Great Olympians

Biographies - WA

Anita Wachter

B. 1967-2-12, Austria
Alpine Skiing (1 gold, 2 silver)
1988 1992 1994 HP
Combined gold silver - 9400
Giant Slalom 7th silver fourth 4600
Super-G fifth 9th 9th 1240
Downhill dnf - - -
Slalom dnf - dnf -
15240

Overall World Cup Winner in 1993.

Katrin Wagner

competed in 2008 as

Katrin Wagner-Augustin

B. 1977-10-13, Brandenburg, then GDR, Germany
Canoeing (4 gold, 1 bronze)
2000 2004 2008 HP
K4 500 m gold gold gold 19200
K2 500 m gold 4800
K1 500 m fourth bronze 4160
28160

Otto Wahle

B. 1879-11-05, Austria; D. 1963-08-11
Swimming (2 silver, 1 bronze)
1900 1904 HP
100 m Freestyle (silver) 0
200 m Freestyle finalist 100
440 yds Free-style bronze 1920
880 yds Free-style fifth 4750
1000 m Freestyle silver
1 mile Free-style fourth 1200
200 m Obstacle Course silver 6000
13970

The 100 m event at Paris is not listed in all sources, but seems to have been a separate, official event (Information supplied by the IASF, according to the Hungarian authors) The event is notably completely absent in Mallon.
(196 HP)

Erick Wainaina

B. 1973-12-19, Kenya
Athletics (1 silver, 1 bronze)
1996 2000 2004 HP
Marathon bronze silver 7th 10440
10440

Jan-Ove Waldner

Sweden
Table Tennis (1 gold, 1 silver)
1992 1996 2000 2004 HP
Singles gold R16 silver fourth 18832.425
Doubles R1:2nd QF R3 QF 1034.132
19866.557

Carolyn Waldo

B. 1964-12-11, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Synchronized Swimming (2 gold, 1 silver)
1984 1988 HP
Solo silver gold 10400
Duet gold 4800
15200

Kerri Walsh

B. 1978-08-15, San Jose, CA, USA
Beach Volleyball (2 gold)
2004 2008 HP
Beach Volleyball gold gold 16000
16000

Twice together with Misty May-Treanor

Hals Walter

Switzerland
Rowing (2 gold, 1 bronze)
1924 1924 2000 2004 HP
Coxless Fours bronze 1920
Coxed Fours gold gold 9600
Eights R1:2 - 287
11807

Wang Hao

B. 1983-12-01, Changchun, China
Table Tennis (1 gold, 2 silver)
2004 2008 HP
Singles silver silver 10000
Doubles R4 39.56
Team gold 1600
11639.56

Wang Meng

China
Shorttrack (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
2006 2010 HP
500 m gold gold 12800
1000 m silver gold 10400
1500 m bronze SF:6th 2564.32
3000 m Team fourth gold 2000
27764.32

(13360)

Wang Nan

B. 1978-10-23, Fushun, China
Table Tennis (4 gold, 1 silver)
2000 2004 2008 HP
Singles gold QF silver 14146.875
Doubles gold gold 9600
Team gold 1600
28346.875

Wang Tao

China
Table Tennis (1 gold, 2 silver)

(143 HP)

Wang Yifu

B. 1960-12-04, Liaoyang, Liaoning, China
Shooting (2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 HP
Air Pistol gold silver silver gold 31200
Free Pistol bronze 8th silver sixth sixth 10454.4
41654.4

Jeremy Wariner

B. 1984-01-31, Irving, TX, USA
Athletics (3 gold, 1 silver)
2004 2008 HP
400 m gold silver 10400
4 x 400 m gold gold 3200
13600

Thomas Wassberg

Sweden
Nordic Skiing (4 gold)
1976 1980 1984 1988 HP
15 km 15th gold - - 6410
50 km - - gold dnf 6400
4 x 10 km fourth fifth gold gold 5775
30 km - fourth 14th 42nd 1616
20201

Markus Wasmeier

Germany
Alpine Skiing (2 gold)
1988 1992 1994 HP
Giant Slalom 19th dnf gold 4801.1
Super-G dnf 9th gold 4920
Downhill sixth fourth dnf 1840
Combined 7th fifth 36th 1150
12711.6

Kathryn Watt

Australia
Cycling (1 gold, 1 silver)
1992 1996 HP
Individual Pursuit silver 8th 6384
Road Race gold 9th 9840
Road Race, Time Trial fourth 2400
18624

Marshall Wayne

USA
Diving (1 gold, 1 silver)
1936 HP
Platform gold 6400
Springboard silver 4000
10400

Written 2000-12-22 - last modified 2002-10-30

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