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Gailly
Gailly is a French surname that may refer to *Étienne Gailly (1922–1971), Belgian soldier and Olympic runner *Jean-loup Gailly, French computer programmer *Paul Gailly Paul Gailly (born 2 August 1894, date of death unknown) was a Belgian water polo player who won silver medals at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. See also * List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men) Men's water polo has been part of the ... (1894–?), Belgian water polo player * Christian Gailly (1943–2013), French writer {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Gailly
Étienne Gailly (; 26 November 1922, Beringen – 3 November 1971, Genval) was a Belgian soldier and Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the Marathon. Career Étienne Gailly was a Belgian who served as a paratrooper during World War II. Towards the end of the War, as he participated in the liberation of his home country in late 1944, Gailly was profoundly moved by the devastation to his home. He vowed that he would win an Olympic gold medal or drop trying. He was a club runner, wearing the colors of London's Belgrave Harriers. After the war he continued running. His results after the war were moderately good but not threatening to the world leaders. In 1948 he was not rated as a serious contender for the Olympic marathon, held in London. Although he did not win the Olympic marathon, he became a hero. In his first full marathon run, in very hot conditions Gailly took the race out hard. Inexperienced at this distance, and underestimating the dehydrating effect of the seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gailly
Paul Gailly (born 2 August 1894, date of death unknown) was a Belgian water polo player who won silver medals at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. See also * List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men) Men's water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since 1900. Hungary men's national water polo team has won sixteen Olympic medals, becoming the most successful country in men's tournament. There are fifty-nine male athletes who have ... References External links * 1894 births Year of death missing Belgian male water polo players Water polo players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic water polo players of Belgium Olympic silver medalists for Belgium Olympic medalists in water polo Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing {{Belgium-waterpolo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-loup Gailly
Jean-loup Gailly (born 1956) is a French computer scientist and an author of gzip. He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked over zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler. He prefers to write his hyphenated first name with only the J but not the L capitalized. He wrote a chapter on fractal image compression for Mark Nelson's The Data Compression Book. From 1990 to 1995, while working for Chorus Systèmes SA, he designed the real-time executive of the ChorusOS microkernel. From 1999 to 2001, he was the CTO of Mandrakesoft. From 2006 to 2014, he worked at Google as a Tech. Lead Manager. References External links Jean-loup's home pageJean-loup Gailly on gzip, Go and Mandrake an interview on Slashdot ''Slashdot'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''/.'') is a social news website that originally advertised itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |