Olympic Athletes Born on August 5

August 4 ▪ August 5 ▪ August 6 ▪

334 Athletes

Rk	Athlete	Country	Sport	Born	Died
1	Ivan ?aklec	Yugoslavia	Gymnastics	1932
2	Charles Adamu	Ghana	Boxing	1977
3	Vladimir AÃ¯toff	France	Rugby	1879	1963
4	Bakhtiyar Akhmedov	Russia	Wrestling	1987
5	Riyadh Al-Mustafa	Bahrain	Athletics	1975
6	Barakat Al-Sharji	Oman	Athletics	1967
7	Jahad Abdullah Al-Sheikh	Oman	Athletics	1972
8	HÃ¥kan Algotsson	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1966
9	Mario Ãlvarez	Dominican Republic	Table Tennis	1960
10	Takamasa Anai	Japan	Judo	1984
11	Fouad Aref	Syria	Football	1954
12	Fernando Arlete	Guinea Bissau	Athletics	1979
13	Amy Atkinson	Guam	Athletics	1989
14	Verners Auls	Latvia	Figure Skating	1889
15	Eslam Awad	Egypt	Volleyball	1976
16	CÃ©lia Aymonier	France	Cross Country Skiing	1991
17	Louis Baillon	Great Britain	Hockey	1881	1965
18	Mahmoud Balah	Syria	Wrestling	1942
19	GÃ¡bor Balogh	Hungary	Modern Pentathlon	1976
20	FÃ©lix Balyu	Belgium	Football	1891	1971
21	Laure Barthelemy	France	Cross Country Skiing	1988
22	Armando Bauche	Mexico	Sailing	1952
23	Enrique Beckles	Argentina	Athletics	1927
24	Adriano Bee	Italy	Bobsleigh	1952
25	Ole Christian Bendixen	Norway	Sailing	1947
26	Johnny Bent	United States	Ice Hockey	1908	2004
27	Eric Bernotas	United States	Skeleton	1971
28	Louis Bertorelle	France	Basketball	1932	2012
29	Ryan Bertrand	Great Britain	Football	1989
30	William Berwald	United States	Gymnastics	1874	1963
31	Daniel BiksadskÃ½	Slovakia	Canoeing	1978
32	Melissa Bishop	Canada	Athletics	1988
33	HÃ¥vard Bjerkeli	Norway	Cross Country Skiing	1977
34	GÃ¡bor BodÃ³	Hungary	Volleyball	1941	2011
35	Elmer Boeseke	United States	Polo	1895	1963
36	OttÃ³ Boros	Hungary	Water Polo	1929	1988
37	Herb Brooks	United States	Ice Hockey	1937	2003
38	Ivana BursovÃ¡	Czech Republic	Synchronized Swimming	1977
39	Gabriel Calvo	Spain	Gymnastics	1955
40	Ricardo Cardoso	Brazil	Judo	1963	1991
41	Giovanni Cazzulani	Italy	Cycling	1909	1983
42	Ilhami Ãene	Turkey	Fencing	1909
43	Henry Chaney	Great Britain	Shooting	1882	1919
44	Chen Ding	China	Athletics	1992
45	Laura Chiesa	Italy	Fencing	1971
46	Petre Ciarn?u	Romania	Wrestling	1943
47	Laurent Ciman	Belgium	Football	1985
48	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	Athletics	1945
49	Benjamin CompaorÃ©	France	Athletics	1987
50	Gail Cort	Canada	Rowing	1956
51	Jason Culina	Australia	Football	1980
52	Sergio D'Asnasch	Italy	Athletics	1934
53	Eliana da Costa	Brazil	Volleyball	1964
54	Howard Davies	Great Britain	Athletics	1944
55	Enosh Depthios	Indonesia	Weightlifting	1971
56	Vitaly Derbenyov	Belarus	Weightlifting	1976
57	Robert Desmettre	France	Water Polo	1901	1936
58	Lucien Didier	Luxembourg	Cycling	1950
59	Ding Jilian	China	Swimming	1963
60	Adja Marieme Diop	Senegal	Judo	1977
61	Vicky Dixon	Great Britain	Hockey	1959
62	NikÅ¡a Dobud	Croatia	Water Polo	1985
63	Hermann Dodojacek	Austria	Weightlifting	1938
64	Herman Donners	Belgium	Water Polo	1888	1915
65	Philipp Dotzer	Germany	Water Polo	1926
66	Dick Dougherty	United States	Ice Hockey	1932
