Olympic Athletes Born on October 8

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327 Athletes

Rk	Athlete	Country	Sport	Born	Died
1	Willie Adams	United States	Baseball	1972
2	Ibrahim Afsharpour	Iran	Boxing	1930
3	Abdul Al-Matrouk	Kuwait	Diving	1972
4	Zsuzsa Almássy	Hungary	Figure Skating	1950
5	Ben Amonette	United States	Shooting	1954
6	Gary Anderson	United States	Shooting	1939
7	Birgitt Austermühl	Germany	Football	1965
8	Madelon Baans	Netherlands	Swimming	1977
9	Chris Bacon	Australia	Judo	1969
10	Ashish Kumar Ballal	India	Hockey	1970
11	Ghislaine Barnay	France	Athletics	1945
12	Nicolas Bean	Italy	Short Track Speed Skating	1987
13	Mircea Bedivan	Romania	Handball	1957
14	Giuseppe Beghetto	Italy	Cycling	1939
15	Joseph-Antoine Bell	Cameroon	Football	1954
16	Uwe Bellmann	East Germany	Cross Country Skiing	1962
17	Esper Beloselsky	Russia	Sailing	1870	1921
18	Frank Belote	United States	Athletics	1883	1928
19	Carlos Benitez	Cuba	Water Polo	1955
20	Matt Biondi	United States	Swimming	1965
21	Juan Blanco	Cuba	Hockey	1959
22	Steffen Bogs	East Germany	Rowing	1965
23	Simone Bolelli	Italy	Tennis	1985
24	Brendan Boyce	Ireland	Athletics	1986
25	Stephen Brialey	Great Britain	Luge	1963
26	Jacques Bridou	France	Bobsleigh	1911
27	John Brockway	Great Britain	Swimming	1928	2009
28	Zbigniew Bródka	Poland	Speed Skating	1984
29	Chuck Burke	United States	Speed Skating	1930
30	Gaby Bußmann	West Germany	Athletics	1959
31	Francisco Cáceres	El Salvador	Weightlifting	1974
32	Cao Shuo	China	Athletics	1991
33	Alfredo Carricaberry	Argentina	Football	1900	1942
34	David Carry	Great Britain	Swimming	1981
35	José Antonio Cechini	Spain	Judo	1955
36	Mirco Cenci	Italy	Shooting	1957
37	Cha Tae-Seong	South Korea	Football	1934
38	Bernard Chan	Malaysia	Swimming	1946
39	Nancy Charlton	Canada	Hockey	1962
40	Anne-Caroline Chausson	France	Cycling	1977
41	Leslie Cheetham	Great Britain	Wrestling	1925	1998
42	Chen Xiaoxia	China	Diving	1962
43	Chung Yung-Chi	Chinese Taipei	Weightlifting	1957
44	William Clark	United States	Boxing	1899	1988
45	Christin Cooper	United States	Alpine Skiing	1959
46	Edgar Cortez	Nicaragua	Athletics	1989
47	Doug Cox	Canada	Wrestling	1957
48	Francisco Cubelos	Spain	Canoeing	1992
49	Bernhard Cuiper	Germany	Basketball	1913
50	Claude Cuy y Mola	France	Shooting	1957
51	Rubén D'Andrilli	Argentina	Rowing	1962
52	Manuel da Silva	Portugal	Athletics	1978
53	Ira Davenport	United States	Athletics	1887	1941
54	George Davidson	New Zealand	Athletics	1898	1948
55	Miguel de Andrés	Spain	Football	1957
56	Luiz de Azevedo	Brazil	Basketball	1964
57	Wilson de Freitas	Brazil	Rowing	1910	1945
58	Manuel De Vecchi	Italy	Cycling	1980
59	Charlotte De Vos	Belgium	Hockey	1983
60	Nives Dei Rossi	Italy	Alpine Skiing	1909
61	Dede Demet-Barry	United States	Cycling	1972
62	Ernesto Díaz	Colombia	Football	1954
63	Félix Diédhiou	Senegal	Wrestling	1969
64	Laurie Doherty	Great Britain	Tennis	1875	1919
65	Angelo Dolfini	Italy	Figure Skating	1978
