Event History history of Equitana in Australia Since 1999, EQUITANA has presented a olympic Gold medallists including ANDREW HOY, GILLIAN ROLTON and JULIE HIGGINS http://www.equitana.com.au/event_history.asp
Extractions: For four days and nights MEC was again transformed into a horse lovers heaven with horse breeds, sports, products and services all under one roof. Over 200 back-to-back educational sessions by educators from across the country and the globe, joined 170 Australian and 34 international exhibitors from 9 countries. Equitana was pleased to host for the first time 3 international pavilions from the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. In a number of spectacular firsts for EQUITANA, the event opened with the Indoor Polo Skins Tournament. The traditional game of polo was taken out of the country and brought right into the heart of the city. Other competitions included World Cup Qualifiers for Dressage and Showjumping, Cutting Series Grand Final, Barrel Racing and Reining. EQUITANA closed with the excitement and exhilaration of Melbournes first ever, Indoor Cross Country event. Other highlights of EQUITANA Asia Pacific 2003 included: The MANE EVENT played to a capacity audience of over 18,500 across four shows, featuring many outstanding performances from local and international performers including, US Equine Extremist TOMMIE TURVEY who astounded audiences with his amazing skill and speed performing tricks and MARTINA HANNOVER the rising star of the Dressage world performing an immaculate Kur
The History Of Beach Volleyball The history Of Beach Volleyball. Women olympic Beach Volleyball medallists Gold Pottharst Cook (AUS) Silver Adriana Shelda Behar (BRA) http://www.spikeopaths.org.uk/beach_volleyball_history.php
Extractions: Your browser is not JavaScript-enabled 24th September 2005 Contact Us Site Map September 2005 Mens Training 8:30pm - Loddon Valley Club Night 7:30pm - Loddon Valley October 2005 Mixed 2 Match [X109] 12:00 - Loddon Valley Mixed 1 Match [X109] 12:00 - Loddon Valley Ladies Training 8:30pm - Loddon Valley Club Night 7:30pm - Loddon Valley Mixed 1 Match [X101] 15:00 - St Gabriels School Mixed 2 Match [X102] 15:00 - Kendrick School Mens Training 8:30pm - Loddon Valley Club Night 7:30pm - Loddon Valley Ladies Training 8:30pm - Loddon Valley BVA Meeting (devel League) 8pm Loddon Cafe Club Night 7:30pm - Loddon Valley Mixed 2 Match [X103] Details TBC Mens Training 8:30pm - Loddon Valley Club Night 7:30pm - Loddon Valley Ladies Match [L02] 15:00 - Kendrick School Mens Match [M202] 10:30 - Loddon Valley Club Night 7:30pm - Loddon Valley November 2005 Mixed 1 Match [X105] Details TBC BVA Committee Mtg 8pm Loddon Cafe Ladies Match [L03] 12:00 - Loddon Valley Mens Match [M203] 12:00 - Loddon Valley Mixed 1 Match [X107] Details TBC Ladies Match [L04] 15:00 - St Gabriels School Mens Match [M204] 11:00 - Queen Mary's College December 2005 Mixed 2 Match [X108] 12:00 - Loddon Valley January 2006 Mixed 1 Match [X112] 12:00 - Loddon Valley Mixed 2 Match [X112] 12:00 - Loddon Valley BVA Committee Mtg 8pm Loddon Cafe Mens Match [M206] 12:00 - Loddon Valley Mixed 2 Match [X113] 12:00 - Loddon Valley Mixed 1 Match [X114] Details TBC February 2006 Ladies Match [L07] 12:00 - Loddon Valley
Defining Olympic Moments - Olympic Info : Drug Testing - Two olympic medallists at the 1936 olympics successfully defended their olympic INFO. olympic history Drug Testing Torch Relay olympic Stars http://smh.com.au/olympics/articles/2004/06/18/1089484299436.html
Extractions: @import url("/olympics/css/athens_smh.css"); Welcome to 2004 Olympics. Skip directly to: Search Box Section Navigation Content Athens document.write(showDates('-7')); (max 22C) Sydney document.write(showDates('0')); (max 21C) June 18, 2004 Ethiopian Bikilia Abebe at the 1960 Rome Olympics as he crosses the finish line in record time ... barefooted. George Eyse, an American gymnast with a wooden leg, wins six medals The middleweight Greco-Roman wrestling semifinal between Russian Martin Klein and Finland's Alfred Asikainen lasted eleven hours American Jim Thorpe wins the five-event pentathlon the ten-event decathlon. Italy's Nedo Nadi wins five of the six fencing gold medals. American Ethelda Bleibtrey wins gold in all three women's swimming events. 72 year-old Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn wins the silver medal in the team double-shot running deer event and becomes the oldest medallist ever. Australian rower Henry Pearce stops halfway through his quarterfinal race to let a family of ducks pass in front of his boat. Pearce still managed to win the race and the gold medal. Kusuo Kitamura, a 14-year-old Japanese athlete wins the 1,500m freestyle and becomes the youngest male to win an individual gold medal in any event.
