Viviane Dorsile (born 1 June 1967 in Sainte Anne, Guadeloupe) is a French athlete who specialises in the 800 meters and the 4 x 400 meter relay. Dorsile competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics.
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Mary Teresa Slaney is an American retired middle-distance runner. During her career, she won gold medals in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at the 1983 World Championships and was the world-record holder in the mile, 5000 meters and 10,000 meters. In total, she set 17 official and unofficial world records, and she was the first woman to break 4:20 for the mile. She also set 36 U.S. national records at distances ranging from 800 meters to 10,000 meters, and has held the U.S. record in the 2000 meters and 3000 meters since the early 1980s, while her 1500 meters record stood for 32 years and her mile record stood for 38 years. In 2003, she was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.
Hector ("Hec") Monroe Dyer was an American athlete, winner of a gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Darold Williamson is a retired American track athlete. He ran the anchor leg on the US gold medal 4x400 meter relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Kristina Ann Kowal is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. Kowal represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, winning the silver medal in the 200-meter breaststroke. She was the first American woman to win a world championship title in the 100-meter breaststroke.
The People's Republic of the Congo competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after boycotting the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Cameroon competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. David Njitock was the lone representative for Cameroon, placing 7th in the 100 meter, and 5th in the 200 meter runs.
John Frederick Hencken is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Hencken won five Olympic medals during his career, including three golds.
Catherine Plewinski is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from France, who won two bronze medals at the Summer Olympics. She first did so in Seoul at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the 100 m freestyle. Four years later she captured the bronze in the 100 m butterfly at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
The Tianjin Olympic Centre, often colloquially referred to as the Water Drop, is a sports complex with a multi-use stadium named Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium in Tianjin, China. Construction started in August 2003 and was completed in August 2007. It was the home stadium of Tianjin Jinmen Tiger.
Iceland competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
Grenada first competed at the Olympic Games in 1984, and has participated in each Summer Olympic Games since then. Grenada won its first medal in 2012, a gold in athletics. The Grenada Olympic Committee was formed in 1984 and recognized in the same year.
Bahrain has competed in 10 Summer Olympic Games. They have never competed in the Winter Olympic Games.
Richard Alan Schroeder is an American former competition swimmer who was a breaststroke specialist and two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Dannette Louise Young-Stone is a former American track and field athlete. She won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul as a member of the 4 × 100 metres relay team. Four years later at the 1992 Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, she won a silver medal in the 4 × 400 meters relay. She is an alumnus of Alabama A&M University, where she won the Division II track title in the 100 and 200 meters three straight years, as well as running anchor on the 4 × 100 meters relay team at Alabama A&M.
Canada has participated eleven times in the Summer Paralympic Games and in all Winter Paralympic Games. They first competed at the Summer Games in 1968 and the Winter Games in 1976.
Viviane Jacques is a Brazilian handball player. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where the Brazilian team placed 8th, and also at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Viviane Kretzmann Bahia is a female water polo player of Brazil.
Viviane Gouverneur is a French former freestyle swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Viviane Eichelberger Jungblut is a Brazilian swimmer.
Viviane Okoula is a Congolese handball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
