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Fanny Blankers-Koen: Tutte le informazioni su Fanny Blankers-Koen su Encyclopedia.it Blankers inizialmente pensava che le donne non dovessero partecipare alle competizioni sportive (un'idea diffusa all'epoca), ma cambiò atteggiamento dopo essersi innamorato di Fanny Koen, più giovane di lui di quindici anni. Un anno prima della morte, venne pubblicata una nuova biografia su Fanny Blankers-Koen, dopo quella uscita nel 1949 in cui il marito era uno degli autori. Fanny Blankers-Koen fu la prima donna a vincere quattro olimpici, e per di più in una sola edizione. www.encyclopedia.it /f/fa/fanny_blankers-koen.html   (1865 words)

Fanny Blankers-Koen In 1999, the IAAF awarded Fanny Blankers-Koen with the title of "Female athlete of the century". Francina Elsje "Fanny" Blankers-Koen (born April 26, 1918) is a Dutch athlete. Born in Baarn as Fanny Koen, she didn't start competing in athletics until she was 16 years old. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fa/Fanny_Blankers-Koen.html   (290 words)

NOC*NSF - NOC*NSF English version - News Fanny Blankers-Koen was the Netherlands' most legendary female athlete of all time, as evidenced by the four gold medals she won at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Fanny Blankers-Koen, the female athlete of the twentieth century, the Flying Housewife, the Flying Dutchmam, is gone. Fanny later viewed the brown beans and cod-liver oil her father fed her as a child as power food, or "my performance-enhancing drugs" as she put it herself. www.sport.nl /boek.php3?artid=2693   (715 words)

IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News Fanny (Francisca) Blankers-Koen of Holland was the first Queen of women's athletics. The world’s greatest ever female athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands died this morning, Sunday 25 January, at the age of 85. Fanny Blankers-Koen will be chiefly remembered for winning four gold medals in the same Games. www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=23914.html   (804 words)

Blog of Death: Fanny Blankers-Koen The cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Olympics kept Blankers-Koen from competing during World War II, but at the 1948 Olympics in London, "the Flying Housewife" won a record four gold medals in the 100 and 200 meter sprints, the 80 meter hurdles and the 400 meter relay. Coached by her husband, former triple jump champion Jan Blankers, she spent the next 20 years raising two children and setting 16 world records in short-distance running, the pole vault, hurdles, the long jump and pentathlon. The FBK Games, the most prestigious track and field event in the Netherlands, were named for her. www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000699.html   (211 words)

CNNSI.com - SI For Women - 100 Greatest Female Athletes - Monday November 29, 1999 11:25 AM Koen had won the 100 meters and 80-meter hurdles in London when she told her husband and coach Jan Blankers that she wanted to return to Holland to be with their two sons. Francina Koen was 18 when at the 1936 Berlin Games she experienced her first Olympic highlight: approaching U.S. legend Jesse Owens and asking for an autograph. After Blankers convinced her that she would regret leaving, "The Flying Dutchwoman" captured golds in the 200 meters and 4x100-meter relay. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /siforwomen/top_100/26   (372 words)

Foekje Dillema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia She was an important competitor for another famous Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four golden medals during the 1948 Summer Olympics and became "Athlete of The Century" in 1999. Currently it is assumed (although by no means proven) that the main reason for her being expelled was the threat she may have formed for the athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen. Dillema became world famous when she received the title "athlete of the match" in 1949 after having a fabulous sprint on the 200 meter during a tournament in London. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foekje_Dillema   (256 words)

Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper Fanny Blankers-Koen, who has died aged 85, was the only woman to have won four gold athletics medals at a single Olympics, a haul matched by just two other competitors, Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis. The last of Fanny Blankers-Koen's four golds came in the sprint relay, and was claimed by her in dramatic fashion. Almost 40 years later, at the Munich Olympics, she reminded him of this, telling him: "My name is Fanny Blankers-Koen." "You don't have to tell me that," said Owens, "I know all about you." www.suntimes.co.za /2004/02/01/insight/in18.asp   (892 words)

