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Tyler Clary
Tyler Clary (Scott Tyler Clary, born 1989) is an American former swimmer, Olympic gold medalist in the 200 m backstroke at London 2012 in Olympic-record 1:53.41, upsetting Ryan Lochte; retired 2016.
Tyler Surfshop
Tyler Surfshop (타일러서프) is a surf shop and school at 65 Ingujungang-gil, Hyeonnam-myeon, Yangyang-gun, South Korea, near Ingu Beach. It rents boards (35,000 won/day) and wetsuits, offers lessons, and houses the Mermer brunch cafe; phone 033-672-8993.
Udo Poser
Udo Poser (born 1947 in Hildburghausen) is a German swimmer for East Germany and ASK Vorwärts Rostock who swam heats on the 1972 Olympic 4x100 freestyle relay.
Ulf Sundelin
Ulf Sundelin is a Swedish sailor who won Olympic gold in the 5.5-meter class at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics with his brothers Jörgen and Peter.
Ulli Eicke
Ulli Eicke (Ulrich Eicke, born 1952, Wuppertal) is a West German sprint canoeist, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic gold medalist in C-1 1,000 m, three-time world silver medalist, later Olympic training center head and dragon boat promoter.
Ullrich Dießner
Ullrich Dießner, East German (GDR) rower born 1954 in Meißen, twin brother of Walter Dießner; Olympic silver 1976 and gold 1980 in the men's coxed four, plus six world championship titles.
Ulrich Karnatz
Ulrich Karnatz (born 1952, Rostock) is an East German rower, double Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed eight at Montréal 1976 and Moskva 1980, and four-time world champion; later a frigate captain and Warnemünde fish-shop CEO.
Ulrich Kons
Ulrich Kons (born 1955, Greifswald) is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eights for East Germany at Moscow 1980, plus world titles in the 1977 eights and 1982 coxed four.
Ulrich Papke
Ulrich Papke (born 1962, Neuruppin) is a German flatwater canoeist who with Ingo Spelly won C2 1,000 m gold and C2 500 m silver at Barcelona 1992, plus 11 world championship medals.
Ulrika Knape
Ulrika Knape (Knape-Lindberg), born 1955 in Gothenburg, Swedish diver; 1972 Munich Olympic gold on 10 m platform and silver on 3 m springboard, 1976 Montreal platform silver, 1973 world champion, later Sweden's national diving head coach.
Ulrike Richter
Ulrike Richter (born 1959, Görlitz), East German backstroke swimmer; triple 1976 Montreal Olympic champion, 14 world records 1973-76, ISHOF 1983; later admitted GDR doping program victim.
Ulrike Tauber
Ulrike Tauber is a retired East German swimmer who won gold in the 400 meter individual medley at the 1976 Montréal Olympics in a world record 4:42.77.
Underwater diving
Underwater diving: descending below the water surface for work, research, or recreation by breath-hold (freediving), scuba, or surface-supplied gas; key hazards are barotrauma and decompression sickness, treated by hyperbaric recompression.
Underwater hockey
Underwater hockey (Octopush), invented at Southsea, England in 1954 by Alan Blake, is a CMAS-governed pool sport where six-a-side teams push a 3-lb puck with short sticks while breath-holding; average submersion is about 11 seconds.
Underwater sports
Underwater sports: disciplines performed under water, governed mainly by CMAS (founded 1959, Cousteau first president), including finswimming, freediving, underwater rugby, hockey, spearfishing, and orienteering; at The World Games since 1981.
Uni Surf Team Rugen
Uni Surf Team Rügen (UST Rügen), water sports school and sports venue in Dranske on Rügen, Germany; founded 1985 by sport students, Dranske site 1993; windsurfing, kitesurfing, NoHotel hostel, bike rental on Wieker Bodden.
University Of Galway Surf Club
University of Galway Surf Club, the surfing club of University of Galway (NUI Galway), recognized in 2001; runs Lahinch, Fanore, and Bundoran trips, won USI Club of the Year 2021/22, and was six-time national Intervarsity champion.
Ursula Happe
Ursula Happe (Ursula Krey), German breaststroke swimmer (1926–2021); 1956 Melbourne Olympic 200 m breaststroke champion in 2:53.1, Germany's first postwar Olympic swimming gold medalist.
Ursula Küper
Ursula Küper (Stille), born 28 November 1937 in Berlin, East German breaststroke swimmer for SC Dynamo Berlin; 1960 Olympic bronze in the 4x100 m medley relay and 100 m breaststroke world record 1:19.0.
Ute Geweniger
Ute Geweniger (born 1964, Chemnitz), East German breaststroke swimmer; 1980 Olympic double gold medalist (100 m breaststroke, medley relay), multiple world record holder, later confirmed GDR doping.
Ute Noack
Ute Noack (born 1943, Berlin) is an East German butterfly swimmer, Berliner TSC; 1962 European medley relay gold and 100 fly silver behind Ada Kok, multiple European records, 10th in the 100 fly at Tokyo 1964.
Ute Steindorf
Ute Steindorf (born 1957) is an East German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the women's coxless pairs with Cornelia Klier at Moscow 1980, and three-time world champion (eights 1977, coxless pairs 1978 and 1979).
Ute Wild
Ute Wild (Ute Nötzel), born 1965 in Zschopau, is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the women's eights for East Germany at Seoul 1988, plus three World Championship silvers and a bronze.
Uwe Benter
Uwe Benter (born 1955) is a German coxswain who steered West Germany's coxed four to Olympic gold in München in 1972, its only rowing gold there.
Uwe Daßler
Uwe Daßler (born 1967) is a German former swimmer for East Germany, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the 400 m freestyle at world record 3:46.95, with relay silver and 1500 m bronze; later a finance executive.
Uwe Dühring
Uwe Dühring (born 1955, Berlin), East German rower with SC Dynamo Berlin; gold in the men's eights at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, 1978 world champion, Youth World golds 1972 and 1973.
Uwe Heppner
Uwe Heppner (born 1960 in Merseburg) is a German former rower who won Olympic gold for East Germany in the 1980 quadruple sculls and four world titles.
Vaclav Kozak
Václav Kozák (1937–2004), Czechoslovak rower, won Olympic gold in the double sculls with Pavel Schmidt at Rome 1960, was European single sculls champion 1963, and later died homeless in Terezín.
Vaclav Mottl
Václav Mottl (1914–1982), Czechoslovak sprint canoeist; with Zdeněk Škrland won Olympic gold in C2 10,000 m at Berlin 1936 (50:33.5) and bronze in C2 1,000 m at the 1938 Vaxholm world championships.
Vadim Gulyayev
Vadim Gulyayev (Вадим Владимирович Гуляев, 1941–1998), Soviet water polo goalkeeper for CSKA Moscow; Olympic silver 1968 and gold 1972, two-time European champion, six-time USSR champion.