Santa Clara's Olympic Connections Santa Clara s community history and find strong ties to the olympics and the Nineteen olympic medallists have either trained in or called our City http://www.ci.santa-clara.ca.us/about_us/history09.html
Extractions: [ About Us ] About Us Artist Info Annual Report City Charter ... Executive Staff Santa Clara's Olympic Connections The George F. Haines International Swim Center remains a premier swim meet location, often posting record breaking times as swimmers head towards the Olympics. On June 26, 2005, Olympic champion Michael Phelps captured his third victory of the annual Santa Clara International Swim Meet. Phelps, winner of six gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics, won the 200 individual medley in 1 minute, 59.31 seconds. He also captured the 200 freestyle and the 100 butterfly. The International Swim Center is also the home of the world reknown Santa Clara Aquamaids Synchronized Swim Club, which has trained numerous Olympic champions. Olympic Medalists with Santa Clara Affiliations Christine Von Saltzen; Swimming Lynn Burke; Swimming Steve Clark; Swimming Don Schollander; Swimming Sharon Finneran; Swimming Dick Roth; Swimming Lilian Pokey Watson; Swimming Steve Clark; Swimming Donna de Varona; Swimming Claudia Kolb; Swimming
Extractions: Summer Team Sites Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Judo Karate Pentathlon Racquetball Roller Sports Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Squash Swimming Synchro. Table Tennis Taekwondo Team Handball Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Water Skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Winter Team Sites Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding Speedskating U.S. Olympic Sites U.S. Olympic Fan Club Free eNewsletter U.S. Olympic Shop U.S. Paralympics Olympians on TV Photo Galleries Sports Jobs Ask an Olympian USOC Pressbox Athletes Events Sports Features ... 2004 games 2002 Verizon Luge Challenge and Olympic Medallists Bring Winter Excitement To Big Bear Mountain Resort March 16-17 // by Jon Lundin - U.S. Luge Association (518-523-2071) // March 11, 2002 BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. - The fifth stop of the season for the 2002 Verizon Luge Challenge will be at Big Bear Mountain Resort in Big Bear Lake, Calif., March 16-17. 2002 Olympic silver medallists, Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin, 2002 Olympic Bronze Medallist, Clay Ives, and other USA Luge Olympians will give the public the chance to don helmets and racing bibs and experience the thrill and excitement of luge, just like the Olympic athletes who competed in Salt Lake City last month. Through its sponsorship of USA Luge, Verizon brings the luge experience to thousands of winter sports fans free of charge in a fun and safe slope-side setting.
Olympic.cz President Klaus meets Czech olympic medallists from OG Athens The strongCzech team of 142 athletes, the largest in the history of the Czech Republic, http://www.olympic.cz/index.php?clanek=5154&jazyk=en&from=&from2=&from3=
Sailing, Eurosport, Athens 2004 Grael wins Star class to make olympic history The pair were also olympicchampions in 1996 and bronze medallists in Sydney when they led going into the http://www.eurosport.com/home/pages/v4/l0/s66/e6856/sport_lng0_spo66_evt6856_sto
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Sprinker Recreation Center History It has also been the site of Lakewood Winter Club hosted figure skating competitionsfeaturing olympic medallists Rosalynn Sumners and Brian Boitano. http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/services/recreate/SRChistry.htm
Extractions: Tacoma, WA 98444 (253) 798-4000 HISTORY The $2.5 million Sprinker Recreation Center was dedicated on July 16, 1976 when the doors of the 74,500 square foot facility opened to the public with ceremonies and an open house. That dedication added a regulation ice arena, 4 indoor tennis courts, 5 racquetball/handball courts, 5 multi-purpose rooms for classes and activities, and a fully-equipped pottery room (which is no longer there) to the 30 acre outdoor complex that previously opened in June of 1969. Sprinker Center 1976 Sprinker Recreation Center 1976 The outdoor facility boasts a huge variety of amenities including 8 softball fields, 1 baseball field, 6 football/soccer fields, 6 tennis courts, 4 pickleball courts, 8 horseshoe pits, and an all-weather 1/4 mile track. Spire Rock, one of the first such climbing facilities in the state, was later added. Automatic batting cages were added in 1983. Sprinker has always striven to provide the best and latest recreational opportunities for the public by hosting graduation parties, carnivals, district and state high school athletic championships, and state and regional slowpitch tournaments, to name a few. It has also been the site of Lakewood Winter Club hosted figure skating competitions featuring Olympic medallists Rosalynn Sumners and Brian Boitano. And former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Jim Zorn even participated in a skating exhibition. Sprinker provided practice ice for the W.I.L.'s Tacoma Rockets and NHL teams as well. Internationally known ice skating coach Kathy Casey was Skating Director for many years and over the years numerous other dignitaries and sports personalities have made appearances at the center.
