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Take Off Personal Surftraining Meeting Point
Take Off Personal Surftraining Meeting Point: Famara Beach meeting spot of Take Off, an independent Lanzarote surf school founded in 2022 by ISA coach Conrad Bitter, registered as Turismo Activo TA-3-0026179.39.
Take Off Surf
Take Off Surf names several unrelated surf businesses: the Take Off surf school and mapped spot on Oléron, France; Take Off Surf School in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica; 321 Take Off in Cabarete; a dissolved Moroccan camp; and the surfing take-off maneuver.
Tamara Costache
Tamara Costache, Romanian swimmer born 1970 in Ploiești, won the first official women's 50 m freestyle world title at Madrid 1986 in a world record 25.28, later European and 1987 European champion, sixth at Seoul 1988.
Tamara Csipes
Tamara Csipes (born 1989, Budapest) is a Hungarian canoe sprint kayaker, daughter of Olympic champion Ferenc Csipes; two-time Olympic K4 500m champion (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020), nine-time world and eleven-time European champion.
Tamara Echegoyen
Támara Echegoyen (Xiquita), Spanish sailor born 1984 in Ourense; Olympic gold in Elliott 6m at London 2012 with Toro and Pumariega; four Games 2012-2024; 49erFX world champion 2016 and 2020; Paris 2024 flagbearer.
Tamas Farago
Tamas Farago (Faragó Tamás, born 1952, Budapest), nicknamed Tonó, Hungarian water polo great: 1976 Olympic gold and top scorer with 22 goals, 1972 silver, 1980 bronze, later women's team 2005 world-champion coach.
Tamas Kenderesi
Tamas Kenderesi (Kenderesi Tamás), Hungarian butterfly swimmer born 1996 in Bonyhád; 200 m butterfly bronze at Rio 2016, Youth Olympic gold 2014, fourth at Tokyo 2020; banned four years from 2023 in an Athlete Biological Passport doping case.
Tamas Molnar
Tamás Molnar (born 1975 in Szeged) is a Hungarian former water polo center who won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2000, 2004, and 2008.
Tamayo Perry
Tamayo Perry (1975–2024), Oahu pro surfer, Honolulu Ocean Safety lifeguard, and actor in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Blue Crush; Pipeline trials winner killed in a June 23, 2024 shark attack off Malaekahana, Oahu.
Tami Oldham Ashcraft
Tami Oldham Ashcraft (born 1960), American sailor and author of Red Sky in Mourning (reissued as Adrift); survived 41 days adrift after Hurricane Raymond wrecked the yacht Hazana in 1983, killing fiancé Richard Sharp; story adapted into the 2018 film Adrift.
Tang Jingzhi
Tang Jingzhi (汤景之), born 1986 in Hangzhou, is a Chinese freestyle swimmer: 2008 Olympic silver in the 4×200 m relay, 2002 short-course world record 7:46.30, later a coach.
Tang Muhan
Tang Muhan (汤慕涵) is a Chinese freestyle swimmer who won gold in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in world-record time.
Tang Yi
Tang Yi (唐奕), Chinese freestyle swimmer born 1993 in Shanghai; 2012 Olympic 100 m freestyle bronze, six golds at 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics, and short-course 4x200 m freestyle relay world record holder (2010-2014).
Tania di Mario
Tania Di Mario is an Italian water polo forward, born in Rome in 1979, who won Olympic gold in 2004 and silver in 2016.
Tanya Bogomilova Dangalakova
Tanya Bogomilova Dangalakova (Таня Богомилова-Дангалакова), Bulgarian breaststroke swimmer born 1964 in Sofia; won 100 m breaststroke gold at Seoul 1988 in 1:07.95, first Bulgarian Olympic swimming champion.
Tara Kirk
Tara Kirk, American breaststroke swimmer born 1982 in Bremerton, Washington; 2004 Athens Olympic silver medalist in the 4x100 medley relay, short-course 100 breaststroke world record holder (1:04.79), 11-time NCAA champion at Stanford, later Johns Hopkins health security scholar.
Tara Vaughan
Tara Vaughan, born 2003 in Wellington, is a New Zealand canoe sprint paddler who won K4 500m gold at Paris 2024 with Carrington, Hoskin, and Brett, and the 2023 world K4 title.
Tarnee White
Tarnee White (Tarnee Renee White-Southwell), Australian breaststroke swimmer born 1981 in Redcliffe, Queensland; Olympic silver 2000 and gold 2008 in the 4x100 m medley relay as a heat swimmer.
Tate Smith
Tate Smith (born 1981, Sydney) is an Australian canoe sprint paddler, not the NFL receiver Carnell Tate. He won K4 1000 m gold at London 2012 with Stewart, Clear, and David Smith, after racing the event at Beijing 2008.
Tatjana Schoenmaker
Tatjana Schoenmaker, since her 2023 marriage competing as Tatjana Smith, is a South African breaststroke swimmer born in 1997 who won Olympic gold medals at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
Tatsuo Fujimoto
Tatsuo Fujimoto (藤本達夫), Japanese freestyle swimmer born 1940 in Hyogo; 1960 Olympic relay silver medalist and 4×200 m freestyle relay world record holder (8:09.8, 1963); also 1958 Asian Games and Universiade medalist.
Tayliah Zimmer
Tayliah Zimmer (born 1985) is an Australian backstroke swimmer, 2007 world bronze medalist in the 50m backstroke, three-time short-course world silver medalist, and member of Australia's 3:51.84 world-record 4x100m medley relay.
Taylor Ritzel
Taylor Ritzel (born 1988, Aurora, Colorado) is an American rower, 2012 Olympic gold medalist and 2010 and 2011 world champion in the women's eight, and a three-time NCAA champion at Yale who began rowing at 18.
Teahupoo Reef
Teahupoo Reef (Teahupo'o), off Tahiti Iti, French Polynesia, is the shallow coral reef producing the legendary left-hand "wall of skulls" surf break, with depth dropping from 45 m to centimeters; venue of the Billabong Pro Tahiti and Paris 2024 Olympic surfing.
Tecla Marinescu Borcanea
Tecla Marinescu Borcanea (Tecla Marinescu-Borcănea), Romanian sprint kayaker born 1960 in Constanța; Olympic gold in K4 500 m at Los Angeles 1984, K1 fourth, world bronze 1983 and 1986, Universiade medals 1987.
Ted Nash
Ted Nash (Theodore Allison Nash, II, 1932-2021), American rower and coach; Olympic gold in the 1960 coxless four and bronze in 1964; long-time Penn coach, NWRA co-founder; later subject of a credible 2024 USRowing abuse investigation.
Ted Stickles
Edward "Ted" Stickles is an American former competitive swimmer who dominated the individual medley in the early 1960s, breaking nine world records while swimming for Indiana University.
Tell Wagle
Tell Wagle (Tellef Kristian Wagle, 1883–1957) was a Norwegian sailor who won gold in the 8 metre (1907 Rating) class at Antwerp 1920 aboard Irene, the event's only entrant.
Teofilo Ferreira
Teofilo Ferreira (Teófilo Laborne Ferreira), Brazilian freestyle swimmer born 1973 in Belo Horizonte; 1992 Barcelona Olympian, short-course 4x100 m freestyle relay world record holder (3:12.11), and multi-medalist at world and Pan American competitions.
Tera van Beilen
Tera van Beilen (Tera Colleen van Beilen), Canadian breaststroke swimmer born 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario; triple medallist at the 2010 Youth Olympics, 2012 London Olympian, UBC Thunderbird, retired 2016.