Olympic Athletes Born on January 7

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370 Athletes

Rk	Athlete	Country	Sport	Born	Died
1	Manzoor Ahmed	Pakistan	Hockey	1968
2	Mumtaz Ahmed	Pakistan	Swimming	1970
3	Toyoyi Aihara	Japan	Athletics	1914
4	David Alarza	Spain	Judo	1977
5	Jozo Alebić	Yugoslavia	Athletics	1947
6	Vasily Alekseyev	Soviet Union	Weightlifting	1942	2011
7	Valeyta Althouse	United States	Athletics	1974
8	Valeria Álvarez	Argentina	Swimming	1978
9	Georg Andersen	Norway	Athletics	1963
10	Georgy Andreyev	Russia	Athletics	1976
11	Stefan Angelov	Bulgaria	Wrestling	1947
12	Luc Argand	Switzerland	Sailing	1948
13	Aderval Arvani	Brazil	Volleyball	1949
14	Yoshiro Asakuma	Japan	Athletics	1914	2008
15	Yevgeny Babich	Soviet Union	Ice Hockey	1921	1972
16	Hervé Balland	France	Cross Country Skiing	1964
17	Yomi Bankole	Nigeria	Table Tennis	1960	2012
18	Miklós Barcza	Hungary	Ice Hockey	1908	1948
19	José Julio Barillas	Guatemala	Athletics	1932
20	Franz Bartl	Austria	Handball	1915	1941
21	Nestoras Batzelas	Greece	Wrestling	1980
22	John Beaumont	United States	Shooting	1924	2000
23	Yelena Bechke	Unified Team	Figure Skating	1966
24	Florian Beck	West Germany	Alpine Skiing	1958
25	Dave Belam	Great Britain	Cross Country Skiing	1968
26	Aleksandr Belkin	Russia	Snowboarding	1983
27	Ali Ben Maghenia	France	Boxing	1961
28	José María Benavides	Spain	Sailing	1945
29	Aina Berg	Sweden	Swimming	1902	1992
30	Zakarya Bergdich	Morocco	Football	1989
31	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	Athletics	1974
32	Marek Bílek	Czech Republic	Athletics	1973
33	Paul Bindel	Germany	Art Competitions	1894	1973
34	Laurie Birks	Australia	Boxing	1928
35	John Bissinger	United States	Gymnastics	1879	1941
36	Birgit Blum	Liechtenstein	Judo	1968
37	Wiesław Bocheński	Poland	Wrestling	1944
38	Gerhard Boetzelen	Germany	Rowing	1906	1995
39	Cees Bolding	Netherlands	Art Competitions	1897	1979
40	Hans-Joachim Borzym	East Germany	Rowing	1948
41	Lešek Boubela	Czechoslovakia	Water Polo	1910
42	Serge Bouemba	Gabon	Boxing	1967
43	René Bougnol	France	Fencing	1911	1956
44	Noureddine Bouyahiaoui	Morocco	Football	1955
45	Svetlana Boyarkina-Zhurova	Russia	Speed Skating	1972
46	Charles Bracht	Belgium	Alpine Skiing	1915	1978
47	Rosalyn Bryant	United States	Athletics	1956
48	Jane Bullen	Great Britain	Equestrianism	1948
49	Marc Burns	Trinidad and Tobago	Athletics	1983
50	Jairo Calanche	Colombia	Football	1970	2002
51	Harry Campbell	United States	Boxing	1938	1961
52	Enrique Campos	Venezuela	Cycling	1961
53	Carlos Castro	Mexico	Athletics	1949
54	Somoza Celestin	Haiti	Judo	1973
55	Zdeněk Černický	Czechoslovakia	Canoeing	1914
56	Chang Chanchiu	China	Athletics	1914
57	Chang Song-Rok	North Korea	Cross Country Skiing	1969
58	Diane Charles	Great Britain	Athletics	1933
59	Roger Chassat	France	Shooting	1963
60	Claude Chazottes	France	Football	1949