66	Kenneth Dreyfuss	United States	Rowing	1947
67	Monique Drost	Netherlands	Swimming	1964
68	Boris Dubrovsky	Soviet Union	Rowing	1939
69	Constantin Duţu	Romania	Fencing	1949
70	Vic Dyrgall	United States	Athletics	1917	2006
71	Gerd Egger	West Germany	Judo	1943
72	Sunday Emmanuel	Nigeria	Athletics	1978	2004
73	Wolfgang Ender	Liechtenstein	Alpine Skiing	1946
74	Lena Eriksson	Sweden	Swimming	1972
75	Roberto Espinosa	Cuba	Football	1959
76	Torbjørn Falkanger	Norway	Ski Jumping	1927
77	Johan Falkenberg	Norway	Fencing	1901	1963
78	Agustín Fiorilli	Argentina	Swimming	1978
79	Fakhredin Fouad Al-Dien Gor	Jordan	Athletics	1967
80	Holger Freitag	East Germany	Ski Jumping	1963
81	Philippe Gaille	Switzerland	Gymnastics	1951
82	Octave Gallice	France	Equestrianism	1857	1906
83	Heidi Gan	Malaysia	Swimming	1988
84	Gang Su-Il	South Korea	Gymnastics	1943
85	Atanas Gerov	Bulgaria	Football	1945
86	Wolfgang Gerz	West Germany	Sailing	1952
87	Rabani Ghulam	Afghanistan	Boxing	1951
88	Gerson Gnoatto	Brazil	Gymnastics	1963
89	Christa Göhler	Germany	Cross Country Skiing	1935
90	Aleksandr Gorshkov	Soviet Union	Figure Skating	1946
91	Tatiana Grigorieva	Australia	Athletics	1975
92	Renate Groenewold	Netherlands	Speed Skating	1976
93	Robert Grzeszczak	Poland	Hockey	1971
94	Neil Gunn	Canada	Sailing	1945
95	Toby Haenen	Australia	Swimming	1973
96	Cécile Hane	Senegal	Judo	1987
97	Sarah Hanffou	Cameroon	Table Tennis	1986
98	John Ørsted Hansen	Denmark	Rowing	1938
99	Max Hartung	Germany	Fencing	1989
100	Niels Heilbuth	Denmark	Hockey	1906	1992
101	Johnny Helsing	Sweden	Weightlifting	1955
102	Maxi Herber	Germany	Figure Skating	1920	2006
103	Camilla Herrem	Norway	Handball	1986
104	Maurice Herriott	Great Britain	Athletics	1939
105	Reese Hoffa	United States	Athletics	1977
106	Mikael Holm	Sweden	Luge	1968
107	Ewout Holst	Netherlands	Swimming	1978
108	Hu Pei-Wen	Chinese Taipei	Archery	1950
109	Huang Zhe	China	Rowing	1990
110	Geoff Iden	Great Britain	Athletics	1914	1991
111	Katsuji Ito	Japan	Swimming	1946
112	Aleksandr Ivanitsky	Soviet Union	Wrestling	1937
113	Vadim Ivanov	Unified Team	Athletics	1968
114	Viktor Ivanov	Soviet Union	Boxing	1956
115	Lenke Jacsó-Kiss	Hungary	Basketball	1951
116	Lőrinc Jankovich	Hungary	Equestrianism	1907	1990
117	Olaf Janßen	West Germany	Football	1966
118	Sameer Jawdat	Saudi Arabia	Archery	1965
119	Jiang Huajun	Hong Kong	Table Tennis	1984
120	Ethel Johnson	Great Britain	Athletics	1908	1964
121	Heather Jones	Canada	Hockey	1970
122	František Kadaňka	Czechoslovakia	Canoeing	1944
123	Mahmoud Kadri	Egypt	Swimming	1917
124	Maarit Kallio	Finland	Judo	1975
125	Walter Katzenstein	Germany	Rowing	1878	1929
126	Oliver Kayser	Austria	Fencing	1973
127	Bruce Keech	Australia	Cycling	1966
128	Mukesh Khatri	India	Wrestling	1982
129	Markku Kiimalainen	Finland	Ice Hockey	1955
130	Chris Killen	New Zealand	Football	1981
131	Kim Chun-Ho	South Korea	Wrestling	1964
132	Kim Hae-Myeong	South Korea	Wrestling	1956
133	Kim Nam-Gu	South Korea	Shooting	1923