67	Marinella Draghetti	Italy	Basketball	1961
68	Yury Dumchev	Soviet Union	Athletics	1958
69	Toni Eichholzer	Austria	Boxing	1903
70	Moukhtar Hussain El-Gamal	United Arab Republic, Egypt	Water Polo	1935
71	Marja Elfman	Sweden	Freestyle Skiing	1972
72	Julio CÃ©sar Enciso	Paraguay	Football	1974
73	Walter Engelmann	Germany	Gymnastics	1888
74	Hannah Ertel	Germany	Judo	1978
75	John Evans	United States	Canoeing	1949
76	Kathryn Evans	Great Britain	Swimming	1981
77	Lynne Evans	Great Britain	Archery	1948
78	Patrick Ewing	United States	Basketball	1962
79	Lorrie Fair	United States	Football	1978
80	Kelsi Fairbrother	Great Britain	Handball	1989
81	TamÃ¡s FaragÃ³	Hungary	Water Polo	1952
82	Saleem Farooqi	Pakistan	Cycling	1940
83	Fei Fengji	China	Shooting	1982
84	Nicholas Fekete	Canada	Modern Pentathlon	1962
85	SÃ©raphin Ferrer	France	Boxing	1931	2001
86	Gavin Fingleson	Australia	Baseball	1976
87	Rosamund Fletcher	Great Britain	Art Competitions	1908	1993
88	Thord Flodqvist	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1926	1988
89	Rafael FortÃºn	Cuba	Athletics	1919	1982
90	Hugues Fournel	Canada	Canoeing	1988
91	Helena Fromm	Germany	Taekwondo	1987
92	Mizuki Fujii	Japan	Badminton	1988
93	Moeko Fujimoto	Japan	Ice Hockey	1992
94	Takeshi Fujiwara	El Salvador	Athletics	1985
95	Bernd Gabriel	West Germany	Wrestling	1961
96	Gianfranco Gaspari	Italy	Bobsleigh	1938
97	LÃ¡szlÃ³ GellÃ©r	Hungary	Ski Jumping	1944
98	MihÃ¡ly GellÃ©r	Hungary	Ski Jumping	1947
99	LeÃ³n Genuth	Argentina	Wrestling	1931
100	Marco Gerini	Italy	Water Polo	1971
101	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	Athletics	1978
102	Csaba Giczy	Hungary	Canoeing	1945
103	Nan Gindele	United States	Athletics	1910	1992
104	Jaros?aw Godek	Poland	Rowing	1981
105	Franklin GÃ³mez	Puerto Rico	Wrestling	1986
106	Stefanie Gottschlich	Germany	Football	1978
107	StÃ©phane Gourichon	France	Canoeing	1977
108	Arthur Grady	Great Britain	Water Polo	1922	1995
109	Martina GranstrÃ¶m	Sweden	Swimming	1991
110	Paul Grubenthal	Austria	Gymnastics	1932
111	Hans Gruhne	Germany	Rowing	1988
112	Erik Guay	Canada	Alpine Skiing	1981
113	Jean-Jacques Guissart	France	Rowing	1927	2008
114	Guo Dandan	China	Freestyle Skiing	1977
115	Pierre Guy	France	Shooting	1931
116	Han Ji-Hwan	South Korea	Judo	1977
117	May Britt Hartwell	Norway	Cycling	1968
118	Frankie Hejduk	United States	Football	1974
119	Steven Hinton	Australia	Baseball	1971
120	Franz-Peter Hofmeister	West Germany	Athletics	1951
121	Hermannus HÃ¶fte	Netherlands	Rowing	1884	1961
122	Elin HolmlÃ¶v	Sweden	Ice Hockey	1987
123	Arkadiy Holovchenko	Soviet Union	Swimming	1936
124	KlÃ¡ra HorvÃ¡th-Csik	Hungary	Handball	1947
125	Hwang Seong-Beom	South Korea	Boxing	1975
126	Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim	United Arab Republic, Egypt	Weightlifting	1937
127	Jawdat Jabra	Syria	Wrestling	1948
128	Barton Jahncke	United States	Sailing	1939
129	Michael Jamieson	Great Britain	Swimming	1988
130	Valdivel Jayalakshmi	India	Athletics	1971
131	Dora JelÃnkovÃ¡	Czechoslovakia	Volleyball	1949	2007
132	Jeon Dae-Je	South Korea	Wrestling	1965
