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  1. 1Carl SchuhmannCarl SchuhmannBorn 12 May 1869At the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, Schuhmann won the wrestling tournament and gymnastics gold in the vault and the team events, and also entered weightlifting and athletics. Without weight classes, he beat heavier men through technique and leverage learned as a gymnast. The early Games…0i
  2. 2Frank KuglerFrank KuglerBorn 14 Aug 1882Kugler won medals in three different sports at a single Games, St Louis 1904: wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war, a feat no one has repeated. The fields were small and largely American, which explains how it was possible, but strength and grappling technique tied the three together. He is the…0
  3. 3Eddie EaganEddie EaganEagan is still the only athlete to win gold at both the Summer and Winter Olympics in different sports: light-heavyweight boxing at Antwerp in 1920 and four-man bobsleigh at Lake Placid in 1932, having barely tried the sled before. The link was nerve and power at the push start rather than…0i
  4. 4Jacob Tullin ThamsJacob Tullin ThamsThams won ski jumping gold at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924, then 12 years later took silver in sailing in the 8 metre class at the Berlin Summer Games. He is one of very few athletes with medals at both Summer and Winter Olympics, and the two sports share almost nothing beyond…0i
  5. 5Willie DavenportWillie DavenportDavenport won the 110m hurdles at Mexico City in 1968 and bronze in 1976, then, aged 36, pushed a US four-man bobsleigh at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games, becoming, with team-mate Jeff Gadley, one of the first Black athletes to represent the US at a Winter Olympics. The hurdler's explosive start…0i
  6. 6Christa Luding-RothenburgerChrista Luding-RothenburgerBorn 4 Dec 1959In 1988 the East German won speed skating gold in the 1000m and silver in the 500m at the Calgary Winter Olympics, then seven months later took silver in the cycling sprint at the Seoul Summer Games. She remains the only athlete to win medals at Winter and Summer Olympics in the same calendar year,…0i
  7. 7Seiko HashimotoSeiko HashimotoBorn 5 Oct 1964Hashimoto competed at seven Olympic Games across two sports: four Winter Games as a speed skater, where she won 1500m bronze in Albertville in 1992, and three Summer Games as a track cyclist. Her career mirrors Luding's speed skating to cycling path over a much longer span. She later became a…0i
  8. 8Clara HughesClara HughesBorn 27 Sept 1972Hughes is the only athlete with multiple medals at both Summer and Winter Games: two road cycling bronzes in Atlanta in 1996, then four long-track speed skating medals from 2002 to 2010, including 5000m gold in Turin. Endurance cycling and distance skating share a crouched position and sustained…0i
  9. 9Kateřina NeumannováKateřina NeumannováBorn 15 Feb 1973Neumannová raced mountain biking at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, the sport's debut Games, between Winter Games where she won six cross-country skiing medals. The best came last, with 30km gold in Turin in 2006 after years of silver and bronze. The overlap is obvious once you see it: both…0i
  10. 10Chris WittyChris WittyBorn 23 Jun 1975Witty won speed skating silver and bronze in Nagano in 1998, then rode the 500m time trial for the US cycling team at Sydney 2000, and in 2002 returned to the ice to win 1000m gold in Salt Lake City in a world record, despite having been diagnosed with glandular fever weeks earlier. Like Luding and…0