Naturalized Athletes at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

[Wanderer 1,738]

1 minute ago, Майкл said:

 

There's Danilovic, ffs. She's gonna outshine Graf and Serena! How come you didn't know that?!

 

Ivana and Nina are irrelevant, on the other hand - they have no famous parents.  

 

Future GOAT for sure.

At least I believe all of them will make top 100 occasionally with such field.

[Майкл 561]

3 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

 

Future GOAT for sure.

At least I believe all of them will make top 100 occasionally with such field.

 

I can totally see Ivana having a bright future, but her body seems to be quite injury-prone. She's already had a couple of serious injuries and she's only 19.  

 

Back on topic. I think Wozniacki deserves a mention in this thread. She was indeed born and raised in Denmark, but still she's fluent in Polish and always speaks in Polish with her father and the rest of her family. 

Edited May 14, 2016 by Майкл

[Майкл 561]

Also, Garbine Muguruza was born in Venezuela to Basque or Catalan father (I'm not 100% sure) and Venezuelan mother, before moving to Spain at age of 3. She was really close to start representing Venezuela at some point of her career, but at the end she decided to keep playing under Spain's flag.

Edited May 14, 2016 by Майкл

[mrv86 3,265]

From Mexico there will be one naturalized athlete... Kevin Chavez (little traitor ) will represent Australia in 3m Springboard... not only Australia robbed us one good coach in that discipline (well to be fair, he was not appreciated by the corrupt federation here) now they steal the upcoming talent...

 

The other competitor that had previously competed for Mexico is Jackie Galloway (USA, tae kwon do)... she wasnumber 3 on the national team, behind Rosario Espinosa and Briseida Acosta in +67 Olympic category, so she opted to compete for her country of birth (she holds dual citizenship).

[DaniSRB 899]

Serbia will have 2 naturalized athletes in Rio.....Danielle Page (USA) in basketball and Dalma Ruzicic-Bendek (Hungary) in canoeing

 

There will be Serbian athletes or athletes of Serbian origin that will represent other countries in Rio

[juddy96 171]

Canadian athletes (officially named to the team so far) born in other countries, majority came to Canada when they were children

 

Mohammed Ahmed (Athletics), Somalia

Johnathan Cabral (Athletics), USA

Sekou Kaba (Athletics), Guinea

Mobolade Ajomale (Athletics), Great Britain

Oluwasegun Makinde (Athletics), Nigeria

Inaki Gomez (Athletics), Mexico

Shawnacy Barber (Athletics), USA

Carline Muir (Athletics), Jamaica

Marissa Kurtimah (Athletics), Sierra Leone

Kelsie Ahbe (Athletics), USA

Annika Newell (Athletics), USA

Michelle Li (Badminton), Hong Kong

Arthur Biyarslanov (Boxing), Russia

Jasmin Glaesser (Cycling - Track), Germany

Belinda Trussell (Equestrian), Australia

Selena O'Hanlon (Equestrian), Great Britain

Yann Candele (Equestrian), France

Leonora MacKinnon (Fencing), Great Britain

Adam Froese (Field Hockey), Malaysia

Jagdish Gill (Field Hockey), India

Matthew Guest (Field Hockey), Australia

Keegan Pereira (Field Hockey), India

Janine Beckie (Football), USA

Sergio Pessoa (Judo), Brazil

Arthur Margelidon (Judo), France

Ecaterina Guica (Judo), Romania

Nicolas Pratt (Rowing), Norway

Julien Bahain (Rowing), France

Christine Roper (Rowing), Jamaica

Cynthia Meyer (Shooting), USA

Santo Condorelli (Swimming), Japan

Ashton Baumann (Swimming), Australia

Michelle Williams (Swimming), South Africa

Sydney Pickrem (Swimming), USA

Eugene Wang (Table Tennis), China

Zhang Mo (Table Tennis), China

Milos Raonic (Tennis), Montenegro

Haislan Garcia (Wrestling), Cuba

[Jur 700]

I think Iñaki Gomez has basque heritage. Gonna be rooting for him too.

[hckošice 16,613]

1 for Slovakia.

 

Wang Yang (China) - Table Tennis (Men´s Singles)

 

Slovak born or Slovak Desents selected athletes competing for other National Teams

there 2 so far officially announced

 

Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) - Tennis (Singles, Doubles)

Michal Izdinsky (France) - Water Polo

[DaniSRB 899]

 Azerbaijan - 56 athletes

 

Archery:  1/1

Athletics: , ,  3/4

Boxing: ,  for some couldn't find place of birth...let's say 4/11

Canoeing: ,  3/3

Cycling: ,  3/3

Fencing: 0/1 

Gymnastics:  3/3

Judo:  1/6

Rowing:  2/2

Shooting: 0/1 

Swimming: let's say 0/2 can't find place of births

Taekwondo: ,  3/4

Triathlon:  1/1

Wrestling: , , , ,  around 6/14

 

around 30/56 is scary!

Edited July 21, 2016 by DaniSRB

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