Fanny Blankers-Koen

Fanny Blankers-Koen was a Dutch track-and-field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1948 London Olympics. She set world records in sprinting, hurdles, and jumping events.

1948 Summer Olympics: The Summer Olympic Games held in London from July 29 to August 14, 1948. Blankers-Koen won four athletics gold medals at these Games.
Jan Blankers: A Dutch athletics coach and sports journalist who coached Fanny Blankers-Koen and later became her husband. He coached her through the years in which she became an international champion.
Amsterdam: The capital of the Netherlands, where Fanny Blankers-Koen was born in 1918. Her Dutch upbringing and early sporting life began in this city.
Motherhood and elite sport: The participation and performance of athletes during pregnancy and while raising children. Blankers-Koen competed at the highest level as a mother of two.
Olympic athletics: The track-and-field competitions held as part of the Olympic Games. The Olympic program limited women to a small set of events during her career.
1948 Olympic 100 metres: The women's 100-metre race at the 1948 Summer Olympics, won by Fanny Blankers-Koen. Her first gold medal in London came in this sprint.
Alice Coachman: An American high jumper who became the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, in 1948. Their Olympic victories mark different barriers faced by women athletes in the same Games.
Dutch athletics: The organized practice and history of track and field in the Netherlands. Blankers-Koen emerged from a small national athletics scene and became its defining figure.
Women in the Olympic Games: The history and participation of women athletes in the modern Olympic Games. Her four titles challenged assumptions about the limits of women's Olympic competition.
Women's 100 metres: A sprint race covering 100 metres, contested by women in track and field. This event suited her speed, but her versatility extended well beyond it.

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