Fanny
Blankers-Koen
Fanny
Blankers-Koen of Netherlands was the most popular athlete in the 1948
Summer Games.
She was a homemaker who won four gold medals in track and
field. As a Dutch
teenager Fanny Blankers-Koen had finished sixth in the high jump at Berlin
before
surviving the Nazi occupation. Twelve years later, she won the women’s
100, 200, and 80-meter hurdles, and she won the 4 x 100-meter relay team. She
might have won six gold medals if she had been able to enter the high jump and
long jump; she held the world record in both.
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