Olympic Athletes Born on December 26

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262 Athletes

Rk	Athlete	Country	Sport	Born	Died
1	Razak Alfaga	Niger	Taekwondo	1994
2	An Jin-Su	South Korea	Handball	1961
3	Erik Andersson	Sweden	Athletics	1921	2002
4	Petar Angelov	Bulgaria	Alpine Skiing	1943
5	Reinhold Bachler	Austria	Ski Jumping	1944
6	Gediminas Bagdonas	Lithuania	Cycling	1985
7	Darren Barber	Canada	Rowing	1968
8	David Bárcena	Mexico	Equestrianism, Modern Pentathlon	1941	2017
9	Yutta Barding	Denmark	Fencing	1880	1976
10	Hans Baumann	West Germany	Bobsleigh	1932
11	Alain Baxter	Great Britain	Alpine Skiing	1973
12	Sofia Bekatorou	Greece	Sailing	1977
13	Menachem Bello	Israel	Football	1947
14	Jesús Beltre	Dominican Republic	Boxing	1964
15	Percy Belvin	Bermuda	Swimming	1912
16	Jhow Benavídez	Honduras	Football	1995
17	Nicola Benedetti	Italy	Modern Pentathlon	1985
18	Ryan Berube	United States	Swimming	1973
19	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	Athletics	1989
20	Hartwig Bleidick	West Germany	Football	1944
21	Don Blessing	United States	Rowing	1905	2000
22	Gilles Bogui	Cote d'Ivoire	Athletics	1972
23	Gary Bohay	Canada	Wrestling	1960
24	Klaus-Michael Bonsack	Germany, East Germany	Luge	1941
25	Rui Bragança	Portugal	Taekwondo	1991
26	Hege Brannsten	Norway	Canoeing	1972
27	Alfredo Brás	Portugal	Athletics	1968
28	Karl Burger	Germany	Football	1883	1959
29	Ana Burgos	Spain	Triathlon	1967
30	Ingeborg Busch	West Germany	Diving	1943
31	Yavé Cahard	France	Cycling	1957
32	Cai Tianxiong	China	Water Polo	1954
33	Hubert Caldwell	United States	Rowing	1907	1972
34	Michael Calvo	Cuba	Athletics	1977
35	Joana Castelão	Portugal	Shooting	1984
36	Stéphane Cauterman	France	Gymnastics	1968
37	Zamandosi Cele	South Africa	Football	1990
38	Viktoriya Chayka	Belarus	Shooting	1980
39	Cheung Chi Yip	Hong Kong	Judo	1986
40	Chi Qiang	China	Sailing	1975
41	Choi Eun-Gyeong	South Korea	Short Track Speed Skating	1984
42	Alejandro Colla	Argentina	Sailing	1970
43	Luca Colombo	Italy	Cycling	1969
44	Nicolas Conte	France	Snowboarding	1973
45	Shawn Cox	Barbados	Boxing	1974
46	Dave Cropper	Great Britain	Athletics	1945	2016
47	Zoltán Csányi	Hungary	Athletics	1912	1993
48	Anthony Cuff	New Zealand	Cycling	1957
49	Dominique d'Esmé	France	Equestrianism	1945
50	Stephie D'Souza	India	Athletics	1936	1998
51	Dália da Cunha-Sammer	Portugal	Gymnastics	1928
52	Frédéric Dambier	France	Figure Skating	1977
53	France Darget Savarit	France	Art Competitions	1886
54	Robyn de Groot	South Africa	Cycling	1982
55	Meluin de Leon	Dominican Republic	Boxing	1968
56	Henk de Looper	Netherlands	Hockey	1912	2006
57	Daisy de Peinder	Netherlands	Softball	1976
58	Lydia de Vega	Philippines	Athletics	1964
59	Noël Desaubliaux	France	Sailing	1922
60	Walter Dießner	East Germany	Rowing	1954
61	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	Athletics	1974
62	Joachim Dreifke	East Germany	Rowing	1952
63	Duda	Brazil	Athletics	1986
64	Michelle Dusserre	United States	Gymnastics	1968
