UIL Social Studies-People 2021-2022

Peter O'Connor

1906 won silver in long jump and climbed the flag pole and raised an Irish flag instead of British.

Jim Thorpe

1912, American Indian, wins both decathlon and pentathlon at Olympics in Sweden; later medals and honors taken away when its discovered he had played semi-pro baseball as a summer job in college

Fanny Blankers-Koen

1948: London Netherlands sprinter entered and won all four sprint events 4x100m relay, 100m, 80m hurdles, 200m

Caitlyn Jenner

1976: Montreal won gold in decathlon Transgender icon

Richard Pound

1st president of the World Anti-doping Agency

Babe Didrikson

American athlete who achieved success in golf, basketball, and track and field

Elwood Stanley Brown

American sports organizer; Active in the YMCA; Helped found the Boy Scouts in the Philippines

Yusaku Kamekura

Creator of Japan Olympic Banner

Thomas Bach

Current IOC President

Larry Nassar

Doctor for University of Michigan, gymnastics and Olympic tennis; manipulated and touched girls

Mark Spitz

During the 1972 games he set a swimming record with seven gold medals that stood until Michael Phelps received eight in 2008

Paavo Nurmi

Finland, 1500, 5K Winner; Has won 9 Olympic Gold medals in track and field

George Poage

First African American Olympian to win a medal at 1904 St. Louis games. Won two bronze medals in hurdles and sprints, first to run at University of Wisconsin.

Wilma Rudolph

First american woman to win three olympic gold medals in track and field in 1960

Nikita Kamaev

Former head of Russia's Anti-Doping agency

Evangelos Zappas

Founder of the modern Olympic games

Baron Pierre de Coubertin

Founder of the modern Olympic movement, which held its first games in Athens in 1896.

Horst Kassler

German chemist

Ludwig Guttmann

German-British neurologist who helped create the Paralympic games

Nadia Comaneci

Girl from a poor Romanian town who was the first to score a perfect ten in gymnastics.

Panagiotis Soustos

Greek Poet that promoted the idea of a modern Olympic games

Manfred Donike

Head of IOC-approved drug testing lab in West Germany Created a test to tell, and to test positive you had to have 6 times the amount of testosterone that your gender is supposed to have

Gretel Bergmann

High jumper, previously known as Lambert, Jew that reluctantly participated for the Germans in the 1936 olympics but never even got to participate, family worried about her safety if she didn't comply

Michael Johnson

In the 1996 Olympic Games, who became the first athlete to win both the 200-and-400 meter races?

Nawal El Moutawakel

Is a former Moroccan track star. She was the first Muslim woman to win the 400m hurdles, which she did at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Afterward, she returned to Morocco, became their secretary of state for youth and sport, and inspired other Moroccan and Arab women to be active in athletics. Because she did not wear a headcovering while competing, she was heavily criticized by many Muslims.

Johnny Weissmuller

Olympic swimming championship, undefeated in freestyle races, held 67 records, movie star as Tarzan

Rafer Johnson

Olympic track and field winner. Famously tackled the assassin of Robert Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan, to the ground

Jean-Claude Ganga

Organized boycott for 1976 Montreal Olympics to protest South African apartheid

Captain Wolfgang Furstner

Organized the 1936 Berlin Olympic Village. Committed suicide due to the pressure.

Tonya Harding

Planned the attack on teammate, Nancy Kerrigan, so that she could go to the olympics (Nancy was clubbed on the knee by this woman's boyfriend)

Stella Walasiewicz

Polish athlete; Won gold in the 100M in 1932 Olympics

Theodore Lewald

President of 1936 Berlin Olympic planning committee.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

President of the International Olympic Committee who "opened" the games, allowing professionals to compete openly. 7th president

Bob Beamon

Took over the world record for long jump by 2 feet in 1968

Carl Lewis

Track/Field Sprinter 4 Olympics 1984-1988-1992-1996 Won 9 Gold Medals

Vitaly Mutko

Russian Deputy Prime Minister during 2014 Winter Olympics doping scandal

Sergei Portugalov

Russian doctor that gave performance-enhancing drugs to Russian athletes

Avery Brundage

Strongly believed in the maintenance of strict amateur rules; held idealistic view about separation of sports and politics. 5th president of IOC

Cassius Clay

United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942); became known as Muhammad Ali when he converted to Nation of Islam

Monique Berlioux

Winner of gold medal for swimming at 1948 London Olympics. French

Spyridon Louis

Winner of the 1st modern Olympics marathon in 1896

Ewa Klobukowska

Won 4x100 meter relay in 1964

Dick Fosbury

Won high-jump at 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Invented the Fosbury Flop

Grigory Rodchenkov

The former head of Russia's anti doping committee. He was involved in covering up athletes' cheating. In 2016 he admitted to his wrong doings which had Russia banned from the Olympics.

Kano Jigoro

The founder of the Japanese martial art; Judo

Dr William Penny Brookes

The founder of the Wenlock Olympian Games in 1850. English Physician

Peter Ueberroth

The man behind the success of the new commercial mind-set brought to the Los Angeles Olympics was

Cathy Freeman

2000: Sydney Austrian athlete who lit the Olympic torch at the Opening Ceremony symbolized desire to reconcile with Aboriginal population won the 400m

Henri de Baillet-Latour

3rd president of IOC

Sigfrid Edstrom

4th president of the IOC

Lord Killian

6th president of the IOC

Jacques Rogge

8th president of the IOC

Richard McLaren

A Canadian lawyer who led the World Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into Russian Olympic cheating

John Ian Wing

A young Melburnian athlete came up with a new idea for the closing ceremony to have all the athletes commingle in an attempt to dissipate all the political tension

Ekaterini Thanou

Accused of using performance-enhancing drugs during 2004 Olympics

Jesse Owens

African American who won 4 gold medals at Olympic games in Germany under Hitler (a blow to Nazi notions of a master race).

Alice Coachman

African American woman -1948 Summer Olympics, only American woman to take home a gold medal

Marty Glickman

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, this Jewish-American sprinter was scratched at the last minute (along with fellow Jewish-American Sam Stoller) from the 400 meter relay team even though he wasn't injured. He was replaced by Ralph Metcalfe and Jesse Owens who went on to win the Gold.

Greg Louganis

At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, an American diver who wowed viewers, until he hit his head on the board during a complicated dive. However, he ended up winning gold.

Dutee Chand

Banned from the olympics due to hyperandrogegism - extra testosterone Had to be altered to be able to compete

Ben Johnson 1988

Canadian athlete stripped of gold medals after failing steroid test

Lawrence Lemieux

Canadian sailor. Abandoned Olympic event in order to save sailors who were capsized

Dennis Brutus

Led a campaign to exclude South Africa from the Olympics in the 1960's he believed this would change Apartheid

Emil Zatopek

Legendary Czechoslovakian runner nicknamed the "Czech locomotive". In 1948 London: Won gold in the 10,000m and silver in the 5,000m. In 1952 Helsinki: Won gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m, then the marathon

Alice Milliat

Lobbied for more inclusion of women's sports in the Olympics.

Vera Caslavska

Looked down at USSR National Anthem in 1968 during Mexico City Olympics. Czech gymnast won gold medal twice

Jean Drapeau

Mayor of Montreal that helped make Montreal host city in 1976

Eleanor Holm

Member of the U.S. Olympic swim team who was dismissed from the team for alcoholism

Norma Enriqueta Basilio

Mexican runner, first woman to ever light an olympic cauldron when she did it at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics