Great Olympians

Biographies - GU


Gu Jun

B. 1975-01-03, Wuxi, China
Badminton (2 gold)
1996 2000 HP
Women's Doubles gold gold 16000
16000

Winner of the Ladies' Doubles at Atlanta and Sydney, twice together with Ge Fei.


Joseph Guillemot

B. 1899-10-01, France; D. 1975-03-09
Track and Field (1 gold, 1 silver)
1920 HP
5000 m gold 6400
10000 m silver 4000
Cross-Country dnf 5*10-5
Cross-Country, Team dnf -
10400

(104 HP)


Gulyás-Köteles Erszebet

Hungary
Gymnastics (1 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)

(70 HP)


Guo Jingjing

China
Diving (4 gold, 2 silver)
1996 2000 2004 2008 HP
Platform fifth 1000
Springboard silver gold gold 25200
Synchronized Springboard silver gold gold 18900
45100


Hasan Güngör

B. 1934-07-05, Acipayam, Denizli, Turkey
Wrestling Freestyle (1 gold, 1 silver)
1960 1964 HP
Middleweight gold silver 15600
15600


Koji Gushiken

B. 1956-11-12, Japan
Gymnastics (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)

(*) the silver medal at the vault was shared by 4 gymnasts (a.o. Li Ning)
(105 HP)


Sven Thomas "Tommy" Gustafson

B. 1959-12-28, Sweden
Speed Skating (3 gold, 1 silver)
1980 1984 1988 1992 HP
5000 m 12th gold gold 13th 12859.2
10000 m 12th silver gold - 10440
1500 m 7th - - - 400
500 m - 36th - - -
23699.2

Although the 10000 m was his speciality, he had to let the gold at Sarajevo to Igor Malkov by just 0.05 seconds. On the other hand, he took the gold at 5000 m (Malkov's specialty) by 0.02 seconds.
His wife Elizabeth was skipper of the Swedish Curling team that won bronze at that sport's first (official) Olympic appearance at Nagano.


Toini Gustafsson

B. 1938-01-17, Suomussalmi, Oulu, Finland, representing Sweden
Cross-Country Skiing (2 gold, 2 silver)
1964 1968 HP
5 km sixth gold 7040
10 km eighth gold 6656
3 x 5 km relay silver silver 2000
15696


Torsten Gutsche

Germany
Canoeing (3 gold, 1 silver)
1992 1996 HP
K2, 500 m gold gold 9600
K2, 1000 m gold silver 7800
17400

Partner in K2 of Kay Bluhm.


Güttler Károly

Hungary
Swimming (2 silver)
1988 1992 1996 2000 HP
100 m Breaststroke silver 9th fourth 9th 6512
200 m Breaststroke - fifth silver - 5000
4 x 100 m Medley Relay 16th - sixth fifth 411.6
11923.6


Brice Guyart

France (2 gold)
2000 2004 HP
Foil, Individual R2 gold 8000.85
Foil, Team gold fifth 1850
9850.85


Written 2002-08-15 - last modified 2002-10-31

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