65	Anne Eckner	Germany	Short Track Speed Skating	1979
66	Martina Emanuel	Great Britain	Fencing	1985
67	Elisabetta Fanton	Italy	Cycling	1968
68	Holly Flanders	United States	Alpine Skiing	1957
69	Sebastian Fleischer	Denmark	Sailing	1993
70	Giacomo Fornoni	Italy	Cycling	1939	2016
71	Rey Fortaleza	Philippines	Boxing	1957
72	Amanda Freed	United States	Softball	1979
73	George Frenn	United States	Athletics	1941	2006
74	Merrell Gage	United States	Art Competitions	1892	1981
75	Nureni Gbadamosi	Nigeria	Boxing	1947
76	Inmaculada González	Spain	Volleyball	1970
77	Sanjiwan Goyal	Kenya	Hockey	1964
78	Anna-Maria Gradante	Germany	Judo	1976
79	Mihai Grigorovici	Romania	Volleyball	1937
80	Jonte Grundelius	Sweden	Snowboarding	1975
81	Mansour Guettaya	Tunisia	Athletics	1949
82	Gwak Yun-Gi	South Korea	Short Track Speed Skating	1989
83	Ha Jun-Im	South Korea	Volleyball	1989
84	Jeanne Hallock	United States	Swimming	1946
85	Jan Halvarsson	Sweden	Cross Country Skiing	1942
86	Gisela Hämmerling	Switzerland	Judo	1969
87	Lasse Hamre	Norway	Alpine Skiing	1944
88	Salih Hassan	Great Britain	Rowing	1962
89	Raya Hatahet	Jordan	Taekwondo	1989
90	Andreas Heymann	France	Biathlon	1966
91	Dave Hill	Canada	Athletics	1952
92	Ralph Hill	United States	Athletics	1908	1994
93	Gabi Hirschbichler	Germany	Speed Skating	1983
94	Olavi Hirvonen	United States	Cross Country Skiing	1930
95	Percy Hodge	Great Britain	Athletics	1890	1967
96	Robert Horstink	Netherlands	Volleyball	1981
97	Patrick Howald	Switzerland	Ice Hockey	1969
98	Jarl Hulldén	Finland	Sailing	1885	1913
99	Ben Husaby	United States	Cross Country Skiing	1965
100	Devon Hyde	Belize	Athletics	1967
101	Kazuhiko Ikematsu	Japan	Wrestling	1979
102	Junichi Inoue	Japan	Speed Skating	1971
103	Boris Isachenko	Soviet Union	Archery	1958
104	Stefan Jacobsson	Sweden	Weightlifting	1947
105	Otakar Janecký	Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic	Ice Hockey	1960
106	Salvador Jiménez	Honduras	Swimming	1973
107	Jin Xianglan	China	Judo	1972
108	Stan Jones	Great Britain	Athletics	1914	2006
109	Marija Jovanović	Montenegro	Handball	1985
110	Pia Julin	Finland	Shooting	1969
111	Heikki Kähkönen	Finland	Wrestling	1891	1962
112	Rumyana Kaisheva	Bulgaria	Volleyball	1955
113	Raymond Kamber	Switzerland	Canoeing	1929	2010
114	Akbar Kargar Jam	Iran	Football	1944
115	Kateryna Karsak	Ukraine	Athletics	1985
116	Rudolf Karsch	Germany	Cycling	1913	1950
117	Linda Keough	Great Britain	Athletics	1963
118	Esa Kervinen	Finland	Shooting	1929	2016
119	Shota Khabareli	Soviet Union	Judo	1958
120	Antero Kivelä	Finland	Ice Hockey	1955
121	Sonya Klopfer	United States	Figure Skating	1934
122	Štefan Kmeťo	Czechoslovakia	Water Polo	1960
123	Aleksandar Knežević	Serbia and Montenegro	Handball	1968
124	Eugeniusz Koczorski	Poland	Equestrianism	1956
125	Yumi Kokamo	Japan	Athletics	1971
126	Selwyn Kole	Solomon Islands	Athletics	1973
127	Olga Kostenko	Russia	Canoeing	1984
128	Mikhail Kukushkin	Kazakhstan	Tennis	1987
129	Kuo Tai-Chih	Chinese Taipei	Weightlifting	1973
130	Rénelle Lamote	France	Athletics	1993
