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Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Nelson Diebel: Swimming: Men's 100 meter breaststroke: July 26 Gold: Pablo Morales: Swimming: Men's 100 meter butterfly
List of athletes from Maryland A – M; List of athletes from Maryland N – Z; List of members of the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame; List of sports-related people from Mississippi; List of athletes from Montana
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.
Famous Black athletes span all sports, from football and basketball to tennis and gymnastics. This article focuses on 10 whose excellence made them household names and changed their sports forever.
American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...
Jack London (athlete) Great Britain: Georg Lammers Germany: 1932 Los Angeles details: Eddie Tolan United States: Ralph Metcalfe United States: Arthur Jonath Germany: 1936 Berlin details: Jesse Owens United States: Ralph Metcalfe United States: Tinus Osendarp Netherlands: 1948 London details: Harrison Dillard United States: Barney Ewell United ...
First African-American baseball player to be named the Major League Baseball World Series MVP: Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals [45] First African-American to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association: Althea Gibson; First African-American baseball player to be named the captain of a Major League Baseball team: Willie Mays, San Francisco ...
At the Beijing Games, Phelps broke fellow American Mark Spitz's record by winning eight gold medals at one Olympics. Phelps was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Other greats from the state : Kevin ...