Great Olympians

Biographies - PO

Claudia Poll-Ahrens

Costa Rica
Swimming (1 gold, 2 bronze)

	1996	2000	2004	HP
200 m Free-style	gold	bronze	10th	9060
400 m Free-style	fifth	bronze	9th	3720
				12780

Andrea Pollack

B. 1961-05-08, Germany
Swimming (3 gold, 3 silver)

	1976	1980	HP
100 m Butterfly	silver	silver	8000
200 m Butterfly	gold	fourth	8000
200 m Free-style	17th	-	4
4 x 100 m Free-style Relay	silver	-	1000
4 x 100 m Medley Relay	gold	gold	3200
			20204

Lukáš Pollert

B. 1970-03-24, Prague, Czech Republic
Canoeuing, slalom (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1992	1996	HP
C1	gold	silver	15600
			15600

Polyák Imre

Hungary
Wrestling - Greco-Roman (1 gold, 3 silver)

	1952	1956	1960	1964	HP
-62 kg	silver	silver	silver		34500
-63 kg				gold
					34500

Three consecutive silver medals was already a record, but then he topped it Tokyo with a gold one.

Sergei Ponomarenko

B. 1966-10-06, Russia, Soviet Union
Ice Dance (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

	1984	1988	1992	HP
pair	bronze	silver	gold	17750
				17750

Won three medals in the Ice Dance together with his partner Mariana Klimova. They were World Champions in 1989, '90 and '92.

Nina Ponomareva

competed in 1952 and '56 as

Nina Romachkova

B. 1929, Kiev, Ukraine
Track and Field (2 gold, 1 bronze)

	1952	1956	1960	HP
Discus Throw	gold	bronze	gold	34560
				34560

The first gold medal winner for the Soviet Union.

Dimitrie Popescu

Romania
Rowing (1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)

	1984	1988	1992	1996	HP
Coxed Pairs	silver	fourth	bronze		12750
Coxed Fours		silver	gold		9750
Coxless Fours				fifth	937.5
					23437.5

Alexander Popov

B. 1971-11-16, Sverdlovsk, Russia
Swimming (4 gold, 5 silver)

	1992	1996	2000	2004	HP
50 m Free-style	gold	gold	sixth	18th	20163.84
100 m Free-style	gold	gold	silver	9th	25560
4x100 m Free-style Relay	silver	silver	8th	fourth	2710.4
4x100 m Medley Relay	silver	silver	-	fourth	2640
					51074.24

World Champion at 50 and 100 m free-style in 1994.
He was stabbed in Moskva in 1997, but resumed swimming. Although living in Canberra, he has declined asking Australian citizenship because he wanted to represent Russia in Sydney.

(49424)

Frans Wilhelm "Ville" Pörhölä (-Horneman)

B. 1897-12-24, Finland; D. 1964-11-28
Track and Field (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1920	1924		1932	1936	HP
Shot Put	gold	7th				10200
Discus Throw	8th					384
Hammer Throw				silver	11th	6096
56-lb Weight Throw	9th					240
						16920

Derek Porter

B. 1967-11-02, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, represented Canada
Rowing (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1992	1996	2000	HP
Single Sculls		silver	fourth	14000
Eights	gold
				14000

Ramona Portwich

Germany
Canoeing (3 gold, 2 silver)

	1988	1992	1996	HP
K2, 500 m		gold	silver	7800
K4, 500 m	gold	silver	gold	12600
				20400

Anett Pötzsch

Germany
Figure Skating (1 gold)

	1976	1980	HP
Ladies' Singles	fourth	gold	12000
			12000

Mike Powell

B. 1963-11-10, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Athletics (2 silver)

	1988	1992	1996	HP
Long Jump	silver	silver	fifth	14850
				14850

Dorothy Poynton

competed in 1936 as

Dorothy Poynton-Hill

B. 1915-07-17, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Diving (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

	1928	1932	1936	HP
Platform	-	gold	gold	12800
Springboard	silver	-	bronze	7216
				20016

She was barely thirteen when she won her silver at Amsterdam, but the official results somehow got that originally mixed up. An attractive blonde, she opened her own aquatic club in Los Angeles.

Stanislaw Pozdnyakov

Russia
Fencing (4 gold, 1 bronze)

	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	HP
Sabre, individual		gold	R2	QF	R2	10980.362
Sabre, team	gold	gold	gold	bronze	fourth	11680
						22660.362

I had forgotten this triple medallist but Dimitri Thyskens pointed out the omission just before the Athina Olympics

Written 2002-08-25 - last modified 2002-10-30

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