Wow!
There are several Medical Doctors who participated in the Olympic Games!

1) Jacques Rogge OlympicDoc

http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/ioc/presidents/rogge_uk.asp 

PRESIDENT OF THE IOC SINCE 2001

Jacques Rogge is the eighth IOC President, elected on 16 July 2001 at the 112th IOC Session in Moscow.

Born on 2 May 1942 in Ghent, Belgium, Jacques Rogge is married and has two children. By profession, he is an orthopaedic surgeon. In the course of his sports career, he competed in the yachting competitions at the Games of the Olympiad in Mexico in 1968, Munich in 1972 and Montreal in 1976. He was also a member of the Belgian national rugby team.

Jacques Rogge served as President of the Belgian National Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1992. He became President of the European Olympic Committees in 1989, IOC member in 1991 and Executive Board member in 1998.

2) Mark Spitz

see SwimDocs

3) Klaus Steinbach

See his own presentation

4) Gunther Philipp

see his own presentation

5) Sabine Bau

see her own presentation

6) Thomas Wessinghage is OlympicDoc

JogDoc would be a real understatement: This man is a running machine!

Dr. Thomas Wessinghage, born in 1952, is orthopedic doctor and director of the reha-clinic at the town of Damp/Baltic Sea. He was a very successful sports-man: member of the olympic team Germany for four times, 1982 he was European Champion over 5000 m, in plus he was German champion for multiple times over different distances and held several German and European records, he is still holding 2 German records over 1500 m and 2000 m.
His profound medical knowledge is based on this personal experience as well on his activities on national and international level, recently becoming specialized in physical and rehabilitation medicine.


Thomas Wessinghage

See about him and more photos!

7) Roland Matthes is SwimDoc and OlympicDoc

He is in the "international swimming hall of fame" as longest unbeaten back stroke swimmer for 7 years: http://www.ishof.org/honorees/81/81rmatthes.html
See photos here: http://www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/galerie/daten/6

Roland Matthes (born November 17, 1950 in Pößneck, Thuringia) is a former backstroke swimmer, who won a total number of eight Olympic medals for East Germany. He is considered to be one of the best backstroke swimmers of all time. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1968, when the "Rolls-Royce of Swimming" won his first Olympic medals.

Matthes was undefeated in international competitions from 1967 to 1974. During his career he set 21 world records, and won three world and four European titles. Matthes was named East German Sportsman of the Year seven times: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1975. He retired after the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, and that year married fellow-swimmer Kornelia Ender. Six year later the couple divorced. Matthes is currently living and working in Marktheidenfeld. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1981.

He is practising as orthopedic doctor as documented on the german Wikipedia site: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Matthes

English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Matthes

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