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| Born | April 4, 1940 Hohen Neuendorf, Havelland District, Germany | |||||||||||
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Christel Steffin (born 4 April 1940) is a German former swimmer who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics. [1]
The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad and commonly known as Antwerp 1920, were an international multi-sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
Singapore competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Athletes from East Germany and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. 293 competitors, 238 men and 55 women, took part in 148 events in 17 sports.
Syria, officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic, first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, when the diver Zouheir Al-Shourbagi was the sole competitor at the 1948 London games and placed 10th in the men's platform. Syria then missed the next four Olympiads. Syria returned to the Games in 1968, and has sent athletes to compete in all but one Summer Olympic Games, missing the 1976 Games. Syria has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.
Christel Simms is from Ewa Beach, Hawaii and was a college swimmer who attended the University of Southern California. She represented the Republic of the Philippines at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the sport of swimming for the 100-meter freestyle event.
Christel Pascal is a former French alpine skier who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Veronica Vdovicenco is a Moldovan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Vdovicenco qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 26.30 from the Belarus Championships in Minsk. She challenged seven other swimmers on the sixth heat, including returning Olympian Ellen Lendra Hight of Zambia. She raced to fifth place by 0.28 of a second behind Christel Simms of the Philippines, with a time of 26.92 seconds. Vdovicenco failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fiftieth out of 92 swimmers in the preliminary heats.
Loren Yamilé Bahamonde Cabello is an Ecuadorian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She represented her nation Ecuador at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of three bronze medals in a major international competition, spanning the two editions of the South American Games. Moreover, she collected a total of sixteen national records in three freestyle events.
Nieh Pin-chieh is a Taiwanese swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She represented the Chinese Taipei national team in two editions of the Olympic Games, competing in a sprint freestyle double.
Christel Felgner is a retired German gymnast. She competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and finished in fourth place with the German team. Her best individual result was 30th place in the vault. From 1966 she competed under the name Christel Wunder-Felgner.
Mei Yen “Christel” Bouvron is a Singaporean former swimmer, who specialised in freestyle and butterfly events. She is a two-time Olympian, a double finalist at the Asian Games (2002), and a gold medalist in the 200 m butterfly at the Southeast Asian Games (2003). Bouvron also became the first swimmer to qualify for the Olympics since 1920, while training for the Fighting Irish, and majoring in anthropology and classics at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
Nataliya Korabelnikova is a Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events. Korabelnikova competed in two swimming events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 4:24.63 from the Russian Open Championships in Saint Petersburg. On the second day of the Games, Korabelnikova placed thirty-fifth in the 400 m freestyle. Swimming in heat one, she edged out Singapore's Christel Bouvron on the final lap to pick up a fifth seed by almost a full second, in a lifetime best of 4:24.29. Three days later, Korabelnikova, along with Yekaterina Tochenaya, Anna Korshikova, and Anjelika Solovieva, placed fourteenth in the 4×200 m freestyle relay (8:41.21).
Christel Ferrier-Bruneau is a French racing cyclist. She competed in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence.
Christel Rupke was a German swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre backstroke at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Christel Fechner is a Belgian swimmer. She competed in the women's 400 metre individual medley at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Christel Agrikola is a German rower. She competed in the women's single sculls event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Christel Thoresen is a retired Norwegian snowboarder.
Cristina Hardekopf, also spelled Christina, is a diver who was Argentina's flag bearer at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. She was scheduled to compete in the Women's 3 metre springboard contest, but withdrew due to illness or an injury.
Steffin McCarter is an American track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. McCarter competed in the long jump at the 2019 World Championships in Athletics where he advanced to the finals. He was originally an alternate for the competition and earned his world championship berth after national champion Will Claye decided not to compete.
Christel Verstegen is a Dutch archer. She competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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