who is the only person to win medals at the winter and summer games in the same year?
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Who was the only athlete to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics? Luding-Rothenburger is the only athlete to ever win medals in both Winter and Summer Games in the same year. Clara Hughes, Canada—Individual Road Race Cycling bronze and Individual Time Trial Cycling bronze (1996) and 5,000 m Speed Skating bronze (2002).
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- Michael Phelps makes yet more history to win 22nd Olympic gold. Updated 1529 GMT (2329 HKT) August 12, 2016. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.
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- Canadian Clara Hughes is the only person in the world who has won multiple medals in both Summer Olympic and Winter Olympic games. -from http://www.canada-heros.com/hughes_clara.html She is a speed skater and a cyclist.
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Canada wins gold in womenâs hockey, beating USA in overtime Hilary Knight #21 of the United States fights for control of the puck against Meaghan Mikkelson #12 and Shannon Szabados #1 of Canada during the Ice Hockey Women’s Gold Medal Game on day 13 of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 20, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.LEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images Canada’s Hayley Wickenheiser (R) vies with US Hilary Knight during the Women’s Ice Hockey Gold Medal Game between Canada and USA at the Bolshoy Ice Dome during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 20, 2014.
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Rio Olympics 2016: Usain Bolt wins 100m gold, Justin Gatlin second Jamaica's Usain Bolt became the first athlete to win three Olympic 100m titles by beating American Justin Gatlin to gold at Rio 2016. Bolt, 29, ran 9.81 seconds in his final Olympics to replicate his success at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. Twice banned for doping offences, Gatlin was 0.08 seconds behind Bolt, with Canada's Andre de Grasse in third.
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Olympic medal The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has retroactively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to the three best placed athletes in each event of the 1896 and 1900 Games. If there is a tie for any of the top three places all competitors are entitled to receive the appropriate medal according to IOC rules.
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Ian Thorpe Ian Thorpe. Ian James Thorpe, OAM (born 13 October 1982) is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Olympic Games United States at the Olympics. U.S. athletes have won a total of 2,521 medals (1,022 of them being gold) at the Summer Olympic Games and another 282 at the Winter Olympic Games. Most medals have been won in athletics (track and field) (801, 32%) and swimming (553, 22%). Thomas Burke was the first athlete to represent the United States at the Olympics. He won gold in both the 100 meters and the 400 meters at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
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The Top Male Olympic Skiers of All Time He will be going to PyeongChang as an Alpine skiing analyst for NBC Olympics. Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway Kjetil Andre Aamodt is the other guy to win medals in all four disciplines and is one of the all-time greats.
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Olympic Firsts The FIRST Games to have an Olympic Village for the athletes was in Paris 1924. The FIRST person to win a medal in the same event in Summer and Winter Olympics was Gillis Grafström, when he won figure skating gold medals at the 1920 Olympics and at the first Winter Olympics in 1924.
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âBetter turns every dayâ: Mikaela Shiffrin still improving as she eyes more gold in PyeongChang Olympics Shiffrin went on to win the gold medal in slalom in Sochi, the youngest slalom champion in Olympic history. In interviews after she won the gold medal, she was already looking toward the 2018 games, telling reporters she dreamed of winning five gold medals in the PyeongChang Olympics.
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Russian Is Surprise Winner in Womenâs Figure Skating SOCHI, Russia — Many expected a Russian to win a gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Sochi Games, but hardly anyone expected that it would be Adelina Sotnikova.
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Usain Bolt Biography Bolt went on to compete in the men's 200, claiming his second consecutive gold medal in that race. He is the first man to win both the 100 and 200 at consecutive Olympic Games, as well as the first man to ever win back-to-back gold medals in double sprints.
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Are there any Olympians who have won gold medals in the Summer and Winter Olympics? Hughes joins Eddie Eagan of the United States, Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway and Christa Rothenburger-Luding of East Germany as the only athletes to win a medal in both an Olympic Winter Games and Summer Games. On 25 Feb 2006 at the Torino Olympics Hughes won a gold medal in the 5000 m event.
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Biography In three of his events, Owens -- who became the first American in the history of track and field to win four gold medals in a single Olympics, a feat not duplicated until 1984, when Carl Lewis won gold medals in the same events at the Warsaw Pact nations-free 1984 Summer Olympics) -- established Olympic records.
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Ohno Becomes Most Decorated US Winter Olympian Having won his sixth and seventh career Olympic medals in Vancouver, short track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno is now the most decorated Winter Olympian in U.S. history. Ohno made his first Olympic appearance as a 19-year-old at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games. There, he won a gold medal in the 1,500 meters and a silver in the 1,000 meters.
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Olympic speed skater Jansen falls after sister dies Olympic speed skater Jansen falls after sister dies. On February 14, 1988, U.S. speed skater Dan Jansen, a favorite to win the gold medal in the 500-meter race at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, falls during competition, only hours after learning his sister had died of cancer.
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Usain Boltâs Best Races, Ranked On Sunday night in Rio de Janeiro, Usain Bolt won the 100-meter dash at the Olympics for the third time, chasing down Justin Gatlin to become the first man in history to win three gold medals in track’s showcase event. He was already the best ever going into the Rio Games. Now he needs a trophy case for his trophy cases.
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Michael Phelps wins record 19th Olympic medal with gold in 4x200 relay Michael Phelps wins record 19th Olympic medal with gold in 4x200 relay. It was a coronation, but also a dethroning. Michael Phelps secured the two medals he needed to become the most decorated Olympian of all time as he took his career tally to 19 Games medals, beating the 48-year-old record of 18 held by former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina.
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how many medals has Canada won in the winter olympics Transcript of how many medals has Canada won in the winter olympics. Speed skating, or SpeedSkating, is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Alexander Bilodeau born September 8,1987 is a canadian freestyle skier from Montreal ,Quebec.
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Going for the Gold: Lowell Bailey Lowell Bailey competes in the men's biathlon 20-kilometer individual final at the Torino Games in 2006. (Photo: Sandra Behne/Bongarts/Getty Images) The Going for the Gold series kicked off our One-Year-Countdown to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
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Winter Olympics 2018: Mikaela Shiffrin wins again, North Korea willing to compete in Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018: Mikaela Shiffrin wins again, North Korea willing to compete in Pyeongchang
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- Jacobellis now holds the record for most Gold medals won at Winter X Games for any female. She has been on the World Cup tour for 14 years and is looking towards another Olympics. first tracks:
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Did any British women win medals in the 1960 Olympics? One British woman won gold in 1960 and that was Anita Lonsbrough in the 200 meter breaststroke. Payment for winning Olympic medals varies by country. The United States Olympic Committee pays its medal winners $25,000 to gold medal winners, $15,000 to those who take hom…e a silver and $10,000 for a bronze.
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Sports in the United States U.S. athletes have won a total of 2,522 medals (1,022 of them gold) at the Summer Olympic Games and another 282 at the Winter Olympic Games. Most medals have been won in athletics (track and field) (801, 32%) and swimming (553, 22%).
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Michael Phelps Share Michael Phelps on Google+; Michael Fred Phelps II is known principally as the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 Olympic medals, 23 of them gold, spanning over four