Olympic Athletes Born on January 20

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327 Athletes

Rk	Athlete	Country	Sport	Born	Died
1	Mahmoud Abbas	Egypt	Cycling	1978
2	Georg Åberg	Sweden	Athletics	1893	1946
3	Hammed Adio	Nigeria	Athletics	1959
4	Nasser Aghaie	Iran	Boxing	1944
5	Ali Al-Sadah	Qatar	Football	1961
6	Abdullah Al-Sooli	Oman	Athletics	1983
7	Hamza Alić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Athletics	1979
8	Cristián Álvarez	Chile	Football	1980
9	Boris Apostolov	Bulgaria	Football	1925	2009
10	Georgios Argyropoulos	Greece	Athletics	1970
11	Andreas Arnold	Austria	Bobsleigh	1941
12	Marie-Claude Audet	Canada	Cycling	1962
13	José Luis Aussín	Mexico	Football	1942
14	Andri Avraam	Cyprus	Athletics	1963
15	Jürgen Bachmann	Germany	Swimming	1942
16	Dmitriy Barsuk	Russia	Beach Volleyball	1980
17	Thomas Barth	East Germany	Cycling	1960
18	Héctor Bas	Puerto Rico	Diving	1951
19	Sandjema Batouli	Comoros	Athletics	1982
20	Brida Beccarelli	Switzerland	Shooting	1957
21	Guido Behling	East Germany	Canoeing	1964
22	Mekdes Bekele	Ethiopia	Athletics	1987
23	Fabio Bencivenga	Italy	Water Polo	1976
24	Per-Arne Berglund	Sweden	Athletics	1927	2002
25	Miroslav Berić	Serbia and Montenegro	Basketball	1973
26	Laura Bettega	Italy	Cross Country Skiing	1968
27	Bashir Bhola Bhala	Pakistan	Wrestling	1971
28	Samuel Bigler	United States	Weightlifting	1947
29	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	Athletics	1941
30	Gregorio Blasco	Mexico	Rowing	1944
31	Falk Boden	East Germany	Cycling	1960
32	Michael Booth	Great Britain	Gymnastics	1946
33	Ouissem Bousnina	Tunisia	Handball	1976
34	Ángel Boyenechea	Argentina	Equestrianism	1947
35	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	Athletics	1969
36	François Bremer	Luxembourg	Weightlifting	1900
37	Umberto Brizzi	Italy	Weightlifting	1908	1991
38	Konrad Brunkman	Sweden	Rowing	1887	1925
39	Kim Bui	Germany	Gymnastics	1989
40	Angelo Carosi	Italy	Athletics	1964
41	Giovanni Casale	Italy	Judo	1980
42	Ricardo Chandeck	Panama	Shooting	1973
43	Daniel Chávez	Mexico	Rowing	1946
44	Chen I-Chuan	Chinese Taipei	Swimming	1991
45	Chen Jianhong	China	Swimming	1969
46	Chen Shaoguo	China	Athletics	1971
47	Chen Xiujun	China	Swimming	1986
48	Duke Chinyadza	Zimbabwe	Boxing	1962
49	Nicholas Choi	Hong Kong	Fencing	1993
50	Angkhan Chomphuphuang	Thailand	Boxing	1981
51	Silvio Confortola	Italy	Cross Country Skiing	1910
52	Nancy Contreras	Mexico	Cycling	1978
53	Melissa Corfe	South Africa	Swimming	1986
54	Radoš Čubrić	Yugoslavia	Cycling	1934
55	Guilhermina da Cruz	Angola	Athletics	1970
56	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	Swimming	1963
57	Sanlazaro de la Cruz	Dominican Republic	Weightlifting	1950
58	Andrey Deyev	Russia	Fencing	1978
59	Yoyaga Dit Coulibaly	Cote d'Ivoire	Athletics	1939
60	Dong Fangxiao	China	Gymnastics	1986
61	Serge Dyot	France	Judo	1960
62	Mike East	Great Britain	Athletics	1978
63	Edmar	Brazil	Football	1960
64	Stevimir Ercegovac	Croatia	Athletics	1974
