More Olympic Names – Disney, Ludwing, Monday, Olimpio, Yipsi

Too bad I didn’t know about Venezuelan weightlifter Julio Cesar Luna Fermin when I was posting about Cleopatra Borel-Brown a few days back. :)

Other Olympic names I’ve discovered since publishing that earlier post include:

• Disney Rodriguez – wrestler from Cuba
• Ludwing Manuel Ortiz Flores – judoka from Venezuela
• Olimpio Cipriano – basketball player from Angola (…and the only Olympian with an Olympus-related name)

And here are some interesting pairings:

• Monday Merotohun & Monday James – Nigerian table tennis player & Nigerian soccer player
• Filip Filipovic & Chamsulvara Chamsulvarayev – Serbian water polo player & Azerbaijani wrestler
• Crhistian Lopez & Jhonny Senen Bilbao Bande – Guatemalan weightlifter & Venezuelan sailor

Another thing I noticed is that over a quarter of the Cuban athletes have Y-names (e.g. Yunior, Yaima, Yanet, Yordanis, Yuliesky and Yipsi). This isn’t too surprising, though, since most of them are members of Cuba’s Generación Y.

Source: Beijing 2008 Olympic Games