World InfoZone - Ukraine Information - Page 2 history Since Paleolithic times (the Old Stone Age) Ukraine has been inhabitedby many Famous Ukrainian olympic medallists include Larysa Latynina, http://www.worldinfozone.com/country.php?country=Ukraine&page=2
DerKeiler Directory - /Sports/Events/Olympics history House Stories olympic Follies, Amateur glory of olympics in the olympic Games medallists, Complete list of medallists in all sports at both http://directory.derkeiler.com/Top/Sports/Events/Olympics
Extractions: Home UNIX Linux Coding ... Olympics Olympics Sub-categories See also: Links 2002 Winter Olympics Provides a listing of medals received by country, historical facts, articles about various sports, and athlete biographies. A Journey Through: The Olympics An interactive site about Olympics, the IOC, how the competitions are held, the ancient games and World Olympic Records, Paralympics. Includes also message boards to voice out opinions on olympic issues, interactive puzzles and quizzes. Andrew Jennings: The Great Olympic Swindle Investigative journalism work on Olympic corruption. Evidence of cheating, doping and bribes related to the International Olympic Committee by Andrew Jennings. Around the Rings Online News and photos about the business and politics of the Olympic movement worldwide. Edited by Ed Hula, a radio correspondent for Radio 2UE in Australia and KSL Newsradio in Salt Lake City. AskMen.com: The Other Side of the Olympic Games Article exposing the scandalous side of the games. Austrian Olympic History Historical results of Austrian athletes competing at Summer and Winter Olympics. Includes medal count tables of all countries. An unofficial site.
History News Network George Mason University, Ph.D. in history. A Doctorate with a Difference rest assured there will be many olympic medallists and Victoria Cross winners. http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=5573
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES The olympic Games as we know them today have a long history that dates back toAntiquity. It all started in Greece, Medal winners search http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/index_uk.asp
Extractions: The Paralympic Games are elite sport events for athletes from different disability groups. They clearly emphasise, however, the participants' athletic achievements, not their disability. The movement has grown dramatically since its early days. The number of athletes participating in the Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes in Rome in 1960 to 3,806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHENS 2004 the paralympic Games) a record number in the history of the Games - will bepresent, All the results of the olympic events live, the medals table, http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/athens2004/index_uk.asp
Extractions: During the Games in Athens, more than 45,000 volunteers (15,000 for the paralympic Games) - a record number in the history of the Games - will be present, together with 21,500 media representatives. Discover these people working behind the scenes at the Games and the Olympic fans. Visit Athens in its Olympic colours and experience the Games as if you were there.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO'S OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNERS Edwin Roberts goes down in history as the individual who won this country s firstOlympic medal in athletics when he won bronze in the 200 metres at the http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Sport\Sports_TTOlympicMedalists.html
Extractions: PORTRAITS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO'S OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNERS The Independent Celebrating Olympic Week June 26, 1998 Page 26 (Ato Boldon's biography was taken from his website at http://www.atoboldon.com Olym pic Fact Olympic Motto CITISU-ALTIUS-FORTIUS " - A Latin phrase meaning "swifter, higher, stronger". Peter de Coubertin adopted it after hearing of its use by Father Henri Martin Didon of Paris. Didon, headmaster of Arcueil College, used the phrase while describing the athletic accomplishment of his students at that school. He had previously been at the school Albert Le Grand, where the Latin words were carved in stone above the main entrance. Bernard, Kent (Athletics) Born on May 27, 1942, Kent Bernard blossomed in the field of athletics when he won the Victor Ludorum at the Belmont Intermediate School in 1959 and 1960. He then became a member of the Burnley Athletics School under the watchful eyes of coach George Clarke. From Trinidad, he obtained an athletic scholarship to Michigan State University and represented his University with such a degree of success that he was selected to represent Trinidad and Tobago at the 1964 Olympic games in Tokyo, Japan. Bernard was a member of the bronze medal relay team at these Games. In 1966 he won silver and gold in the 440 yards and 4x440 yards events respectively at the Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.
