Landon Donovan

Landon Donovan

 Landon Donovan

 Landon Donovan

 Landon Donovan

Landon Timothy Donovan (born March 4, 1982) is an American soccer player, currently playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy. He usually plays as a withdrawn forward, and can also be used as an attacking midfielder on either wing. A member of the inaugural class of the U.S. Soccer residency program in Bradenton, Florida, Donovan was declared player of the tournament for his role in the United States U17 that finished fourth in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship, Donovan later signed with the German side Bayer Leverkusen.

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Manuel Neuer

Manuel Neuer

 Manuel Neuer

 Manuel Neuer

 Manuel Neuer

Manuel Neuer (born 27 March 1986) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich and the German national football team. He is known for his reflexes, excellent shot stopping abilities and distribution of the ball. Neuer signed professional terms in 2005 after progressing through every age group at his hometown club.

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Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (born 12 August 1983), nicknamed The Hunter, is a Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for Schalke 04 and the Dutch national football team. Huntelaar is a prolific striker with brilliant technique and athleticism and has been compared in style to players such as Marco van Basten and Ruud van Nistelrooy. Former Netherlands, Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager Louis van Gaal has been quoted saying about the player "in the penalty area, he is the best player in the world, bar none."

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Jonny Wilkinson

Jonny Wilkinson

 Jonny Wilkinson

 Jonny Wilkinson

 Jonny Wilkinson

Jonathan Peter "Jonny" Wilkinson OBE (born 25 May 1979 in Frimley, Surrey) is an English rugby union player and former member of the England national team. Wilkinson rose to acclaim from 2001 to 2003, before and during the 2003 Rugby World Cup and was acknowledged as one of the world’s best rugby union players.

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Jason Gardener

Jason Gardener

 Jason Gardener

 Jason Gardener

 Jason Gardener

Jason Carl Gardener (born 18 September 1975 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a retired British sprint athlete, and former World Indoor Champion. Gardener was educated at Beechen Cliff School and the City of Bath College, and went on to graduate from Bath Spa University. Gardener started his career at the World Junior Championships in 1994 where he placed second in the individual 100 m and bettered this to take his first gold medal as part of the 4 × 100 m relay team.

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Aaron Peirsol

Aaron Peirsol

 Aaron Peirsol

 Aaron Peirsol

 Aaron Peirsol

Aaron Wells Peirsol (born July 23, 1983) is a American former swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist (five gold, two silver). As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay (long course). Individually, he currently holds the world record in the 100 and 200-meter backstroke (long course).

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Ilya Zakharov

Ilya Zakharov

Ilya Leonidovich Zakharov (born May 2, 1991) is a Russian diver. He won the 2012 Olympic Gold medal in the Men's 3 metre springboard. At the 2012 Olympic Games, he also won the silver medal in the Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard and competed in the Men's synchronized 10 metre platform. Ilya Zakharov of Russia competes during men's diving 3m springboard final contest.

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Mariya Savinova

Mariya Savinova

 Mariya Savinova

 Mariya Savinova won Gold Medal in 2012 London Olympics

 Russian Mariya Savinova

Mariya Savinova (born 13 August 1985) is a Russian athlete, who specializes in the 800 metres. She is best known for winning the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. Savinova was born in Chelyabinsk. In 2009, she became the European indoor champion in the 800 m and the World indoor champion (also in the 800 m) one year later.

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Elena Lashmanova

Elena Lashmanova

Russian Elena Lashmanova

 Elena Lashmanova won Gold Medal in 2012 London Olympics

 Elena Lashmanova Russian Race Walker

Elena Lashmanova (Russian: Елена Лашманова, born April 9, 1992 in Mordovia) is a Russian race walker. In her Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Lashmanova won gold in the women's 20 kilometres walk in world record time 1:25:02. Russia's Elena Lashmanova set a new world record to take gold in a thrilling finish to the women's 20km race walk on The Mall on Saturday.

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Natasha Jonas

Natasha Jonas

 Natasha Jonas

 Natasha Jonas

 Natasha Jonas

Natasha Jonas (born 18 June 1984) is a British female amateur boxer from Liverpool, England, who competes in the 60kg Lightweight Division, representing Rotunda ABC & GB Boxing. Initially intending to be a footballer, 'Tasha' spent eighteen months in the United States on a football scholarship, before returning to the United Kingdom and studying media studies at Edge Hill University, Lancashire.

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Katie Taylor

Katie Taylor

 Katie Taylor

 Katie Taylor Boxer

 Katie Taylor won Gold Medal in 2012 London Olympics

Katie Taylor (born 2 June 1986) is an Irish athlete who specialises in boxing. Boxing and training with the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, she is the current Irish, European, World and Olympic Champion in the 60kg division. Regarded as the outstanding Irish athlete of her generation, she bore the flag for Ireland at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London, later boxing her way to an Olympic gold medal in the lightweight division

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Greg Rutherford

Greg Rutherford

 Greg Rutherford won 2012 London Olympics Gold Medal

 Greg Rutherford Long Jumps

 Greg Rutherford British Athlete

Gregory "Greg" Rutherford (born 17 November 1986) is an English athlete who specialises in the long jump and also competes occasionally as a sprinter. He is a 2012 Olympic Champion, 2010 Commonwealth Games silver medallist and 2006 European Championship silver medallist in the long jump. With Chris Tomlinson, he is the joint British record holder for this event.

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Piotr Wilczewski

Piotr Wilczewski

 Piotr Wilczewski

 Piotr Wilczewski

 Piotr Wilczewski

Piotr Wilczewski (born 9 August 1978 in Dzierżoniów) is a Polish professional boxer. He is a former EBU Super Middleweight Champion. In March 2011, he defeated Amin Asikainen by TKO in round 11 and became the European Super Middleweight Champion. Wilczewski agreed to fight Olympic gold medallist and former British Champion James DeGale in September 2011. He lost by majority decision.

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