Greatest Athletes
Present
Léon Marchand is a French swimmer, born on 17 May 2002 in Toulouse. He specialises in the individual medley, breaststroke and butterfly events. Since 2022, he has held the French records for the 200 m medley, 200 m butterfly and 200 m breaststroke, and since 2019 the French record for the 400 m medley. He dreams of a medal at the 2024 Olympic Games
Teddy Riner is a French judoka in the over 100kg (heavyweight) category, holder of a record eleven world championship titles, Olympic champion in London in 2012, Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and the mixed team event at Tokyo 2020, bronze medallist in Beijing in 2008 and Tokyo in 2021, five-time European champion.
Romane Dicko, born on 30 September 1999 in Clamart, is a French judoka in the over 78kg category.
At the age of 18, she won her first European senior individual title at the European Championships on 28 April 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2021, she won bronze in the individual event and gold in the mixed team event at the Tokyo Olympic Games. She went on to become world champion in 2022.
Bassa Mawem is a French climber, born on 9 November 1984.
He has been a member of the French speed climbing team since 2011.
Past
Milo of Croton became an Olympic champion several times during his nearly thirty-year career. He was a six time Olympic victor ; once for boys wrestling in 540 BC at the 60th Olympics, and five time wrestling champion at the 62nd through 66th Olympiads.
Theagenes of Thasos was a successful boxer, pankratiast and runner . He won the Olympic boxing tournement in the seventy-fifth Olympiad of 480 B.C., and in the next Olympics he won the title in the Pankration .He was said to have won over 1,400 contests in many kinds of sport.
Diagoras of Rhodes won the boxing event in the games of 464 B.C.
John Mary Pius Boland was born on September 16th 1872 in Ireland. He was an Olympic tennis champion in 1896.He studied law in Oxford and Bonn.
Aris Konstadinidis won first place in the cycling race in the 1896 Olympics. He was the founder of the cycling company in Athens.
Eugene-Henri Gravelotte, born on 6th February 1876, studied medicine. He won first place in fencing in the Olympic Games in1896.
