Canada competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 97 competitors, 79 men and 18 women, took part in 69 events in 12 sports.
Kathleen Joan Heddle, is a Canadian rower. Heddle and her long-time rowing partner Marnie McBean were the first Canadians to win three Olympic gold medals.
Steffen Zesner is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who won a total number of four medals as a relay member at the Summer Olympics. His best result was a silver medal, on the 4×200 metres freestyle, alongside Uwe Dassler, Thomas Flemming, and Sven Lodziewski in Seoul, South Korea. He swam for SC Dynamo Berlin.
Carrie Anne Tollefson is an American middle distance runner who was on the US 2004 Summer Olympic team.
Edward John Dawson was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Rachel Dawson is an American field hockey player. A midfielder / back, she earned her first senior career cap vs Australia on June 5, 2005. Dawson was named to the U.S. field hockey team for the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics, with the team finishing in 8th and 12th respectively.
Thomas Jackson "Tom" Charlton Jr. is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.
Thomas Möllenkamp is a retired rower from West Germany. He competed at the 1984 Olympics in the coxless pair and at the 1988 Olympics in the eight and finished in fourth and first place, respectively.
Thomas Ahrens is a retired German coxswain who was most successful in the eights. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, a world title in 1962, and two European titles in 1963 and 1964.
Joel Ladd Thomas is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
Eric Ashley Thomas is a male hurdler from the United States, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He set his personal best (47.94) in the men's 400 m hurdles event on June 13, 2000 in Rome, Italy.
Thomas Welsh is an American rower. He finished 5th in the Men's eight at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Mie Østergaard Nielsen is a Danish competitive swimmer who holds the Danish record in several backstroke events.
Michael "Mike" Dawson is a New Zealand slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2004.
Glen Wilson Dawson was an American runner. He represented the United States in the men's 3000-meter steeplechase at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics, qualifying for the final both times.
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2002.
The Refugee Olympic Team competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016, as independent Olympic participants. In March 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach declared that the IOC would choose five to ten refugees to compete at the Rio Olympics, in the context of the "worldwide refugee crisis", of which the European migrant crisis is a prominent part. The athletes competed under the Olympic Flag. Initially, they were labeled "Team of Refugee Olympic Athletes", with the IOC country code ROA, but this was updated to Refugee Olympic Team with the country code ROT.
Bianca Farella is a Canadian rugby player. In 2016, she was named to Canada's first ever women's rugby sevens Olympic team.
Peter Dawson is an Australian former swimmer. He competed in three events at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Thomas Paradiso is an American lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the July 2008 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim with the lightweight men's eight. At the August 2008 Summer Olympics, he came eleventh with the lightweight coxless four.
