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Born November 24, 1913 • Munich • Germany
Died January 9, 1995 (aged 81) • Munich • Germany
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
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John J. Flanagan
Irish-American athlete
Olympic champion Tamara Press
Tamara Press
Soviet athlete
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Evelin Schlaak
East German athlete
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Paavo Yrjölä: The Farmhand
Finnish athlete
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Micheline Ostermeyer
French athlete and pianist
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Al Oerter
American athlete
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Parry O’Brien
American athlete
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Mac Wilkins
American athlete
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Martin Sheridan
American athlete
Galina Zybina
Galina Zybina
Soviet athlete
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens
American athlete
Earle Meadows clears the bar to set an Olympic record at the 1936 Games in Berlin
Earle Meadows
American athlete
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Jack Lovelock
New Zealand athlete
Koch, Marita
Marita Koch
German athlete
Ruth Fuchs
Ruth Fuchs
German athlete
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Lina Radke
German athlete
Valerie Adams
Valerie Adams
New Zealand athlete
The greatest American athlete
Jim Thorpe
American athlete
Gong Lijiao at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Gong Lijiao
Chinese shot-putter
Randy Matson putting the shot in 1965.
Randy Matson
American athlete

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