Sir Roger Bannister in 2009 | |
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Born | 23 March 1929 Harrow, England |
Height | 6'2" (187 cm) |
Weight | 154 lbs (70 kg) |
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Sport | Running |
Event(s) | 800m,1500m,1 mile. |
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CBE (born 23 March 1929) is an English former athlete best known for running the first mile in less than 4 minutes. Bannister became a distinguished neurologist and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, before retiring in 2001.
Sergey Bubka in 2007 | |
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Birth name | Сергій Назарович Бубка |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Born | 4 December 1963 Voroshilovgrad, USSR (nowLuhansk, Ukraine) |
Website | http://www.sergeybubka.com/ |
Sport | |
Sport | Pole vault |
Serhiy Nazarovych Bubka (Ukrainian: Сергі́й Наза́рович Бу́бка; Russian: Серге́й Наза́рович Бу́бка, Sergey Nazarovich Bubka; born 4 December 1963) is a retired Ukrainian pole vaulter. Repeatedly voted the world's best athlete,[1][2] he represented the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991.
Bubka won 6 consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympics gold and broke the world record for men's pole vaulting 35 times[3] (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records). He was the first to clear 6.0 metres and the only (as of March 2011) to clear 6.10 metres (20 ft).[4][5]
Nadia Comăneci | |
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Full name | Nadia Elena Comăneci |
Country represented | Romania |
Born | November 12, 1961 Onești |
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics |
Gym | National Training Center |
Former coach(es) | Béla Károlyi; Marta Károlyi |
Choreographer | Geza Pozar |
Eponymous skills | Comăneci salto (uneven bars) |
Retired | 1981 |
Nadia Elena Comăneci (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈnadi.a koməˈnet͡ʃʲ]; born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world.[1][2][3] In 2000 Comăneci was named as one of the athletes of the century by the Laureus World Sports
Sotomayor in 2009 | |
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Nationality | Cuban |
Born | 13 October 1967 Limonar, Matanzas, Cuba |
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 82 kg (180 lb) |
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Sport | Track and field |
Event(s) | High jump |
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria (born 1967) is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder.[1] The 1992 Olympic champion, he was the dominant high jumper of the 1990s; he is the only person ever to have cleared 8 feet (2.44 meters). He is widely regarded as the best high jumper of all time. Cuban boycotts of the Olympics in 1984 and 1988 and an injury in 1996 cost him chances at additional Olympic medals, but he returned to win the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Sotomayor retired in 2001, pre-empting a lifetime ban for his second positive doping test (first for cocaine, then for anabolic steroids).
Edward Jenner..did the first vaccination
Louis Pasteur | |
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Louis Pasteur photographed by Pierre Lamy Petit | |
Born | December 27, 1822 Dole, Jura, Franche-Comté, France |
Died | September 28, 1895 (aged 72) Marnes-la-Coquette, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
Nationality | French |
Fields | Chemistry Microbiology |
Institutions | Dijon Lycée University of Strasbourg Université Lille Nord de France École Normale Supérieure |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
Notable students | Charles Friedel[1] |
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