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Medal Name Hometown Sport Event 1908 London: John Garrels: Bay City: Athletics: Men's 110 meters hurdles: Men's shot put: 1912 Stockholm: Ralph Craig: Detroit: Athletics: Men's 100 meters: Men's 200 meters: 1920 Antwerp: Jackson Scholz: Buchanan: Athletics: Men's 4 × 100 meters relay: Margaret Woodbridge: Detroit: Swimming: Women's 4 × 100 ...
This Olympic Games results index is a list of links to articles containing results of each Olympic sport at the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. Years not appearing are those when the event was not held. Years in italics mean it was a demonstration sport.
The Michigan medal winners at the 1904 Olympics were: Michigan's first track and field star Archie Hahn won four Olympic gold medals. Archie Hahn – gold medals in the 60 meters, 100 meters, and 200 meters; Ralph Rose – gold medal in the shot put, silver medal in the discus, and bronze medal in the hammer throw;
He was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1982. Charles A. Baird – Baird was Michigan's first athletic director, holding the position from 1898 to 1909. He hired Fielding Yost in 1901, built the largest college athletic ground in the United States, and negotiated the school's appearance in the first Rose Bowl game.
1901 Michigan football team. 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team – In their first year under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the team compiled a perfect 11–0 record, outscored its opponents by a combined total of 550 to 0, and defeated Stanford by a 49 to 0 score in the inaugural Rose Bowl game. [6]
The last women's event added to the roster was the 3000 metres steeplechase in 2008. A total of 52 different events have been held in the men's competition. The current list comprises 23 events. Many of the discontinued events were similar to modern ones but at different lengths, especially in the steeplechasing, hurdling, and racewalking ...
Notable alumni include Ralph Craig, winner of two gold medals at the 1912 Olympics, Brian Diemer, 1984 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the steeplechase, Bill Donakowski, U.S. marathon champion in 1986, Archie Hahn, a winner of four Olympic gold medals at the 1904 and 1906 Olympics, DeHart Hubbard, the first African-American to win an ...
Michigan's track teams won six Western Conference team championships and 16 Olympic medals (including 7 gold medals) during Baird's eleven years as athletic director. Baird also presided over Michigan athletics for the school's first Western Conference football championship in 1898 and Yost's "point-a-minute" teams from 1901 to 1905.