Skari retired in 2003 after more than a decade of World Cup racing with 42 wins (second all-time among women) and four World Cup titles, as well as five world championship gold medals and five Olympic medals, including a 10-km gold at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
It rises in the northeastern Robinson Ranges west of the Gibson Desert, flows generally westward for 475 miles (760 km) through gold-mining and sheep-raising country, and empties into the Indian Ocean at Carnarvon on Shark Bay.
A champion in both the individual and team events, Smetanina won a silver medal in the 5-km race and gold medals in the 4 × 5-km relay and the 10-km event at the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Another lifetime medal mark was set when biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway won two medals (silver in the 20-km individual and gold in the 4 × 7.5-km team relay) in Vancouver, bringing his all-time medal total to 11, the most ever for a biathlete.
Myllylä's awards included a gold (30-km mass start, 1998), a silver (50 km, 1994), and four bronze medals (30 km and relay, 1994; 10 km and relay, 1998) for Olympic cross country skiing.
Jernberg's other results included double gold (50 km and relay) at the 1958 and 1962 world championships (plus a bronze in the 30 km in 1958), and he captured seven consecutive Swedish Nordic titles (1954 60).
Togoland covered 34,934 square miles (90,479 square km) between the British Gold Coast colony to the west and French Dahomey to the east.
At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, he won three gold medals (10-km event, 30-km race, and 4×10-km relay) and one silver (combined pursuit).
Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk won three medals at the championships with two golds (7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit and 30 km) and a bronze (10 km).
There are few settlements of any size along the river, but a port at the town of Kiunga, some 490 miles (790 km) inland, ships copper and gold mined in the Star Mountains.
At the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, he established himself in the individual events with two formidable performances, taking the gold in the 15-km and 30-km races.
