Jim Courier and Elena Likhovtseva are both famous athletes in what sport?
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Jim Courier James Spencer Courier Jr. (born August 17, 1970) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. During his career, he won four Grand Slam singles titles, two at the French Open and two at the Australian Open. He holds the record for being the youngest man to have reached the finals of all four Grand Slam singles tournaments, at the age of 22 years and 11 months. He also won five Masters 1000 series titles. Until Novak Djokovic in 2016, Courier was the last man to win both the Australian and French Opens in the same calendar year.
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Elena Likhovtseva Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva (Russian: Елена Александровна Лиховцева ] ; born 8 September 1975) is a Russian former tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.
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Lyudmila Rogachova Lyudmila Rogachova (born October 30, 1966 in Lad Balka) is a retired Russian middle distance runner who competed mainly in the 1500 metres. She became a World Indoor and European champion in this event, and won an Olympic silver medal in 1992 with a personal best time of 3:56.91 - beating future world record holder Qu Yunxia into bronze. Her 800 metres PB was 1:56.82.
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Jim Spivey James Calvin Spivey (born March 7, 1960 in Schiller Park, Illinois) is a former American middle-distance runner and Olympian. Spivey took up competitive running in Illinois where he became one of the best high school runners from his state. He was the 1982 NCAA DI men's 1500-meter champion with Indiana University. Spivey enjoyed a long Olympic career, in which he participated in the Olympic Summer Games in 1984, 1992, and 1996.
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Irina Baskakova Irina Baskakova (born August 25, 1956) is a retired track and field sprinter from the Soviet Union, known for winning the bronze medal in the women's 4x400 metres relay at the 1982 European Championships. She did so alongside Irina Olkhovnikova, Olga Mineyeva and Yelena Didilenko, clocking a total time of 3:22.79.
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Jon Drummond Jonathan "Jon" A. Drummond (born September 9, 1968) is an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Jim Valvano James Thomas Anthony Valvano (March 10, 1946 – April 28, 1993), nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster.
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Eva Lehocká-Glesková Eva Lehocká-Glesková (born 26 July 1943) is a Slovak former track and field sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres. She represented Czechoslovakia three times at the Summer Olympics (1964, 1968, 1972) and twice at the European Athletics Championships (1966, 1969). She equalled the world record for the 100 m in 1972 with a manually-timed run of 11.0 seconds. She was twice a relay medallist at the European Indoor Games and a 13-time national champion in the individual sprints.
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Elena Mikhailovskaya Elena Konstantinovna Mikhailovskaya (Russian: Елена Константиновна Михайловская ; November 21, 1949, Moscow, USSR — February 4, 1995, Moscow, Russia) was the first female World champion in international draughts. She won this title five times in a row (1973—1977). Before that she was four-times champion of the Soviet Union in Russian checkers (1969—1972). Later she was coaching and heading the Moscow draughts federation.
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Michelle Collins (athlete) Michelle Collins (born February 12, 1971) is an American track and field athlete, known for long sprints. She was the 2003 World Indoor Champion at 200 metres. Her 22.18 from that meet would clearly be an American record, but it was never ratified. Her career came to an apparent end when she was handed an 8-year suspension for using Performance-enhancing drugs, after she was linked to the BALCO Scandal. She never tested positive but admitted using THG and EPO. Her results were retroactively disqualified. After some legal wrangling, Collins threatened to appeal the decision by USADA. She agreed to drop her appeal and her suspension was reduced to the more conventional 4-year ban.
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Jim Leckie James George Leckie (9 October 1903 – 25 June 1982) was a New Zealand track and field athlete who won a bronze medal at the 1938 British Empire Games.
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Daniela Georgieva Daniela Georgieva (Bulgarian: Даниела Георгиева , née Spasova - Спасова ; born 1969) is a retired Bulgarian sprinter. She won a bronze medal at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and holds the Bulgarian record over 400 metres both outdoor (50.25 seconds) and indoor (51.74 s). She also represented Bulgaria by running in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and is a three-time European Cup Champion. She is currently on the coaching staff of the Missouri Tigers athletics team, at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, Missouri.
