Larisa Semyonovna Latynina born December 27, 1934 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian-Ukrainian and former Soviet gymnast who is the only female athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals.

She holds 18 total medals, second most won by a competitor in any sport at the Olympics.

An Olympic marathon is a little over 26 miles long. The race starts and finishes in the Olympic Stadium. The rest of it is run through the city streets.

A world-class athlete can complete the marathon in a little over 2 hours. But that wasn’t the case for Stephen Akhwari in 1968. 

Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, 1956) is an American figure skater. She a 1976 Olympic Winter Games gold medalist and Ladies World Figure Skating Champion.

Hamill was born in Chicago, Illinois to Chalmers and Carol Hamill. 

Elly Beinhorn (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German aviator and pilot.

She was born in Hannover, Germany on 30 May 1907. In 1928, she attended a lecture by famed aviator Hermann Köhl, who had recently completed a historic East-West Atlantic crossing. This lecture is described as the spark that ignited her interest in aviation.