Sara Simeoni: Facts & Related Content

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Born April 19, 1953 (age 71) • VeronaItaly
Awards And Honors Olympic Games

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Olympic track-and-field champion Fanny Blankers-Koen
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Dutch athlete
American high jumper Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury
American athlete
Waldemar Cierpinski
East German athlete
Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska
Polish athlete
Iolanda Balas
Romanian athlete
Alice Coachman
Alice Coachman
American athlete
Saneyev, Viktor
Viktor Saneyev
Soviet athlete
Ray C. Ewry
American athlete
Valery Brumel
Soviet athlete
Sebastian Coe, 2022
Sebastian Coe
British runner
Steve Ovett
British runner
Koch, Marita
Marita Koch
German athlete
Tatyana Kazankina clinching the gold medal in the 1,500-metre race at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Tatyana Kazankina
Soviet athlete
Daley Thompson executing his long jump en route to successfully defending his Olympic decathlon title at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Daley Thompson
British athlete
Yuriy Sedykh
Soviet athlete
Evelin Schlaak
East German athlete
Nicola Olyslagers at the high jump final in Zürich, 2021
Nicola Olyslagers
Australian track-and-field athlete
Valerie Brisco-Hooks
American sprinter
Ben Johnson
Canadian athlete
Butch Reynolds
American athlete

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