61	William Chetcuti	Malta	Shooting	1985
62	Mario Chiarini	Italy	Baseball	1981
63	Carl-Axel Christiernsson	Sweden	Athletics	1898	1969
64	Francesca Clayton	Great Britain	Water Polo	1990
65	Nicky Coles	New Zealand	Rowing	1972
66	Carlos Cordero	Mexico	Athletics	1977
67	Charlie Cosnier	France	Snowboarding	1980
68	Tara Croxford	Canada	Hockey	1968
69	Susan Cushman	Canada	Rhythmic Gymnastics	1972
70	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	Swimming	1988
71	Ferdinand Daniš	Czechoslovakia	Gymnastics	1929
72	Vic Darchinyan	Armenia	Boxing	1976
73	René Daubinet	France	Water Polo	1933
74	Francine Dauven	Belgium	Swimming	1949
75	Bruno de Barros	Brazil	Athletics	1987
76	Reggie de Jong	Netherlands	Swimming	1964
77	Dmitry Debelka	Belarus	Wrestling	1976
78	John Degenkolb	Germany	Cycling	1989
79	István Demeter	Hungary	Wrestling	1972
80	Roberto Dias	Brazil	Football	1943	2007
81	Christoph Dieckmann	Germany	Beach Volleyball	1976
82	Markus Dieckmann	Germany	Beach Volleyball	1976
83	Horace Disston	United States	Hockey	1906	1982
84	Slavica Djukić	Yugoslavia, Austria	Handball	1960
85	Bill Dodge	United States	Bobsleigh	1925	1987
86	Frank Dominik	Austria	Bobsleigh	1931
87	Héctor Droguett	Chile	Cycling	1925	2008
88	Ndaba Dube	Zimbabwe	Boxing	1959
89	Vladimir Dubrovshchik	Belarus	Athletics	1972
90	Robert Dunn	United States	Handball	1973
91	Kenny Egan	Ireland	Boxing	1982
92	Mohamed El-Azoul	Egypt	Swimming	1966
93	Alessandro Fabian	Italy	Triathlon	1988
94	Rudolf Falk	Sweden	Athletics	1898	1988
95	Stéphanie Falzon	France	Athletics	1983
96	Ahmed Farfar	Algeria	Handball	1953
97	Sarah Farnworth	Greece	Softball	1979
98	Karin Fischer	Germany	Curling	1972
99	Paul Fitzgerald	Ireland	Boxing	1963
100	Gustav Flatow	Germany	Gymnastics	1875	1945
101	Yamila Flor	Cuba	Softball	1973
102	Fu Yuanhui	China	Swimming	1996
103	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Norway	Alpine Skiing	1967
104	Yehuda Gafni	Israel	Basketball	1930
105	Lou Galloway	United States	Volleyball	1942
106	Antoine Gambert	France	Rowing	1959
107	Elene Gedevanishvili	Georgia	Figure Skating	1990
108	Houshang Ghazvini	Iran	Shooting	1938
109	Kaies Ghodhbane	Tunisia	Football	1976
110	Susi Giebisch	Austria	Figure Skating	1930
111	Gin Gang-Hwan	South Korea	Athletics	1917
112	Panagiotis Gionis	Greece	Table Tennis	1980
113	Martin Glynn	Canada	Bobsleigh	1951
114	K'oba Gogoladze	Georgia	Boxing	1973
115	Robert Goix	France	Athletics	1906
116	Erika González	Mexico	Swimming	1972
117	Julio González	Cuba	Boxing	1961
118	Piero Gorgatto	Italy	Sailing	1925
119	Brynhild Grasmoen	United States	Alpine Skiing	1929	2000
120	Zhora Graziani-Koullou	France	Athletics	1966
121	Constantin Grecescu	Romania	Athletics	1929	1996
122	Ioan Grigoraş	Romania	Wrestling	1963
123	Christophe Guénot	France	Wrestling	1979
124	Angel Guerreros	Paraguay	Athletics	1953
