Larisa Semyonovna Latynina is a Soviet former artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 individual Olympic medals and four team medals. She holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals by a female gymnast with nine. Her total of 18 Olympic medals was a record for 48 years. She held the record for individual event medals for over 52 years,winning 14. She is credited with helping to establish the Soviet Union as a dominant force in gymnastics.
He Ying is an archer from the People's Republic of China who has competed at three Summer Olympics.
Park Sung-hyun is an archer from South Korea who competed in two Olympic Games,winning three gold medals. Park made her international archery debut in 2001,winning the women's recurve title at that year's World Archery Championships. Her Olympic debut came at the 2004 Summer Olympics,where she won gold medals in both the women's individual and women's team events. She won two further medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics,achieving her third Olympic gold in the women's team event before earning the silver medal as the runner-up in the women's individual event.
Kim Soo-nyung is a former member of the South Korean Olympic archery team in 1988,1992,and 2000.
Edoardo Mangiarotti was an Italian fencer. He won a total of 39 Olympic titles and World championships,more than any other fencer in the history of the sport. His Olympic medals include one individual gold,five team golds,five silver,and two bronze medals from 1936 to 1960,making him the most decorated Italian Olympian of all time and tied for the tenth-most decorated Olympian of all time.
Mary Alice Bradburne is an American former competition swimmer,two-time Olympic gold medalist,and television sports commentator. During her international swimming career,Wayte won ten medals in major international championships,including four golds.
Singapore has sent athletes to the celebration of the Olympic Games since 1948,when it was established as a separate British crown colony from the Straits Settlements just over three months before the commencement of the 1948 Summer Olympics. It continued to send a team to the Games until 1964 when the Singaporean delegation competed with Malaysia,which sent a combined team.
China's participation in the Olympic games is relatively recent. The People's Republic of China sent its first full athletic delegation to the Summer Olympic Games in the 1984 Summer Olympics which was held in Los Angeles,United States.
Brazil sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing,China,in August 2008. Brazilian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games since 1920,except the 1928 Summer Olympics. The country is represented by the Brazilian Olympic Committee. Brazil headed to the Beijing Games with its largest Olympic delegation at the time,277 athletes,including 132 women.
Lee Eun-kyung is a South Korean archer and Olympic champion.
Valentyna Ksenofontivna Rastvorova was a Ukrainian who was a Soviet fencer who competed in the 1956,1960,and 1964 Olympics in the individual foil and team foil events. She won an individual silver medal and team gold medal in 1960,and a team silver medal in 1964. She also won six gold and two silver medals at the world championships of 1956–67.
The People's Republic of China,the previous host of the 2008 Olympics at Beijing,competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,the United Kingdom,between 27 July and 12 August 2012. This was the nation's ninth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1952. A total of 396 Chinese athletes,171 men and 225 women,were selected by the Chinese Olympic Committee to compete in 23 sports. For the fourth time in its Olympic history,China was represented by more female than male athletes.
Son Yeon Jae KTM is a retired South Korean individual rhythmic gymnast. She is a former member of the South Korean national gymnastics team,based in Taereung,Seoul. Son is the 2014 Asian Games All-around Champion,the 2010 Asian Games All-around bronze medalist,three-time Asian Championships All-around Champion. She is the first and only South Korean individual rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships,FIG World Cup series,Universiade and the Asian Games.
Aisuluu Tynybekova is a Kyrgyz freestyle wrestler. She won the silver medal in the women's 62 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo,Japan. She also competed in the women's 63 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics,the first woman to wrestle for Kyrgyzstan in the Olympics. A legal dispute threatened to prevent Tynybekova from competing in London,but the case was delayed until after the Games. Tynybekova was eliminated in the 1/8 finals by Henna Johansson.
Suma Shirur is a former Indian shooter who competed in the 10 metre air rifle event. She is a joint world record holder in the event,having scored the maximum of 400 points in the qualification round,which she achieved at the 2004 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuala Lumpur. In 2003,she was awarded the Arjuna Award by the government of India. She is currently the High Performance Coach of the Indian Jr. Rifle Shooting Team. She is also the coach of 2020 Paralympics women's SH1 10m rifle gold and women's SH1 50m 3-position rifle bronze medalist Avani Lekhara On 30 November 2022,she was conferred the Dronacharya Award by the 15th President of India,Droupadi Murmu.
Chang Hye-jin is a South Korean former recurve archer. A two-time Olympic gold medalist,Chang was the Olympic champion in both the women's individual and women's team events at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She is also a former number one-ranked recurve archer,having headed the World Archery Rankings between 2017 and 2019.
An Se-young is a South Korean badminton player from Gwangju,who won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event. She was named 2019’s Most Promising Player of the Year and 2023's Female Player of the Year by the BWF. She won the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships,making history as the first Korean women's singles player to win the World Championships title. She then clinched the women's singles gold medal at the 2022 Asian Games. An was also a part of South Korea’s gold medal winning teams at the 2022 Uber Cup and at the 2022 Asian Games.
Kiyou Shimizu is a Japanese karateka competing in the women's kata event. She won the silver medal in the women's kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,Japan. Shimizu is also a two-time gold medalist at the World Karate Championships and a three-time gold medalist at the Asian Games.
Karin Miyawaki is a Japanese fencer. She has won medals at several editions of the Asian Fencing Championships and,in 2014,she won one of the bronze medals in the women's team foil event at the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon,South Korea.
Misaki Emura is a Japanese fencer. She is a two-time gold medalist in the women's sabre event at the World Fencing Championships. She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2024 Asian Fencing Championships held in Kuwait City,Kuwait.
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