Sports Person Famous Names Starting with Letter O

Is a Kazakhstani sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Her personal best time is 51.62 seconds,

Is a Kazakhstani sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Her personal best time is 51.62 seconds, achieved at the 2007 Universiade in Bangkok.

Is a Soviet-born, Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. Tishc

Is a Soviet-born, Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. Tishchenko also competed in three Summer Olympics. For the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she finished ninth in the K-4 500 m event. Fou

Is a retired high jumper from Kazakhstan, who set her personal best on 7 July 1986, jumping 2.01 met

Is a retired high jumper from Kazakhstan, who set her personal best on 7 July 1986, jumping 2.01 metres at a meet in Moscow. She competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 (Seoul, South Korea), where she finished in fourth place. Turchuk set the Youth World Best Performance on 1984-09-07 in Donetsk, with a jump of 1.96 metres.

Korbut, who started training at age 8, entered a Belarusian sports school headed by coach Renald Kny

Korbut, who started training at age 8, entered a Belarusian sports school headed by coach Renald Knysh at age 11. There, Korbut's first trainer was Elena Volchetskaya (an Olympian), but she was moved to Knysh's group a year later. With him, she learned a difficult backward somersault on the balance beam.

Is a Greek triple jumper.

Is a Greek triple jumper.

Is a Belarusian cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. She finished sixth in the tea

Is a Belarusian cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. She finished sixth in the team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo and earned her best individual finish of 17th in the individual sprint event at the 2009

Is a retired female tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union.Morozova won the Wimbledon junio

Is a retired female tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union.Morozova won the Wimbledon junior's singles title in 1965 at the age of 16. Morozova was the first Russian tennis player to reach the singles final of a major tournament, when she was the runner-up at the 1972 Italian Open.

Is an Estonian figure skater.

Is an Estonian figure skater.

Is an Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal at

Is an Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Is an Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal at

Is an Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She currently play for Dynamo Moscow.

Is a Latvian figure skater.

Is a Latvian figure skater.

Is a female freestyle wrestler from Kazakhstan who participated in Women's freestyle wrestling 72 kg

Is a female freestyle wrestler from Kazakhstan who participated in Women's freestyle wrestling 72 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. She lost in the 1/8 of final with Rosângela Conceição from Brazil.

A Turkish football (soccer) player. On May 31, 2007 he has moved to Gençlerbirligi S.K., in Turkcel

A Turkish football (soccer) player. On May 31, 2007 he has moved to Gençlerbirligi S.K., in Turkcell Super League. His former club was Karsiyaka S.K..

Is a Latvian basketball player. He played for ASK Riga and won 3 Euroleague titles (1958, 1959, 1960

Is a Latvian basketball player. He played for ASK Riga and won 3 Euroleague titles (1958, 1959, 1960) and 4 national championships (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958).

Was a British Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1952 and 19

Was a British Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics.

Is a female Ukrainian weightlifter who is the current European record holder in the snatch with 133 kg, and in the clean and jerk with 164 kg.

Is a Ukrainian former handball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Is a Ukrainian former handball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Is a former Soviet/Ukrainian handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Is a former Soviet/Ukrainian handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Is a Ukrainian fencer and member of the team which won the gold medal in sabre at the 2008 Summer Ol

Is a Ukrainian fencer and member of the team which won the gold medal in sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Is a Faroese football player, currently playing for TB Tvøroyri. Johannesen made his debut for the

Is a Faroese football player, currently playing for TB Tvøroyri. Johannesen made his debut for the Faroe Islands in an August 1992 friendly match against Israel. He holds the record as the player who has played for the Faroe Islands national football team

Is a football player from Ghana.

Is a football player from Ghana.

Is a female judoka from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the women's heavyweight division (+ 78 k

Is a female judoka from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the women's heavyweight division (+ 78 kg) at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, alongside Ecuador's Carmen Chalá.

Is an Angolan professional basketball player with Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto. A 6'4" guard,

Is an Angolan professional basketball player with Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto. A 6'4" guard,[2] he has competed in various international competitions for the Angola national basketball team, including the 2004 Summer Olympics and the FIBA Africa Championship 2005.

Was an English freestyle swimmer who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was an English freestyle swimmer who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was an American swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was an American swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.