Olympic Athletes Born on December 24

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294 Athletes

Rk	Athlete	Country	Sport	Born	Died
1	Mohamed Abdul Hamid	Sudan	Swimming	1980
2	Muminzhon Abdullayev	Uzbekistan	Wrestling	1989
3	Tadatoshi Abe	Japan	Hockey	1931
4	Daniel Adomako	Ghana	Athletics	1979
5	Komi Agbetoglo	Togo	Table Tennis	1993
6	Rafael Aguilar	Spain	Water Polo	1961
7	Bengt Ahlström	Finland	Rowing	1924	2001
8	Giorgos Akhilleos	Cyprus	Shooting	1980
9	Hamad Al-Dosari	Qatar	Athletics	1977
10	María José Alcalá	Mexico	Diving	1971
11	Carlos Almeida	Angola	Basketball	1976
12	José Marcelo Álvarez	Paraguay	Fencing	1975
13	Jake Andrewartha	Australia	Judo	1989
14	Edvard Antonijevič	Yugoslavia	Gymnastics	1902	1961
15	Stephen Appiah	Ghana	Football	1980
16	Manuel Aramayo	Bolivia	Alpine Skiing	1955	1999
17	Virginie Arnold	France	Archery	1979
18	Toyin Augustus	Nigeria	Athletics	1979
19	Evaristo Avalos	Mexico	Equestrianism	1933
20	Ben Barger	United States	Sailing	1980
21	Jo-Anne Barnes	Australia	Swimming	1954
22	Brigetta Barrett	United States	Athletics	1990
23	Alphonse Baume	Switzerland	Cross Country Skiing	1933
24	Krisna Bayu	Indonesia	Judo	1974
25	Božidar Beravs	Yugoslavia	Ice Hockey	1948
26	Muhammad Umar Bhutta	Pakistan	Hockey	1992
27	Milan Blagojevic	Australia	Football	1969
28	Harry Blaus	Russia	Shooting	1885	1945
29	Gustaf Blomgren	Sweden	Diving	1887	1956
30	Albina Bordunova	Ukraine	Swimming	1984
31	Ellen Braumüller	Germany	Athletics	1910	1991
32	Guglielmo Brezzi	Italy	Football	1898	1926
33	Yuliya Buieva	Ukraine	Volleyball	1975
34	Evert Jan Bulder	Netherlands	Football	1894	1973
35	Hans Burkhard	Liechtenstein	Alpine Skiing	1973
36	Tommy Burleson	United States	Basketball	1952
37	Jürgen Busch	East Germany	Athletics	1942
38	Samuel Caballero	Honduras	Football	1974
39	Cao Lei	China	Weightlifting	1983
40	Ana María Casas	Mexico	Gymnastics	1955
41	Andrea Cedrón	Peru	Swimming	1993
42	Petr Čermák	Czechoslovakia	Rowing	1942
43	Chan Chia Fong	Malaysia	Badminton	1976
44	Konstantin Chernov	Kazakhstan	Water Polo	1967
45	Bruno Cipolla	Italy	Rowing	1952
46	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	Athletics	1946
47	Zane Coleman	New Zealand	Wrestling	1960
48	Renée Colliard	Switzerland	Alpine Skiing	1933
49	Claudia Corsini	Italy	Modern Pentathlon	1977
50	Bill Crothers	Canada	Athletics	1940
51	Chantal Dällenbach	France	Athletics	1962
52	Nadia Davy	Jamaica	Athletics	1980
53	Álvaro de Figueroa	Spain	Polo	1893	1950
54	José de Figueroa	Spain	Polo	1897	1920
55	Frédéric Demontfaucon	France	Judo	1973
56	Graham Deuble	Australia	Diving	1943
57	Dieudonné Devrindt	Belgium	Athletics	1911	1994
58	Stanislao Di Chiara	Italy	Gymnastics	1891
59	Walter Dietrich	Switzerland	Football	1902	1979
60	Gary Dineen	Canada	Ice Hockey	1943	2006
61	Alfred Dompert	Germany	Athletics	1914	1991
62	Rareş Dumitrescu	Romania	Fencing	1983
63	Gaston Dumont	Luxembourg	Cycling	1932	1978
64	Octavian Duşa	Romania	Wrestling	1954
65	Clem Eischen	United States	Athletics	1926
66	Amer Hadidi El-Manzalawi	Egypt	Football	1969
67	John Elffers	Netherlands	Hockey	1943
68	Sten Elliot	Sweden	Sailing	1925
69	Ilie Enciu	Romania	Weightlifting	1924
70	Ioannis Farmakidis	Greece	Wrestling	1907	1980
71	Linda Ferga-Khodadin	France	Athletics	1976
72	Lorraine Fernandes	India	Hockey	1954
73	Otto Fickeisen	Germany	Rowing	1879	1963
