Great Olympians

Biographies - RAD

Evgenia Radanova

Bulgaria
Shorttrack (2 silver, 1 bronze) & Cycling

	2002	2004	2006	2010	HP
500 m	silver		silver	QF: 3rd	8091
1000 m	fifth		17th	heats:4th	1004.033
1500 m	bronze		8th	7th	3216
					11911
Sprint		12th			600
					12911.033

(12420)

Thomas Raddall

Olympic Competitor nr 3263

• 1908-07-09-10:00? - Shooting - Free Rifle, team, day one
• 1908-07-10-10:00? - Shooting - Free Rifle, team, day two - sixth (120)

Erich Rademacher

B. 1901-01-09, Magdeburg, Germany - D. 1979-04-03, Stuttgart, Germany
Swimming (1 silver) & Waterpolo (1 gold, 1 silver)

	1928	1932	HP
200 m Breaststroke	silver		6000
Waterpolo	gold	silver	5200
			11200

Bojar Radev

Bulgaria
Wrestling - Greco-Roman (2 gold)

	1964	1968	HP
-97 kg	gold	gold	19200
			19200

Paul Radmilovic

B. 1886-03-05, Wales from a Greek father and an Irish mother. D.1968-09-29
Waterpolo & Swimming (4 gold)

	1906	1908	1912	1920	1924	1928	bonus	HP
Waterpolo		gold 2400	gold 3200	gold 3200	R1 28.7	fourth 800	9628.7	19257.4
100 m Free-style	fourth	SF	R2:5					1290
400 m Free-style	fifth	SF:3						1315
1500 m Free-style		SF						246.12
1 mile Free-style	comp.
4x200 m Free-style Relay		gold						1200
Swimming	1950.12	2133.75	17.2					4101.07
								23358.47

He competed in five Olympics and the 1906 interim Games. He was a member of the winning English waterpolo side at London, where he also won a gold medal as a member of the 4x200m freestyle team. He captained the gold medal teams at Stockholm and Antwerpen. He was still in the British team in 1928, when they finished fourth (ahead of the USA, with Johnny Weismuller)
His versatility was enormous. He won nine English swimming titles, from 100 yards to 5 miles. There were 20 years between his first win and the last. He was also a good golfer and an outstanding footballer, and was still swimming a quarter of a mile each day at the age of 78.

Olympic Competitor nr 2779

• 1906-04-24-10:00 - Swimming - 100 m Free-style, semi-finals - first (Q)
• 1906-04-24-10:30 - Swimming - 1 mile Free-style - DNF (0.12)
• 1906-04-25-11:30 - Swimming - 100 m Free-style, final - fourth (1200)
• 1906-04-27-10:00 - Swimming - 400 m Free-style - fifth (750)
• 1908-07-14-16:45 - Swimming - 400 m Free-style, round one - first (Q)
• 1908-07-15-11:00 - Swimming - 400 m Free-style, semifinals - third (615)
• 1908-07-17-16:15 - Swimming - 100 m Free-style, round one - second, equal first time (Q)
• 1908-07-20-11:00 - Swimming - 100 m Free-style; semifinals - AC (72.75)
• 1908-07-21-14:30 - Swimming - 1500 m Free-style, round one - first (Q)
• 1908-07-22-16:00 - Waterpolo - match three - won (2400)
• 1908-07-23-15:45 - Swimming - 1500 m Free-style, semifinals - DNS (246)
• 1908-07-24-14:30 - Swimming - 4x200 m Free-style Relay, semifinals - first (Q)
• 1908-07-24-16:20 - Swimming - 4x200 m Free-style Relay, final - first (1200)
• 1912-07-06-19:00 - Swimming - Men's 100 m Free-style, round one - second (Q)
• 1912-07-07-13:30 - Swimming - Men's 100 m Free-style, quarterfinals - fifth (17.2)
• 1912-07-07-15:15 - Waterpolo - round one, match one - won (Q)
• 1912-07-11-20:00 - Waterpolo - semifinal, match two - won (Q)
• 1912-07-13-19:50 - Waterpolo - final - won (3200)

Radóczy Károly

Olympic Competitor nr 4359

• 1908-07-21-11:00 - Athletics (track & field) - 200 m, round one - first (Q) (ran alone)
• 1908-07-22-10:15 - Athletics (track & field) - 200 m, semifinals - third (68.25)
• 1912-07-06-14:45 - Athletics (track & field) - 800 m, round one - DNF

Dumitru Raducanu

B. 1967-07-19, Bucuresti, Romania
Rowing (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

	1984		1992		2000	HP
Coxed Pairs	silver		bronze			9020
Coxed Fours			gold			4800
Eights					sixth	320
						14140

Radvány Ödön

Olympic Competitor nr 4472

• 1908-07-23-10:00 - Wrestling, Greco-Roman - Lightweight (-66.6 kg), round one - won (Q)
• 1908-07-23-12:00 - Wrestling, Greco-Roman - Lightweight (-66.6 kg), round two - won (Q)
• 1908-07-23-14:00 - Wrestling, Greco-Roman - Lightweight (-66.6 kg), quarterfinals - lost (574)
• 1912-07-08-14:00 - Greco-Roman Wrestling - Lightweight (-67.5 kg), round one - won by fall
• 1912-07-09-14:00 - Greco-Roman Wrestling - Lightweight (-67.5 kg), round two - won by fall
• 1912-07-11-09:30 - Greco-Roman Wrestling - Lightweight (-67.5 kg), round three - lost
• 1912-07-13-09:30 - Greco-Roman Wrestling - Lightweight (-67.5 kg), round four - won by disq.
• 1912-07-14-08:30 - Greco-Roman Wrestling - Lightweight (-67.5 kg), round five - won by fall
• 1912-07-14-13:30 - Greco-Roman Wrestling - Lightweight (-67.5 kg), round six - won by fall
• 1912-07-14-16:00? - Greco-Roman Wrestling - Lightweight (-67.5 kg), round seven - lost (both) - eliminated (2400)
• 1924 780
• bonus 375.4

Written 2001-01-29 - last modified 2011-08-13

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