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Duje Draganja
Duje Draganja (born 1983, Split) is a Croatian sprint swimmer, 2004 Athens Olympic silver medalist in the 50 m freestyle, two-time short-course world champion, and 2008 short-course 50 m freestyle world record holder (20.81).
Duke Kahanamoku
Duke Kahanamoku (Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, 1890-1968), Native Hawaiian Olympic swimmer with three golds and two silvers, father of modern surfing, 1925 Thelma surfboard rescue, Sheriff of Honolulu and Hawaii's Ambassador of Aloha.
Dumitru Alexe
Dumitru Alexe (1935–1971), Romanian sprint canoeist from Mahmudia, Tulcea; Olympic gold in C2 1000 m at Melbourne 1956 with Simion Ismailciuc (4:47.4), world champion 1958 Prague, European gold 1957 Ghent.
Dumitru Raducanu
Dumitru Răducanu, Romanian rowing coxswain born 1967 in Bucharest; Olympic gold (coxed fours 1992), silver (1984), bronze (1992), world champion 1996, later a coach at CS Farul Constanța.
Duna Surf Lounge
Duna Surf Lounge is a surf venue and beach bar at Praia de Mira, Portugal, organizer of the Secret Surf Fest with Secret Surf School, and the name of a beginner A-frame beach break nearby.
Duncan Armstrong
Duncan Armstrong, born 1968 in Rockhampton, Queensland, is an Australian swimmer who won gold in the 200 meter freestyle at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in world record time.
Duncan Free
Duncan Free (Duncan Seth Free), Australian Olympic rower born 1973 in Hobart; gold in the coxless pair with Drew Ginn at Beijing 2008, bronze quad sculls Atlanta 1996, world champion 2006 and 2007.
Duncan Goodhew
Duncan Goodhew (born 1957, Marylebone, London) is a British swimmer, MBE, who won 100m breaststroke gold and medley relay bronze at the 1980 Moscow Olympics after overcoming alopecia and dyslexia.
Duncan Gregg
Duncan Gregg (Duncan Smith Gregg, 1910–1989) was an American rower who won a gold medal in the men's eight at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Duncan Mackinnon
Duncan Mackinnon (1887–1917), British rower, 1908 London Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxless fours for Magdalen College Boat Club; killed in action at Ypres serving with the Scots Guards. Not the South African 1996 Olympic judoka of the same name.
Duncan Scott (swimmer)
Duncan Scott (born 1997, Glasgow) is a Scottish freestyle and medley swimmer for Great Britain; first British athlete to win four Olympic medals at one Games (Tokyo 2020), eight Olympic medals, Scotland's most decorated Olympian.
Dunkerbeck
Dunkerbeck refers chiefly to Björn Dunkerbeck (born 1969, Ribe, Denmark), Danish-born windsurfer with 42 world titles, 12 straight PWA overall championships 1988–1999, GPS speed records, windsurf schools on Gran Canaria and Bonaire, and the Dunkerbeck GPS Speed Challenge; also his sister Britt and son Liam, both windsurfers.
Đurđica Bjedov
Đurđica Bjedov (Đurđa Bjedov), Croatian swimmer born 1947 in Split, won 100 m breaststroke gold in Olympic record 1:15.8 and 200 m silver at Mexico City 1968 for Yugoslavia; first Croatian Olympic swimming gold, ISHOF 1987.
Durward Knowles
Durward Randolph Knowles, the Sea Wolf (1917-2018), Bahamian Star-class sailor; won the Bahamas' first Olympic medal (bronze 1956) and first gold (Tokyo 1964 with Cecil Cooke), competing in a record eight Olympic Games from 1948 to 1988.
Duvall Hecht
Duvall Hecht (1930-2022), American rower; 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medalist in coxless pairs with Jim Fifer; founder of Books on Tape audiobook company and UC Irvine rowing program.
