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Born | Luxembourg, Luxembourg | 7 September 1940
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Sport | Swimming |
Simone Theis (born 7 September 1940) is a Luxembourgian swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre backstroke at the 1960 Summer Olympics. [1]
Simone Osygus is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who won two silver medals and two bronze medals at the Summer Olympics.
Simone Heike Tomaschinski-Gräßer is a former field hockey defender from Germany.
Janel Simone Jorgensen, later known by her married name Janel McArdle, is an American former competition swimmer and butterfly specialist. As a 17-year-old at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, she won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with her teammates Beth Barr (backstroke), Tracey McFarlane (breaststroke), and Mary Wayte (freestyle).
Simone Cercato is a freestyle swimmer from Italy, who won the bronze medal in the men's 4×200 m freestyle event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, alongside Emiliano Brembilla, Filippo Magnini, and Massimiliano Rosolino. He made his Olympic debut in 2000.
Simone Gomes Jatobá, commonly known as Simone, is a Brazilian football coach and former player. She was appointed coach of the Brazil women's national under-17 football team in August 2019.
Poul Richard Høj Jensen "PRHJ" is a Danish sailor, boatbuilder, sailmaker and Olympic champion. Høj Jensen lives with his wife Sophia alternating in Burnham-on-Crouch and Freetown, Antigua and Barbuda.
Simone Kuhn is a female professional beach volleyball player from Switzerland, who represented her native country at the beach volleyball tournaments of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In 2004, she partnered with Nicole Schnyder and lost all three pool matches. In 2008, she played alongside Lea Schwer and again lost all pool matches. In 2012, she partnered with Nadine Zumkehr and the pair reached the round of 16 where they were eliminated by the American pair of Jennifer Kessy and April Ross who went on to win silver.
Hong Un-jong is a North Korean artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic champion and 2014 World Champion on vault. She was the first North Korean female gymnast to win a medal at the Olympics.
Simone Venier is an Italian rower - a five time Olympian. He won a silver medal in the men's quadruple sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Quadruple sculls.
Simone Estelle Schaller Kirin was an American hurdler who competed in the 80 m event at two Olympic Games. She placed fourth in 1932, and was eliminated in the semi-finals in 1936.
Simone Parodi is an Italian volleyball player, former member of the Italy men's national volleyball team, bronze medalist of the Olympic Games London 2012, World League and silver medalist of the 2013 European Championship. On club level, he plays for Italian team Prisma Volley.
Simone Vanni is an Italian Olympic foil fencer. He won a team gold medal in Athens in the 2004 Olympics.
Simone Weiler is a German swimmer who won a gold medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2002 European Aquatics Championships. She also won three bronze medals in breaststroke in 2003–2005 at short-course European championships. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 100 m breaststroke but failed to reach the final. Between 2001 and 2002 she won four national titles in breaststroke events. Around 2000–2001 she married and changed her last name from Karn to Weiler.
Simone Arianne Biles Owens is an American artistic gymnast. Her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history. She is widely regarded as the greatest gymnast of all time and one of the greatest Olympians of all time. With 11 Olympic medals, she is tied with Věra Čáslavská as the second-most decorated female Olympic gymnast, and has the most Olympic medals earned by a U.S. gymnast.
Simone Ashley Manuel is an American professional swimmer specializing in freestyle events. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won two gold and two silver medals: gold in the 100-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter medley, and silver in the 50-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. In winning the 100-meter freestyle, a tie with Penny Oleksiak of Canada, Manuel became the first Black American woman to win an individual Olympic gold in swimming and set an Olympic record and an American record. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she won a bronze medal as the anchor of the American 4×100-meter freestyle relay team.
Daniel Theis is a German professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After seven seasons in the Basketball Bundesliga where he was a four-time All Star and three-time champion, Theis signed with the Boston Celtics of the NBA where he played for four seasons before a trade brought him to the Chicago Bulls in March 2021. The Bulls traded Theis to the Houston Rockets in August 2021, who in turn traded Theis back to the Celtics in February 2022, before being traded to the Pacers in July 2022. With the Celtics, he reached the NBA Finals during his second stint with the team.
Lenika De Simone was a Spanish female artistic gymnast, who represented her nation at international competitions.
Simone Henry is a French sprinter. She competed in the women's 200 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics.