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Born February 17, 1953 (age 72) • Finland
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Soviet athlete
Champion Olympic rower Jack Beresford
Jack Beresford
British athlete
John B. Kelly, who won the single sculls event at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp
John B. Kelly
American athlete
Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Soviet gymnast
Daley Thompson executing his long jump en route to successfully defending his Olympic decathlon title at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Daley Thompson
British athlete
Redgrave, Steven; Holmes, Andy
Steven Redgrave
British rower
Pernell Whitaker
American boxer
Champion boxer Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard
American boxer and television commentator
Sebastian Coe, 2022
Sebastian Coe
British runner
Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev
Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev
Soviet weightlifter
Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Comăneci
Romanian gymnast
Teófilo Stevenson
Teófilo Stevenson
Cuban boxer
Edwin Moses
Edwin Moses
American athlete
Champion boxer Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks
American boxer
American wrestler Bruce Baumgartner
Bruce Baumgartner
American wrestler
Tatyana Kazankina clinching the gold medal in the 1,500-metre race at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Tatyana Kazankina
Soviet athlete
Victor Davis
Victor Davis
Canadian athlete
Yuriy Sedykh
Soviet athlete
Evelin Schlaak
East German athlete
Vladimir Salnikov delivering a gold-medal-winning performance in the 1,500-metre swimming event at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Vladimir Salnikov
Russian athlete

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