After winning the 1928 Final Trials, the 27-year-old Mildred Wiley of the Boston Swimming Association tied for second at the Olympics, but lost a jump-off – with Carolina Gisolf of Holland. She won ...

Richie Wurster was US long track all-around champion in 1965-66 and almost a decade later, in 1975. He was also runner-up in 1970 and 1971. Wurster also won the North American long-track championship ...

Yngve Edward Soderberg was an American watercolorist, etcher, and printmaker, who studied at art schools in Chicago and New York. During the New Deal he created several murals for public buildings in ...

Bill Tavares competed in doubles for the US at the 1992 Winter Olympics, alongside Wendell Suckow. At the time Tavares was a second lieutenant in the National Guard. He later became career military ...

Laura Mulhall was a member of the gold medal winning teams at the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games.

Bill Marolt was a four-time NCAA Champion while skiing for the University of Colorado. After graduating he became the ski coach at Colorado, leading the Buffaloes to seven straight NCAA team titles, ...

In addition to his three Olympics appearances, Raúl Saucedo was the first fencer to win the South American fencing championship. Still competing late into his 40s, Saucedo won a gold medal in team ...

Phil Reilly was a sabre fencer who competed for St. John’s University. He was runner-up in sabre at the 1973 NCAAs, his senior year. Reilly was runner-up at the US Nationals from 1980-83. He competed ...

Leszek Lubicz-Nycz won bronze in 1930 and 1934 at the unofficial World Championships with the team sabre. In 1931 and 1934 he was the Polish champion in individual sabre. After his active career he ...

Mario Lertora was selected for the first time for the Olympic Games in Paris and won a team gold and was fifth on the parallel bars. He also participated in the 1928 Games at Amsterdam but with ...

Rudolf Werlich was a member of the Germany II four-man bob team at the 1936 Garmisch Winter Olympics, which crashed in the first run. The first run was eventful, as three of the 18 teams failed to ...

As a 14-year-old, Margit Tóth competed at the Montréal Olympics. With the Hungarian team, she placed fourth in the all-around, while also reaching the individual final, placing 17th. Earlier that year ...