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Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Nelson Diebel: Swimming: Men's 100 meter breaststroke: July 26 ... Gold: United States women's national soccer team. Nicole Barnhart;
Claiborne subsequently competed as a runner at the Special Olympics of 1970, [4] where she received her first medal as an athlete. [2] She has completed over 25 marathons and has placed in the top 100 women finishers of the Boston Marathon twice. [6] In 2000, Claiborne's life was the subject of "The Loretta Claiborne Story", a television film. [6]
Fencer Jackie Dubrovich, 29, from Maplewood, won a gold medal in women’s foil fencing. Swimmer Nic Fink, 31, from Morristown, earned a gold medal in mixed 4×100-meter medley relay; silver medal ...
Kathryn Elizabeth Moon (née Nageotte; [2] [3] [4] born June 13, 1991) is an American pole vaulter. [5] [6] She won gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships (shared with the Australian Nina Kennedy), and silver medals at the 2022 World Indoor Championships [7] and the 2024 Summer Olympics.
William Dean Johnson (March 30, 1960 – January 21, 2016) was an American World Cup alpine ski racer.By winning the downhill at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Johnson became the first American male to win an Olympic gold medal in alpine skiing and the first racer not from an Alpine country to win an Olympic downhill race.
Swimmer Michael Phelps and President George W. Bush on August 10, 2008, at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing.Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. [11] [12] Dara Torres is the third-most decorated female American Olympic athlete after Jenny Thompson and Katie Ledecky, celebrated not only for her athletic achievements but also for defying age norms in competitive sports.
Mead returned gold to Team USA in the men's coxless four rowing race after 64 years, and Ledecky is Team USA's most decorated female swimmer of all time. ... Thursday that gold medal winners Katie ...
Ledecky won her second gold medal of the Olympics and her seventh of all time in the 800-meter freestyle. Her six individual gold medals are the most of any female Olympic swimmer and female US Olympian, and the second-most of all Olympic swimmers behind Michael Phelps. She became the first swimmer to win a distance event three times in a row ...