Dzmitry Douhalionok
Dzmitry Douhalionok (Дзмітрый Доўгалёнок, Dmitry Dovgalyonok), born 1971, Belarusian canoe sprint paddler; Olympic C2 500 m gold for the Unified Team at Barcelona 1992 with Aliaksandr Masiaikou, 9th at Atlanta 1996, 1994 world C2 200 m champion.
E1 Series (boat racing)
E1 Series (UIM E1 World Championship presented by PIF): the world's first all-electric foiling powerboat racing championship, founded by Alejandro Agag and Rodi Basso, racing identical RaceBird hydrofoil boats at up to 50 knots.
Eamon Sullivan
Eamon Sullivan (born 1985) is a retired Australian sprint freestyle swimmer from Perth who held the 50 m and 100 m freestyle world records, won three Olympic medals at Beijing 2008, and retired in 2014 after shoulder and hip injuries.
Eastside Surf
Eastside Surf (이스트사이드서프) is a surf school and rental shop at 6 Changni-gil, Hyeonnam-myeon, Yangyang-gun, Gangwon-do, near Jukdo and Ingu beaches; beginner lessons 80,000 won, distinct from the Wildwood NJ namesake.
Eckart Diesch
Eckart Diesch (born 1954, Friedrichshafen) is a German sailor who won Flying Dutchman Olympic gold with brother Jörg at Montreal 1976, was fifth at Los Angeles 1984, and later a Friedrichshafen dentist and yacht-club president.
Eckhardt Schultz
Eckhardt (Eckhard) Schultz, born 1964 in Wolfsburg, is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eight for West Germany at Seoul 1988 (5:46.05) and later became CFO of LEG Immobilien.
Ecole de Surf Cote Francaise Vieux Boucau
ESCF Vieux Boucau (Ecole de Surf Côte Française) is a surf school on the Plage des Sablères in Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains, Landes, France, part of the ESCF collective founded in 1998, offering 1h30 lessons from 45 €, stages, coaching, and rental from Easter to Toussaint.
Ecole de Surf de Bretagne
Ecole de Surf de Bretagne (ESB), also Twenty-Nine Surf Company, is a Breton surf school network founded 1994 at La Torche by Ronan Chatain and Didier Tirilly, the first surf school in Brittany, now ten schools under the ESB label.
Ecole de Surf du Sud
Ecole de Surf du Sud, also listed as Ecole de surf du sud Oxbow, is a surf school at Étang-Salé, Réunion Island, run by Mikael Legras, listed in the 2017 IRT guide and 2008 labeled-schools directory, later renamed Nautik'Aventure Réunion.
Ecole de Surf Lacabana
Ecole de Surf Lacabana (Maosurfboards) is a surf school at Camping Du Moisan, Messanges, Landes, France, run by shaper Mao; 1h30 lessons from 40 EUR, max 8 per group, boards and wetsuits included.
Ed Coode
Ed Coode (born 1975, Bodmin, England) is a British rower, Olympic gold medallist in the coxless fours at Athens 2004 and world champion in the same event in 1999 and 2001; fourth in the pairs at Sydney 2000, later a solicitor.
Ed Ferry
Ed Ferry (Edward Payson Ferry, 1941-2023) was an American rower who won gold in the men's coxed pair with Conn Findlay and cox Kent Mitchell at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a Stanford Hall of Famer later a Wharton MBA and home builder.
Ed Graves
Ed Graves (Edwin Darius Graves, Jr., 1897–1986) was an American Naval Academy rower and Navy captain who won gold in the men's eight at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics as crew captain.
Ed Hedley
Ed Hedley (Edwin P. Hedley, 1864-1947), American rower of Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club; won gold in the men's eight at the 1900 Paris Olympics and held Canadian and Schuylkill Navy sculling titles.
Ed Jennings
Ed Jennings (Edward Francis Jennings, 1898–1975), American rowing coxswain from Philadelphia; won coxed pairs gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and bronze at Paris 1924, not the South African runner Athol Jennings.