by an ankle injury, he failed to make Springer, and his third wife Rose- 1998 Wimbledon was her only Grand a significant challenge in defense of marie, also an Olympic dressage Slam, although she did win the 1997 his Olympic crown and finished 11th in rider. In 1953 and 1955 Weygand won Tour Final. In doubles, she won 12 Melbourne. the CHIO in Rotterdam. She later Grand Slams, and added four Grand Young graduated from UCLA in 1951 became a horse breeder. (WR) Slam titles in mixed doubles. In and became a rancher. John Wayne all, she won 76 doubles titles. She arranged for him to have a Hollywood Jana Novotná (TCH), *2 October achieved a career best singles rank screen test but Young turned it down 1968 in Brno (CZE), †19 November of #2 in 1997 and had a best doubles and returned to his farm. (BM) 2017 Brno. Jana Novotná, who won rank of #1. silver in tennis doubles with Helena Novotná settled in Florida, doing Horace Ashenfelter (USA), *23 Janu- Suková and bronze in singles at tennis commentary on television, ary 1923 in Phoenixville, Pennsylva- the 1996 Olympics, started out as until returning to her hometown of nia, †6 January 2018 in West Orange, a well-known doubles player and Brno, eventually building a home New Jersey. “Nip” Ashenfelter won remained so throughout her career. in the small neighbouring village the 1952 Olympic Trials and ran 9:06.4 However, she developed into a top- of Omice, where she lived with her min to better Harold Manning’s flight singles player best known partner, Iwona Kuczyn´ska, a former 16-year-old US record. He further im- for her failures and triumphs at Polish tennis player. She died at age proved the record to 8:51.0 in the Ol- Wimbledon, perfectly exemplifying 49, after a long battle with cancer, ympic heats in Helsinki. In a classic the words from the Kipling poem which she fought very privately. She final he defeated the much-vaunt- that are emblazoned above the All- was the first women’s Grand Slam ed Russian, Vladimir Kazantsev, and England Club’s entrance to Centre champion of the Open Era to pass posted an unofficial world record of Court, “If you can meet with Triumph away. (BM) 8:45.4. The race became well-known and Disaster, And treat those two and rumours said that Ashenfelter, impostors just the same ...” William Clark “Bill” Steinkraus an FBI agent at the time, was the only Novotná reached four Grand Slam (USA), *12 October 1925 in Cleveland, spy to allow a Russian to follow him. singles finals. She lost the final of the Ohio, †29 November 2017 in Darien, In the 1955 Pan American Games, 1987 Australian Open to Monica Seles Connecticut. Steinkraus was one of Ashenfelter won a silver medal when in three sets. In 1993 she reached the the first members of the American he finished second to Osvaldo Suárez Wimbledon final where she faced Pony Club before he took up show in the 5000 metres. He competed Steffi Graf. The match went into the jumping in 1938. He first joined the again at Melbourne Olympics, but third set, which Novotá led 4-1, and US Equestrian Team (USET) in 1951 and could do no better than sixth in a had a game point on serve for 5-1, won a bronze medal in his Olympic heat of the steeplechase. Ashenfelter but the pressure overcame her, and début the following year. He was joined the FBI in November 1951, but Graf won that game and then won appointed captain of the USET in 1955 when he retired from competition the final five games, to win the set, and held the post until his retirement after the 1956 Olympics, he also the match, and the tournament. At in 1972. He later became president of resigned from the Bureau and took the victory ceremony, when Novotná the USET. a post in business, as a salesman for was given her runner-up trophy by His successes around the world are various metallurgy firms. (BM/WR) the Duchess of Kent, she famously too numerous to itemize in full, but cried on the Duchess’s shoulder. apart from his Olympic medals, he Hannelore Weygand (FRG), *30 Novotná returned to the Wim- twice won gold medals in the team October 1924 in Düsseldorf, †18 bledon final in 1997, but lost again event at the Pan American Games in December 2017 in Düsseldorf. in three sets, that time to Martina 1959 with Frank Chapot, Hugh Wiley, Weygand, with “Perkunos”, won the Hingis. In 1998, she finally overcame and George Morris. In 1963 he won silver medal in the team dressage her demons on Centre Court, winning with Mary Mairs, Frank Chapot, and at the 1956 Stockholm Equestrian Wimbledon by defeating Nathalie Kathy Kusner, and also got silver Olympics. It was the first time that a Tauziat in straight sets, in one of the medals in individual jumping in German dressage team was an all- most popular Wimbledon victories 1959 and again with the team in women trio. The team consisted of ever. She received her trophy, the 1967, which consisted of the same Weygand, Liselott Linsenhoff and Venus Rosewater Dish, from the members as four years before. Anneliese Küppers. Individually, Duchess of Kent. His greatest achievement came Weygand came ninth. Novotná was the oldest woman in in 1968 when he made history by She was coached on a private the Open Era to win her first Grand becoming the first US competitor to property owned by the well-known Slam title. She won 24 professional win an individual gold in an Olympic millionaire and publisher, Axel singles titles in her career but the equestrian event. In all, he competed
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