125	Raed Hamdan	Saudi Arabia	Table Tennis	1962
126	Abdul Hamid	Pakistan	Hockey	1927
127	Zsuzsanna Hámori	Hungary	Synchronized Swimming	1980
128	Han Hyeong-Min	South Korea	Boxing	1971
129	Fred Heckwolf	United States	Athletics	1879	1924
130	József Hegedűs	Hungary	Gymnastics	1910	1981
131	Ken Henry	United States	Speed Skating	1929	2009
132	Israel Hernández	Cuba	Judo	1970
133	Carsten Heymann	Germany	Biathlon	1972
134	Mirja Hietamies	Finland	Cross Country Skiing	1931	2013
135	Erik Holm	Sweden	Water Polo	1912	1999
136	Takumi Horiuchi	Japan	Sailing	1949
137	Robert Howard	Ireland	Swimming	1956
138	Hsiao Mei-Yu	Chinese Taipei	Cycling	1985
139	Ina Hüging	Germany	Swimming	1980
140	Jani Hurme	Finland	Ice Hockey	1975
141	Urs Imboden	Switzerland, Moldova	Alpine Skiing	1975
142	Shunta Ishikura	Japan	Wrestling	1937
143	Olha Ivankova	Ukraine	Athletics	1973
144	Birger Jansen	Norway	Ice Hockey	1948
145	Paweł Jaroszek	Poland	Speed Skating	1972
146	Charlie Jenkins	United States	Athletics	1934
147	Ji Seung-Hyeon	South Korea	Handball	1979
148	Thorsten Johansen	Norway	Shooting	1888	1963
149	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	Athletics	1987
150	Yoshinori Kadonaga	Japan	Swimming	1947
151	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	Athletics	1969
152	Mario Kalinke	Germany	Weightlifting	1974
153	Milorad Karalić	Yugoslavia	Handball	1946
154	Lars Karlsson	Sweden	Handball	1948
155	Klaus Kathan	Germany	Ice Hockey	1977
156	Ann Keenan-Buckley	Ireland	Athletics	1962
157	Shane Kelly	Australia	Cycling	1972
158	Kabelo Kgosiemang	Botswana	Athletics	1986
159	Ahmed Ali Khan	Pakistan	Boxing	1981
160	Jeanne Khristou	Greece	Fencing	1981
161	Kim Yeong-Gi	South Korea	Basketball	1936
162	Seien Kin	Japan	Speed Skating	1914
163	Jos Klijnen	Netherlands	Art Competitions	1887	1973
164	Olga Klimko	Soviet Union, Unified Team	Equestrianism	1960
165	Angelika Knipping	West Germany	Swimming	1961
166	Jacqueline Knol	Netherlands	Softball	1977
167	Tormod Knutsen	Norway	Nordic Combined	1932
168	Andrés Kogovsek	Argentina	Handball	1974
169	Paweł Kolodzinski	Poland	Sailing	1988
170	Peter Kondrát	Czech Republic	Bobsleigh	1969
171	Matvey Korobov	Russia	Boxing	1983
172	Sergey Kot	Uzbekistan	Athletics	1960
173	Ferenc Kovács	Hungary	Football	1934
174	Judit Kovács	Hungary	Archery	1956
175	Gábor Köves	Hungary	Tennis	1970
176	Andrey Krukov	Kazakhstan	Figure Skating	1971
177	Jan Kuczyński	Poland	Wrestling	1935	2009
178	Stefan Kuhnke	West Germany	Rowing	1959
179	Vladislav Kulikov	Unified Team, Russia	Swimming	1971
180	Gheorghe Kurgheleasvili	Moldova	Judo	1975
181	Edi Kurniawan	Indonesia	Weightlifting	1988
182	Maryna Kyiko	Ukraine	Trampolining	1987
183	Abdulaziz Ladan	Saudi Arabia	Athletics	1991
184	Eero Laine	Finland	Biathlon	1926	1998
185	Pekka Lairola	Finland	Swimming	1928	2001
186	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	Athletics	1965
