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| Nationality | American |
| Born | June 17, 1876 |
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| Sport | Gymnastics |
William Friedrich (born June 17, 1876, date of death unknown) was an American gymnast. [1] He competed in four events at the 1904 Summer Olympics. [2]
Friedrich Adolf "Fritz" Traun was a German athlete and tennis player. Born into a wealthy family, he participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in men's doubles. He committed suicide after being accused of fathering a child out of wedlock.
Michael Friedrich Möllenbeck was a German discus thrower.
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.
Erich Borchmeyer was a German athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
Karl-Friedrich Haas was a West German athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany. He competed for West Germany in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Hans Geister, Günther Steines and Heinz Ulzheimer. Four years later he competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia and won a silver in the individual 400 metres. His son Christian Haas was also an Olympic competitor.
Leopold Friedrich was an Austrian weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the light-heavyweight class.
Friedrich "Fritz" Waller was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. He won the gold medal in the two-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.
Gerald Click "Click" Schreck was an American sailor and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he received a gold medal in the Dragon class as crew member on the boat Williwaw.
Francesco Friedrich is a German bobsledder who has been active since 2006. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, he and his brakeman Thorsten Margis tied with Canada's Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz for the gold medal in the two-man competition. Friedrich also won gold outright in the four-man event alongside Margis, Candy Bauer and Martin Grothkopp, making Friedrich the fifth German pilot to win two-man and four-man golds at the same Games, after Andreas Ostler in 1952, Meinhard Nehmer in 1976, Wolfgang Hoppe in 1984 and André Lange in 2006. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, Friedrich and Margis again won the gold medal with both sleighs. Friedrich previously competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the doubles and fours and finished in eighth and tenth place, respectively.
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 Olympic Games and its competitors.
Thorsten Margis is a German bobsledder.
William Spencer was an American middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 1500 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Friedrich Janke is a German long-distance runner. He competed in the 5000 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.
William Comins was an American athlete. He competed in the men's long jump at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Friedrich "Fritz" Wilhelm Braun, also commonly known simply as Fritz is a Brazilian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Friedrich Walter was an Austrian ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
Hans Friedrich was an Austrian gymnast. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics.
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 1991.
Friedrich von Oesterley was a German equestrian. He competed in the individual dressage event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Friedrich von Grote was a German equestrian. He competed in the individual jumping at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
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