No Gold (and it's cold)
I decided to turn to the Winter Olympics for more prolific non-gold medal winning athletes.
Finnish cross-country skier Harri Kirvesniemi has won six Olympic medals--all bronze. His only individual medal was in the 1984 15km, but he was a member of the 1980 and 1984 4x10km Individual Relay. I'm not totally sure what "Individual Relay" means, but it was replaced by the 4x10km Classic/Free Relay in 1992, 1994, and 1998, all of which gave the Finn men bronzes. Harri's wife Marja-Liise Hämäläinen-Kirvesniemi was a more successful Olympic cross-country skier. She won only four bronzes but more than made up for it by winning three golds, although all the golds and one bronze came prior to marrying Harri. Her father Kalevi also won a cross-country gold medal in 1960.
Chinese short track speed skater Yang Yang (S), not to be confused with teammate Yang Yang (A), has the most winter silvers without a gold. She won silvers in 1992 in the 500m and 1000m and the 3000m relay. In 2002, she won again won silver in the 3000m relay, but slipped to bronze in the 1000m. (Yang Yang (A) was also on the 2002 3000m relay, and took gold in 500m and 1000m.)
Two Norwegians deserve recognition here: Speed skater Roald Larsen won two silvers and four bronzes--silvers in the 1500m and Combined events in 1924 and bronzes in 500m, 5000m and 10000m, in 1924, and then again in 1928 in the 500m. Countrywoman cross-country skier Anita Moen was on the silver medal winning teams in 1994, 1998, and 2002, plus took individual bronzes in the 15km Classic/Free in 1998 and the 1.5km Sprint in 2002.
Finnish cross-country skier Harri Kirvesniemi has won six Olympic medals--all bronze. His only individual medal was in the 1984 15km, but he was a member of the 1980 and 1984 4x10km Individual Relay. I'm not totally sure what "Individual Relay" means, but it was replaced by the 4x10km Classic/Free Relay in 1992, 1994, and 1998, all of which gave the Finn men bronzes. Harri's wife Marja-Liise Hämäläinen-Kirvesniemi was a more successful Olympic cross-country skier. She won only four bronzes but more than made up for it by winning three golds, although all the golds and one bronze came prior to marrying Harri. Her father Kalevi also won a cross-country gold medal in 1960.
Chinese short track speed skater Yang Yang (S), not to be confused with teammate Yang Yang (A), has the most winter silvers without a gold. She won silvers in 1992 in the 500m and 1000m and the 3000m relay. In 2002, she won again won silver in the 3000m relay, but slipped to bronze in the 1000m. (Yang Yang (A) was also on the 2002 3000m relay, and took gold in 500m and 1000m.)
Two Norwegians deserve recognition here: Speed skater Roald Larsen won two silvers and four bronzes--silvers in the 1500m and Combined events in 1924 and bronzes in 500m, 5000m and 10000m, in 1924, and then again in 1928 in the 500m. Countrywoman cross-country skier Anita Moen was on the silver medal winning teams in 1994, 1998, and 2002, plus took individual bronzes in the 15km Classic/Free in 1998 and the 1.5km Sprint in 2002.
1 Comments:
So, what you are trying to say is Yang Yang (S) is the Creedence Clearwater Revival of the Winter Olympics?
So if afterwayd, she cried out in frustration and fired a pistol into the air, then:
Sang Yang Yang: "Dang!" Bang Rang.
I apologize for not using Fang, Hang and Gang
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