Athletes celebrating their birthdays during the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[dcro 10,210]

Scrolling through the entry lists, I randomly found that Aleksandra Maksakova will celebrate her birthday on an actual competition day, which is too awesome.

 

It would be curious to know how many Olympians will contest their events on their birthday. It's a small subset of Olympians with birthdays during the 16 days.

[intoronto 6,658]

2 hours ago, dcro said:

Scrolling through the entry lists, I randomly found that Aleksandra Maksakova will celebrate her birthday on an actual competition day, which is too awesome.

 

It would be curious to know how many Olympians will contest their events on their birthday. It's a small subset of Olympians with birthdays during the 16 days.

518 Olympians (so about 5%) will be celebrating their birthdays during the Olympics (23-8th)

 

Here are the Canadians celebrating their birthday on the day of their competition:

 

Mandy Bujold on July 25th first round of 51 kg boxing

Nicole Hare on July 26th in the repachage of women's four rowing* (only if they qualify for this round)

Matt Mullins on July 28th in rugby sevens (guaranteed a match here)

Derek Gee on August 3rd in the Men's team pursuit track cycling

Georgia Ellenwood on August 5th on the second day of the heptathlon 

Anicka Newell on August 5th in the women's pole vault final (if she qualifies for it)

Roland Varga on August 6th in the C1 1000 m

Nik Matveev on August 7th in the K4 500m (if they qualify for this stage)

 

 

[Griff88 2,018]

11 hours ago, dcro said:

Scrolling through the entry lists, I randomly found that Aleksandra Maksakova will celebrate her birthday on an actual competition day, which is too awesome.

 

It would be curious to know how many Olympians will contest their events on their birthday. It's a small subset of Olympians with birthdays during the 16 days.

Haven't checked the rest, but our weightlifters Eko Yuli Irawan will compete a day after his birthday and Deni will compete a day before his birthday (both compete in 25 July)

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I tried to make a list of athletes competing on their birthday for 24 and 25 July.

 

On 24 July.

 

 Louisa Altenhuber, lightweight double sculls

 Rebecka Blomqvist, football

 Daniella Fonseca, table tennis

 Gianluca Galassi, volleyball

 Jacob Draper, field hockey

 Jack Hargreaves, rowing four

 Fikile Khosa, football

 Malou Pheninckx, field hockey

 Sonia Ursu, basketball 

 

Also, it is possible that tennis player  Marcos Giron will play on that day, but draw for tennis isn't out yet. First round is on 24-25 July.

Rowers  Liu Xiaoxin and  Oliver Zeidler will have repechage of their events on that day.

 

On 25 July, apart from  Maksakova in equestrian dressage.

 

 Joanna Evans, swimming 400 free

 Bianca Busa, volleyball

 Julieta Lazcano, volleyball

 Liu Yunchen, badminton

 Piotr Myszka, sailing RSX

 

Also, the first round of women's 51kg in boxing is on that day.  Mandy Bujold might compete, I say might because some will have a bye in the first round and I'm not sure how this will be decided.

In tennis,  Maria Sakkari and  John Peers might play their first round matches depending on the draw.

 

 

 

 

 

[hckošice 15,984]

Only 2 SVK athletes will celebrate their birthday during the games but none of them will have competition on that day

 

Filip Polášek (Tennis) 21st July (Day -2) - No competition for him that day

Patrik Jány (Shooting) 29th July (Day 6) - No competition for him that day

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26 July

 

 Aleksandr Askerov, sailing RSX

 Evgeniya Ivavona, water polo

 

Athletes that might compete.

 

 Nicole Hare, rowing four

 Olga Michalkiewicz, rowing four

Repechage on that day, not sure they will compete.

