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    Francina Elsje "Fanny" Blankers-Koen (Dutch: [frɑnˈsinaː ˈʔɛlʃə ˈfɑni ˈblɑŋkərs ˈkun]; 26 April 1918 – 25 January 2004) was a Dutch track and field athlete...
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    The FBK Games is an annual track and field event at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion in Hengelo, Netherlands as part of the IAAF World Challenge Meetings...
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    currently used mostly for athletics meets, especially the annual Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, and also was the venue for the European Athletics Junior Championships...
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    m relay with Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, and Fanny Blankers-Koen. The 1948 Dutch relay team was remarkable (for that era) in that...
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    The first post-war Games were held in 1948 in London, with both Germany and Japan excluded. Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen won four gold medals...
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  • Gemechu Dida (category African Games competitors for Ethiopia)
    at the 2019 African Games following his 13:17.47 5000 m performance at that year's Fanny Blankers-Koen Games. In his African Games final, Dida finished...
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  • to take part. One of the star performers at the 1948 Games was Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen. Dubbed the "Flying Housewife", the thirty-year-old mother...
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  • Olympic Games in London, including debuts for the men's 10 km walk; and the women's 200 metres, long jump and shot put. Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands...
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    Marjorie Jackson-Nelson (category Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia)
    headlights to light the track. In 1949, the famous Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen visited Australia on the assumption that she would compete in a series...
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    100 m relay with Xenia Stad-de Jong, Netti Witziers-Timmer, and Fanny Blankers-Koen, she finished fourth in the long jump and was eliminated in a heat...
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