74	Stein Olav Fiskebeck	Norway	Shooting	1955	2007
75	Yamaguchi Florentino	Brazil	Boxing	1987
76	Fong Yee Pui	Hong Kong	Athletics	1991
77	Silvia Fontana	Spain	Swimming	1961
78	Teresa Frassinetti	Italy	Water Polo	1985
79	Noel Freeman	Australia	Athletics	1938
80	Thomas Futterknecht	Austria	Athletics	1962
81	Daria Gaiazova	Canada	Cross Country Skiing	1983
82	Gao Hongying	China	Cycling	1970
83	Carlos Garcés	Mexico	Football	1900	1980
84	Audrey Garland	Canada	Figure Skating	1912
85	Gudrun Gärtner	East Germany	Volleyball	1958
86	Alex Giorgetti	Italy	Water Polo	1987
87	Goh Tai Yong	Malaysia	Shooting	1939
88	Alfredo Gollini	Italy	Gymnastics	1881	1957
89	Colin Gordon	Great Britain	Athletics	1907	1980
90	Diana Gordon-Lennox	Canada	Alpine Skiing	1908	1982
91	John Gray	United States	Athletics	1894	1942
92	David Grundy	New Zealand	Hockey	1963
93	Yelena Gruzinova	Russia	Athletics	1967
94	Tadeusz Grzelak	Poland	Boxing	1929	1996
95	Adam Gunn	United States	Athletics	1872	1935
96	Imre Győrffy	Hungary	Cycling	1905
97	Christian Hallén-Paulsen	Norway	Luge	1945
98	Han Gyu-Cheol	South Korea	Swimming	1981
99	Daigo Hara	Japan	Freestyle Skiing	1974
100	Lars Hartig	Germany	Rowing	1990
101	Anton Heida	United States	Gymnastics	1878
102	Johannes Hengeveld	Netherlands	Tug-Of-War	1894	1961
103	Mike Hennessy	Great Britain	Rowing	1976
104	Alfredo Hernández	Cuba	Rowing	1941
105	Juan Hernández Pérez	Cuba	Boxing	1962
106	Manfred Hiptmair	Austria	Judo	1965
107	Richard Hodgson	Great Britain	Water Polo	1892
108	Eugen Holzherr	Switzerland	Wrestling	1928
109	Daniel Horton	United States	Athletics	1879	1954
110	Michael Howard	Great Britain	Fencing	1928
111	Väinö Huhtala	Finland	Cross Country Skiing	1935
112	Tony Iglesias	Bolivia	Diving	1972
113	Anthony Igwe	Nigeria	Football	1945
114	Yakhyo Imomov	Uzbekistan	Judo	1989
115	Fritz Jack	Germany	Fencing	1879	1966
116	Charles Jensen	Denmark	Gymnastics	1885	1920
117	Florent Jodoin	Canada	Cycling	1922	2008
118	Ove Johansson	Sweden	Weightlifting	1943
119	Curtis Johnson	United States	Athletics	1973
120	David Jones	Australia	Shooting	1977
121	Bengt Jönsson	Sweden	Swimming	1955
122	Fabiano Joseph	Tanzania	Athletics	1985
123	Timo Jutila	Finland	Ice Hockey	1963
124	Svend Jørgensen	Denmark	Hockey	1904	1992
125	Yuzo Kageyama	Japan	Equestrianism	1935
126	Aleksandr Kedyarov	Soviet Union	Shooting	1947
127	Erhard Keller	West Germany	Speed Skating	1944
128	Allen Kelley	United States	Basketball	1932
129	Johnny Kelley	United States	Athletics	1930	2011
130	Ahmed Muhammad Khan	India	Football	1926
131	Satu Kiipeli	Finland	Ice Hockey	1980
132	Kim Mi-Seop	South Korea	Modern Pentathlon	1972
133	Birger Kivelä	Finland	Diving	1920
134	Dominik Koll	Austria	Swimming	1984
135	Václav Korunka	Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic	Cross Country Skiing	1965
136	Galin Kostadinov	Bulgaria	Athletics	1979
137	Jerzy Kraska	Poland	Football	1951
138	Hryhoriy Kriss	Soviet Union	Fencing	1940
139	Paul Lamey	United States	Bobsleigh	1938
140	Bruno Lebrun	France	Weightlifting	1956
141	Lee Hyeong-Suk	South Korea	Basketball	1964
142	Daniel Leonhard	Germany	Shooting	1972
143	Juan Pedro Lier	Argentina	Rowing	1938
144	Liu Haili	China	Athletics	1982
145	Blaž Lomovšek	Yugoslavia	Ice Hockey	1956
146	Nadezhda Loseva	Kazakhstan	Ice Hockey	1974
147	Erminio Lucchi	Italy	Athletics	1880	1963
148	Miguel Lutonda	Angola	Basketball	1971
