Personal information | |
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Nationality | Greek |
Born | Rethymno, Greece | 23 October 1939
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Sport | Athletics |
Event | Javelin throw |
Myron Anyfantakis (born 23 October 1939) is a Greek athlete. He competed in the men's javelin throw at the 1960 Summer Olympics. [1]
Myron of Eleutherae was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Natural History, a Latin encyclopedia by Pliny the Elder, a scholar in Ancient Rome, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher.
The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad and commonly known as Antwerp 1920, were an international multi-sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
Robert Eugene Richards was an American athlete, minister, and politician. He made three U.S. Olympic Teams in two events: the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter and as a decathlete in 1956. He won gold medals in pole vault in both 1952 and 1956, becoming the first male two-time champion in the event in Olympic history.
Meldrick Taylor is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 2002. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the IBF junior welterweight title from 1988 to 1990, and the WBA welterweight title from 1991 to 1992. As an amateur, Taylor won a gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Myron Sidney Kopelman, known professionally as Myron Cope, was an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster. He is best known for being "the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers".
The Discobolus by Myron is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus. Its Greek original in bronze lost, the work is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, which is cheaper than bronze, such as the Palombara Discobolus, the first to be recovered, and smaller scaled versions in bronze.
The men's discus throw was one of two throwing events on the Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. The discus throw was the fourth event held. It was contested on 6 April. 9 athletes competed, including one each from France, Sweden, the United States, and Great Britain as well as three Greeks and two Danes.
Julian Myron Brown is an American former professional basketball player. At 6'3", 180 lb (82 kg) shooting guard, he played one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) before playing around the world.
Myron L. Rolle is an American neurosurgeon and former professional football safety. He played college football at Florida State, and was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL draft. He attended the Florida State University College of Medicine, completed his neurosurgery residency at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital and now is the pediatric neurosurgery fellow at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St Petersburg, Florida.
Myron Bruce Bradley, known as Bruce Bradley, is a retired water polo player from the United States, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1968. He won the bronze medal with the Men's National Team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. In 1984, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. Bradley was born in Los Angeles, California, and is now living in Long Beach, California.
Richard Dennis Hanley was an American competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder.
Myron Willis Roderick was an American wrestler, college coach, and college athletics administrator. As a wrestler in college, he was a three-time All-American and two-time NCAA Wrestling national champion. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in freestyle wrestling. As a wrestling coach at Oklahoma State, Roderick introduced recruiting on a major scale in the sport of wrestling. Oklahoma State would win seven team NCAA Championships while he was head coach. Roderick also established the foundation of what is now USA Wrestling.
Ian Myron Quartermain, is an Australian former sailor who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Sports Reference, LLC is an American sports statistics company that operates databases of several sports. They include Pro Football Reference for American football, Baseball Reference for baseball, Basketball Reference for basketball, Hockey Reference for ice hockey, FBref for association football (soccer), and pages for college football and basketball. Sports Reference also operate the online sports trivia game Immaculate Grid and the statistics-based subscription service Stathead. From 2008 to 2020 the Web site included Olympic Games statistics from the first Games to the most recent.
The 1921 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1921 college football season. In its second season under head coach Myron E. Witham, the team compiled a 4–1–1 record, finished second in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 65 to 63.
The 1922 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1922 college football season. In its third season under head coach Myron E. Witham, the team compiled a 4–4 record, finished sixth in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 79 to 56.
The 1927 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1927 college football season. Led by eighth-year head coach Myron E. Witham, Colorado compiled an overall record of 4–5 with a mark of 4–4 in conference play, tying for sixth place in the RMC.
The 1928 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1928 college football season. Led by ninth-year head coach Myron E. Witham, Colorado compiled an overall record of 5–1 with an identical mark in conference play, placing second in the RMC.
Konstantinos Anyfantakis is a Greek professional football manager.
Veria 1960 Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Veria, Greece. It was founded in 2018. It plays its home matches at the Veria Municipal Stadium.