Olympic Games - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia be considered the most successful olympic athlete in the history of the modernolympics. Larisa Latynina won 18 olympic medals, including 9 gold ones, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics
Extractions: (Redirected from Olympics The Olympic Games , or Olympics , is an international multi-sport event taking place every two years and alternating between Summer and Winter Games. Originally held in ancient Greece , they were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Fr¨dy, Baron de Coubertin in the late 19th century . The Games of the Olympiad , better known as the Summer Olympics , have been held every fourth year since , with the exception of the years during the World Wars A special edition for winter sports , the Olympic Winter Games , was established in . Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but starting with the Winter Games are in between, two years after the Games of the Olympiad. edit For months before the Olympic Games , runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. Athletes trained in this Olympia facility in its heyday. In detail: Ancient Olympic Games The origin of the ancient Olympic Games has been lost, although there are many legends surrounding its origins. One of these legends associates the first Games with the ancient Greek concept of
Olympic Games History Back About AC olympic Games history Australia s first olympic medal waswon in 1956 in Melbourne by Walter Brown and Dennis Green, nbspalaiming the http://www.canoe.org.au/default.asp?MenuID=About AC/93/0,Olympic Games History/3
Olympic Games History Back Disciplines Flatwater olympic Games history The complete list ofmedallists since Flatwater Canoe/Kayak was introduced to the olympics http://www.canoe.org.au/default.asp?MenuID=Disciplines/97/0,Flatwater/79/2244,Ol
Extractions: Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search Table of Contents Freestyle wrestling was on the first modern Olympic program in 1896, with just two weight classes. It was dropped in 1900, but restored in 1904, and it's been on the program ever since. From 1938 through 1980, medals were based on round robin competition. The wrestler with the fewest penalty points in the final round won the gold medal. If two or more wrestlers had the same number of penalty points in the in the final round, standings were based on the number of penalty points in previous rounds. For those years, the number of penalty points is shown. For all other years, the score of the gold medal match is shown. The following abbreviations are used: Dec = Decision, Ret = Opponent Retired, WO = Walkover. Weight limits have changed a number of times through the years. The limits shown are those used at the 2004 Olympics for divisions in which competition was held in 2004. For other divisions, the weight limit is shown for the most recent Olympics at which the even took place. Top of page History My Blog Biography Glossaries Calendar ... Directory Up to 48 kg/105.5 lb
HickokSports.com - History - Olympic Cycling Medalists This document lists all olympic cycling medalists. It is a page in the Historysection of HickokSports.com, the largest collection of sports information on http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olcycl.shtml
Extractions: Score Silver Bronze Mouritius Peeters, NED Harry Ryan, GBR Lucien Michard, FRA Jacob Meijer, NED Jean Cugnot, FRA Roger Beaufrand, FRA Antoine Mazairac, NED Willy Falck Hansen, DEN Jacobus van Egmond, NED Louis Chaillot, FRA Bruno Pellizzari, ITA Toni Merkens, GER Arie van Vliet, NED Louis Chaillot, FRA Mario Ghella, ITA Reg Harris, GBR Axel Schandroff, DEN Enzo Sacchi, ITA Lionel Cox, AUS Werner Potzernheim, GER Michel Rousseau, FRA Guglielmo Presenti, ITA Dick Ploog, AUS Sante Gaiardoni, ITA Leo Sterckx, BEL Valentino Gasparella, ITA Giovanni Pettenella, ITA Sergio Bianchetto, ITA Daniel Morelon, FRA Daniel Morelon, FRA Giordano Turrini, ITA
Gold Medallists In The 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Gold medallists in the 2000 Sydney olympic Games. For the first time in thehistory of the olympic Games, all the Aquatics events were held in one venue http://www.athens2004.gr/en/BasketballOlympicMedallists
