Great Olympians

Biographies - AST

Polina Astakhova

B. 1936-10-30, Donetsk, Ukraine
Gymnastics (5 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)

	1956	1960	1964	HP
Individual Combined	17th	bronze	bronze	5124
Team Combined	gold	gold	gold	9600
Floor Exercises	13th	silver	silver	2006.4
Vaults	50th	sixth	-	160
Asymetrical Parallel Bars	9th	gold	gold	3240
Beam	13th	-	fourth	406.4
Team with Portable Apparatus	bronze			640
				21176.8

This seemingly fragile Russian gymnast would have won even more honours if she had not been a contemporary of Larissa Latynina. At Tokyo, she finished only 0.033pt behind Latynina in an event won by Vera Caslávská (CZE). On the assymetrical bars Caslavska seemed likely to finish first but missed a pirouette off the top bar and fell, thus allowing Astakhova to take her second individual gold medal in that event.

Igor Astapkovich

Belarus
Athletics (1 silver, 1 bronze)

	1992	1996	2000	2004	HP
Hammer Throw	silver	7th	bronze	9th	11748
					11748

Arthur Astley

Olympic Competitor nr 4326

• 1908-07-20-17:30 - Athletics (track & field) - 800 m, round one - second (39.56)
• 1908-07-21-15:00 - Athletics (track & field) - 400 m, round one - second (0.925)

John Jacob Astor

Olympic Competitor nr 3140

• 1908-04-29-14:00 - Racquets - Singles - semifinals - lost (1950)
• 1908-04-30-14:30 - Racquets - Doubles - semifinals - won (Q)
• 1908-05-01-14:30 - Racquets - Doubles - final - won (3600)

Written 2002-10-27 - last modified 2011-08-14

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