131	Heinrich Landrock	Germany	Rowing	1890
132	Misha Latuhihin	Netherlands	Volleyball	1970
133	Zoran Lazarovski	Macedonia	Swimming	1980
134	Anna Lebedeva	Kazakhstan	Biathlon	1981
135	Lee Seon-Seong	South Korea	Gymnastics	1980
136	Les Lewis	Great Britain	Athletics	1924	1986
137	Li Hongli	China	Weightlifting	1980
138	Li Ye	China	Short Track Speed Skating	1983
139	Colette Libourel	France	Swimming	1940
140	Irina Lis	Belarus	Equestrianism	1972
141	Peter Little	Great Britain	Modern Pentathlon	1933
142	Vladimir Lobanov	Soviet Union	Speed Skating	1953	2007
143	Yevgeny Lopatin	Soviet Union	Weightlifting	1917	2011
144	Fred Macbeth	Canada	Athletics	1909	1986
145	James Macnabb	Great Britain	Rowing	1901	1990
146	Davoud Maleki	Iran	Weightlifting	1952
147	Carmen Martínez	Paraguay	Athletics	1982
148	Ryszard Marzec	Poland	Hockey	1931	1972
149	Ryo Matsuda	Japan	Athletics	1979
150	Nobuhiko Matsunaka	Japan	Baseball	1973
151	Willy Meisl	Austria	Art Competitions	1895	1968
152	Liana Mesa	Cuba	Volleyball	1977
153	Tamar Metal	Israel	Athletics	1933
154	Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum	Germany	Equestrianism	1969
155	Antonio Miguel	Spain	Cycling	1982
156	Melissa Mills	Australia	Water Polo	1973
157	Teruki Miyamoto	Japan	Football	1940	2000
158	Daniel Mkandawire	Malawi	Athletics	1951
159	Lennart Moberg	Sweden	Athletics	1918	1991
160	Jimmy Montgomery	Canada	Boxing	1934	2015
161	Katsuichi Mori	Japan	Diving	1929
162	Walter Moyano	Uruguay	Cycling	1933
163	József Navarrete	Hungary	Fencing	1965
164	Larry Nelson	United States	Judo	1947
165	Karel Nesl	Czechoslovakia	Cycling	1930
166	Henryk Niezabitowski	Poland	Rowing	1896	1976
167	Eric Nilsson	Sweden	Athletics	1926
168	Abraham Niyonkuru	Burundi	Athletics	1989
169	Kathleen Nord	East Germany	Swimming	1965
170	Kristine Norelius	United States	Rowing	1956
171	Rune Öberg	Sweden	Water Polo	1922	2002
172	Henry Onwuzuruike	Nigeria	Football	1979
173	Zsuzsanna Palffy	Hungary	Handball	1970
174	Jeremy Pancras	France	Freestyle Skiing	1991
175	Sukhi Panesar	Canada	Hockey	1993
176	Enrique Pérez	Spain	Rowing	1896
177	Tim Peterson	Canada	Swimming	1978
178	Mihály Petrovszky	Hungary	Judo	1950
179	Ted Piercy	Great Britain	Cycling	1882	1968
180	Keivi Mayerlin Pinto	Venezuela	Judo	1979
181	Pavel Ploc	Czechoslovakia	Biathlon	1943
182	Yanina Provalinskaya-Karolchik	Belarus	Athletics	1976
183	Giuseppe Puliè	Italy	Cross Country Skiing	1964
184	Lecabela Quaresma	Sao Tome and Principe	Athletics	1989
185	Anne-Marie Quist	Netherlands	Rowing	1957
186	Daniel Radu	Romania	Boxing	1959
187	Aaron Ramsey	Great Britain	Football	1990
188	Allan Raphael	Canada	Hockey	1931
189	Anton Reinartz	Germany	Rowing	1926	2002
190	Philippe Reinhart	France	Sailing	1924
191	Jean-Noël Ribot	France	Rowing	1949
192	Chris Rice	United States Virgin Islands	Shooting	1959
193	Josef Rieder	Germany	Cycling	1893	1916
194	Marcelo Ríos	Chile	Tennis	1975
195	Bec Rippon	Australia	Water Polo	1978
196	Henry Roa	Nicaragua	Baseball	1969
197	Carol Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	Athletics	1985