133	Soraya JimÃ©nez	Mexico	Weightlifting	1977	2013
134	Elin Johansson	Sweden	Taekwondo	1990
135	Brian Johns	Canada	Swimming	1982
136	Francis Johnson	United States	Basketball	1910	1997
137	Lolo Jones	United States	Athletics, Bobsleigh	1982
138	Joana JuÃ¡rez	Spain	Gymnastics	1980
139	Yekaterina Kabeshova	Russia	Volleyball	1986
140	Salomon Kalou	Cote d'Ivoire	Football	1985
141	Eino Kalpala	Finland	Alpine Skiing	1926
142	Rachot Kanjanavanit	Thailand	Sailing	1924
143	Ella Karachkova	Russia	Badminton	1978
144	Thomas Karalogos	Greece	Water Polo	1951
145	Valery Karpov	Russia	Ice Hockey	1971	2014
146	Karlo Kasap	Yugoslavia, Canada	Wrestling	1954
147	Faazil Kassam	Canada	Table Tennis	1985
148	Zhanarbek Kenzheyev	Kyrgyzstan	Wrestling	1985
149	Abdel Hamid Khamis	Egypt	Athletics	1944
150	Barbar Ali Khan	Pakistan	Boxing	1963
151	Youssef Khan	India	Football	1937	2006
152	Khoo Chong Beng	Malaysia	Athletics	1948
153	Andreas Kilingaridis	Greece	Canoeing	1976	2013
154	Kim Su-Gwan	South Korea	Baseball	1972
155	Erika Komura	Japan	Synchronized Swimming	1982
156	Keitaro Konnai	Japan	Swimming	1978
157	Vladimir Konyakhin	Soviet Union	Shooting	1943
158	KÃ¡roly Korbel	Hungary	Judo	1971
159	DjÃ©tenan Kouadio	Cote d'Ivoire	Athletics	1960
160	Anuj Kumar	India	Wrestling	1980
161	Mihaela L?c?tu?	Romania	Boxing	1981
162	Robert LaboubÃ©e	Belgium	Speed Skating	1927
163	Ãtienne LaisnÃ©	France	Athletics	1905	1997
164	Darren Lange	Australia	Swimming	1971
165	Jean Laudet	France	Canoeing	1930
166	Valerie Lawrence	Australia	Athletics	1936
167	Lee Seung-Gyun	South Korea	Shooting	1932
168	Jean Lessard	Canada	Alpine Skiing	1932	2013
169	Toni Leviste	Philippines	Equestrianism	1973
170	Li Won-Ho	North Korea	Short Track Speed Skating	1972
171	Miguel Llaneras	Cuba	Basketball	1926
172	Lo Kwok-Tai	Chinese Taipei	Football	1929
173	Axel Fredrik Londen	Finland	Shooting	1859	1928
174	Ron Lord	Australia	Football	1929
175	Romeu Luchiari Filho	Brazil	Shooting	1953
176	Andreas Lupzig	Germany	Ice Hockey	1968
177	Anca M?roiu	Romania	Fencing	1983
178	Ma Yibo	China	Hockey	1980
179	Jean-Pierre Malavasi	France	Boxing	1949
180	Ihor Maliar	Ukraine	Figure Skating	1971
181	VÃ¡clav MÃ¡ra	Czechoslovakia	Canoeing	1943
182	Juan Ãngel Martini, Jr.	Argentina	Shooting	1945
183	JosÃ© Martins	Brazil	Boxing	1931
184	Takashi Masuda	Japan	Basketball	1940
185	Ennio Mattarelli	Italy	Shooting	1928
186	Margaret Matthews	United States	Athletics	1935
187	Fleur Maxwell	Luxembourg	Figure Skating	1988
188	Jack McCartan	United States	Ice Hockey	1935
189	Perry McGillivray	United States	Swimming, Water Polo	1893	1944
190	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	Swimming	1983
191	Maren Meinert	Germany	Football	1973
192	Jude Menezes	India	Hockey	1971
193	Rick Merlo	United States	Water Polo	1982
194	Paul Midgley	Canada	Swimming	1957
195	Galina Mishenina	Soviet Union	Rowing	1950
196	Rosi Mittermaier	West Germany	Alpine Skiing	1950
197	George Moraes	Uganda	Hockey	1943
198	Henri Moreau	France	Boxing	1945
199	Oreste Moricca	Italy	Fencing	1891	1984
200	Moses Mosuhli	Lesotho	Athletics	1981
