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The Pacific island nation Nauru first competed at the Summer Olympic Games in the 1996 games in Atlanta. It is the least populated nation in the 206-member International Olympic Committee. The nation is mainly known for its weightlifting tradition and all seven athletes that had competed for Nauru at the Olympics before 2012 were weightlifters.
Water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since the second games, in 1900. A women's water polo tournament was introduced for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Hungary has been the most successful country in men's tournament, while the United States is the only team to win multiple times at the women's tournament since its introduction. Italy is the first and only country to win both the men's and women's water polo tournaments.
Egerton Marcus is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2007. As an amateur, he won the silver medal in the middleweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Simon James Law Child is a New Zealand field hockey player, who earned his first cap for the national team, The Black Sticks, in 2005 against Malaysia.
Marcus Latimer Hurley was an American cyclist who competed in the early twentieth century. He specialized in sprint cycling and won 4 gold medals in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the 2 mile race.
Marcus Ravenswaaij was a Dutch sport shooter who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kralingen and died in Rotterdam.
Marcus Ehning is a German show jumping champion, Olympic champion from 2000. He is married to Nadia Ehning. He won the Longines Global Champions Tour of Vienna Grand Prix on Plot Blue in September 2014.
Marcus Vinícius Simões Freire is a Brazilian sports official and retired volleyball player. He won a gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games and a silver at the 1984 Olympics. After retiring from competitions he became a sports functionary. He is the current Executive Director of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and a Chef de Mission of the Brazilian team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Maialen Chourraut Yurramendi is a Spanish slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2000.
Samantha Child is a New Zealand field hockey player. She has competed for the New Zealand women's national field hockey team, including for the team at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics.
Marcus Victor Jan Nyman is a Swedish retired judoka. He competed in the men's −90 kg judo event. In his olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics he was eliminated after losing his first match. In the 2016 Summer Olympics he won three of five matches and finished fifth. At the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Olympics, Nyman was elimanted in the second round. Nyman won the gold medal at the 2010 European Judo Championships and the bronze medal at the 2011 and 2016 Championships. He also finished third at the World Championships in 2021 and 2023.
Lauren Smith is an English badminton player. She competed for England in the women's doubles and mixed team events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a bronze and silver medal respectively. In 2016, she represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Marcus Baur is a German former yacht racer who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics and a trained architectural engineer.
Marcus Ellis is a British badminton player. He was the men's doubles champion in the English National Championships. Ellis and Chris Langridge won a bronze medal in the men's doubles at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, also gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. At the 2019 Minsk European Games, Ellis captured two gold medals; in the men's doubles with Langridge and in the mixed doubles event with Lauren Smith.
Marcus Cooper Walz Walz is a Spanish sprint canoeist. Born in the United Kingdom, he has competed internationally for Spain since the early 2010s. He won the gold medal in the K-1 1000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He won the silver medal in the Men's K-4 500 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade.
Rodrigo Germade Barreiro is a Spanish sprint canoeist.
William Henry Mark Paterson was a New Zealand sailor. He finished fifth in the 470 event at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and won the Cherub World Championship in 1978.
Marcus Westerlind is a Swedish sailor. He competed in the men's 470 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Marcus Thorén is a Swedish taekwondo practitioner. He competed in the men's +80 kg event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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- ↑ "Marcus Temke". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
