Two teenagers representing English and French Canadian. Haas won gold on downhill in 1964 Winter Olympics Feistmantl won luge doubles in the same Games. Winner of the West German junior athletics championships. Sprinter who participated in these Olympics the first woman to light the main Olympic cauldron. Winner of the silver medal in the 1964 Winter Olympics. Sakai was born on the same day the atom bomb exploded over his native Hiroshima. Peris won and was chosen to be the last torchbearer. The Italian National Olympic Committee decided that the last torchbearer of the Olympics would be the winner of a junior cross country running race. Olympic champion in 500m speed skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics. After Wikne lit the brazier on the infield, the flame was passed on to Karin Lindberg and Henry Ericksson, who separately ran up the two towers of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. Skating with the torch, he tripped over a television cable but kept the flame burning.Ĭlarke would later win an Olympic bronze medal in 1964 Wikne participated in the 1964 Olympics. Participant in the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Winter Olympics.
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Kolehmainen then lit the final, higher-placed cauldron. Nurmi lit a cauldron on field level before handing the torch to four football players who relayed the torch to the top of the tower. Nurmi was a winner of nine Olympic gold medals in the 1920s Kolehmainen won four Olympic gold medals. He is the first non-athlete to light the flame. Grandson of polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen. Little-known former medical student from Cambridge University.
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Schilgen was not a competitor at the Olympics, but was chosen for his graceful running style. People who have lit the Olympic cauldron Games For the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, seven aspiring young athletes-each nominated by a former British Olympic champion-had the honor of lighting the cauldron. Norway's Crown Prince Haakon lit the cauldron of the 1994 Winter Olympics, in honor of his father and grandfather, both Olympians. Rafer Johnson became the first person of African descent to light the cauldron at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, two teenagers-representing the French- and the English-speaking parts of the country-symbolized the unity of Canada. He symbolized the rebirth of Japan after the Second World War when he lit the Olympic cauldron of the 1964 Summer Olympics. Japanese runner Yoshinori Sakai was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb. On other occasions, the people who lit the cauldron were not famous but nevertheless symbolized the Olympic ideals. Other famous final torch bearers include French football star Michel Platini ( 1992), heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali ( 1996), Australian sprinter Cathy Freeman ( 2000), the Canadian ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky ( 2010), the marathon runner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima ( 2016) and the South Korean figure skating champion Yuna Kim ( 2018). The first well-known major athlete to light the cauldron was nine-time Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
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2 People who have lit the Olympic cauldron.