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