Fanny Blankers-Koen, The Flying Housewife - January 2004 Fanny Blankers-Koen, winner of four gold medals at the London Olympics in 1948, has died aged 85. Fanny Blankers-Koen, The Flying Housewife - January 2004 An injury sustained in the hurdles event at the 1952 Olympics led to her failing to finish the event and her subsequent retirement from competition. www.sportsjournalists.co.uk /news/jan04/fannyblankerskoen.htm   (98 words)

Scotsman.com Sport - Athletics - World of athletics mourns 'Flying Housewife' Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen swept the London Olympics in track and field when she was 30 and the mother of two children. Fedde Zwanenburg, director of the FBK Games, the country’s largest international track and field event, said Blankers-Koen would be remembered with great esteem, and promised a special celebration of her contributions to the sport at this year’s event. Last June, she failed to attend the FBK games, the most prestigious athletic event in the Netherlands. sport.scotsman.com /athletics.cfm?id=95362004   (573 words)

Fanny Blankers-Koen Biography / Biography of Fanny Blankers-Koen Biography Fanny Blankers-Koen was born Francina Elsje Koen, the daughter of a government inspector in the Dutch city of Amsterdam in 1918. Fanny Blankers-Koen (born 1918) was known as the "first queen of women's Olympics." She remains the first and only woman ever to win four gold medals at a single Olympics. When Blankers-Koen began her sports career, Norman Giller noted in The 1984 Olympic Handbook, "women's athletics had been something of a sideshow.... www.bookrags.com /biography-fanny-blankers-koen   (233 words)

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85; won 4 gold medals in track Born in 1918, Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen first gained attention in 1935, setting a national record in the 800-meter race when she was 17. AMSTERDAM -- Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won a record four gold medals in track and field for the Netherlands at the 1948 Olympics, died yesterday. In June, she was unable to attend the FBK Games, the most prestigious track and field event in the Netherlands. www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/01/26/fanny_blankers_koen_85_won_4_gold_medals_in_track?mode=PF   (449 words)

SI.com - Writers - Brian Cazeneuve:Track legend and sporting pioneer Blankers-Koen embodied the Olympic ideal - Friday January 30, 2004 6:26PM In 1946, Fanny reluctantly began to train and compete, needing reassurance from Jan that at each stage of her comeback she was not neglecting their children. When she returned home from London, Fanny was feted with a parade that followed her for two miles, from the Amsterdam train station to her apartment. The next two Olympics were cancelled because of World War II, but Fanny presumed that motherhood, rather than international conflict, had sidetracked her career. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/writers/brian_cazeneuve/01/30/insider   (1110 words)

BBC SPORT FANS GUIDE Rider's legends: Fanny Blankers-Koen The name Fanny Blankers-Koen will crop up regularly in Sydney even though it is 52 years since the Dutchwoman ran her last Olympics. By 1948, Blankers-Koen was a 30-year-old mother-of-two - married to her coach Jan Blankers - and the holder of six world records. Blankers-Koen was a teenager when she went to her first Olympics in Berlin but the Second World War meant it would be 14 years before she got another chance to compete on the world stage. news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/olympics2000/fans_guide/864893.stm   (570 words)

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands was the world record holder in six events, but, according to the rules of the day, was only allowed to enter four. She won all four: the 100m dash, the 80m hurdles, the 200m and the 4x100m relay. They were Ilona Elek of Hungary in women’s foil fencing and Jan Brzak of Czechoslovakia in the canoeing Canadian pairs 1,000m. www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1948   (341 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Blankers-Koen Fanny Blankers-Koen, Fanny (1918-2004), Dutch sprinter, hurdler, high jumper, long jumper, and pentathlon competitor, possibly the greatest all-round... This report of Fanny Blankers-Koen’s 200 m victory at the 1948 London Olympic Games appeared in The Times on August 7, 1948. Fanny Blankers-Koen's Olympic 200 m Victory: The Times Report uk.encarta.msn.com /Blankers-Koen_Fanny.html   (123 words)

