These pairs of athletes went Gold - Silver two Olympics in a row.

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Kind of a slow build up for me.
1984 Olympics was my first taste of T&F at age 13 living in CA. Decker made all the headlines.
1985 my...

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D'oh! I did miss that. That's what I get for using Wikipedia as a source. Great catch!...

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Saw her on the Gatorade bottle at the grocery store. Bought one just because it's her....

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Got it! Very good all. That's a wrap....

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Correct!

That leaves one more (field) event....

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I'm thinking it's got to be a sprinter, walker or distance runner. Or from an early Olympics.


But, the only athlete I can think of...

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You guys ARE good. That's 6/8 correct.

The final two pairs are male athletes. Each pair achieved their results in the same two Olympiads...

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I'm afraid this is going to be too easy for you all, but here goes...

One athlete winning Gold in the same event in two consecutive Olympics...

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I wish I could say SRR. But, I won't.

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Good question bambam! This is surprisingly difficult after I just spent all that time pouring over medal winners.



I am 99%...

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Anyone know if Houlihan and Schweizer were rabbiting or just DNF'd?

WOW: 36 second PR for Cranny, 12 second PR for Frerichs, 48 second PR...

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PR for both...

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Ah yes, I purposely didn't include her because the 10K walk is not a current event. I guess that's all of them! Great job people!...

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Good deal. I missed Kravets due to the two different events. Those are all the names I had on my list. I think that's 24/25 on bambam's list....

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Nice! Kipruto in the Steeplechase 2004-08. That was the most obscure one for me.


Still missing:
One athlete did so representing...

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Billy Mills came to my HS my freshman year in 1985 (Colfax, CA in northern CA). I ripped a blank page out of the back of my history book to get his autograph....

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Nice! We're at 18 correct so far. The 13 bambam listed in post #47 and the 5 mentioned by J Rorick posts #48 and 49. (And Christie if you want to count...

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Great responses. Thanks to bambam for keeping tabs!

Apologies for my ambiguous wording; I tried to imply that the athlete won only two...

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Trivia question: What athletes earned only two individual Olympic medals, in events current today, Silver in one games, followed by Gold in the next?

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Great post Atticus! Thank you! My DVR didn't auto-record it for some reason.

I count TWO WRs: mSP and w400IH.

PR for Cunn...