
Siia projekti soovime Genist kokku koguda tuntumaid Eesti sportlasi aga ka sporditegelasi (ROK presidendid, spordiajakirjanikud, jms.) läbi kõigi ajajärkude. Kuna see projekt Eesti sport kipub liiga mahukaks muutuma - on tulnud ettepanek teha selle asemel eraldi projektid , nagu: Eesti sport - ujujad Eesti sport - tõstjad Eesti sport - suusatajad Eesti sport - maadlejad Eesti sport...
The following list is of notable footballers from Italy. This list includes living and deceased Italian well-known people linked to the world of Italian football that are present on GENi as well as on The English Wikipedia.
This is a project for those who have been involved with the NBA.The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world. It has thirty franchised member clubs (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada), and is an active member of USA Basketball ...
New Zealand national rugby union team=The New Zealand national rugby union team , called the All Blacks , represents New Zealand in men's rugby union, which is known as the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cups, in 2011 and 2015 as well as the inaugural tournament in 1987.* Nickname: All Blacks * Emblem: Silver Fern* Union: New Zealand Rugby Union * Head Coach: Ian Foster ...
This project is dedicated to all those who have made baseball America's pastime. Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher...
Please add any Native American/Indigenous/First Nations/American Indians who were or are athletes to this project. Running The Distance The resiliency of Indigenous people is grounded in their physical well-being. Health and wellness are deeply rooted in who we are and what we do, our food systems and agricultural practices, and our relationship to the land. Through the cooperation of not jus...
Swedish celebrities with initial focus on the top 100 historical swedes. Myheritage free source "Famous People Throughout History" has 36791 profiles born in Sweden. Geneastar list of celebrities with known relatives
If you have athletes in your family tree who were notable skiers, who participated in ski competitions, and who were associated with Lithuania, please add them to this project. It would be great if there were brief biographies within the profile description "About". Use the 'Actions' button on the opened profile page to "Add to project". Select this project (you must be on the list of collabor...
If you have athletes in your family tree who participated in the 1938 World Lithuanian Sports Games, please add them to this project. It would be great if there were brief biographies within the profile description "About". Within opened profile page, use the 'Actions' button to "Add to project". Select this project (you must be on the list of collaborators in this project to see it on the sel...
2024 Lithuania at the Paris Summer Olympics Lithuania competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. This was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Games in the post-Soviet era and eleventh overall in Summer Olympic history. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) Lithuania medaled in 4 events, earning 2 Silver and 2 Bronze medals. 50 Competitors (26 men and 24 w...
Lithuania made its debut in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, sending 15 athletes to compete in football and cycling. The football team lost its first match, while the cyclists experienced technical difficulties and couldn't finish their race. This debut is considered the start of the Lithuanian Olympic Movement's international recognition. Lithuania participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics ...
The 1969 New York Mets season was the team's eighth as a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise and culminated with them winning the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. They played their home games at Shea Stadium. The team was managed by Gil Hodges. The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets", a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1...
This project celebrates figure skaters who have represented the United States at International Skating Union events , such as the World Championships or Winter Olympics, as members of Team USA. Both past and present figure skaters, male and female, are covered by the scope of the project. The fields of figure skating in the United States include men's, women's (formerly "ladies'"), pairs, ice d...
This project is a place to list famous and "historic" Olympians and perhaps connect them to Geni profiles.==Youngest Olympic Champions in History==*The youngest athlete to participate at the Modern Olympics was Dimitrios Loundras of Greece who was 10 years, 216 days old when he competed in men's team parallel bars gymnastics at the 1896 Games in Athens. * Inge Sørensen of Denmark was 12 yrs, 24...
The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball franchise based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and played at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Former U.S. Senator Herb Kohl was the long-time owner of the team, with John...
The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Clippers play their home games at the Staples Center, an arena shared with the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National B...
This is a project for those who have been involved with the PBA. The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of twelve company-branded franchised teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the second oldest continuously professional basketball league existing in the world after the ...
This project aims to collect profiles of notable Russian athletes who represented Russia at sports events, athletic show programs, and all Russian persons famous for their athletic achievements. If you find someone in your family tree known as a Russian Athlete, please add their profiles to this project. Wikipedia Category: Russian athletes Before the development of Olympic sports, notab...
Olympic Movement ‧ since 1850 Participants / Sports / Hosts . . . . . . © 2024 : On 101 days of the Games in Paris, the Olympic flame was lit in Ancient Olympia in Greece. Normally this is done during a traditional ceremony with actors and actresses using the sun and a parabolic mirror. But it was too cloudy, so the priestesses of Hera lit the torch with spare fire from yesterday's dress rehe...
is an individual or team sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take ...
Rugby is a collective name for the family of team sports of rugby union and rugby league, as well as the earlier forms of football from which both games, as well as Australian rules football and gridiron football, evolved.The two variants of Gridiron football — Canadian football and, to a lesser extent, American football — were once considered forms of rugby football but are seldom now referred...
The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame serves as a repository for the sport of figure skating. The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame is where the greatest names in the history of the sport are honored. It is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. The Hall of Fame was founded in 1976. Wikipedia: World Figure Skating Hall of Fame Inductees Note: Countries listed are those un...
The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame , located in Oklahoma City, USA, is a hall of fame dedicated to honoring the achievements and contributions of the world's greatest competitors, coaches and authorities in artistic gymnastics. The early IGHOF was founded in 1972 by Frank Wells of the National Gymnastics Clinic. It had only one member, Olga Korbut, and disbanded in the late 1970s. The c...
This project celebrates gymnasts who have competed on the U.S. national team. Both past and present gymnasts, male and female, are covered by the scope of the project. The fields of gymnastics in the United States include artistic, rhythmic, acrobatic, and trampoline and tumbling (T&T). When adding a gymnast to the project, please list them under the proper heading(s) and include their years a...
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, and the honoring of persons who have excelled in playing, mana...