65	Mustapha Essaïd	France	Athletics	1970
66	Muhammad Fayyaz	Pakistan	Athletics	1967
67	Pete Fejeran	Guam	Weightlifting	1971
68	Paul Felinger	Austria	Canoeing	1913
69	Bodo Ferl	East Germany	Bobsleigh	1963
70	Ros Few	Great Britain	Athletics	1955
71	Anatoly Filippov	Unified Team	Boxing	1963
72	Henryk Flinik	Poland	Hockey	1928	2008
73	Alfredo Foni	Italy	Football	1911	1985
74	William Forsyth	Canada	Athletics	1891	1939
75	Odd Frantzen	Norway	Football	1913	1977
76	Tsuneko Furuta	Japan	Swimming	1921
77	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	Athletics	1972
78	Leo Garnes	Barbados	Athletics	1968
79	Dario Gasco	Argentina	Cycling	1987
80	Geor	Georgia	Beach Volleyball	1981
81	András Gergely	Hungary	Ice Hockey	1916	2008
82	László Gergely	Hungary	Ice Hockey	1916	1946
83	Yseult Gervy	Belgium	Swimming	1979
84	Enrico Gilardi	Italy	Basketball	1957
85	Jean Glarner	Switzerland	Hockey	1940
86	Vyacheslav Gorpishin	Russia	Handball	1970
87	Gerry Gray	Canada	Football	1961
88	Ronald Gray	Great Britain	Art Competitions	1868	1951
89	Richard Gregory	Canada	Rowing	1890	1925
90	Cecil Griffiths	Great Britain	Athletics	1901	1973
91	Alfred Grosche	West Germany	Ski Jumping	1950
92	Jelena Grubišić	Croatia	Handball	1987
93	Elena Guerra	Uruguay	Athletics	1976
94	Jaime Guerra	Mexico	Equestrianism	1963
95	Elina Guseva	Soviet Union, Unified Team	Handball	1964
96	Egon Gutmann	Germany	Art Competitions	1894	1955
97	Ehsan Haddadi	Iran	Athletics	1985
98	Ann-Christine Hagberg	Sweden	Swimming	1948
99	Karim Hagui	Tunisia	Football	1984
100	Inge Hammarström	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1948
101	Abdel Aziz Hammi	Tunisia	Boxing	1949
102	François Hamon	France	Cycling	1939
103	Karl Hanisch	Austria	Fencing	1900
104	Alvin Harrison	United States	Athletics	1974
105	Calvin Harrison	United States	Athletics	1974
106	Saori Haruguchi	Japan	Swimming	1987
107	Anne Haug	Germany	Triathlon	1983
108	Carol Heiss	United States	Figure Skating	1940
109	Polona Hercog	Slovenia	Tennis	1991
110	Emerson Hernández	El Salvador	Athletics	1989
111	Marie-Françoise Hervieu	Canada	Fencing	1972
112	Valeriy Hoborov	Soviet Union	Basketball	1965	1989
113	Ute Hommola	East Germany	Athletics	1952
114	Ruslan Honcharov	Ukraine	Figure Skating	1973
115	Jan Hrbatý	Czechoslovakia	Ice Hockey	1942
116	Gerhard Huber	Austria	Gymnastics	1934
117	Elisha Hughes	Antigua and Barbuda	Cycling	1959
118	José Andrés Ibáñez	Spain	Weightlifting	1966
119	Roberto Ibáñez	Ecuador	Judo	1985
120	David Ilariani	Georgia	Athletics	1981
121	Im Jeong-U	South Korea	Hockey	1978
122	Clint Jackson	United States	Boxing	1954
123	Claude Jameson	United States	Football	1886	1943
124	Boyd Janny	United States	Handball	1964
125	Malek Jaziri	Tunisia	Tennis	1984
126	Jeong Su-Geun	South Korea	Baseball	1977
127	Sašo Jereb	Slovenia	Judo	1983
128	Marcos Luis Jerman	Argentina	Cross Country Skiing	1957
129	Hjalmar Johansson	Sweden	Diving, Swimming, Athletics	1874	1957
