Summer Olympics

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Letitia Vriesde - Career
... She started running in Suriname but after her National Olympic Committee failed to send her to the 1984 Summer Olympics ... gradually improved, competed in the 800 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and broke into the highest echelons of her event in 1991, when she reached the finals of both 800 m and 1500 m at the ... but has never managed to reach an Olympic final ...
Benin At The 1980 Summer Olympics
... Benin competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR ... The nation returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1976 Summer Olympics ...
Timeline of Germany At The Winter Olympics - 1924 - 1948
... governments by now, were not invited to the 1920 Summer Olympics ... While all other banned nations except Germany were invited again for the 1924 Summer Olympics, held for the second time in Pierre de Coubertin's home town of Paris, and for the 1924 Winter ... was not present in Chamonix for the first Winter Olympics ...
Anita Lonsbrough - Swimming Career
... At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, on 27 August 1960, at the age of 19, she won gold in the 200 m breaststroke in 249.5 ahead of West Germany's Wiltrud Urselmann (250.0), setting a new world record ... She would also be the last British woman to win Olympic gold in swimming until Rebecca Adlington gained the gold in the 2008 Summer Olympics, 48 years later ... At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she came seventh in the 400 m individual medley ...
Gymnastics At The 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's Team, Free System
... a free system was an artistic gymnastics event held as part of the Gymnastics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme ... of the event, which would only be held again at the 1920 Summer Olympics ...

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