| CARLLEWIS | American athlete who won 10 Olympic track and field medals (1984-1996): 2 wds. |
| ZAHARIAS | Medal-winning Olympian athlete who won ten Women's Majors (8) |
| STEVEREDGRAVE | British rower who won four Olympic gold medals 1984-96 (5,8) |
| SHE | "Murder, ___ Wrote" (1984-1996 TV series) |
| KYIVUKRAINE | The Fields Medals, mathematics' highest honor, were awarded on July 5; one of the four winners, Maryna Viazovska, is a native of this in-the-news city |
| OHIO | Gary Hall Jr., winner of 10-Olympic medals, was born in this Buckeye state |
| NADIA | First "perfect 10" Olympic gymnast Comaneci |
| LEWIS | American athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals in track and field events in the 1980s and 1990s (4,5) |
| APOLOOHNO | American athlete who won 8 Olympic speed skating medals (2002-2010): 2 wds. |
| MICHAELPHELPS | American athlete who won 28 Olympic swimming medals (2004-2016): 2 wds. |
| CARL | American athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals in sprint events and the long jump (4,5) |
| CUTHBERT | First Australian athlete to win four Olympic track and field gold medals (8) |
| DONOVANBAILEY | Canadian Olympic History! Sprinting great who won gold in the 100 metres at Atlanta 1996: 2 wds. |
| THORPE | Jim, American athlete who won the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games (6) |
| MOSES | Edwin ---, American athlete who won gold in the 400m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics (5) |
| MONICASELES | Left-handed tennis player who won the last of her nine Grand Slam titles in 1996: 2 wds. |
| DICKFOSBURY | American athlete who won the 1968 Olympic men's high jump gold (4.7) |
| OWENS | African-American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (5) |
| ASHTONEATON | American athlete who won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics (6,5) |
| PETERGABRIEL | "Big Time" singer who won 10 MTV Video Music Awards in 1987, the most wins ever in a single night: 2 wds. |