130	Ðjorđe Jokić	Serbia and Montenegro	Football	1981
131	Jarosława Jóźwiakowska-Bieda	Poland	Athletics	1937
132	Ju Se-Hyeok	South Korea	Table Tennis	1980
133	Feliciano Juntareal	Philippines	Sailing	1934
134	Yury Kalinin	Soviet Union	Ski Jumping	1953
135	Anetta Kalinowski	West Germany	Shooting	1963
136	Mats Karlsson	Sweden	Volleyball	1963
137	Dimitrios Karydis	Greece	Swimming	1951
138	Yury Kashirin	Soviet Union	Cycling	1959
139	Vladimír Kejř	Czechoslovakia	Gymnastics	1929
140	Donna Kellogg	Great Britain	Badminton	1978
141	Robert Kennedy	Great Britain	Athletics	1916	2004
142	Sonja Kesselschläger	Germany	Athletics	1978
143	Kim Deuk-Bong	South Korea	Boxing	1934
144	Kim Jung-Won	North Korea	Athletics	1973
145	Christian Kirchberger	Austria	Ice Hockey	1944
146	Theodor Klem	Norway	Rowing	1889	1963
147	Ferenc Klics	Hungary	Athletics	1924	1993
148	Miroslav Klinger	Czechoslovakia	Gymnastics	1893	1979
149	Vjekoslav Kobešćak	Croatia	Water Polo	1974
150	Kara Kohler	United States	Rowing	1991
151	N'Guessan Sebastien Konan	Cote d'Ivoire	Taekwondo	1980
152	Dimo Krastinov	Bulgaria	Ice Hockey	1945
153	Boris Kriunov	Soviet Union	Athletics	1935
154	Aleksandr Krivchinkov	Russia	Athletics	1983
155	Czesław Kwieciński	Poland	Wrestling	1943
156	Émile Lahoud	Lebanon	Swimming	1975
157	Lee Yeong-Seon	South Korea	Volleyball	1962
158	Tómas Leifsson	Iceland	Alpine Skiing	1953
159	Boštjan Lekan	Slovenia	Biathlon	1966
160	Edward Lessimore	Great Britain	Shooting	1881	1960
161	Janin Lindenberg	Germany	Athletics	1987
162	Al Lindley	United States	Rowing	1904	1991
163	Willie Lobo	Uganda	Hockey	1937
164	Shota Lomidze	Soviet Union	Wrestling	1936	1993
165	Miloslav Loos	Czechoslovakia	Cycling	1914	2010
166	Fabiana López	Mexico	Fencing	1966
167	Pascal Loretan	Switzerland	Shooting	1989
168	Tor Lund	Norway	Gymnastics	1888	1972
169	Ulla Lundholm	Finland	Athletics	1957
170	Jan Lutomski	Poland	Swimming	1937
171	John Lyttle	Ireland	Boxing	1931	1997
172	Jhonny MacKay	Ecuador	Judo	1954
173	Aleksandar Malenko	Macedonia	Swimming	1979
174	Rene Mandri	Estonia	Cycling	1984
175	Frank Mantek	East Germany	Weightlifting	1959
176	Marsha Mark-Baird	Trinidad and Tobago	Athletics	1974
177	Vladimir Markov	Russia	Football	1889	1942
178	Milan Marković	Serbia and Montenegro	Volleyball	1980
179	Catherine Marsal	France	Cycling	1971
180	Donald Martínez	El Salvador	Boxing	1971
181	Franz Marx	Austria	Wrestling	1963
182	Germaine Mason	Great Britain	Athletics	1983
183	Florian Maurice	France	Football	1974
184	Richard McClure	Canada	Rowing	1935
185	Kaarle McCulloch	Australia	Cycling	1988
186	Art McKinlay	United States	Rowing	1932	2009
187	John McKinlay	United States	Rowing	1932	2013
188	John McNally	United States	Shooting	1956
189	Chris Mears	Canada	Baseball	1978
190	Paul Meister	Switzerland	Fencing	1926
191	Hatem Mersal	Egypt	Athletics	1975
192	Lazar Miloević	Individual Olympic Athletes	Canoeing	1975
193	Sajiro Miyama	Japan	Boxing	1917
194	Aviram Mizrahi	Israel	Canoeing	1962