149	Noureddine Madjhoud	Algeria	Boxing	1975
150	Chloé Maigre	France	Gymnastics	1974
151	Masafumi Makiyama	Japan	Archery	1979
152	Sophie Malbranque	France	Athletics	1959
153	Mergen Mämmedow	Turkmenistan	Athletics	1990
154	Baikuntha Manandhar	Nepal	Athletics	1952
155	Paul Manship	United States	Art Competitions	1885	1966
156	Adam Marczyński	Poland	Art Competitions	1908	1985
157	Christian Mark	Austria	Bobsleigh	1962
158	Salvador Márquez	Mexico	Football	1950
159	George Marthins	India	Hockey	1905	1989
160	Bert Martineau	Great Britain	Athletics	1914	1994
161	Henry Martineau	Great Britain	Bobsleigh	1904	1972
162	José Martínez	Mexico	Fencing	1912	1989
163	Ángel Matos	Cuba	Taekwondo	1976
164	Mirna Mazić	Croatia	Basketball	1985
165	Dave McCleave	Great Britain	Boxing	1911	1988
166	Camille Médy	France	Cross Country Skiing	1902	1989
167	Nihal Meshref	Egypt	Table Tennis	1970
168	Georg Meyer	Germany	Shooting	1868
169	Giovanni Miccoli	Italy	Rowing	1963
170	Ryo Miyake	Japan	Fencing	1990
171	Christine Mukamutesi	Rwanda	Athletics	1983
172	Othmar Müller von Blumencron	Switzerland	Sailing	1964
173	Mun Eun-Jin	South Korea	Equestrianism	1967
174	Kiyonobu Murakami	Japan	Boxing	1907
175	Larysa Nechyporuk	Ukraine	Athletics	1970
176	Anatoly Nemtyryov	Soviet Union	Rowing	1946
177	Alfred Neveu	Switzerland	Bobsleigh	1890	1975
178	Emmanuel Nsubuga	Uganda	Boxing	1967
179	Gloria Amuche Nwosu	Nigeria	Athletics	1984
180	Wollert Nygren	Norway	Speed Skating	1906	1988
181	Thomas O'Rourke	United States	Cycling	1934
182	Carl-Göran Öberg	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1938
183	Jakub Obrovský	Czechoslovakia	Art Competitions	1882	1949
184	Ileana Ongar	Italy	Athletics	1950
185	Adama Osumanu	Ghana	Boxing	1980
186	Daniel Pandèle	France	Cycling	1961
187	Pang Qing	China	Figure Skating	1979
188	Robin Partch	United States	Luge	1944
189	Paulão	Brazil	Volleyball	1963
190	Simon Peredes	Peru	Basketball	1945
191	Jesús Pérez	Colombia	Boxing	1971
192	Yelena Pershina	Kazakhstan	Athletics	1963
193	Herb Pinder	Canada	Ice Hockey	1946
194	Voldemārs Plade	Latvia	Football	1900
195	Eddie Pope	United States	Football	1973
196	Ville Pörhölä	Finland	Athletics	1897	1964
197	Svetlana Pospelova	Russia	Athletics	1979
198	Karel Prohl	Czechoslovakia	Weightlifting	1947
199	Natalie Purcell	New Zealand	Basketball	1982
200	Vladimir Putyatov	Soviet Union	Volleyball	1945
201	Francisco Quina	Portugal	Sailing	1930
202	Laureano Ramírez	Dominican Republic	Boxing	1965
203	Luiz Ramos	Brazil	Sailing	1929
204	Christian Raymond	France	Cycling	1943
205	Jason Read	United States	Rowing	1977
206	Edy Reinalter	Switzerland	Alpine Skiing	1920	1962
207	Anton Reinartz	Germany	Rowing	1926
208	Michael Reinartz	Germany	Rowing	1928
209	Esko Rekomaa	Finland	Ice Hockey	1932	1985
210	Marleen Renders	Belgium	Athletics	1968
211	Stan Renehan	United States	Sailing	1929
212	Thomas Renner	Austria	Athletics	1967
213	Nancy Reno	United States	Beach Volleyball	1965
214	Massimo Ridolfi	Italy	Gymnastics	1889
215	Hilkka Riihivuori-Kuntola	Finland	Cross Country Skiing	1952
216	Tinus Ringelberg	Netherlands	Weightlifting	1892	1940
217	Xiomara Rivero	Cuba	Athletics	1968
218	Michel Robert	France	Equestrianism	1948
219	Hervé Roche	Venezuela	Sailing	1948
220	Brecht Rodenburg	Netherlands	Volleyball	1967
221	Marion Rodewald	Germany	Hockey	1976
