Dear mikeginnyc,
Since this request is urgent, I have searched the International
Olympic Committee's athlets biographies only for truely outstanding
Olympic medal winners from the USA. I have compiled a list of eight
athletes with extraordinary achievemets at the Olympic Summer Games
from 1988 to 2000:
- Michael Johnson -
Disciplines of extraordinary achievements:
200m and 400m sprint
Achievements:
Michael Johnson was the first man ever to win Olympic gold for both
the 200m and the 400m. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, he first won the
400m by ten metres, the largest margin of victory in the event in 100
years. Then, at the 200m final, he ran 19.32 to defeat Frank
Fredericks of Namibia by four metres. For years later, he won the 400m
gold medal again at the 2000 Games in Sydney, thus being the first man
to win the Olympic 400m twice.
See also:
International Olympic Committee: Michael Johnson
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=119467
- Marion Jones -
Disciplines of extraordinary achievements:
100m and 200m sprint, long jump, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay
Achievements:
Marion Jones competed in five events at the Sydney Olympic Games in
2000, and she won or co-won medals in all all of them. First, she won
gold at the 100m, with the second largest winning margin in the
event's history. Five days after her victory, she raced in the final
of the 200m and won a second gold medal. Next she earned a bronze
medal in the long jump. Finally, on the last day of the Games, she was
part of both the U.S. 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams, that won bronze and
gold, respectively. Earning three gold medals and two bronze medals
made Marion Jones the first woman to win five medals in athletics in
the same Olympics.
See also:
International Olympic Committee: Marion Jones
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=119471
- Carl Lewis -
Disciplines of extraordinary achievements:
100m and 200m sprint, long jump, 4x100m relay
Achievements:
Carl Lewis is one of only four Olympic athletes to win nine gold
medals and one of only three to win the same individual event four
times. In 1984, Lewis matched Jesse Owens' feat of winning four gold
medals with victories in the 100m, the 200m, the long jump and the
4x100m relay. At the 1988 Seoul Games, Lewis gained a second gold
medal in the 100m, defended his long jump title and won silver at the
200m. In Barcelona 1992, he won a third gold medal in the long jump
and, as part of the U.S. team, won gold at the 4x100 relay. Four years
later, in Atlanta, Lewis won the long jump gold medal. So twelve years
after his Los Angeles victory, Carl Lewis was still the Olympic long
jump champion.
See also:
International Olympic Committee: Carl Lewis
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=38298
- Janet Evans -
Disciplines of extraordinary achievements:
400m individual medley, 400m freestyle, 800m freestyle
Achievements:
At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, 16-year-old swimmer Janet Evans did not
only start by winning the gold medal in the 400m individual medley;
only three days later, she also won the 400m freestyle, by more than
two seconds and broke her own world record by 1.6 seconds and then
even added a third Olympic victory at the 800m freestyle, defeating
East German swimmer Astrid Strauss by almost three metres. At the 1992
Games in Barcelona, she won silver at the 400m, and two days after
that, she led the 800m from start to finish and won by eight metres.
See also:
International Olympic Committee: Janet Evans
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=59798
- Matt Biondi -
Disciplines of extraordinary achievements:
50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 200m freestyle, 4x100m
freestyle relay, 4x100m medley
Achievements:
Swimmer Matt Biondi is one of only two swimmers who have won seven
medals in one Olympics and eleven career medals. He co-won his first
Olympic gold in Los Angeles in 1984 as a member of the US 4x100m
freestyle relay team. 1988 in Seoul, he won bronze at the 200m
freestyle, silver at the 100m butterfly, and gold medals in no less
than five disciplines: 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle
relay, 4x200m freestyle relay, 4x100m medley relay. In four of these
disciplines, he set new world records. Finally, he earned the eighth
Olympic gold medal of his career by swimming butterfly leg in the
qualifying round of the 4x100m medley with the U.S. team in Barcelona
1992.
See also:
International Olympic Committee: Matt Biondi
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=37496
- Michael Jordan -
Discipline of extraordinary achievement:
Basketball
Achievement:
At the 1984 Los Angeles Games, Jordan led the U.S. team in scoring,
averaging 17.1 points per game. The team The Americans went
undefeated and winning by an average of 32 points per game, earning
Olympic gold. At the 1992 Barcelona Games, Jordan was a member of the
U.S. "Dream Team". He was the team's second highest scorer with 14.9
points per game and had a tournament high 37 steals. Jordan earned his
second Olympic gold medal when the U.S. basketball team defeated
Croatia in the final.
See also:
International Olympic Committee: Michael Jordan
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=33546
- Gregory Louganis -
Discipline of extraordinary achievement:
Springboard and Platform Diving
Achievement:
Greg Louganis, who had studied classical dance for many years, is
considered the greatest diver of all time. He won Olympic silver at
the 1976 Games, when he was 16 years old. Due to the boycot of the
1980 Games in Moscow, he could not earn any medals at that Olympics.
But in Los Angeles in 1984, he won gold at both springboard at
platform diving. That not being enough, he repeated this double-gold
success at the 1988 Olympics. His springboard victory in Seoul was
extremely dramatic since he qualified despite striking the board with
his head on the next-to-last qualifying dive.
See also:
International Olympic Committee: Gregory Louganis
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=28977
- Florence Griffith-Joyner -
Disciplines of extraordinary achievement:
100m and 200m sprint
Achievement:
Florence Griffith-Joyner, who had already won silver at the 200m
during the 1984 Los Angeles Games, broke the 100m world record at the
1988 at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Then, at the Seoul Games, she managed
to twice break the Olympic record and finally won gold at the 100m.
Four days later, she broke the 200m world record and less than two
hours later set another world record in the final with a time of 21.34
seconds. Her 100m and 200m records have not been broken yet. She also
she ran in both relays, winning a third gold medal in the 4x100m and a
silver in the 4x400m.
See also:
International Olympic Committee: Florence Griffith-Joyner
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=35907
Source:
International Olympic Committee: Athletes
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/index_uk.asp
I hope this is what you need!
Best regards,
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