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Ken Armstrong (born 12 October 1953) is a Canadian diver. He competed in two events at the 1976 Summer Olympics. [1]
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Ken Armstrong (born 12 October 1953) is a Canadian diver. He competed in two events at the 1976 Summer Olympics. [1]
Kenneth Eric Money was a Canadian scientist specialising in the human ear and an Olympic high jumper. He worked at the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine in Toronto. He published over one hundred science articles and authored six different topics in the World Book Encyclopedia.
Australia sent a delegation to compete at the 1936 Winter Olympics from 6 to 16 February 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. This was the nation's first appearance at an Winter Olympic Games since the competition began in 1924. Australia delegation consisted of one competitor. That was speed skater, Kenneth Kennedy who competed in three events in the speed skating competitions. He finished in 29th overall in the 500 meters and 33rd overall in the 1500 meters and the 5000 meters.
Kenneth Pereira is a field hockey midfielder from Canada. He was a member of the Canadian field hockey team at the Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2008. Pereira has also been on several Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games teams, winning two gold medals in the latter competition in 1999 and 2007. In the 1999 Pan American Games gold-medal match against Argentina, the only goal in Canada's win was posted by Pereira.
Sandra Jenkins is a Canadian curler from Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
Turkey sent a team to compete at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 27 competitors, 26 men and 1 woman, took part in 27 events in 8 sports. However, Turkey did not win any medals at this edition of Olympics.
Ken Goodwin is a former field hockey goalkeeper from Canada, who participated in two consequentive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984. After having finished in tenth position in Los Angeles, California, Goodwin ended up in eleventh place in the Seoul Games with the Men's National Team. Ken was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.
The men's marathon was a track and field athletics event held as part of the athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The distance used was 40.2 kilometres, nearly 2 full kilometres shorter than that used in 1908 and since 1924. The competition was held on Sunday, July 14, 1912. 95 runners entered, but only 68 runners competed. NOCs could enter up to 12 athletes. With conditions described as "very hot", only 36 of the 68 competitors finished. The event was won by Ken McArthur of South Africa, the nation's first Olympic marathon victory.
Charles Ewing Armstrong was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Kenneth Tralnberg is a Canadian curler and Olympic medallist. He received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He lives in St. Albert, Alberta.
Elizabeth Anne "Betsey" Armstrong is an American water polo goalkeeper, who won gold medals with the United States women's national water polo team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2007 and 2011 Pan American Games, and 2007 and 2009 world championships. She is a leading goalkeeper in Olympic water polo history, with 102 saves. Armstrong attended Huron High School in Ann Arbor and was a three-year letterwinner on her water polo team. She then went on to graduate from the University of Michigan in 2005, where she was the goalkeeper for the women's water polo team. Betsey graduated with a bachelor's degree in English language and Literature. She is currently the record holder at University of Michigan with 350 saves.
Jennifer Margaret Armstrong is an Olympic sailor from New Zealand. After competing for her native country at the 1992 Olympics, she moved to Australia in 1996 and won a historic sailing gold for her adopted country at the 2000 Olympics.
The men's shot put event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. Forty-four athletes from 34 nations competed. The event was won by Tomasz Majewski of Poland, the nation's first victory in the men's shot put since 1972. Christian Cantwell of the United States took silver, the seventh consecutive Games in which an American finished first or second.
Kenneth ("Ken") Stanley David Wilmshurst was an Olympic athlete from England.
Ken Armstrong may refer to:
Laurence Armstrong was a Canadian sprinter. He competed in three events at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Ken Bantum is an American athlete. He competed in the men's shot put at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Ken Ikeda is a Canadian former gymnast. He competed in the team final at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Emily Armstrong is a Canadian synchronized swimmer. Armstrong won a gold medal in the team artistic swimming category at the 2019 Pan American Games. She competed at the 2018 FINA World Junior Synchronised Swimming Championships where she placed 6th in solo free, 8th in solo technical, and 8th in duet technical. Armstrong was a training member of Canada's national team in the lead-up to the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics which were postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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