Athletes with origins from other Countries

[Makedonas 1,571]

Eurobasket Women 2021 - Team Greece 

 

1. Artemis Spanou - born and raised in  to a  father and a  mother

2. Elena Tsineke - born and raised in  to a  father and a  mother

[Joshi 91]

For NZ, Medalists from Rio and for some other Olympic Games.

 

Valerie Adams (Athletics), her mother is Tongan  her father is English . Winner of 2 golds and a silver.

 

Mahe Drysdale (Rowing) born in  to a NZ mother and an Australian father. Winner of 2 golds and a bronze.

 

Lisa Carrington (Canoeing) has a indigenous Maori father and an English mother . Winner of 2 golds and a bronze.

 

Lydia Ko (Golf) born in  both parents are Korean, moved to NZ at age 7. Has won 2 majors and won a Silver.

 

Alex Maloney (Sailing) born in the  to a NZ mother and US father. Won a Silver.

 

Sam Meech (Sailing) born in . Both parents are British came to NZ as child. Won a bronze.

 

Eliza McCartney (Athletics) NZ mother, Irish father  won a bronze. 

[dodge 692]

This could be *VERY* complicated for Ireland (with the whole Northern Irish thing that’s too political to get into here) but  aside from athletes with Irish parentage (or grandparents!) born in the US, GB or Australia there aren’t too many. Ben Fletcher in judo represented  in Rio and has switched so he’s noteworthy of those Irish family connections 

 

Rowers Sanita Puspure from   (she previously represented them at junior level) and Monika Dukarska from  (she has only represented Ireland) have been resident for many years (and moved for economic, not sporting reasons) 

 

Again, avoiding those from Northern Ireland, marathon runner Sinead Diver was born and raised in Ireland and moved to  quite late in her career. Dublin born Sailor Saskia Tidey represented Ireland in Rio and switched to  for this Olympic cycle

 

Oh I forgot the Gadirova twins that represent  were born in to   parents 

[rajiv 25]

Surely in the case of  GB and France it would be easier to make a list of athletes who DON'T  have origins from other countries 

[Dragon 1,690]

 Only from those confirmed in the team

 

Boxing

Galal Yafei - Parents from

Benjamin Whittaker, Cheavon Clarke, Frazier Clarke  ancestry

Caroline Dubois  parents

 

Diving

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix - Parents

Eden Cheng  ancestors

 

Football

Karen Bardsley - born

Demi Stokes - Family

Gymnastics

Joe Fraser - Family

James Hall - born

Giarnni Regini-Moran -parents

 

Gadirova twins - born in  parents from  

Alice Kinsella -father  football international

 

Modern Pentathlon

Joe Choong - father  

Sailing

Saskia Tidey  as mentioned above

 

Skateboarding

Sky Brown -  Born in Japan / Japanese mother

Bombette Martin -  Born in the USA / US mother

 

Table Tennis

Tin-Tin Ho -  father

 

Taekwondo

Mahama Cho

 

More will come from Athletics, boxing, rugby sevens soon

[Dragon 1,690]

7 hours ago, rajiv said:

Surely in the case of  GB and France it would be easier to make a list of athletes who DON'T  have origins from other countries 

Remember the British used to rule the world until the Americans took over.... 

[hckošice 13,216]

As the qualification process is slowly finishing

 

it is official that will field 3 naturalized athletes in Tokyo 2020

 

Wang Yang   Table Tennis M Singles

Boris Makoev   Wrestling Freestyle M -86kg

Rory Sabbatini   Golf M Individual

[Adriano 435]

Do you know something about Kenny Bednarek, his surname sounds so polish

[Dnl 658]

Well we have a lot of duel citizen here with the law of return(1950). it's a common thing here

[Monzanator 3,592]

11 minutes ago, Adriano said:

Do you know something about Kenny Bednarek, his surname sounds so polish

 

He must have been adopted by a Polish-American family and simply took their name. There's a lot of Polish immigrants living in Wisconsin.