187	Florica Lavric	Romania	Rowing	1962
188	Olga Lazarenko	Russia	Freestyle Skiing	1980
189	André le Goupil	France	Equestrianism	1931
190	Paulette le Raer	France	Gymnastics	1932
191	Andrés Ledesma	Colombia	Boxing	1980
192	Bob LeGendre	United States	Athletics	1897	1931
193	Richard León	Venezuela	Judo	1976
194	Carl Gustaf Lewenhaupt	Sweden	Equestrianism	1884	1935
195	Bjarne Lingås	Norway	Boxing	1933	2011
196	Diana Lopez	United States	Taekwondo	1984
197	Melchor López	Argentina	Shooting	1913
198	Anis Lounifi	Tunisia	Judo	1978
199	Lu Bin	China	Swimming	1977
200	Frank Lubin	United States	Basketball	1910	1999
201	Jörg Lucke	East Germany	Rowing	1942
202	Jennifer Luff	Australia	Rowing	1966
203	Julio César Luna	Venezuela	Weightlifting	1973
204	Humbert Lundén	Sweden	Sailing	1882	1961
205	Liudmyla Lusnikova	Ukraine	Judo	1982
206	Dick Mac Neill	Netherlands	Football	1898	1963
207	Francisco Maciel	Mexico	Tennis	1964
208	Maria Macovei	Romania	Shooting	1960
209	John Maddocks	Great Britain	Sailing	1958
210	Kostas Manetas	Greece	Fencing	1980
211	Cliff Mannon	United States	Handball	1970
212	Józef Manowski	Poland	Ice Hockey	1935
213	Theresa Manuel	United States	Athletics	1926
214	Frédéric Marin-Cudraz	France	Alpine Skiing	1974
215	Yane Marques	Brazil	Modern Pentathlon	1984
216	Max Marsille	Belgium	Boxing	1931
217	Émile Martel	France	Gymnastics	1898
218	José Daniel Martín	Spain	Equestrianism	1974
219	Yoshihiko Matsumoto	Japan	Volleyball	1981
220	Sergey Maytakov	Russia	Alpine Skiing	1990
221	Michael McGlinchey	New Zealand	Football	1987
222	Aaron McIntosh	New Zealand	Sailing	1972
223	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	Swimming	1981
224	Christian Meili	Switzerland	Bobsleigh	1963
225	Meleti Ross Melehes	Greece	Baseball	1977
226	Jacira Mendonca	Guinea Bissau	Wrestling	1986
227	Ria Meyburg	Netherlands	Gymnastics	1939
228	Praphalsai Minpraphal	Thailand	Swimming	1978
229	Mohammed Yaseen Mohammed	Iraq	Weightlifting	1963
230	Patricia Moreno	Spain	Gymnastics	1988
231	Juan Morera	Spain	Handball	1947
232	Gary Morgan	United States	Athletics	1960
233	Liesbeth Mouha	Belgium	Beach Volleyball	1983
234	Mohamed Mouselhy	Egypt	Volleyball	1972
235	Mu Suli	China	Rowing	1983
236	Phil Mulkey	United States	Athletics	1935
237	Nguyễn Thị Hoài Thu	Vietnam	Taekwondo	1985
238	Grigory Nikitin	Russia	Football	1890	1917
239	Sverre Nilsson	Sweden	Wrestling	1899	1961
240	Théophile Nkounkou	Congo (Brazzaville)	Athletics	1952
241	Nikolay Nogovitsyn	Soviet Union	Nordic Combined	1948
242	Hans Nordin	Sweden	Ski Jumping	1931
243	Jade North	Australia	Football	1982
244	Iryna Novozhylova	Ukraine	Athletics	1986
245	Tina Noyes	United States	Figure Skating	1949
246	Marcos Núñez	Chile	Table Tennis	1961
247	David Oleme	Cameroon	Boxing	1952
248	Serena Ortolani	Italy	Volleyball	1987
249	Paolo Ottavi	Italy	Gymnastics	1986
