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James George Lauf (born November 1, 1927) is an American cyclist. [1] He competed in the 4,000 metres team pursuit at the 1952 Summer Olympics. [2]
Laufey or Nál is a figure in Norse mythology and the mother of Loki. The latter is frequently mentioned by the matronymic Loki Laufeyjarson in the Poetic Edda, rather than the expected traditional patronymic Loki Fárbautason, in a mythology where kinship is usually reckoned through male ancestry.
The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße, known as AVUS, is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, it was also used as a motor racing circuit until 1998. Today, the AVUS forms the northern part of the Bundesautobahn 115.
Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave is a British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.
Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent, is an English rower and broadcaster. During his rowing career, he won 10 world championship gold medals and four consecutive Olympic gold medals.
Lauf an der Pegnitz is a town east of Nuremberg, Germany. It is the capital of the Nürnberger Land district in Bavaria. It is in the Pegnitz river valley, which flows through the town.
Lauf is a municipality in the district of Ortenau in Western Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Hans-Georg Reimann is a former East German race walker, who started for the SC Dynamo Berlin and the GDR and won two Olympic medals in 20 km racewalking. He finished third at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in and finished second at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal in.
Andrew Triggs Hodge is a British former rower - a three time Olympic champion and four time world champion. In the British coxless four in 2012 he set a world's best time which still stood as of 2023.
Thomas James MBE is a British rower, twice Olympic champion and victorious Cambridge Blue. In a British coxless four in 2012 he set a world's best time which still stood as of 2021.
Martin Anthamatten is a Swiss ski mountaineer and mountain runner.
Nathalie Etzensperger-Nanzer, née Nanzer, is a female Swiss ski mountaineer and long-distance runner.
Emmanuel Vaudan from Monthey is a Swiss ski mountaineer and long-distance runner.
Andréa Ursina Zimmermann from Monthey is a female Swiss ski mountaineer and mountain runner.
The Diepholz Airfield Circuit was an auto racing circuit in the south-west of Diepholz, Germany. It was a temporary circuit on a military airfield, which is still in use by the German military today.
The Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway is a 93.7 km long railway from Nuremberg, running along the Pegnitz river, to Hersbruck and continuing via Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg and Amberg to Schwandorf in the German state of Bavaria. It runs parallel to the Nuremberg–Cheb line between Nuremberg and Pommelsbrunn and this section is known as the Left Pegnitz line. It was opened in 1859 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany.
Lucia-Maria Näfen-Zehnder, née Näfen, is a Swiss ski mountaineer, long-distance runner and politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland Upper Valais (CVPO).
Victoria Kreuzer from Fiesch is a Swiss ski mountaineer and mountain runner.
This article describes some of the 2017 seasons of TCR Series across the world.
Cox or, The Course of Time is a 2016 novel by the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr.
Susanne Gogl-Walli is an Austrian athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, advancing to the semi-final heat.