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...
American skater Kenneth Henry on the track during his gold-medal winning run during the Men's 500-Metre Speed Skating final at Bislett Stadium, Olso,...
S Craig Beardsley, of Harrington Park, New Jersey, swims to victory and a Pan American Games Gold Medal here. Beardsley's winning time in the 200...
Winners of the 200m Men's Freestyle, Michael Wenden AUS 1:55.2 GOLD, Don Schollander USA 1:55.8 SILVER, John Nelson USA 1:58.1 BRONZE.
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: USA's Randy Matson of Pampa, Texas unsprings to toss the shot to bring the United States its first gold medal. He won the...
S Al Oerter haves the discus for an Olympic record and an Olympic gold medal 10/15, with a throw of 212 feet, 6-1/2 inches. Oerter also won the...
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...
Olympic Gold medal winner of the Special Ladies Slalom , Marielle Goitschel with the winner of the Ladies Downhill, Olga Pall. The girls are at the...
Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov of Russia are shown skating in the 1968 Winter Olympics to capture the Gold medal in the Pairs Free Skating...
Mark Spitz, of Santa Clara, California is shown after he won an array of gold medals at the 5th Pan American Games. Spitz is top Gold Medal winner...
Mark Spitz, of Santa Clara, California is shown after he won an array of gold medals at the 5th Pan American Games. Spitz is top Gold Medal winner...
Mark Spitz, of Santa Clara, California is shown after he won an array of gold medals at the 5th Pan American Games. Spitz is top Gold Medal winner...
Tokyo, Japan: Bob Schul, of the United States is at the left with a gold medal, and his teammate Bill Dellinger holds a bronze medal for his third...
Sprinter Bob Hayes practices starts with New Zealander Doreen Porter, October 1st, in Olympic Village here as the track teams got down to hard...
Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov of Russia are shown skating in the 1968 Winter Olympics to capture the Gold medal in the Pairs Free Skating...
Donna Devarona, double Olympic Gold Medal swimming winner, who recently announced her "retirement" at the grand old age of 27, is pictured here one...
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...
The world's top pole vaulter Fred Hansen, who won a gold medal for Uncle Sam in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, piles feed bags as he helps out in his...
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...
Swiss gold medal winner Renee Colliard is congratulated by Germany's Ossi Reichert on her victory in the women's slalom. A few days earlier, Ossi had...
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...
Madeleine Berthod of Switzerland, who won the Gold Medal in the women's Downhill ski event, is shown being congratulated by Rene Colliard, another...
Sverre Stenersen, of Norway, poles along the Olympic track at Cortina in the 15-kilometer cross-country race, the second half of the Olympic Nordic...
Seoul: American wrestler John Smith leaps into air after defeating Stephan Sarkissian of the Soviet Union for the gold medal in the 62 kg class...
South African distance runner Zola Budd, team Great Britain, leading the 3000 meters race at the 1984 Olympics, followed by eventual gold medal...
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...
Producer Buddy Adler accepts award from Ann Higginbotham, editor of Photoplay Magazine, for winning the gold medal as producer of Love is a Many...
Russia's Mikhailov is shown , with his teammate Grishin, , after they ran a dead heat in the 1,500 meter speed skating event to win another Olympic...
Gymnast Ann Carr of Philadelphia, holds the five gold medals she won in the Pan American games here- more than any other participant. The 5-ft.,...
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.
Evelyn Ashford crosses the finish line to win the gold medal for the Women's 100 meter. Her time was 10.97.
On Victory stand for Long Jump awards on 8/6 : Gary Honey, Australian, Silver; Carl Lewis, USA, Gold and Italy's Giovanni Evangelisti, Bronze.
Los Angeles: U. S. Athletes Evelyn Ashford, gold winner, and Alice Brown, bronze winner, wave from the awards podium after receiving their medals for...
Lorraine Lockhart gives Sen. Edward Kennedy a big smile as he awards her a gold medal for winning the 50-yard dash at the Northeast Special Olympics.
Chet Jastremski holds the gold medal he received after winning the 200 meter breaststroke with a time of 2:90. Jastremski went on to win the bronze...
S hope for a gold medal in the men's figure skating at the Winter Olympic Games rests on David Jenkins shown here 2/26 as he goes through his...
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...
Los Angeles: Track star Carl Lewis, who begins his quest for four track and field gold medals, says, "As far as I am concerned, I can't fail."
Indianapolis: Rebecca Twigg-Whitehead of the United States raises her arms in victory after winning the gold medal for the Individual Road Race event...
Indianapolis, Indiana: Kyoko Takezawa of Japan holds violin after her choice as Gold Medal winner in the International Violin Competition of...
Durham, N.C.: Valerie Brisco, 1984 Olympic triple gold medalist, wins her second gold in the Olympic Festival as she crosses the finish line in the...
Former Olympic sprinter Wilma Rudolph, winner of three gold medals, triumphantly lights the festival torch of the 4th National; Sports Festival...
Eric Heiden, American speedskating star who swept to his fourth consecutive gold medal in Olympic record time in the 1500 meter event 2/21, wears a...
America's Eric Heiden, bidding for his fourth straight Olympic gold medal, survived a near fall in the 1500 meter speedskating event to beat Norway's...
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...