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Jim Bausch James Aloysius Bernard Bausch (March 29, 1906 – July 9, 1974), also known as "Jarring Jim", was an American athlete who competed mainly in the decathlon.
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Elena Makarova Elena Alekseyevna Makarova (Russian: Елена Алексеевна Макарова , born 1 February 1973) is a Russian former professional tennis player.
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Aleksey Shevtsov Aleksey Viktorovich Shevtsov (Russian: Алексей Викторович Шевцов ; born January 29, 1979 in Fergana, Uzbek SSR) is a retired amateur Russian Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's lightweight category. He represented Russia in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and later capped off his wrestling career with a bronze medal in the 60-kg division at the 2005 European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria. Shevtsov also trained as a member of the wrestling team at the Moscow Academy of Combat Sports in Moscow, under his personal coach Yevgeny Peremishin.
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Bob Larsen Bob Larsen (born c. 1939) is a Hall of Fame Track and field athletics coach, known largely for coaching distance runners, though he has had success coaching across a full range of events. Larsen is currently a coach at the Mammoth Lakes Mammoth Track Club high altitude training camp. His most notable athlete is Mebrahtom Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic Silver medalist in the Marathon, an accomplishment that ended a 20-year drought in United States distance running medals at the Olympic level (28 years for male athletes). Building on that success, Keflezighi won the men's division of the 2009 New York Marathon, the first American athlete to accomplish that feat since Alberto Salazar did it 27 years before in 1982, and the 2014 Boston Marathon. Previous to that Larsen coached the UCLA Cross Country and then Track teams between 1979 and his retirement in 1999.
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Vitaly Petrov (coach) Vitaly Opanasovich Petrov (Ukrainian: Віталій Опанасович Петров , Russian: Виталий Афанасьевич Петров , born 14 January 1938 in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian athletics coach, mainly specialized in pole vault. He was coach of great pole vaulters, like Sergey Bubka, Yelena Isinbayeva and Giuseppe Gibilisco, all three brought to win the world title, with the first two also achieved the Olympic title and world record.
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Matt Hemingway Matt Hemingway (born October 24, 1972) is an American track and field athlete. He won a silver medal in the high jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens by clearing a height of 2.34 meters (7 ft 8 in). Reflecting on this he said: "I'm ecstatic about winning the silver. You don’t lose gold medals. People win them. I won a silver and Stefan Holm won a gold." His personal best jump came at the 2000 US Indoor Championship where he leaped 2.38 m (7 ft 9 in). He jumps off of his left leg.
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Jim Thorpe (golfer) Jimmy Lee Thorpe (born February 1, 1949) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the Champions Tour.
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Boris Shukhov Boris Khabalovich Shukhov (Russian: Борис Хабалович Шухов ; born 8 May 1947) is a retired Soviet cyclist. He was part of the Soviet team that finished in ninth place at the 1968 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the 100 km team time trial at the 1972 Summer Olympics. At the world championships, he won a gold medal in 1970 and a silver in 1973 in the same event. Individually, he won the Tour de Bretagne Cycliste in 1973.
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Svetlana Sleptsova Svetlana Yuryevna Sleptsova (Russian: Светлана Юрьевна Слепцова ; born 31 July 1986 in Khanty Mansiysk) is a retired Russian biathlete. She is a member of the club CSKA (Central Sports Club Of The Army). She is a three-time Junior World Champion and won the bronze medal in the mixed relay at the 2008 World Championships in Östersund. In 2009, she was part of the Gold medal winning Russian women's relay team at the World Championships in Pyeongchang. Sleptsova is an Olympic Champion in relay at the Vancouver.
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Yelena Produnova Yelena Sergeyevna Produnova, also known as Elena, (Russian: Елена Серге́евна Продунова ; born February 15, 1980) is a Russian former competitive gymnast. Her senior international career lasted from 1995 to 2000 and earned her multiple world and Olympic medals. She was known for her innovative and powerful skills on the vault and floor exercise. The most difficult vault in women's gymnastics is named after her.