{"id":9487,"date":"2008-08-27T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=9487"},"modified":"2013-12-11T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:47:28","slug":"high-altitude-athletes-mine-for-medal-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/high-altitude-athletes-mine-for-medal-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"High Altitude athletes mine for medal in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Athletes who trained at NAU’s Center for High Altitude Training won 22 Olympic medals during the 2008 Games in Beijing, for a total of 213 medals dating back to the 1996 Games in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Athletes from eight countries won seven gold, five silver and 10 bronze medals in Beijing.<\/p>\n

Winners included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia\u2014Swimming<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stephanie Rice<\/td>\nGold\u2014Women’s 400m Individual Medley
\nGold\u2014Women’s 200m Individual Medley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eamon Sullivan<\/td>\nSilver\u2014Men’s 100M Freestyle
\nSilver\u2014Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay
\nBronze\u2014Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Austria\u2014Swimming<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mirna Jukic<\/td>\nBronze\u2014Women’s 100m Breaststroke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Canada\u2014Triathlon<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Simon Whitfield<\/td>\nSilver\u2014Men’s Triathlon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Denmark\u2014Swimming<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lotte Friis<\/td>\nBronze\u2014Women’s 800m Freestyle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Germany\u2014Swimming<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Britta Steffan<\/td>\nGold\u2014Women’s 100m Freestyle
\nGold\u2014Women’s 50m Freestyle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Italy\u2014Swimming<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Federica Pellegrini<\/td>\nGold-Women’s 200m Freestyle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alessia Filippi<\/td>\nSilver-Women’s 800m Freestyle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Japan\u2014Swimming<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kosuke Kitajima<\/td>\nGold-Men’s 100m Breaststroke
\nGold-Men’s 200m Breaststroke
\nBronze-Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Takeshi Matsuda<\/td>\nBronze-Men’s 200m Butterfly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reiko Nakamura<\/td>\nBronze-Women’s 200m Backstroke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Junichi Miyashita<\/td>\nBronze-Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hisayoshi Sato<\/td>\nBronze-Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Norway\u2014Swimming<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexander Dale Oen<\/td>\nSilver-Men’s 100m Breaststroke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sara Nordenstam<\/td>\nBronze-Women’s 200m Breaststroke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Medal Total: 22<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gold: 7<\/strong>
\n Silver: 5<\/strong>
\n Bronze: 10<\/strong><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Athletes who trained at NAU’s Center for High Altitude Training won 22 Olympic medals during the 2008 Games in Beijing, for a total of 213 medals dating back to the 1996 Games in Atlanta. Athletes from eight countries won seven gold, five silver and 10 bronze medals in Beijing. Winners included: Australia\u2014Swimming Stephanie Rice Gold\u2014Women’s…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}