You In-Tak had the following finishes at major championships – 1981 World Championship: 68.0 kg. Freestyle (6th); 1982 Asian Games: 68.0 kg. Freestyle (3rd).

British Cartoonist George Loraine Stampa was born in Constantinople (nowadays İstanbul) as the son of an architect. He studied at the Heatherley's School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools between ...

Klaus Glahn was by far West Germany’s best judoka in the 1960s and 1970s. He won a 1964 bronze medal team in the open class at the first Olympic appearance of judo, competing for the mixed German, and ...

Gert Frank won an Olympic bronze medal in the team time trial at the 1976 Montréal Olympics, although he was actually better known in his native Denmark as a track racer. He turned pro after the ...

Harry Glancy was attending Mercersburg Academy when he swam on the relay team which took the gold medals at the Paris Olympics. Glancy, who later competed for the Penn AC, won two AAU freestyle titles ...

This piece is about the strength and power of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic ideals and values, and the Movement’s creativity in overcoming adversity, succeeding, and ultimately thriving. The ...

Switching between welterweight and light-middleweight during his entire career, Viljo Aho reached the third round as a welterweight at the 1960 Olympics, losing to Spaniard Andrés Navarro. Besides his ...

He finished second in the 1960 Olympic bantamweight class and then won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games as a featherweight. He participated again in the Games in Munich in 1972, ...

Rolland Romero won the AAU triple jump in 1935. He was second in that event in 1932 and 1936 and third in 1933. He competed for LSU and Loyola of New Orleans. Romero also played football at Loyola. He ...

Samiya Omar bravely fought discrimination as a Muslim woman who tried to compete in athletics. After the 2008 Olympics she faced death threats and intimidation when she returned to Somalia. She moved ...

Sigmund Muenz was born in Germany and emigrated to the US at the age of three. He became a US citizen in 1892. Muenz was a civil engineer in Manhattan.

Shirley Armstrong was the second female fencer to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games, after Dorothy Dermody in 1948. Unfortunately at the 1960 Roma Olympics, Armstrong won just one of her five ...