134	Eamonn Kinsella	Ireland	Athletics	1932	1991
135	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	Swimming	1974
136	Glenn Kirkham	Great Britain	Hockey	1982
137	Rachel Klamer	Netherlands	Triathlon	1990
138	Anatoly Klebanov	Soviet Union	Water Polo	1952	2011
139	Masatoshi Kobayashi	Japan	Luge	1948
140	Peter Kokotowitsch	Austria	Wrestling	1890	1968
141	Hiroki Kokubo	Japan	Baseball	1971
142	Olga Kosheleva	Soviet Union	Athletics	1932
143	Harri Koskela	Finland	Wrestling	1965
144	Galina Kostenko	Soviet Union	Athletics	1938
145	Lada Kozlíková	Czech Republic	Cycling	1979
146	Andrea Kozma	Austria	Hockey	1962
147	Konstantin Krause	Germany	Athletics	1967
148	Mihkel Kukk	Estonia	Athletics	1983
149	Kazuhiko Kurata	Japan	Rowing	1967
150	Volkmar Kuttelwascher	Austria	Rowing	1969
151	Mikhail Kuzmich	Russia	Luge	1982
152	Yanely Labrada	Cuba	Taekwondo	1981
153	Wilhelm Ladewig	Germany	Athletics	1906
154	Pál Lágler	Hungary	Football	1913
155	Wolfgang Lakenmacher	East Germany	Handball	1943
156	Harry Lamme	Netherlands	Water Polo	1935
157	Fredric Landelius	Sweden	Shooting	1884	1931
158	Anke Jannie Landman	Netherlands	Short Track Speed Skating	1974
159	Andrea Lanzl	Germany	Ice Hockey	1987
160	Lee Yun-Hui	South Korea	Volleyball	1980
161	Ray Lewis	Canada	Athletics	1910	2003
162	Li Yajun	China	Shooting	1973
163	Nils Liedholm	Sweden	Football	1922	2007
164	Nina Ligon	Thailand	Equestrianism	1991
165	Erik Lindén	Sweden	Wrestling	1911	1992
166	Jürgen Litz	Germany	Rowing	1938
167	Liu Chia-Chi	Chinese Taipei	Softball	1977
168	Lo Chuen Tsung	Hong Kong	Table Tennis	1963
169	Lu Yu'e	China	Cycling	1960
170	Noel Lynch	Ireland	Archery	1955
171	Csaba Madar	Hungary	Football	1974
172	Wanderley Magalhães	Brazil	Cycling	1966	2006
173	Jarmo Mäkitalo	Finland	Ice Hockey	1960
174	Ignace Mandjambi	Congo (Kinshasa)	Cycling	1940
175	Helmar Mang	West Germany	Canoeing	1948
176	Zuzana Marková	Czechoslovakia	Swimming	1952
177	Steve Marten	New Zealand	Sailing	1948
178	Leodigard Martin	Tanzania	Athletics	1960
179	Cristina Martínez	Spain	Canoeing	1972
180	Marie-Andrée Masson	Canada	Cross Country Skiing	1963
181	Hatsuho Matsuzawa	Japan	Swimming	1914	2011
182	Mojca Mavrič	Slovenia	Gymnastics	1980
183	Melanie McCann	Canada	Modern Pentathlon	1989
184	Salem Mehaizaa	Qatar	Football	1965
185	Lynda Mekzine	Algeria	Judo	1975
186	Hiroshi Michinaga	Japan	Archery	1956
187	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	Athletics	1946	2004
188	Sandu Mitrofan	Romania	Bobsleigh	1952
189	Fredrik Modin	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1974
190	Adil Mohammad	United Arab Emirates	Sailing	1988
191	Roberto Moll	Venezuela	Equestrianism	1933
192	Anderl Molterer	Austria	Alpine Skiing	1931
193	Harvey Monte	Netherlands	Baseball	1981
194	Natasha Moodie	Jamaica	Swimming	1990
195	Matteo Morandi	Italy	Gymnastics	1981
196	Alfred Munnings	Great Britain	Art Competitions	1878	1959
197	Koji Murofushi	Japan	Athletics	1974
198	Ross Murray	Great Britain	Athletics	1990
