Michelle Claire Edwards is a South African badminton player.
The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XI Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Sapporo, Japan, from 3 to 13 February 1972. A total of 1,006 athletes representing 35 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in 35 events from 10 different sports and disciplines.
Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics, was held from 4 to 12 February. Eight events were contested at Makomanai Open Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. This was the first Olympics at which electronic times were recorded to the hundredth of a second.
Torsten Voss is a former East German track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.
Hildegard Falck is a retired West German runner. At the 1972 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 800 m and a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay with West German team. In the 800 m final she finished 0.1 seconds ahead of Nijolė Sabaitė and Gunhild Hoffmeister.
Switzerland competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. 186 competitors, 178 men and 8 women, took part in 98 events in 19 sports.
Sylvia Úrsula Poll Ahrens is an Olympic medalist and a national record holding swimmer from Costa Rica. At the 1988 Olympics, she won Costa Rica's first Olympic medal, when she garnered the silver in the women's 200 free. As of 2009, she and her younger sister Claudia are Costa Rica's only Olympic medalists. Sylvia also swam for Costa Rica at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Czechoslovakia competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 121 competitors, 94 men and 27 women, took part in 66 events in 14 sports.
Franz-Josef Kemper is a German athlete, Olympian, and official. He achieved his greatest success as a middle-distance runner in the 1960s and 1970s.
Hanne Schenk is a Swiss bobsledder who has competed since 2007. She finished tenth in the two-woman event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Sylvia Rose is a German rowing coxswain.
Jutta Ploch is a German rower. From 1983, she competed under her married name Jutta Schenk.
Hendrik "Henk" Schenk is an American former wrestler who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Sylvia Eichner is a former East German swimmer who won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics. She also won a gold medal in the same event at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships, setting a new world record.
Philipp Schenk was a German ice hockey player who competed for the German national team at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He played club hockey for SC Riessersee.
Sylvia Roll is a German former volleyball player. She was part of the Germany women's national volleyball team. In 1996 and 1997 she became the German Volleyball Player of the Year.
Sylvia Margaret Hume, also known by her married name Sylvia Sinclair, is a New Zealand swimmer.
Christa Merten, was a West German athlete and Olympian who competed for West Germany in the 1960s and 70s in the 800, 1500 and 3000 meter runs and in cross country running. She committed suicide in 1986.
Heinz-Günter Schenk is a German athlete. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Hans Schenk was a German athlete. He competed in the men's javelin throw at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
