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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Austria |
| Born | 24 February 1996 (age 28) [1] Hall in Tirol, Austria |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Weight | 137 lb (62 kg) |
Philomena Bair (born 24 February 1996 in Hall in Tirol) is an Austrian freestyle skier who competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The modern Olympic Games are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition, with more than 200 teams, representing sovereign states and territories, participating. By default, the Games generally substitute for any world championships during the year in which they take place. The Olympics are staged every four years. Since 1994, they have alternated between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year Olympiad.
Philomena, also known as Saint Philomena or Philomena of Rome was a virgin martyr whose remains were discovered on May 24–25, 1802, in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Three tiles enclosing the tomb bore an inscription, Pax Tecum Filumena, that was taken to indicate that her name was Filumena, the English form of which is Philomena. Philomena is the patron saint of infants, babies, and youth, and is known as "The Wonderworker".
The Battle of Chunuk Bair was a World War I battle fought between the Ottoman defenders and troops of the British Empire over control of the peak in August 1915. The capture of Chunuk Bair,, the secondary peak of the Sari Bair range, was one of the two objectives of the Battle of Sari Bair.
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Bair Island is a marsh area in Redwood City, California, covering 3,000 acres (1,200 ha), and includes three islands: Inner, Middle and Outer islands. Bair Island is part of the larger Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. It is surrounded by the Steinberger slough to the northwest and Redwood Creek to the southeast.
Charles Douglas Bair is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for 15 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons — from 1976 to 1990 — for seven teams.
Sheila Colleen Bair is an American former government official who was the 19th Chair of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2006 to 2011, during which time she shortly after taking charge of the FDIC in June 2006 began warning of the potential systemic risks posed by the growing trend of subprime-mortgage-backed bonds, and then later assumed a prominent role in the government's response to the 2008 financial crisis. She was appointed to the post for a five-year term on June 26, 2006, by George W. Bush through July 8, 2011. She was subsequently the 28th president of Washington College in Chestertown, MD, the first female head of the college in its 234-year history, a position she held from 2015 until her resignation in 2017.
Bhutan sent a delegation to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from 8–24 August 2008. This was Bhutan's seventh time participating in a Summer Olympic Games. The delegation consisted of two archers, Tashi Peljor and Dorji Dema. Neither was able to win their first round match.
Bair Badënov is a Russian archer.
RaNae Jean Bair was a javelin thrower from the United States who represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1964 and 1968. Born in San Diego, California and affiliated with the San Diego State University, she set her personal best in 1967. She later married UCLA distance runner Bob Seaman, who has gone on to be an award-winning USATF official and administrator.
R. Steven 'Steve' Bair is a Republican member of the Idaho State Senate. He represents the 31st District since 2012. He previously served in District 28 from 2006 to 2012.
Reginald Alexander O. "Rex" Norris was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. Norris was born in an Anglo-Indian family, to James and Mary. He grew up on a tea plantation in Jabalpur, which was managed by his father. In 1928, he was a member of the British Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal.
The People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia is the regional parliament of Buryatia, a federal subject of Russia. Its 66 deputies are popularly elected every five years. Half of the deputies are elected through a proportional system, and the other half are elected in single-member constituencies with majorities. Independent deputies are self-nominated.
Elizabeth Anne Esther "Liz" Ferris was a British diver. She was the third of four children to Roy Ferris, a dairyman and Dorothy Philomena. Raised in central London, she attended Francis Holland School and was a member of the Mermaids Swimming Club which was notable for training female athletes for the Olympics. Ferris won a bronze Olympic medal in the women's 3 metre springboard event at the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics.
Philomena is a 2013 drama film directed by Stephen Frears, based on the 2009 book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by journalist Martin Sixsmith. The film stars Judi Dench as Philomena Lee, an elderly woman who has been searching for her son for 50 years, and Sixsmith's efforts to help her find him.
Michael Anthony Hess was an Irish-born American lawyer, deputy chief legal counsel and later chief legal counsel to the Republican National Committee (RNC) in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Philomena Mbete Mwilu is a Kenyan lawyer and judge, who has served as the Deputy Chief Justice of Kenya and Vice President of the Supreme Court of Kenya since 28 October 2016. Following the retirement of Chief Justice David Maraga, and before Martha Koome was appointed as the Chief Justice, she served as Acting Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya from 11 January 2021 to 19 May 2021, making her the first woman to hold that office.
The American Samoa , recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), represented by the National Olympic Committee of American Samoa (ASANOC), competed at the Games of the III Youth Olympiad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 6 to 18, 2018.
Thelonius "Theo" Bair is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club AJ Auxerre and the Canada national team.
Stepanida Artakhinova is a Russian Paralympic archer. She competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Team compound open, winning a bronze medal with her teammate, Bair Shigaev.
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