Great Olympians

Biographies - DE

Christopher Dean

B. 1958-07-27, Nottingham, England, Great Britain
Figure Skating - Ice Dance (1 gold, 1 silver)
1980 1984 1994 HP
Ice Dance fifth gold silver 17812.5
17812.5

Rajmond Debevec

B. 1963-03-29, Postojna, Slovenia
Shooting (1 gold, 1 bronze)
1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 HP
Small-bore Rifle, Combined sixth 9th gold fourth bronze 14000
Air Rifle sixth 9th 29th 31st 800.0224
Small-bore Rifle, Prone 9th 19th 9th 21st 322.24
15222.2624

Inge De Bruijn

B. 1973-08-24, Barendrecht, the Netherlands
Swimming (3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
1992 2000 2004 HP
50 m Free-style 8th gold gold 13056
100 m Free-style - gold silver 10400
100 m Butterfly 9th gold bronze 9120
4x100 m Free-style Relay (5th) silver bronze 1704
4x100 m Medley Relay 8th - sixth 224
34504

Maxime Omer "Max" Décugis

B. 1882-09-24, France; D. 1978-09-06
Tennis (4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1900 1906 1920 HP
Men's Singles forfeited gold rd 2 6001
Men's Doubles silver gold bronze 10650
Mixed Doubles gold gold 12600
29251

Adrianus Egbertus Willem "Ad" De Jong

B. 1882-06-21, the Netherlands; D. 1966-12-23
Fencing (5 bronze)

(70.8 HP)

Bob de Jong

the Netherlands
Speed Skating (1 gold, 1 silver)
1998 2002 2006 2010 HP
10000 m silver 15th gold bronze 16212.5
5000 m fourth 30th sixth fifth 3764.011
19976.511

(15477)

Cap. Conte Georges de la Falaise

B. 1870, France; D. 1910
Fencing (3 gold)
1900 1906 1908 HP
Épée, Individual fourth gold 7600
Épée, team gold 1200
Sabre, Individual gold 7th 11175
Sabre, individual, one hit fourth
Sabre, team 4th/5th 243.8
Épée Open fourth 1600
21819

Gaston Delaplane

B. 1882-03-06, France; D. 1977-12-13
Rowing (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) & Cycling
1906 1908 HP
Single Sculls gold 7200
Coxed Pairs (1 km) bronze 1440
Coxed Pairs (1 mile) comp. 382.5
Coxed Fours silver 2250
Sprint Heat:2 32.53
Sprint (660 yds) Heat:3
Sprint (1000 m) Heat:2
5000 m Heat:3 comp. 2.826
11308

Giuseppe Delfino

B. 1921-11-22, Italy
Fencing (4 gold, 2 silver)
1952 1956 1960 1964 HP
Épée, individual - silver gold rd2:4th 13000.8
Épée, team gold gold gold silver 11600
24600.8

Member of the Italian Epee team that won gold at Helsinki, Melbourne and Roma.

Charles J. Delporte

B. 1893-03-11, Belgium; D. 1952
Fencing (1 gold, 1 silver)
1920 1924 1928 HP
Épée, individual 10th gold sixth 8925
Épée, team silver fourth 1400
Sabre, team fourth QF 457.3
10782

(108 HP)

Eugeni Dementiev

Russia
Nordic Skiing (1 gold, 1 silver)
2006 HP
Pursuit 15 km + 15 km gold 6400
50 km freestyle, mass-start silver 4000
4 x 10 km sixth 160
10560

Elena Dementieva

B. 1981-10-15, Moskva, Russia
Tennis
2000 2004 2008 HP
Singles silver R1 gold 18720.0003
18720.0003

Fernand de Montigny

B. 1885-01-05, Belgium; D. 1974-01-02
Fencing & Hockey (1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)
1906 1908 1912 1920 1924 HP
Foil, Individual SF QF:4 sixth 949.35
Foil, team sixth silver 1130
Épée, individual SF R2:3 QF:4 SF:7 82.94
Épée, team bronze bronze gold silver 4084.3
Hockey bronze 1280
7527

A man who has made Olympic history in several ways :
Winning five medals in one event between 1906 and 1924 is not bad.
He is the only person after 1896, who has won medals in two different sports at the same Olympics (Antwerpen).
And he was the architect of the Olympic stadium (and the Ice rink) at that same Olympics !
(84.5 HP - 72.5 + 12)

Albert Demtschenko

B. 1971-11-27, Russia
Luge (1 silver)
2002 2006 2010 HP
Men's Singles fifth silver fourth 10890
10890

Deng Yaping

B. 1973-02-05, China
Table Tennis (4 gold)
1992 1996 HP
Women's Singles gold gold 16000
Women's Doubles gold gold 9600
25600

She was also singles world champion in 1991 and 1995, and doubles in 1989 and 1995. All her doubles titles were together with Qiao Hong.

Luciano De Paolis

Italy
Bobsledding (2 gold)
1968 1972 HP
Two-man gold 8000
Four-man gold 8th 4992
12992

George Frederick William de Relwyskow

B. 1887-06-18, Great Britain; D. 1942-11-09
Wrestling, Freestyle (1 gold, 1 silver)
1908 HP
Lightweight (-66.6 kg) gold 6400
Middleweight (-73 kg) silver 4000
10400

(104 HP)

Ulise Peter "Pete" Desjardins

B. 1907-04-10, St.Pierre, Canada, became an American citizen after moving to Miami Beach, Fla.; D. 1985-05-??
Diving (2 gold, 1 silver)
1924 1928 HP
Springboard (1 & 3m) silver gold 10400
Platform, plain (5 & 10m) sixth 7020
Platform gold
17420

The highboard gold at Amsterdam was originally awarded to Egyptian Farid Simaika, who had the most points. The competition was based on number of judges awarding first place however,  and the Egyptian only got silver.
In the 1924 springboard, he was the first diver ever to receive a perfect 10 score.

Donna de Varona

USA
Swimming (2 gold)
1960 1964 HP
400 m Individual Medley gold 9600
4 x 100 m Free-style Relay qual. gold 1664
100 m Butterfly fifth 1250
12514

Gail Devers

B. 1966-11-19, USA
Track and Field (2 gold)
1992 1996 2000 HP
100 m gold gold - 12800
100 m Hurdles fifth fourth SF:dnf 3909.6
4 x 100 m - gold - 1600
18309.6

The hurdles specialist managed to win the flat title twice, but was twice unlucky in the hurdles final, for which she was twice the favourite. Again the favourite in Sydney, she not even made it to the final, pulling up halfway through the semi-final with an injury.

John Devitt

Australia
Swimming (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1956 1960 HP
100 m Free-style silver gold 10400
4 x 200 m Free-style Relay gold bronze 2240
12640

Written 2000-12-17 - last modified 2002-10-28

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