222	Ubaldo Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	Wrestling	1957
223	Francisco Romero Arribas	Guatemala	Shooting	1959
224	Bertil Rönnmark	Sweden	Shooting	1905	1967
225	Hans Rösch	Germany	Bobsleigh	1914
226	Leo Rosschou	Denmark	Athletics	1928
227	Adam Rutter	Australia	Athletics	1986
228	Valery Ruzhnikov	Soviet Union	Sailing	1939
229	Belén Sánchez	Spain	Canoeing	1972
230	Robert Sandager	United States	Shooting	1914	2010
231	Yelena Sayko	Unified Team	Athletics	1967
232	Pichai Sayota	Thailand	Boxing	1979
233	Armin Scheurer	Switzerland	Athletics	1917	1990
234	Angelo Scuri	Italy	Fencing	1959
235	Fred Semple	United States	Golf, Tennis	1872	1927
236	Erminio Sertorelli	Italy	Cross Country Skiing	1911
237	Mikhail Shchennikov	Soviet Union, Unified Team, Russia	Athletics	1967
238	Yanfei Shen	Spain	Table Tennis	1979
239	Yadira Silva	Mexico	Table Tennis	1985
240	Boston Simbeye	Malawi	Boxing	1959
241	Charles Simmons	Great Britain	Gymnastics	1885	1945
242	Sin Mi-Gyeong	South Korea	Hockey	1976
243	Väinö Sipilä	Finland	Athletics	1897	1987
244	Graham Sligo	New Zealand	Hockey	1954
245	Marián Smerčiak	Slovakia	Ice Hockey	1970
246	Jan Smolík	Czechoslovakia	Cycling	1942
247	Einar Söderqvist	Sweden	Athletics	1921	1996
248	Lea Sölkner	Austria	Alpine Skiing	1958
249	Song Seung-Ho	South Korea	Water Polo	1965
250	Jorge Soto	Puerto Rico	Weightlifting	1921
251	Albert Späni	Switzerland	Shooting	1927
252	Wallace Spearmon	United States	Athletics	1984
253	Dane Spencer	United States	Alpine Skiing	1977
254	Klaus Steinbach	West Germany	Swimming	1953
255	Astrid Strauß	East Germany	Swimming	1968
256	Albert Sutanto	Indonesia	Swimming	1975
257	Felix Sutanto	Indonesia	Swimming	1975
258	Kim Svendsen	Denmark	Cycling	1955
259	Jiří Svoboda	Czechoslovakia	Athletics	1903	1937
260	Adam Świtek	Poland	Boxing	1901	1960
261	Makoto Takagaki	Japan	Snowboarding	1973
262	Aatami Tanttu	Finland	Wrestling	1887	1939
263	Matt Targett	Australia	Swimming	1985
264	Peter Thangaraj	India	Football	1935	2008
265	Ville Tiisanoja	Finland	Athletics	1975
266	Mihalache Toma	Romania	Judo	1955
267	Ugo Tomeazzi	Italy	Football	1940
268	Simon Tozer	Great Britain	Rowing	1933	2003
269	Veera Uppapong	Thailand	Shooting	1940
270	René Valmy	France	Athletics	1920	1977
271	Harrie van Heumen	Netherlands	Ice Hockey	1959
272	Patrick Vial	France	Judo	1946
273	Ivan Vidmajer	Yugoslavia	Judo	1949
274	Erika Von Heiland	United States	Badminton	1965
275	Maud von Rosen	Sweden	Equestrianism	1925
276	Sophie von Weiler	Netherlands	Hockey	1958
277	Todd Waggoner	United States	Figure Skating	1965
278	Shigeki Wakabayashi	Japan	Baseball	1966
279	Dickson Wamwiri	Kenya	Taekwondo	1984
280	Doris Wanjala	Kenya	Volleyball	1966
281	Natalie Ward	Australia	Softball	1975
282	Émile Wegelin	France	Rowing	1875	1962
283	Elspeth Whyte	Great Britain	Athletics	1926
284	John Willems	United States	Equestrianism	1901	1976
285	Otto Wittwer	Switzerland	Ice Hockey	1937
286	Lucilla Wright	Great Britain	Hockey	1979
287	Adam Wysocki	Poland	Canoeing	1974
288	Ola Wærhaug	Norway	Biathlon	1937
289	Oksana Yarygina	Russia	Athletics	1972
290	Takashi Yokoyama	Japan	Swimming	1913
291	Larisa Zavarzina	Soviet Union	Rowing	1955
292	Josef Zeman	Czechoslovakia	Wrestling	1925	2003
293	Marian Zieliński	Poland	Weightlifting	1929	2005
294	Nataliya Ziganshina	Russia	Gymnastics	1985

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