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Born February 17, 1953 (age 73) • Finland
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
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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
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Pernell Whitaker
American boxer
Sugar Ray Leonard in white trunks throws a punch at Marvin Hagler, who is blocking with his arms, during their 1987 middleweight title fight in a boxing ring.
Sugar Ray Leonard
American boxer and television commentator
Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics, smiling and wearing a dark suit with an open-collared shirt, with a blurred purple background.
Sebastian Coe
British athlete
Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Comăneci
Romanian gymnast
Cuba's Teofilo Stevenson, wearing boxing gloves and shorts labeled Cuba, faces USSR's Pjotr Zayev in the ring during their 1980 Olympic heavyweight final match.
Teófilo Stevenson
Cuban boxer
Vasily Alexeyev of the Soviet Union lifts a loaded barbell overhead during the super heavyweight weightlifting competition at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev
Soviet weightlifter
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
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Yuriy Sedykh
Soviet athlete
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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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