Shot Put New Zealand Adams was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, to a Tongan mother (Lilika Ngauamo) and an English father (Sydney Adams). She was married to Bertrand Vili, a discus thrower from New Caledonia, but divorced him early in 2010. Valerie has several brothers...
Orem, Utah, U.S. 2010 bobsled team Bill Schuffenhauer was was born to a drug- addicted mother. He started using drugs as a small child and, to not go hungry, scavenged for food from restaurant dumpsters. In junior high he found a love for athletics and eventually...
Women’s Skeleton Noelle won the Silver Olympic medal in Sochi She just missed the podium in the 2010 Winter Games after finishing just one-tenth of a second out of the medal race. She travels to all her international competitions with “Team Pikus-Pace” that...
Down Hill Skier Sundance, Utah 2010 alpine skiing. He finished 20th in the men’s alpine downhill ski race Steven Nyman, born and bred in Utah, was skiing at 2 (Dad ran the ski school at Sundance) and was a discretionary pick to the 2002 Junior Worlds squad;...
Alpine, Utah, U.S. 2010 bobsled team Chris Fogt was brakeman on the United States’ No. 2 four-man bobsled. The sled crashed on the second of four timed runs and did not compete the final day of bobsled racing. Chris Fogt began the sport of bobsled in 2007 after...
Bronze Medal Winner Calgary, Canada 2010 bobsled team 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy David made his Olympic Winter Games debut in 2006 as a brakeman for the Canada 2 sled in both two- and four-man events. David climbed his way into the Canada 1 sled in both...
biathlon (Japan) 2002 Salt Lake City “It is not usual with Chinese and one Japanese ladies among the four best competitors in biathlon, but today [22 Feb 2002] Tamami Tanaka followed as fourth. Unfortunately her only miss was her final shot.” Source:...
Women’s Ice Hockey Germany 2002 Salt Lake City Sister to Stephanie Wartosch Sabine Ruckauer of the Waiblingen Branch, Stuttgart Germany Stake, is a defender on the German National ice hockey team. Her team in Germany won four consecutive national ice hockey...
ski jump (USA) silver 2002 Salt Lake City Joe Pack is an American freestyle skier and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, in aerials. Joe is a Latter-day...
Olympics: 2002 Salt Lake City Event: Bobsled Medal: none Gea Johnson, left, was part of the first-ever women’s Olympic bobsleigh competition at Utah’s Olympic Park in February 2002. Leading up to competition day, Johnson suffered a hamstring injury that...
luge (Venezuela) 2002 Salt Lake City Boise’s father-son team is a first for Winter Games. Between the two of them, Latter-day Saint father and son Werner and Chris have set a few Olympic records. For one, Werner was the oldest male competitor at the 2002 Salt...
luge (US Virgin Islands) 2002 Salt Lake City The first black female Olympian to compete in the luge. “I thought: ‘Wow, I never planned this!'” said Dinah, a 32-year-old English...
skier (Australia) 2002 Salt Lake City “There is an amazing amount of people here supporting me. Volunteers have heard or read about me and they’re always wishing me good luck and telling me they’re behind me. It’s not quite the same as what the...
gymnastics (USA) silver 2004 Athens He is from Oklahoma city, Oklahoma. His father, Wayne Young, was also an Olympian. He has five sisters and on brother. He is BYU’s only all around champion...
gymnastics (Brazil) 2004 Athens He was eliminated during qualifying rounds of various individual events. Source: LDS athletes mine Oly ‘medals’, LDS Church News Archives, 28 Aug...
track and field (USA) 2004 Athens He was eliminated in 1,500 meters semifinals. Source: LDS athletes mine Oly ‘medals’, LDS Church News Archives, 28 Aug...
track and field (USA) 2004 Athens He served a mission from 1996-1997. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, he was eliminated in the hammer throw semifinal. Source: LDS athletes mine Oly ‘medals’, LDS Church News Archives, 28 Aug 2004. USA Track and...
track and field (USA) 2004 Athens Racewalking USA He finished 26th in 20km race walk. Source: LDS athletes mine Oly ‘medals’, LDS Church News Archives, 28 Aug...
Paralympics 2004 Greece 2000 Sydney A Relief Society president of the Urbana University Ward Champaign Illinois Stake at the time of the Olympics from Illinois, American wheelchair track athlete Miriam Nibley competed in the 100-meter, 800-meter and marathon races in...
track and field (USA) 2004 Athens In 1997, she flew past five hurdles and 55 meters in 7.30 seconds (faster than Jackie Joyner-Kersee has ever done it) to claim the world best title. In 2004, she finished 20th in the women’s heptathlon in Athens. Source: LDS...
