Helen Wills, famous Berkeley California tennis champion, is awarded with the William Randolph Hearst popularity trophy through a National Poll...
Los Angeles, California: America's Candie Costie and Tracie Ruiz wave to the spectators after winning the gold medal in synchronized swimming....
Philadelphia, PA: Martha Norelius, New York's Swimming Association. Sitting on edge of pool at National Swim.
Ilona Elek-Schacherer is congratulated on her gold medal after winning the Women's Foil Fencing event, by her fellow teammates, Berlin, Germany, 15th...
Team Sweden goalie Henrik Lundqvist raises a bouquet in celebration of his team's 3-2 win over Finland in the 2006 Winter Olympics gold medal hockey...
Swimmer Jenny Thompson of the United States waves to fans after her team won silver medals in the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay at the Aquatic Center...
Mia Hamm of the United States celebrates after she and her team - the Fab Five - beat Brazil 2-1 in overtime for Olympic gold in women's soccer at...
Toby Dawson of the U.S. Celebrates winning the bronze medal in the Men's Moguls Freestyle Skiing competition during the 2006 Winter Olympic Games at...
Gold-medal winner Stefan Holm of Sweden sails over the bar in the men's high jump final at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
Abby Wambach of the U.S. Is hugged by a teammate after scoring the game-winning goal in overtime against Brazil in the women's soccer gold medal...
Franco Menichelli of Italy during the Men's Flying Rings event in the gymnastics finals. He placed second and won the silver medal.
Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia performs on the asymmetrical bars to win a vote 9.90 points, of a possible perfect en, from the judges and a gold...
Twenty-six-year-old Vera Caslavska, a student from Prague, won a Gold medal, for her performance in the Olympic gymnastic Floor Exercise competition....
American athlete and Olympic gold medal winner Jesse Owens smiles as he waves at fans who line the streets during a ticker tape parade in honor of...
American athlete and Olympic gold medal winner Jesse Owens in midair as he completes in the Long Jump at the Olympic Games, Berlin, Germany, early...
American athlete and Olympic gold medal winner Jesse Owens easily leads the pack in the semi-final heat of the Men's 100m event at the Olympic Games,...
Half length portrait of athlete, William Hogenson, silver medalist in the 60 meter dash during the 1904 Summer Olympics, standing in a stairwell...
Carl Lewis waves to the crowed while being carried by his teammates and other athletes after team USA won the gold medal for the Men's 4x100m Relay...
Track and field runner Florence Griffith Joyner waves to the sky as she wins the 100 meter dash at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
Rome, Italy- America's Wilma Rudolph, of Clarksville, TN, breaks the tape to win her semi-final heat in the women's 100-meter dash. Wilma won in the...
Members of the 1980 Gold medal winning US Olympic hockey team at the Roxy Roller Disco in NYC, Mark Wells, Mark Pavelich, Steve Christoff, Bob Suter,...
Members of the Canadian and Swedish Olympic hockey teams line up on an outdoor ice rink after the 1928 Winter Olympic Games, where the Canadian team...
American speed skater Irving Jaffee holds his gold medal after winning the men's 10,000-meter speed skating event at the 1932 Winter Olympic Games,...
British figure skater Cecilia Colledge executes a spiral during the women's figure skating final at the 1936 Winter Olympic Games, where she won the...
Finnish skier Veikko Hakulinen seen during his gold-medal winning run in the Men's 50km Cross-Country Skiing competition at the Winter Olympics in...
American skater Irving Jaffee shakes hands with an unidentified Olympic official after winning the gold medal in the Men's 5,000-Metre Speed Skating...
Giancarlo Usai, Olympic medalist and Italian lightweight boxing champ, is here to fight Howard Davis, of the U.S., at the Felt Forum 4/20.
Giancarlo Usai, Olympic medalist and Italian lightweight boxing champ, eats a plate of spaghetti at San Romeo Restaurant here 4/17. Usai is here to...
Giancarlo Usai, Olympic medalist and Italian lightweight boxing champ, is here to fight Howard Davis, of the U.S., at the Felt Forum 4/20.
Mexico City, Mexico: British Olympic team medal winners L-R: Dave Hemery, gold for 1st place in 400 meter hurdles; Mrs. Sheila Sherwood, silver for...
Rumania's Viorica Viscopoleanu, one knee bandaged, leaps 22 feet, 4-1/2 inches to win an Olympic Gold Medal and better the official world and Olympic...
Mexico City, Mexico: Rumania's Viorica Viscopoleanu, one knee bandaged, leaps 22 feet, 4 1/2 inches to win an Olympic gold medal and better the...
Sprinter Bob Hayes practices starts with New Zealander Doreen Porter, October 1st, in Olympic Village here as the track teams got down to hard...
Olympics: Bob Hayes wearing Texas style 10 gallon hat, before getting his gold medal in the 100 meter.
Olympics' Fred Hansen smiles broadly as he wears his Gold Medal he won in the pole vault event, setting a new Olympic record of 16'9".
Olympics' Fred Hansen smiles broadly as he wears his Gold Medal he won in the pole vault event, setting a new Olympic record of 16'9".
Mike Austin, Olympic swimmer 1964- with other winners of the men's 400 meter freestyle relay swim. Left to right: Don Schollander, Gary Inman, Austin...
