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Boris Obergföll is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He won a bronze medal in the World Championships twice. His personal best throw was 90.44 metres, set in July 1997. This ranks him fifth among German javelin throwers, behind Johannes Vetter, Thomas Röhler, Raymond Hecht and Andreas Hofmann.
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Glenn Lamonte Goins, also known as Glen Goins, was a singer and guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic in the mid-1970s. Goins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, posthumously inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. His first (known) recordings were as part of the group The Bags. They released a single in 1972: "It's Heavy" b/w "Don't Mess With My Baby".
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 295 competitors, 255 men and 40 women, took part in 141 events in 18 sports.
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 272 competitors, 233 men and 39 women, took part in 135 events in 17 sports. the Netherlands, Spain, the Netherlands Antilles, Egypt, Lebanon, Cambodia, Iraq and Switzerland protested against this by boycotting the games. As a partial support to the Dutch-led boycott, Soviet athletes under the Olympic flag instead of the national flag.
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. 283 competitors, 233 men and 50 women, took part in 145 events in 17 sports.
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. 312 competitors, 246 men and 66 women, took part in 164 events in 18 sports.
Robert Goin was an American football and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia from 1963 to 1972, compiling a record of 45–32–2. He was also the college's head baseball coach and athletics director. Goin was the athletics director at California University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1981, Florida State University from 1990 to 1994 and the University of Cincinnati from 1997 to 2005
The Sports Clubs of the Armed Forces, Physical Culture and Sports Association of the Soviet Armed Forces, also called the Sports Clubs of the Soviet Ministry of Defense or simply Armed Forces or Army were a system of departmental sports clubs and one of the largest sports societies in the USSR.
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Hanžeković Memorial, known also as Zagreb Meeting and Hanžek, is an annual three-day athletics event held first weekend of September at three different locations in Zagreb, Croatia as part of the IAAF World Challenge Meetings. It was first organized in 1951. Long jump and pole vault competition Zagreb CIty Challenge is held at the Ban Jelačić Square, shot put Ivan Ivančić Memorial in front of the National and University Library and all other competitions at the Sports Park Mladost athletic stadium.
Boris (Dov) Djerassi is a former athlete and strongman, based in the United States but originally from Haifa, Israel. Between 1973 and 1981 Djerassi was ranked in the United States' top-ten hammer throwers, being number one in three different years. He was selected for the Olympic team in 1980, but the United States boycotted the Moscow Games and Djerassi was unable to compete in the Olympics. He also competed at the World's Strongest Man finals.
Ryan Matthew Goins is an American former professional baseball second baseman and shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Kansas City Royals, and Chicago White Sox. He is the current infield coach for the Los Angeles Angels.
Goins is a surname. "Irish: variant of Going. Possibly an altered form of German Göing ". It also comes from the French province of Bourbonnais.
Boris Berian is an American middle distance runner. He was the 2016 National Champion and represented the United States at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the 800 meters where he won the gold medal. He set his indoor best winning the world championships at 1:45.87, boldly front running a sub-50 first 400. Outdoors he set his personal best 1:43.34 at the 2015 Herculis meet. In his collegiate career, Berian ran for Adams State University, where he was coached by Damon Martin. Barely a year before the Herculis meet, Berian was working in a Colorado Springs McDonald's as a college dropout, still trying to train after working the morning shift.
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Kenny Goins is an American professional basketball player who last played for Limoges CSP of the LNB Pro A. He played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans.
Kennedy Parker Goins is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Racing Louisville FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). A native of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, she is a two-time OSSAA state champion and played college soccer at Arkansas.
