Iolanda Balas: Facts & Related Content

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Born December 12, 1936 • TimişoaraRomania
Died March 11, 2016 (aged 79) • BucharestRomania
Awards And Honors Olympic Games

Valery Brumel
Soviet athlete
Peter Snell
Peter Snell
New Zealand athlete
Al Oerter
American athlete
Olympic track-and-field champion Fanny Blankers-Koen
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Dutch athlete
Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska
Polish athlete
Saneyev, Viktor
Viktor Saneyev
Soviet athlete
Marathon runner Abebe Bikila
Abebe Bikila
Ethiopian athlete
Irina Press
Irina Press
Soviet athlete
Olympic champion Tamara Press
Tamara Press
Soviet athlete
Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph
American sprinter
Glenn Davis
American track and field athlete
American high jumper Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury
American athlete
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens
American athlete
Heptathlon champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
American athlete
Noureddine Morceli
Algerian athlete
Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis
American athlete
Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson
American athlete
Australian hurdler Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Australian athlete
Sebastian Coe, 2022
Sebastian Coe
British runner
Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek
Czech runner

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