250	José Ramón Oyarzábal	Spain	Rowing	1957
251	Teodoro Palacios	Guatemala	Athletics	1939
252	Larry Palmer	United States	Ice Hockey	1938
253	Géza Pauer	Hungary	Athletics	1976
254	Grégoire Pennes	France	Trampolining	1984
255	Daniel Pereyra	Uruguay	Modern Pentathlon	1962
256	José Pérez	Spain	Sailing	1961
257	Toafitu Perive	Samoa	Weightlifting	1985
258	Igor Peshkov	Kazakhstan	Judo	1965
259	Rolf Pettersen	Canada	Cross Country Skiing	1946	1981
260	Iris Plotzitzka	West Germany	Athletics	1966
261	Claudio Polledri	Switzerland	Fencing	1936
262	Cappie Pondexter	United States	Basketball	1983
263	Lothar Pongratz	West Germany	Bobsleigh	1952
264	Inger Pors Olsen	Denmark	Rowing	1966
265	Charles Pous	France	Hockey	1949
266	Dmytro Prosvirnin	Ukraine	Nordic Combined	1967
267	Charmian Purcell	New Zealand	Basketball	1979
268	Rasmus Christian Quaade	Denmark	Cycling	1990
269	Hermes Ramírez	Cuba	Athletics	1948
270	Andrey Rekechinsky	Russia	Water Polo	1981
271	Maribel Riera	Venezuela	Softball	1980
272	Ambrosio Rocha	Brazil	Shooting	1923
273	Carlos Rodríguez	Mexico	Shooting	1909
274	Jenny Rolland	France	Gymnastics	1975
275	Héctor Román	Puerto Rico	Athletics	1933
276	Romano Romanelli	Italy	Art Competitions	1882	1969
277	Mike Rosati	Italy	Ice Hockey	1968
278	Jessica Rossi	Italy	Shooting	1992
279	Arthur Rothrock	United States	Shooting	1886	1938
280	René Rutschmann	Switzerland	Cycling	1941
281	Mikhail Safonov	Soviet Union	Diving	1947
282	Øistein Saksvik	Norway	Athletics	1925	1998
283	Dmitry Sakunenko	Soviet Union	Speed Skating	1930
284	Marina Sanaya	Soviet Union	Figure Skating	1959
285	Miguel Angel Sánchez	Costa Rica	Cycling	1943
286	Carlos Santa	Dominican Republic	Athletics	1978
287	Gábor Schaller	Hungary	Equestrianism	1966
288	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	Ski Jumping	1990
289	Jan Schnider	Switzerland	Beach Volleyball	1983
290	Gerrit Schulte	Netherlands	Cycling	1916	1992
291	Reinhard Schwarzenberger	Austria	Ski Jumping	1977
292	Justus Scrafford	United States	Athletics	1878	1947
293	Joanne Seeburg	Great Britain	Synchronized Swimming	1969
294	Myriam Segarra	Puerto Rico	Softball	1955
295	Caster Semenya	South Africa	Athletics	1991
296	Aleksandr Shalak	Belarus	Cross Country Skiing	1980
297	Kyoko Shimazaki	Japan	Speed Skating	1972
298	Tateki Shinya	Japan	Swimming	1958
299	Carlo Simionato	Italy	Athletics	1960
300	Rajinder Singh	India	Hockey	1958
301	Kurt Sjolund	Canada	Nordic Combined	1955
302	Don Smart	Australia	Hockey	1942
303	Hooley Smith	Canada	Ice Hockey	1905	1963
304	Luciano Solis	Mexico	Boxing	1962
305	Hansrüdi Spillman	Switzerland	Shooting	1932
306	Neil Stam	United States	Football	1942
307	Jerome Steever	United States	Water Polo	1880	1957
308	Aurel Ştefan	Romania	Fencing	1950
309	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	Swimming	1982