201	Aleksandr Mozhayev	Soviet Union	Fencing	1958
202	Frank Mulder	Netherlands	Rowing	1946
203	Fernando MuÃ±agorri	Spain	Athletics	1907	1959
204	ZachÃ©e N'Dock	Cameroon	Wrestling	1954
205	Fabrizio Nassi	Italy	Volleyball	1951
206	Antonio Nava	Spain	Basketball	1948
207	Uwe Neupert	East Germany	Wrestling	1957
208	Lynn Nightingale	Canada	Figure Skating	1956
209	Kaysar Nurmaganbetov	Kazakhstan	Canoeing	1977
210	Wesley O'Brien	Australia	Wrestling	1948
211	Rosevitha Okou	Cote d'Ivoire	Athletics	1986
212	Ovidiu Olteanu	Romania	Athletics	1970
213	Isao Ono	Japan	Ice Hockey	1933
214	Kyoko Oshima	Japan	Gymnastics	1986
215	Dave Ottley	Great Britain	Athletics	1955
216	Konkiswinde Hanatou Ouelogo	Burkina Faso	Judo	1978
217	Maria Cristina Pacifici	Italy	Swimming	1945
218	Sara Papi	Italy	Rhythmic Gymnastics	1980
219	Jean-Pierre Paranteau	France	Cycling	1944
220	Rodney Pattisson	Great Britain	Sailing	1943
221	Hartmann Pauly	United States	Equestrianism	1893	1966
222	Ji?Ã PechÃ¡?ek	Czechoslovakia	Equestrianism	1943
223	Niels Pedersen	Denmark	Athletics	1888	1968
224	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	Swimming	1988
225	GaÃ«l PencrÃ©ach	France	Athletics	1977
226	Bob Perew	United States	Rowing	1923	1999
227	Gustavo PÃ©rez	Uruguay	Rowing	1935
228	Oleksandr Petriv	Ukraine	Shooting	1974
229	Raymond Pitman	Bermuda	Sailing	1951
230	Marcin Pobuta	Poland	Hockey	1975
231	Olga Podchufarova	Russia	Biathlon	1992
232	Viktoriya Polyayeva	Kyrgyzstan	Swimming	1980
233	Jacques Pousaz	Switzerland	Ice Hockey	1947
234	Paul Quirke	Ireland	Athletics	1963
235	Darko Radomirovi?	Serbia and Montenegro	Athletics	1977
236	Heritovo Rakotomanga	Madagascar	Boxing	1963
237	Veikko RÃ¤sÃ¤nen	Finland	Cross Country Skiing	1928	2003
238	Fetra Ratsimiziva	Madagascar	Judo	1991
239	Christy Ren	Hong Kong	Short Track Speed Skating	1983
240	Tiny Reniers	Netherlands	Archery	1947
241	CristiÃ¡n Reyes	Chile	Athletics	1986
242	EugÃ¨ne Richez	France	Archery	1864
243	JÃ¼rgen Richter	Austria	Diving	1970
244	Alfred Rieck	Germany	Rowing	1914	2000
245	Roman Ro?ek	Poland	Boxing	1942
246	RubÃ©n RodrÃguez	Puerto Rico	Basketball	1953
247	Jens Erik Roepstorff	Denmark	Handball	1960
248	AndrÃ© Rolet	France	Weightlifting	1901
249	Nikola Rosi?	Serbia	Volleyball	1984
250	Alexandra Rusu-Stoian	Romania	Biathlon	1983
251	Anton Å ?astnÃ½	Czechoslovakia	Ice Hockey	1959
252	Ulla Salzgeber	Germany	Equestrianism	1958
253	IstvÃ¡n SÃ¡rkÃ¡ny	Hungary	Gymnastics	1913	2009
254	Hossein Saveh Shemshaki	Iran	Alpine Skiing	1985
255	Essam Sayed	Egypt	Archery	1967
256	Trygve SchjÃ¸tt	Norway	Sailing	1882	1960
257	Christoph Schmid	Switzerland	Shooting	1982
258	Mike Schneeberger	United States	Curling	1962
259	Hans Schnitger	Netherlands	Hockey	1915	2013
260	Franz SchÃ¶nfels	Austria	Water Polo	1913	2005
261	Hans Schuller	Austria	Ice Hockey	1953
262	Larry Scott	Canada	Sailing	1947
263	Robert Scott	Australia	Rowing	1969
264	Helga Seidler	East Germany	Athletics	1949
265	Shen Jianqiang	China	Swimming	1965
266	Antoine Sibierski	France	Football	1974
267	Ann Simons	Belgium	Judo	1980
268	Erik Simonsen	Denmark	Athletics	1915	2000
