Olympic Metalists

Among the 45 entries are numerous bronze and silver medalists in basketball, equestrian, fencing, golf, swimming, track and field, volleyball, wheelchair, and wrestling; there are 23 gold medal winners; in women’s events, one in 100-meter and in 200-meter backstroke, one in three-meter springboard diving, and one in threeposition smallbore rifle shooting; in men’s events, two in team basketball, two in team gymnastics, one individual in horizontal bar in gymnastics, one in freestyle aerial skiing, two in butterfly, one in 800-meter freestyle relay, one in 400-meter medley, and one in 400-meter freestyle relay in swimming, one in long jump, one in 200-meter sprint, and two in 400-meter relay in track and field, one in 136-pound freestyle, one in middleweight freestyle, one in 161-pound freestyle, and one in super heavyweight Greco-Roman in wrestling; three in wheelchair events in two Paralympics and 41 in swimming during six Paralympics; youngest person in Olympic history to win individual gold medal in any sport, first Native-American woman to compete in Olympics, one of world’s fastest male sprinters in 1960s, second fastest woman sprinter in history, first American gymnast to win a gold medal in non-boycotted Olympics since 1932, first visually-impaired athlete to earn NCAA Division I scholarship, pioneer in amateur and professional basketball; one inducted into Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame at Knoxville, Tennessee, one into International Swimming Hall of Fame, and two into National Wrestling Hall of Fame, one of ten outstanding young Americans in year 2000, and one recipient of Sullivan Award.

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