310	Horst Stottmeister	East Germany	Wrestling	1948
311	Mojca Suhadolc	Slovenia	Alpine Skiing	1975
312	Laura Švilpaitė	Lithuania	Gymnastics	1994
313	Edwin Swatek	United States	Swimming, Water Polo	1885	1966
314	Andrzej Świątek	Poland	Ice Hockey	1958
315	Kazimierz Szempliński	Poland	Fencing	1899	1971
316	Matteo Tagliariol	Italy	Fencing	1983
317	Tao Zhinan	China	Hockey	1981
318	Irina Teterina	Soviet Union	Rowing	1958
319	Michael Thelvén	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1961
320	Jean Thorailler	France	Water Polo	1888
321	István Timár-Geng	Hungary	Canoeing	1940	1994
322	Elbek Tozhiyev	Belarus	Wrestling	1986
323	Marina Trandenkova	Unified Team, Russia	Athletics	1967
324	Vasily Trofimov	Soviet Union	Football	1919	1999
325	Bratan Tsenov	Bulgaria	Wrestling	1964
326	Sergey Tsoy	Uzbekistan	Swimming	1986
327	Iroda Tulyaganova	Uzbekistan	Tennis	1982
328	Mohamed Reza Tupchi	Iran	Wrestling	1963
329	Antonio Ullo	Italy	Athletics	1963
330	Bülent Ulusoy	Turkey	Boxing	1978
331	Ronald Urick	United States	Canoeing	1968
332	Gian Paolo Urlando	Italy	Athletics	1945
333	Heikki Väisänen	Finland	Ski Jumping	1943
334	David Valter	Czechoslovakia	Shooting	1970
335	Karen van der Veen	South Africa	Athletics	1966
336	Marleen van Iersel	Netherlands	Beach Volleyball	1988
337	Fred van Zutphen	Netherlands	Archery	1971
338	Priit Viks	Estonia	Biathlon	1982
339	Voldemārs Vītols	Latvia	Athletics	1911	1980
340	Vivian	Brazil	Basketball	1976
341	Petr Vlk	Czechoslovakia	Ice Hockey	1964
342	Herbert Voelcker	United States	Shooting	1930
343	Hans-Georg von der Ohe	West Germany	Volleyball	1950
344	László von Magasházy	Hungary	Equestrianism	1879	1959
345	Richard, Count von Schaesberg-Thannheim	Germany	Equestrianism	1884	1953
346	Karl Wach	Germany	Art Competitions	1878	1952
347	Rob Waddell	New Zealand	Rowing	1975
348	Tatsuya Wakinaga	Japan	Sailing	1965
349	David Wallin	Sweden	Art Competitions	1876	1957
350	Wang Xiaoyan	China	Gymnastics	1968
351	Anne Warner	United States	Swimming	1945
352	Ewa Wasilewska	Poland	Speed Skating	1967
353	Daniel Waszkiewicz	Poland	Handball	1957
354	Jerry Welbourn	United States	Canoeing	1932
355	Ian Whitehead	Great Britain	Luge	1963
356	Keith Wiegard	Australia	Water Polo	1938
357	Natalie Wiegersma	New Zealand	Swimming	1990
358	Chris Womersley	New Zealand	Alpine Skiing	1949
359	Wu Yanyan	China	Swimming	1978
360	Ruslan Xeyirov	Azerbaijan	Boxing	1976
361	Xu Yinghui	China	Cross Country Skiing	1989
362	Eduard Yegorov	Soviet Union	Water Polo	1940
363	Maged Youssef	Egypt	Archery	1978
364	Mohamed Youssef	Egypt	Swimming	1963
365	Haile Zeru	Ethiopia	Athletics	1955
366	Hanspeter Ziörjen	Switzerland	Shooting	1958
367	Freddy Zix	France	Football	1935
368	Iris Zscherpe	West Germany	Swimming	1967
369	Fabiola Zuluaga	Colombia	Tennis	1979
370	Anna Łęcka	Poland	Archery	1980

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