269	Dharamvir Singh	India	Hockey	1990
270	Karlheinz Smieszek	West Germany	Shooting	1948
271	John Smith	United States	Athletics	1950
272	Ayman Abdel Hamid Soliman	Egypt	Handball	1966
273	KlÃ¡ra SoÃ³s	Hungary	Athletics	1933
274	Adrian Sornoza	Ecuador	Athletics	1992
275	Peter Soteropoulos	Greece	Baseball	1981
276	Sho Sotodate	Japan	Swimming	1991
277	Ellen Sprunger	Switzerland	Athletics	1986
278	Boris Stolyarov	Soviet Union	Athletics	1932	2009
279	Rolf Storm	Sweden	Boxing	1930	2000
280	Erika StrÃ¶Ãenreuther	Germany	Athletics	1938
281	Wirmandi Sugriat	Indonesia	Swimming	1971
282	Frithjof SÃ¦len	Norway	Gymnastics	1892	1975
283	Sverre SÃ¸rsdal	Norway	Boxing	1900	1996
284	David Tabak	Israel	Athletics	1927	2012
285	Itsuo Takanezawa	Japan	Athletics	1951
286	David Tarsey	Great Britain	Diving	1937	2015
287	Tetsuya Tateno	Japan	Athletics	1991
288	Charles Tatham	Great Britain	Jeu De Paume	1864	1925
289	Giel ten Bosch	Netherlands	Baseball	1973
290	Frank Terletzki	East Germany	Football	1950
291	Robert Thorens	Switzerland	Sailing	1908
292	Brendan Todd	Australia	Sailing	1973
293	Freddie Tomlins	Great Britain	Figure Skating	1919	1943
294	Ãgnes Torma	Hungary	Volleyball	1951
295	Abdou TraorÃ©	Mali	Football	1981
296	Reinhard Tritscher	Austria	Alpine Skiing	1946
297	Bruce Turner	New Zealand	Hockey	1930	2010
298	Laszlo Ubori	Yugoslavia	Athletics	1951
299	Fernando Urdapilleta	Argentina	Equestrianism	1924	2013
300	Ewout van Asbeck	Netherlands	Hockey	1956
301	Jean Van Den Bosch	Belgium	Cycling	1898	1985
302	Ighli Vannucchi	Italy	Football	1977
303	Bob Verbeeck	Belgium	Athletics	1960
304	Homelo Vi	Tonga	Athletics	1967
305	Harvey Villela	Brazil	Shooting	1898	1974
306	Oiva Virtanen	Finland	Basketball	1929	1992
307	Petr VitÃ¡sek	Czech Republic	Rowing	1981
308	Peter Vogel	Switzerland	Cycling	1939
309	Patricia Wartusch	Austria	Tennis	1978
310	Wei Ning	China	Shooting	1982
311	John Whitaker	Great Britain	Equestrianism	1955
312	Becky Wilczak	United States	Luge	1980
313	Graham Windeatt	Australia	Swimming	1954
314	Jerry Winholtz	United States	Wrestling	1874	1962
315	Gary Winram	Australia	Swimming	1936
316	Angie Winstanley-Smith	Great Britain	Water Polo	1985
317	Claire Wright	Great Britain	Trampolining	1979
318	Wu Yiwen	China	Synchronized Swimming	1986
319	Magali YaÃ±ez	Mexico	Athletics	1981
320	William Yates	Great Britain	Athletics	1880	1967
321	Oleksandr Yatsenko	Ukraine	Boxing	1979
322	Oleksiy Yehorov	Ukraine	Water Polo	1964
323	Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu	Japan	Wrestling	1986
324	Frank Young	Canada	Rowing	1929
325	Yu Seung-Min	South Korea	Table Tennis	1982
326	Yun Nam-Jin	South Korea	Fencing	1962
327	Darryl Yung	Canada	Badminton	1972
328	Farid Zablith Filho	Brazil	Swimming	1942
329	Antoni Zajkowski	Poland	Judo	1948
330	Denys Zavhorodniy	Ukraine	Swimming	1979
331	Kathrin Zettel	Austria	Alpine Skiing	1986
332	Zhang Yousheng	China	Volleyball	1956
333	Gabi Zingre	Switzerland	Alpine Skiing	1970
334	Ernst zu Hohenlohe	Austria	Fencing	1891	1947

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