Relevant Athletes.

Paavo Nurmi.

He was a Finnish Runner and he was known as one of the "Flying Finns". During the 1920s, Nurmi was the best middle  and long distance runner in the world, setting world records at distances between 1500 m and 20 km. Nurmi won a total of nine gold and three silver medals in the 12 events in which he competed at the Olympics Games from 1920 to 1928.

Nurmi debuted at the 1920 Summer Olympics by competing in four events. He won three gold medals: the 10,000 m, the cross country event, and the cross country team event; and he finished second in the 5000 m.

                                                              

Guilherme Paraense

South America claimed their first gold medal in 1920 when Guilherme Paraense of Brazil won the rapid-fire pistol event.

                          Aileen Riggin 

She was an American Swimmer and diver. She competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, in the women's springboard diving, and managed to win a gold medal, becoming America's youngest ever gold medallist at that time.

 

 Philip Noel-Baker

 


He was a British politician, diplomat, academic an outstanding amateur athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959. In 1920 at Antwerp he won a silver medal in the 1500 metres.

 

Suzanne Lenglen

She was a French tennis player who won 31 Championship titles between 1914 and 1926. At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Lenglen dominated the women's singles. On her path to the gold medal, she gave up only four games, three of them in the final against Dorothy Holman of Britain. She then teamed up with Max Décugis to win another gold medal in the mixed doubles. She was eliminated in a women's doubles semifinal (playing with Élisabeth d'Ayen) and won the bronze medal after their opponents withdrew.