195	Dieter Moherndl	Germany	Snowboarding	1968
196	Stephanie Moorhouse	Australia	Gymnastics	1987
197	Antonio Moreira	Spain	Shooting	1897
198	Sakae Morimoto	Japan	Hockey	1977
199	Anthony Moura-Komenan	Cote d'Ivoire	Football	1986
200	Finn Münster	Norway	Gymnastics	1887	1965
201	Tom Murray	United States	Rowing	1969
202	Iryna Mykhalchenko	Ukraine	Athletics	1972
203	Marit Myrmæl	Norway	Cross Country Skiing	1954
204	John Naber	United States	Swimming	1956
205	Horacio Nava	Mexico	Athletics	1982
206	Joan Nesbit	United States	Athletics	1962
207	Nguyễn Ðình Chi	Vietnam	Wrestling	1953
208	Alfons Niklas	Poland	Athletics	1929
209	Bakhtiyer Nurullayev	Uzbekistan	Weightlifting	1975
210	Leonard O'Brien	United States	Hockey	1904	1939
211	Constantin Obreja	Romania	Bobsleigh	1955
212	Jiro Ogawa	Japan	Ice Hockey	1939
213	Isao Okano	Japan	Judo	1944
214	Ann Osgerby	Great Britain	Swimming	1963
215	Janet Osgerby	Great Britain	Swimming	1963
216	Eric Otieno	Kenya	Hockey	1956
217	Hüseyin Özkan	Turkey	Judo	1972
218	Péter Pallai	Hungary	Bobsleigh	1963
219	Péter Parsch	Hungary	Athletics	1936
220	M. R. Patil	India	Wrestling	1968
221	René Paul	Great Britain	Fencing	1921	2008
222	Gheorghe Păunescu	Romania	Gymnastics	1948
223	Alf Pedersen	Norway	Boxing	1904	1925
224	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	Athletics	1971
225	Ivan Penev	Bulgaria	Alpine Skiing	1950
226	Peng Xinyong	China	Badminton	1973
227	Gabriele Perthes	East Germany	Swimming	1948
228	Evelio Planas	Cuba	Athletics	1930
229	Antonio Pocoví	Argentina	Athletics	1922	2004
230	František Poláček	Czechoslovakia	Boxing	1940
231	Veronika Popova	Russia	Swimming	1991
232	Stuart Poulter	Australasia	Athletics	1889	1956
233	Yevgeny Prokhin	Kazakhstan	Water Polo	1973
234	Paolo Quinteros	Argentina	Basketball	1979
235	Britt Raaby	Denmark	Swimming	1978
236	André Luiz Ramos	Brazil	Athletics	1970
237	Seitoku Ri	Japan	Speed Skating	1912
238	Maurice Rich	Australia	Athletics	1932
239	Abelardo Ríos	Colombia	Cycling	1952
240	Mel Rippon	Australia	Water Polo	1981
241	Ana Paula Rodrigues	Brazil	Gymnastics	1988
242	Artur Rogowski	Poland	Shooting	1936
243	Laban Rotich	Kenya	Athletics	1969
244	Herman Rouwé	Netherlands	Rowing	1943
245	Mónica Rueda	Spain	Hockey	1976
246	Mario Sabatini	West Germany	Wrestling	1943
247	Ari Salin	Finland	Athletics	1947
248	Elisabeth Salom	Spain	Rhythmic Gymnastics	1989
249	Heikki Sammallahti	Finland	Gymnastics	1886	1954
250	Andrey Samokhin	Kazakhstan	Wrestling	1985
251	Rich Sanders	United States	Wrestling	1945	1972
252	Egon Schein	Germany	Athletics	1912	1977
253	Thorleif Schjelderup	Norway	Ski Jumping	1920	2006
254	Philipp Schörghofer	Austria	Alpine Skiing	1983
255	Margit Schreib	Germany	Synchronized Swimming	1967
256	Eddie Schroeder	United States	Speed Skating	1911	2005
257	Franz Schüßler	Austria	Ice Hockey	1911	1942
258	Tollien Schuurman	Netherlands	Athletics	1913	1994
259	Clyde Sefton	Australia	Cycling	1951
260	Patrick Sellier	France	Rowing	1948