 

 Hiroyuki Ikawa, skeet, has to make the final to compete on that day

 Anastassiya Lavrova, table tennis, will need to win two matches in previous days

 

27 July

 

 Kiana Elliott, weightlifting 64kg

 Carolina De Oliveira Saad Gattaz, volleyball

 Violetta Kolobova, fencing team epee

 Onolbaataryn Khulan, basketball

 Linda Zechiri, badminton

 Sylwia Zyzanska, archery

 

Athletes that might compete

 Natalia Partyka, table tennis, needs to make it to round of 16 to play on that day

 Carina Cassoe Kruth, equestrian dressage, Denmark will need to qualify for dressage team grand prix special

 

28 July

 

 Emily Chalker (Smith), field hockey 

 Susannah Townsend, field hockey

 Matt Mullins, rugby sevens

 Chen He, sailing finn

 Frank Ntilikina, basketball

 Keisuke Osako, football

 Veniamin Reshetnikov, fencing team sabre

 Matthew Sates, swimming 200 individual medley

 

Athletes that might compete

 Loren Alfonso Dominguez, boxing -81kg

 Odai Al Hindawi, boxing -81 kg

It's round of 16 on that day and they might have to play and win a round of 32 match.

 

 Bence Majoros, table tennis

 Tiago Apolonia, table tennis

They need to reach the quarterfinals to play.

 

 Olga Frolkina, basketball

Semifinals for 3x3 tournament on that day.

 

I hope I haven't missed someone.

 

 

 

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On 29 July

 

 Shamsher Singh, field hockey

 Kang Baek-ho baseball

 

Athletes that might compete

 Marlyse Hortu, archery

 Slawomir Naploszek, archery

It looks like that the first knockout round in individual archery competition will be spread in three days. If that's the case, then I should have put  Sylwia Zyzanska in the list of athletes that might compete on 27 July, not in the one of those certainly competing.

 

 Abikhan Amankul, boxing 75 kg, round of 16 day, might have a round of 32 match.

 Nicole Melichar, tennis doubles, semifinals of doubles and quarterfinals of mixed doubles on that day.

 

On 30 July

 

 Luiza Campos, rugby sevens

 Daizy Nhaquile, sailing laser radial

 Ariel Aitkins, basketball

 Eliecer Cancelo, volleyball

 

Athletes that might compete

 Martin Binedell, swimming 200 backstroke

 Roman Mityukov, swimming 200 backstroke

Final of the 200 backstroke on that day.

 

 Avell Chitundu, football, team needs to qualify to the quarterfinals.

 Darko Jorgic, table tennis, will need to make the final.

 Nassira Konde will be on the french roster for rugby sevens as a reserve. 

 Nina Stojanovic, mixed doubles semifinals if she teams up with Djokovic.

 

On 31 July

 

 Leonie Periault, triathlon mixed relay

 Hanna Granitzki, field hockey

 Natsuha Matsumoto, field hockey

 Jordyn Poulter, volleyball

 

Athletes that might compete

 Danijel Furtula, athletics discus throw, has to make the final

 Michael Jung, equestrian eventing, dressage part for some on that day. 

 

[Makedonas 2,239]

On 18/07/2021 at 05:35, maestro said:

In tennis,  Maria Sakkari and  John Peers might play their first round matches depending on the draw.

Great work! When I saw the thread title, I immediately came here to say Sakkari but you beat me to it

[thiago_simoes 1,441]

On 18/07/2021 at 06:35, maestro said:

I tried to make a list of athletes competing on their birthday for 24 and 25 July.

 

On 24 July.

 

 Louisa Altenhuber, lightweight double sculls

 Rebecka Blomqvist, football

 Daniella Fonseca, table tennis

 Gianluca Galassi, volleyball

 Jacob Draper, field hockey

 Jack Hargreaves, rowing four

 Fikile Khosa, football

 Malou Pheninckx, field hockey

 Sonia Ursu, basketball 

 

Also, it is possible that tennis player  Marcos Giron will play on that day, but draw for tennis isn't out yet. First round is on 24-25 July.

Rowers  Liu Xiaoxin and  Oliver Zeidler will have repechage of their events on that day.

 

I believe that  Nicole Pircio, rhythmic gymnast, also celebrates her birthday on that day.

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16 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

I believe that  Nicole Pircio, rhythmic gymnast, also celebrates her birthday on that day.

She does, I just include in the list athletes who will compete on their birthday. I left her out because rhythmic gymnastics start later on.