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The United States competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. It was the first Summer Olympics in which the athletes marched under the present 50-star flag. 292 competitors, 241 men and 51 women, took part in 147 events in 17 sports. The 1960 Summer Olympics was the first Olympics in history that was being covered by a television provider. American network CBS became the first official broadcaster of the games, by purchasing the rights to cover the Rome Olympics. The 1960 Summer Olympics also brought one of the first appearances of one of the greatest heavyweight boxers ever, Muhammad Ali. Since these Olympic Games occurred before his conversion to Islam, he fought under the name Cassius Clay.
Rainer Schmidt is an East German former ski jumper who competed from 1972 to 1976. He won the bronze medal in the individual large hill competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.
Bill Schmidt is a retired male American javelin thrower from the Pittsburgh suburb of Southview, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Helen and Louis Schmidt, and won the bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Jörg Schmidt was an East German canoe sprinter who competed in the 1980s. He won a silver medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He was born in Berlin, East Germany.
Thomas Schmidt is a German slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1994 to 2004.
Frederick Weber Schmidt is an American former competition swimmer. He was Olympic champion in 4×100 m medley in 1964, and bronze medallist in 200 m butterfly. He is a former world record-holder in men's 100-meter butterfly, holding the record from 1961 to 1962.
Alfred Lee Loomis Jr. was an American investment banker and an American sailor and Olympic champion. He won the Bermuda race twice. In 1977, he was manager of the Independence-Courageous syndicate, the yachting team that successfully defended the America's Cup that year.
Hubertus Schmidt is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the team from Germany.
Gustav Schmidt was a West German sprint canoeist, born in Duisburg, who competed in the 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds and a silver. Schmidt also finished fourth in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
Susanne Schmidt is a German rower.
Andreas Schmidt is a German former swimmer who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Juan Carlos Romero Arribas is a Guatemalan sport shooter. Romero made his official debut for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he placed twenty-sixth in men's skeet, with a score of 118 points, tying his position with five other shooters including British-born Cypriot Antonis Nikolaidis.
Yang Wang is a New Zealand sport shooter of Chinese origin. Yang represented his adopted nation New Zealand at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's 10 m air pistol. He finished only in thirty-ninth place by two points behind Germany's Florian Schmidt from the final attempt, for a total score of 571 targets.
Axel Frederik Preben Schmidt was a Brazilian sailor from Rio de Janeiro who competed in the Summer Olympic Games, the Pan American Games, the Snipe World Championships, the Star World Championships and the Lightning World Championships.
Pavel Leo Edmund Schmidt was a Slovak rower who competed for Czechoslovakia, mostly in the double sculls together with Václav Kozák. They won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and two medals at European championships in 1959 and 1961, and placed fourth at the 1962 World Rowing Championships.
Micaela Schmidt is a German rower. She competed in the women's eight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
References
- ↑ "Michael Schmidt, Jr". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
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