261	Todor Semov	Bulgaria	Equestrianism	1898
262	Juliene Simpson	United States	Basketball	1953
263	Henrik Sjöberg	Sweden	Athletics, Gymnastics	1875	1905
264	Andrey Skabelka	Belarus	Ice Hockey	1971
265	Gretha Smit	Netherlands	Speed Skating	1976
266	Roger Smith	Bahamas	Tennis	1964
267	Tatyana Sotnikova	Russia	Ice Hockey	1981
268	Bruno Splieth	Germany	Sailing	1917	1990
269	Paul Stalder	Switzerland	Athletics	1930
270	Clay Stanley	United States	Volleyball	1978
271	Walter Steinbauer	West Germany	Bobsleigh	1945	1991
272	Phillip Stekl	United States	Rowing	1956
273	Alan Stevens	Hong Kong	Sailing	1933
274	Valcho Stoev	Bulgaria	Athletics	1952
275	Vesna Stojanovska	Macedonia	Swimming	1985
276	Eric Strand	Sweden	Fencing	1966
277	Aki Sudo	Japan	Ice Hockey	1975
278	Camilla Svensson	Sweden	Football	1969
279	Olena Sydorenko	Ukraine	Volleyball	1975
280	Ian Syster	South Africa	Athletics	1976	2004
281	Alexandru Szabo	Romania	Water Polo	1937
282	Attila Szekrényessy	Hungary	Figure Skating	1913	1995
283	Henryk Szost	Poland	Athletics	1982
284	Tan Jian	China	Athletics	1988
285	Arturo Tanaquin	Philippines	Wrestling	1941
286	Shikha Tandon	India	Swimming	1985
287	Charles Tayot	Gabon	Athletics	1971
288	Thaís Guedes	Brazil	Football	1993
289	Jérôme Thomas	France	Boxing	1979
290	Don Thompson	Great Britain	Athletics	1933	2006
291	Ragnvald Thunestvedt	Denmark	Athletics	1926	1980
292	Armas Toivonen	Finland	Athletics	1899	1973
293	Vasile Tomoiagă	Romania	Rowing	1964
294	Allan Tong	New Zealand	Rowing	1931
295	Serguey Torres	Cuba	Canoeing	1987
296	Sean Townsend	United States	Gymnastics	1979
297	Massimo Trevisan	Italy	Swimming	1968
298	Nataliya Trunova	Kazakhstan	Ice Hockey	1982
299	Mosolesa Tsie	Lesotho	Boxing	1980
300	Tümendembereliin Züünbayan	Mongolia	Wrestling	1974
301	Joe Tyler	United States	Bobsleigh	1948
302	Shigeaki Uchino	Japan	Modern Pentathlon	1931
303	Łukasz Uhma	Poland	Gymnastics	1954
304	Kenichi Umezawa	Japan	Fencing	1957
305	Unai	Spain	Football	1977
306	Gerrit Van Gestel	Belgium	Cycling	1958
307	Ēriks Vanags	Russia	Athletics	1893
308	Fabián Vázquez	Mexico	Equestrianism	1943
309	Michael Veith	West Germany	Alpine Skiing	1957
310	Fabián Velasco	Spain	Athletics	1902	1953
311	Jochem Verberne	Netherlands	Rowing	1978
312	Elizabeth Viegas	Angola	Handball	1985
313	Patricia Vila	Mexico	Synchronized Swimming	1972
314	Diane Virjee	Canada	Hockey	1960
315	Bill Waugh	Great Britain	Hockey	1973
316	Andreas Weikenstorfer	West Germany	Bobsleigh	1958
317	Nicola White	Great Britain	Hockey	1988
318	Per Winge	Denmark	Shooting	1914	1989
319	Konrad Winkler	Poland	Fencing	1882	1962
320	Xu Yaping	China	Canoeing	1982
321	Misaki Yamaguchi	Japan	Swimming	1990
322	Yang Hongbing	China	Hockey	1967
323	Yu Seung-Jin	South Korea	Hockey	1969
324	Czesław Zając	Poland	Shooting	1927
325	Oleg Zhestkov	Russia	Canoeing	1987
326	Levan Zhorzholiani	Georgia	Judo	1988
327	Anatole Zongo Kuyo	Cote d'Ivoire	Athletics	1963

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