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| | Ellen Van Langen |
 | | In a career plagued with injuries, Ellen Van Langen was indeed fortunate that her one good year, 1992, was a year in which an Olympic Games was held. |
 | | Van Langen had been a soccer player until 1986, but had then embarked on an athletics career specialising in the 800m. |
 | | Van Langen was still well out of medal contention as they entered the straight, but she then started a drive for the tape, passing every one of the first four from Tokyo, and winning in a season's best time of 1min 55.54sec (see photo above) from Nurutdinova and Quirot. |
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