Tokyo, Japan: John Thomas of the U.S. Raises his arms and smiles after getting silver medal for second place in the High jump event of the 1964...
Canada's George Hungerford and Roger Jackson are all smiles as they proudly display their gold medals won in todays 10/15 finals of the pair cars...
America's Bob Hayes, winner of the gold medal in the Olympic 100-meter dash, is flanked by silver medalist E. Figerola of Cuba and bronze medal...
The finish of the Olympic 10 meter final here October 15th shows America's Bob Hayes breaking the tape to tie the world record. Hayes ran the fastest...
Members of the Japanese press interview three US track stars : Bob Hayes, Ralph Boston and Henry Carr, shortly after the first contingent of the US...
Tokyo, Japan- America's Bob Hayes, winner of the gold medal in the Olympic 100-meter dash, is flanked by silver medalist E. Figerola of Cuba and...
Tony Sailer of Austria, who became the "Glamor Boy" of the winter Olympics, holds up three fingers to indicate his Gold Medal score after he won the...
Madeleine Berthod of Switzerland is carried on the shoulders of jubilant fellow countrymen, after she won a Gold Medal by capturing the women's...
New York: Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver helps a youngster down a special ski ramp with Olympic medalist Billy Kidd as coach during a press announcement...
Eugeniv Grishin, Russian skating star, closes his eyes as he is soundly kissed by a teammate after winning his second Gold medal of the Winter...
Los Angeles, California: Steven Hegg gives the US its 17th gold metal of the Olympics by winning the 4,000 meter individual pursuit cycling event.
Double gold medalist in 1988 Seoul Olympics, Jackie Joyner-Kersee clear final hurdle to win women's 55 meter Hurdles in the Houston Chronicle Indoor...
Lake Placid, N.Y.: Leonhard Stock of Austria is jubilant after winning a gold medal in he Olympic men's downhill ski event. Stock, who came to the...
The United State's John Peterson, of Comstock, Wisconsin, isn't in control of this situation, but he was in control the majority of the time beating...
Finland's Lasse Viren completed an unprecedented Olympic repeat double gold medal performance by holding off 3 runners down the stretch to win the...
Peggy Fleming, the 19-year-old Olympic figure skating gold medalist from Colorado Springs, Colorado, is flanked on pedestal during medal presentation...
Coach Ake Frederiksson of the Swedish team jubilantly carries Toini Gustafsson here after they upset the Russians in the women's five-kilometer cross...
Peggy Fleming who was World Figure Skating Champion three times and the only U.S. Skater to win a Gold Medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics, cuts a...
Olympic victors Karin Cone, Judy Grinham and Margaret Edwards display their medals after winning the women's 100 meter backstroke competition. Cone...
Nina Romaschkova is shown throwing the Discus for Russia in the Olympiad at Helsinki. She won a Gold Medal for the Soviets by tossing the platter 168...
Miss Jeanette Altwegg, the 21 year old World European and British champion, shown here, gained Britain's first gold medal in the Sixth winter...
American boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Soviet boxer Gennady Schatkov to proceed to the next round at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
Britain's figure skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean perform at the Olympics in Sarejevo, Yugoslavia, mesmerizing the judges and audience and...
Gold medal winner for the decathalon, Daley Thompson of Great Britain, shows off one of his message t-shirts at a news conference after he won the...
The Soviet Union's flag is carried in the closing ceremony of the seventh Winter Olympic Games at Cortina D'Ampezzo, in which the Russians led in...
Germany's silver medal winners, the Canadian Pairs Canoe Slalom team, Hans Schumacher and Wilhem Baues shoot the rapids here, in the Olympic course...
Defeated WBC heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali with a swollen face and dark glasses during a mid-day press conference. Larry Holmes beat Ali in the...
Muhammad Ali looks dazed in his corner, unable to come out for the 11th round. Ali lost out in his bid to take the heavyweight crown a fourth time...
Heavyweight champion Larry Holmes is all smiles at a joint news conference with defeated champ Muhammad Ali . Ali appeared at the press conference...
Muhammad Ali's parents and brother greet him as he arrives home in Louisville after winning a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
Olympic games 1896 - Athens, Greece - The parade of the winners with Spiridon Louis, Winner of the marathon, holding a flag in traditional costume....
Mrs. Andrea Mead Lawrence, who won two gold medals while representing the U.S. In the 1952 Winter Olympics, tests her ski legs on a slalom course on...
Olympic decathlon gold medal winner Rafer Johnson stands atop a stairway to light the Olympic rings which will, in turn, light the Olympic Flame at...
Running the anchor leg, American Wilma Rudolph crosses the finish line to win the women's 400-meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The...
The 1936 Olympic Figure Skating Champions are Cecilia Colledge winning silver, Sonja Henie winning gold, and Vivi-Anne Hulten winning bronze.
Berlin, Germany- Pictured above are the members of the American relay team which won the 400-meter relay race at the Olympics in Berlin. They...
Los Angeles: Gold medal winner in men's individual gymnastics, Koji Gushiken of Japan looks at the silver medal winner, Peter Vidmar of the United...
Victory ceremony following the 1,500 meter run. First place goes to Peter Snell of New Zealand, second to Josef Odiozil of Czechoslovakia, and third...