199	Odd Mæhlum	Norway	Athletics	1921	2011
200	Na Seung-Hwa	South Korea	Football	1969
201	Makiko Nagaya	Japan	Speed Skating	1955
202	Hiroko Nambu	Japan	Cycling	1968
203	Paul Narracott	Australia	Athletics, Bobsleigh	1959
204	Dalimil Nejezchleba	Czechoslovakia	Shooting	1972
205	Ng Pak Kum	Hong Kong	Badminton	1968
206	Toby Ng	Canada	Badminton	1985
207	Eulogio Ngache	Equatorial Guinea	Athletics	1971
208	Thomas Nyemeg	Cameroon	Cycling	1957
209	Bjørn Nyland	Norway	Speed Skating	1962
210	John O'Brien	Australia	Water Polo	1931
211	Sumie Oinuma	Japan	Volleyball	1946
212	Ong Hock Eng	Malaya	Shooting	1933
213	Hirofumi Otsuka	Japan	Speed Skating	1947
214	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	Athletics	1939
215	Janice Parks	Puerto Rico	Softball	1967
216	Jorge Paula	Portugal	Athletics	1984
217	Ernst Pedersen	Denmark	Shooting	1935
218	Jørgen Pedersen	Denmark	Cycling	1959
219	Ernesto Pena	Cuba	Wrestling	1978
220	Jeannette Pennings	Netherlands	Bobsleigh	1977
221	Mariano Pérez	Spain	Boxing	1948
222	René Petit	France	Football	1899	1989
223	Dimitar Petrov	Bulgaria	Rowing	1958
224	Michael Picken	Australia	Judo	1954
225	Penny Pitou	United States	Alpine Skiing	1938
226	Witold Plutecki	Poland	Cycling	1956
227	Anna Polatou	Greece	Rhythmic Gymnastics	1983
228	Edgardo Pomini	Argentina	Fencing	1917
229	Miel Puttemans	Belgium	Athletics	1947
230	Jo Anne Quiring	United States	Judo	1963
231	Emin Quliyev	Azerbaijan	Swimming	1975
232	Staniša Radmanović	Yugoslavia	Canoeing	1940
233	Yury Radonyak	Soviet Union	Boxing	1935	2013
234	Boualem Rahoui	Algeria	Athletics	1948
235	Rasoul Raisi	Iran	Weightlifting	1924
236	Daimí Ramírez	Cuba	Volleyball	1983
237	Ramón Reyes	Panama	Basketball	1937
238	Valery Rezantsev	Soviet Union	Wrestling	1946
239	Mohamed Rizgalla	Sudan	Boxing	1942
240	José Robles	Colombia	Cycling	1964
241	Antonio Rodríguez	Cuba	Volleyball	1951
242	Jean-Louis Roersch	Belgium	Hockey	1936
243	Brigitte Rohde	East Germany	Athletics	1954
244	Alfonso Romo	Mexico	Equestrianism	1950
245	Johan Rousseau	France	Luge	1978
246	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn	Germany	Athletics	1940
247	Igor Rudakov	Soviet Union	Rowing	1934
248	Annina Ruppel	Germany	Rowing	1980
249	Tente Sánchez	Spain	Football	1956
250	Agustín Sandoval	Spain	Gymnastics	1947
251	Gustavo Santa	Colombia	Football	1945
252	Franz Schädler	Liechtenstein	Alpine Skiing	1917
253	Helmuth Schmalzl	Italy	Alpine Skiing	1948
254	Hubertus Schmidt	Germany	Equestrianism	1959
255	Jost Schömann-Finck	Germany	Rowing	1982
256	Jochen Schöps	Germany	Volleyball	1983
257	Birgit Schütz	East Germany	Rowing	1958
258	Alfred Schwarzenbach	Switzerland	Equestrianism	1941
259	Anja Secrève	Netherlands	Fencing	1917	2005
260	Ismail Selim Mohamed	Egypt	Basketball	1944
261	Juan Serra	Spain	Water Polo	1927
262	María Fernanda Sesto	Argentina	Sailing	1976
263	Shan Danna	China	Volleyball	1991
264	Tadashi Shimijima	Japan	Rowing	1912
265	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	Speed Skating	1973
