West German rower Michael Reinartz, brother of Anton and Stefan Reinartz, finished fifth, and last, in the final with the coxed eights at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. With his club Kölner ...

Ralph Purchase was the coxswain for the Cal/Berkeley eight at the 1948 Olympics. Though Cal had had an indifferent season, losing twice to Washington during the year, they defeated the Huskies in the ...

Travis Mayer grew up skiing in western New York at Holiday Valley Ski Area. In high school, he moved to Killington Mountain School in Vermont to concentrate on skiing, making the US Ski Team when he ...

Paul Samson competed in both swimming and water polo at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. Samson swam in the heats of the 4x200 freestyle relay. Samson swam for the Illinois Athletic Club. He attended the ...

A member of the large Swedish team, Yngve Stiernspetz won a gold medal in the Swedish System Team competition, an event only held at the 1912 Stockholm and 1920 Antwerpen Olympics. A volunteer with ...

Forward Ville Peltonen débuted at the Finnish Championships in 1991 with HIFK. The NHL franchise San Jose Sharks drafted Peltonen in 1993, but he decided to stay with HIFK for two more seasons before ...

Steve Wood had the following podium finishes at the Flatwater World Championships: 2nd 1991 K4 10000 m (with Ramon Andersson, Clint Robinson, and Ian Rowling), 3rd 1986 K2 1000 m (with Grant Kenny).

Leo Massa played baseball at Red Bank High School in New Jersey, eventually getting a tryout with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But he turned to cross-country skiing, winning the 1958 US championship, and ...

Hermann Alker studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe, and in 1919 became an assistant there as a Regierungsbaumeister (Master Builder of the Government). In 1919 he received his doctorate ...

On leaving Cheltenham College, Philip Neame went to the RMA Woolwich and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1908 which marked the start of an outstanding military career. In December 1914 he ...

A defenseman who played for 15 years (1963-78) with EV Füssen, Rudi Thanner won six German Championships (1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1971 and 1973). He also played 430 Bundesliga matches, scoring 73 ...

Wolfgang Peters played for SC Dynamo Berlin from 1958-71, helping them win national titles from 1966-68. During the 1990s he came back and played for Berliner SC and eventually for 1. FEV Brunndöbra.