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Toledo area Olympians - Refresh my memory. Who are Toledo athletes who have competed in the Olympics?
posted by Offshore to sports at 8:01 A.M. EST     (7 Comments)

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http://www.toledosattic.org/attic/att04/athletes/toledo%20athletes%20with%20links.htm

Dave Grylls (1984 Olympics, Silver Medal 4000m team pursuit, US champion 1978, 1979, 1982)

John Keller, Jr. (1996 Olympics)
Sean O’Neil (1992 Olympics, 5-time national champion
Greg Wojciechowski (Whitmer) (U of Toledo, NCAA champ heavyweight 1971, runner-up 1970, 1972) (AAU champ 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, U.S. Olympic team 1980)

Brenda Morehead (Scott) (Tennessee State) (1976, 1980 U.S. Olympic team, world record 4x100, gold medals 1975 and 1979 Pan-AM games)

Sharon Wichman (lived in Toledo before moving to Fort Wayne in her youth) (1968 Olympic gold (200m breaststroke) and bronze (100m breaststroke) medalist

Scott Steketee (Maumee Valley) (Harvard) (1968 U. S. Olympic team 6th place, gold medal 1967 Pan Am Games)

Scott Hamilton (born Toledo, reared Bowling Green) (Olympic gold medalist 1984, 4-time world champion 1981-84) (SI cover 2/6/1984)

Louis Self (1972 US Olympic team, 1971-72 Golden Glove champion)

Wilbert “Skeeter” McClure (1960 Olympic gold medalist and professional middleweight)

Scott May (Sandusky) (Indiana, 1976 Player of Year, 1976 National Champions) (Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Pistons, 1976-83) (Olympic gold medal 1976, Sports Illustrated cover 4/5/76, 7/19/76)

Doug Mientkiewicz (born Toledo, Westminster FL Christian HS) (Florida State) (Olympic gold medalist 2000) (Minnesota Twins, 1998-present

(using find feature for the word Olympic so that should be all of them)

:-)
posted by psyche777 at 08:45 A.M. EST on Tue Feb 21, 2006     #

Psyche: Thanks, great link!
posted by Offshore at 08:51 A.M. EST on Tue Feb 21, 2006     #

You're welcome, there are alot of sports people there, more than I assumed would come from this area. (That's why I cheated and used the "find" feature)

:-)
posted by psyche777 at 09:00 A.M. EST on Tue Feb 21, 2006     #

Wasnt their a snowborder (female) from Toledo area that one a Gold medal this year? Maybe I misunderstood the newscast....
posted by alexandra at 12:56 A.M. EST on Wed Feb 22, 2006     #

You're forgetting heavyweight Olympic boxer Devin Vargas (2004 Summer Games).

He now admits he tore a ligament in his knee during the Games...and has had two knee surgeries and now an elbow surgery. Looks a lot different now, the father of three young boys-- four, 14 months and a month. Yikes-- from international athlete to gimpy father of three.
posted by sparky at 08:48 A.M. EST on Wed Feb 22, 2006     #

There was an article (Blade I think) about the former Toledo Rocket, (his name escapes me) who recently graduated, had a good job, and quit to join the olympic bobsled team He's on USAIII. I think he was a wide reciever for the Rockets.
posted by JeepMaker at 12:07 P.M. EST on Wed Feb 22, 2006     #

There was also Dave Wottle who won the gold at the 1972 Munic games in the 800m. He went to BGSU and was famous for running the race with his golf hat on and forgetting to take it off during the medal ceremony.
posted by daddyg at 01:18 P.M. EST on Wed Feb 22, 2006     #

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