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Born | Guayaquil, Ecuador | 23 June 1953
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Sport | Swimming |
Tamara Orejuela (born 23 June 1953) is an Ecuadorian former swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1968 Summer Olympics. [1] [2] She was the first woman to represent Ecuador at the Olympics. [3]
Water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since the second games, in 1900. A women's water polo tournament was introduced for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Hungary has been the most successful country in men's tournament, while the United States is the only team to win multiple times at the women's tournament since its introduction. Italy is the first and only country to win both the men's and women's water polo tournaments.
Marion Jones Farquhar was an American tennis player. She won the women's singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S. Championships. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.
Ecuador at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico was the nation's first appearance under the auspices of the Ecuadorian National Olympic Committee following a 44-year hiatus from the 1924 Summer Olympics. A national team of fifteen athletes competed in twenty-one events in six sports.
Karin Büttner-Janz is a German medical doctor who won world and Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics for East Germany. From 1990 to 2012, she was chief physician of clinics in Berlin, Germany. She has a foundation named Spinefoundation.
Alice Annum is a retired Ghanaian sprinter. Her personal best time in the 200 metres was 22.89 seconds, achieved at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. She was the first woman to represent Ghana at the Olympics. Since then, Alice has participated in the 1964 Olympics held in Tokyo, 1968 in Mexico and the 1972 Olympics held in Munich.
Gabriella Szabó is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s.
Yuri Alvear Orejuela is a Colombian judoka, three times World Champion in her division.
Tamara Csipes is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in Women's K-4 500 metres, and a silver medal in the Women's K-1 500 metres
Tamara Petrovna Tikhonina is a former Soviet competitive volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist.
Agnieszka Tamara Dubrawska is a Polish fencer. She competed at the 1980 and 1988 Summer Olympics.
Tamara Abalde Díaz is a Spanish basketball player, currently player for Spanish team Durán Maquinaria Ensino. She played for Spain in the 2008 Summer Games and for the Lamar Cardinals in the NCAA. She is 6 feet, one inch, and weighs 159 pounds.
Tamara Savić-Šotra is a Serbian fencer. She competed as an Independent Olympic Participant at the 1992 Summer Olympics and for FR Yugoslavia at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics, winning one of her five bouts.
Berta Betanzos Moro is a Spanish sports sailor.
Sports Reference, LLC is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro-Football-Reference.com for American football, and FBref.com for association football (soccer). They also operate a subscription based service for statistics, called Stathead. Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also provided pages for the Olympic Games and its competitors.
Eduardo Orejuela is an Ecuadorian former swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Tamara Maria Oynick is a Mexican former breaststroke and medley swimmer. She competed in four events at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Monique Bernice Rodahl, later Williams is a New Zealand swimmer. She competed in three events at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Tamara Samandeepika is a Sri Lankan sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Tamara Meijer is a Dutch judoka. She competed in the women's extra-lightweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.