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Born June 18, 1902
Died February 11, 1980 (aged 77)
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
American athlete
Paavo Nurmi
Paavo Nurmi
Finnish runner
Fanny Blankers-Koen leaps over a hurdle ahead of other runners during the 80-metre hurdles race at the 1948 London Olympics, with a stadium crowd in the background.
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Dutch athlete
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Micheline Ostermeyer
French athlete and pianist
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John J. Flanagan
Irish-American athlete
Olympic champion Tamara Press
Tamara Press
Soviet athlete
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Gisela Mauermayer
German athlete
Galina Zybina
Galina Zybina
Soviet athlete
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David George Brownlow Cecil
British athlete
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Earl J. Thomson
athlete
Ville Ritola
Ville Ritola
Finnish athlete
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Doug Lowe
British athlete
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Charles Ferdinand Pahud de Mortanges
Dutch athlete
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Harrison Dillard
American athlete
Neeraj Chopra of India smiles on the podium, holding up his gold medal and a bouquet after winning the men's javelin throw at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
Neeraj Chopra
Indian athlete
Valerie Adams
Valerie Adams
New Zealand athlete
Yelena Isinbayeva
Yelena Isinbayeva
Russian athlete
The greatest American athlete
Jim Thorpe
American athlete
Sally Pearson
Sally Pearson
Australian athlete
Arshad Nadeem aiming for gold
Arshad Nadeem
Pakistani track-and-field athlete