266	Si Rijigawa	China	Judo	1986
267	Surjit Singh	India	Hockey	1951	1984
268	Raimondas Šiugždinis	Lithuania	Sailing	1967
269	Tom Skjønberg	Norway	Sailing	1948
270	Max Slevogt	Germany	Art Competitions	1868	1932
271	Yekaterina Smolina	Russia	Ice Hockey	1988
272	Son Mi-Na	South Korea	Handball	1964
273	Song In-Jun	South Korea	Boxing	1977
274	Pam Spencer	United States	Athletics	1957
275	Bohunka Šrámková	Czechoslovakia	Figure Skating	1946
276	Darko Stanić	Serbia	Handball	1978
277	Wacław Starzyński	Poland	Cycling	1910	1976
278	Ivar Stefánsson	Iceland	Cross Country Skiing	1927	2009
279	Norbert Sturny	Switzerland	Shooting	1963
280	Yoshiteru Suzuki	Japan	Rowing	1909
281	Thorsten Svensson	Sweden	Football	1901	1954
282	Paul Szabo	Romania	Fencing	1954
283	Louis Szanto	United States	Art Competitions	1890	1965
284	Bernard Talvard	France	Fencing	1947
285	Debbie Tanner	New Zealand	Triathlon	1982
286	Gillian Thomson	Philippines	Swimming	1974
287	Björn Thorwaldsson	Sweden	Shooting	1955
288	Wolfgang Thüne	East Germany	Gymnastics	1949
289	Hugo Toeppen	United States	Wrestling	1853	1933
290	Roger Toffel	Switzerland	Hockey	1909	1969
291	Jean-Yves Touzaint	France	Equestrianism	1948
292	Željko Trajković	Individual Olympic Athletes	Wrestling	1966
293	Arthur Treble	Great Britain	Athletics	1889	1966
294	Sergey Ulegin	Russia	Canoeing	1977
295	Jorge Ulibarri	Spain	Swimming	1975
296	Jörg Vaihinger	West Germany, Germany	Athletics	1962
297	Astrid van der Knaap	Netherlands	Badminton	1964
298	Geert van Eijk	Netherlands	Hockey	1948
299	Janus van Merrienboer	Netherlands	Archery	1894	1947
300	Rutger van Schaardenburg	Netherlands	Sailing	1987
301	Annemiek van Vleuten	Netherlands	Cycling	1982
302	Geoff Vanderstock	United States	Athletics	1946
303	Marcello Varallo	Italy	Alpine Skiing	1947
304	István Veréb	Hungary	Wrestling	1987
305	Norbert Verweyen	West Germany	Swimming	1950
306	Tore Vikingstad	Norway	Ice Hockey	1975
307	Antonio Villamil	Argentina	Fencing	1904
308	Yekaterina Vinogradova	Russia	Swimming	1980
309	Émilie Volle	France	Gymnastics	1981
310	Arkady Vorobyov	Soviet Union	Weightlifting	1924	2012
311	Boris Vorobyov	Soviet Union	Rowing	1949
312	Charlotte Walter	Switzerland	Figure Skating	1951
313	Wang Ya-Fen	Chinese Taipei	Softball	1969
314	Wang Ying	China	Ice Hockey	1981
315	Johnny Werket	United States	Speed Skating	1924	2010
316	Max Westerkamp	Netherlands	Hockey	1912	1970
317	Suryo Wibowo	Indonesia	Athletics	1983
318	Marceli Wiech	Poland	Fencing	1954
319	Elmer Williams	Puerto Rico	Athletics	1964
320	Eric Wilson	United States	Athletics	1900	1985
321	Amsale Woldegibriel	Ethiopia	Athletics	1960
322	Rowland Wolfe	United States	Gymnastics	1914	2010
323	Torben Wosik	Germany	Table Tennis	1973
324	Wayne Yetman	Canada	Athletics	1946
325	Yun Gyeong-Jae	South Korea	Wrestling	1962
326	Zhao Ruirui	China	Volleyball	1981
327	Herbert Ziegler	Austria	Equestrianism	1904	1944

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