German sculptor Alexander Oppler was of Jewish descent and was educated in the Academies of Fine Art in München, Brussels and Paris. He later belonged to the Berlin Secession and the München Secession ...

Middle-distance runner Barbara Wieck married soccer Olympic Champion Gerd Kische but they later divorced. She won the European Indoors in 1969 and placed third at the European Cup in 1970. Nationally ...

Figure skater Margit Senf paired with Peter Göbel at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games. They placed 13th, and also finished eighth at the 1960 Europeans. One year later they won the first international ...

Ruth Schleiermacher participated as a speed skater at the 1968 Grenoble and the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics (by then married to her coach Hans-Herbert Budzisch) with limited success. She had her best ...

Vittorio Lucchetti was a member of the victorious Italian all-around teams in 1920 (European system) and 1924. He competed again in 1928, narrowly missing a medal when he placed fourth on the ...

Ole Østmo was born in Elverum, but moved to Oslo in his early 20s and was a member of Christiania Skytterlag his whole career. At the first World Shooting Championships in Lyon, France, in 1897, he ...

Otto Oehler competed for the US in handball (team) at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Oehler represented the German Sport Club. He played in one USA match at the 1936 Olympic tournament. Oehler played ...

The 1950 West German slalom and 1951 West German downhill champion, Alpine skier Lia Leismüller came 35th in the downhill at the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympic Games. She did not compete in any other ...

Tom Mobraaten was born in Norway and began skiing at the age of six. He moved to Canada in 1930, settling in Vancouver, and, by the middle of the decade, was known on both sides of the border for his ...

Maicel Malone was a 400 metre specialist who ran at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, winning a gold in the 4x400 relay. Malone had a major international record, mostly in the relay. At the World ...

Born on the Karelian Isthmus, Väinö Kuisma was evacuated from his home in 1939 when he was five years old, at the start of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, and never returned to ...

Tripp Schwenk was a backstroker who swam at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. In 1996, at Atlanta, Schwenk won a gold medal in the medley relay, and a silver in the 200 metre backstroke. He won three golds ...