Olympics. The university has had medal winners in every Summer Olympics except 1896, and gold medalists in all but four Olympiads. A total of 22 countries, including the U.S., have been represented by Michigan athletes. [493]
Edward Crook Jr., gold medalist in middleweight boxing at Rome 1960 Summer Olympics (born in Detroit) Richard Dalley, figure skater, fifth place in ice dancing at Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics (born in Detroit) Meryl Davis, gold medalist in ice dancing at Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics (from West Bloomfield)
Hobbs Kessler. Event: Athletics (800 meters, 1,500 meters). Michigan connection: Ann Arbor Skyline High School.. Schedule: Aug. 2-10; 1,500m first round, Aug. 2; 800m first round, Aug. 7. The buzz ...
Sparky Anderson, iconic manager of the World Champion Detroit Tigers, told me in his final interview in 2008 that there was no place in America with more generous folks who love to help others in ...
Detroit: Boxing: Men's middleweight: Jeff Farrell: Flint: Swimming: Men's 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay: Men's 4 × 100 meter medley relay: Gary Tobian: Detroit: Diving: Men's 3 meter springboard: Men's 10 meter platform: Hayes Jones: Pontiac: Athletics: Men's 110 meters hurdles: Norbert Schemansky: Detroit: Weightlifting: Men's +90 kg: 1964 ...
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Gordon was born in Detroit, Michigan.His father Ed Gordon Jr. (1908–1971) was a schoolteacher who won gold in the 1932 Summer Olympics for competing in the long jump, and his mother Jimmie (née Hunt) (1920–2015) was also a teacher.