198	Aleksandra Romanova	Kazakhstan	Athletics	1990
199	Eva Roth	Germany	Canoeing	1967
200	Vladimer Rubashvili	Soviet Union	Wrestling	1940	1964
201	Emil Rusu	Romania	Cycling	1946
202	Werner Ruzicka	West Germany	Boxing	1943
203	Mike Ryan	New Zealand	Athletics	1941
204	Ryu Bun-Hwa	North Korea	Boxing	1959
205	Olavi Salsola	Finland	Athletics	1933	1995
206	John Sandwall	Sweden	Fencing	1917	1980
207	Şükrü Sanus	Turkey	Sailing	1966
208	Halfdan Schjøtt	Norway	Sailing	1893	1974
209	Josef Schneider	West Germany	Cross Country Skiing	1957
210	Franz Schuster	Germany	Art Competitions	1892	1972
211	Alex Schwazer	Italy	Athletics	1984
212	Seo Jung-Eun	South Korea	Hockey	1991
213	Giulia Sergas	Italy	Golf	1979
214	Tony Shacklady	Great Britain	Wrestling	1945	2014
215	Janet Sheather	Canada	Swimming	1912
216	Diego Simonet	Argentina	Handball	1989
217	Sin Eun-Cheol	South Korea	Boxing	1973
218	Hubert Sitko	Poland	Ice Hockey	1939
219	Matteo Soragna	Italy	Basketball	1975
220	Ana Luiza Souza Lima	Brazil	Shooting	1973
221	Joseph Ssali	Uganda	Athletics	1967	2003
222	Walter Steffens	Germany	Gymnastics	1908	2006
223	Stella Steyn	Ireland	Art Competitions	1907	1987
224	Pascal Strebel	Switzerland	Wrestling	1988
225	Nataliya Strohova	Ukraine	Athletics	1992
226	Aksel Lund Svindal	Norway	Alpine Skiing	1982
227	Rəsul Səlimov	Azerbaijan	Judo	1981
228	Hughie Teape	Great Britain	Athletics	1963
229	Albert Tebbit	Great Britain	Speed Skating	1871	1938
230	Bryan Thomas	Australia	Canoeing	1961
231	Stan Thorseth	Canada	Handball	1951
232	Lesley Tomlinson	Canada	Cycling	1959
233	Thierry Touzaint	France	Equestrianism	1953
234	Tseng Li-Cheng	Chinese Taipei	Taekwondo	1986
235	Walter Turczyk	Poland	Athletics	1909	1976
236	Shinobu Ueshima	Japan	Snowboarding	1971
237	Nikolay Uliyanin	Kazakhstan	Speed Skating	1977
238	Peter van Asbeck	Netherlands	Hockey	1954
239	Karen van der Kooij	Netherlands	Athletics	1963
240	Horta Van Hoye	Belgium	Gymnastics	1946
241	Sandy Vander-Heyden	United States	Hockey	1964
242	Žarko Varajić	Yugoslavia	Basketball	1951
243	María Vascó	Spain	Athletics	1975
244	Dmitry Vasilyev	Russia	Ski Jumping	1979
245	Ronald Vervoort	Netherlands	Rowing	1952
246	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	Athletics	1969
247	Mariaesthela Vilera	Venezuela	Cycling	1988
248	Wang Hao	China	Diving	1992
249	Albert Weil	France	Sailing	1880	1945
250	Jake Wetzel	United States, Canada	Rowing	1976
251	Frank Wright	United States	Shooting	1878	1931
252	Suzanne Wurtz	France	Swimming	1900	1982
253	Markus Wüst	Switzerland	Nordic Combined	1971
254	Hirokazu Yagi	Japan	Ski Jumping	1959
255	Yang Liqun	China	Volleyball	1962
256	Noélie Yarigo	Benin	Athletics	1985
257	Hassan Yazdani	Iran	Wrestling	1994
258	Rocío Ybarra	Spain	Hockey	1984
259	Raymond Zembri	France	Athletics	1948
260	Zhang Yanmei	China	Short Track Speed Skating	1972
261	Radka Zrubáková	Czechoslovakia, Slovakia	Tennis	1970
262	Angelo Zucca	Italy	Gymnastics	1955

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