Xtratime Community - RIP Fanny Blankers-Koen RIP to the greatest ever female athlete to have ever graced the olympics, Fanny Blankers Koen who died today aged 85. www.xtratime.org /forum/printthread.php?t=124325   (142 words)

Olympic History As gifted an athlete as she was, Fanny Blankers-Koen (pronounced kohn) preferred to be known as a good wife and mother. In 1948, she had to talk her husband/coach, Jan Blankers, into preparing her for the first post-war Olympics. She held world records in six individual running and jumping events and three relays, and she cooked and sewed and cleaned her apartment. www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/history/1948-fanny-after.html   (285 words)

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES Francina "Fanny" Blankers-Koen was an outstanding all-around athlete who made her Olympic début as a high jumper in 1936 for the Netherlands, as Fanny Koen. She married her coach, the Dutch Olympic triple jumper (1928), Jan Blankers. World War II deprived her of the opportunity of making further Olympic appearances until 1948 when, at the age of 30 and the mother of two, she was the star of the London Games when she won four gold medals. www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=79842   (199 words)

News -- Words her husband spoke made her Athlete of the century By 1948, FBK was a 30-year-old mother of two and wife to her coach, Jan Blankers (she took his name and coined it to her maiden name of Koen, hence Fanny Blankers Koen). As a teenage girl, Fanny Blankers-Koen opened her Olympic account at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Born as Francina Koen in Barn on April 26, 1918, FBK was firstly a swimmer, but she switched over to athletics as a 17-year old. odili.net /news/source/2004/jun/27/13.html   (1131 words)

Ron Pickering Memorial Fund Grant News Articles I was in the lane next to Fanny when she crashed out of the hurdles final at the 1952 Olympics and was caught up in the rivalry that followed between her and Shirley Strickland. I thank Fanny for making that dream come true for me and for sweeping away the doubts over the capability and endurance of women athletes. Ron and I watched her win every one of her gold medals at the 1948 Olympic Games, marvelling at her athletic ability, and it was the start for both of us of a lifelong passion for the Olympic Movement. www.rpmf.org.uk /?page=7C3356243A3F743B5E2D7232&article_id=CE67CE6DCE66DE67   (207 words)

ICA > Welcome Probably the greatest all-round woman athlete of the twentieth century, Francina Koen was 18 at the 1936 Berlin Olympics when placed sixth in the 100-metre dash, but lost the decade of her athletic prime to a World War and two cancelled Olympics. At the 1948 London Olympics, Koen won an unprecedented four gold medals, though she nearly went home midway through the competition after European tabloids criticised her for not being a proper housewife and mother. After the games, Koen returned home a national heroine; local fans honoured her achievement by giving her the gift of a bicycle so she wouldn't have to run so much. www.ica.ie /international/millenium_exhibition/69.html   (177 words)

Observer Fanny Blankers-Koen Fanny Blankers-Koen, a 30-year-old mother of two, had been dismissed by the British athletes' team manager, Jack Crump, as 'too old to make the grade', but over seven days at Wembley stadium she won the 100m, the 80m hurdles, the 200m and the 4x100m. That he did was testimony to one of the greatest Olympians of them all: someone who dominated the 1948 Olympics in London in a way that no woman has before or since. Before the Games many in Holland had said she should not be running but looking after her children. observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4346276-103977,00.html   (465 words)

Blankers-Koen, Fanny Blankers-Koen's athletic career was then interrupted because of World War II (1939-1945). Born Francina Elsje Koen in Amsterdam, Netherlands, she first participated in the Olympics at the 1936 games, held in Berlin, Germany. She married her coach, former Dutch track-and-field athlete Jan Blankers, in 1940. www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/blankerskoen/01.html   (207 words)

Olympic History Yet out of these unassuming Games came one of the most remarkable achievements: the four-gold performance of Fanny Blankers-Koen, a 32-year-old mother of two from the Netherlands. On the fifth day of competition, when an American sweep of the men's high hurdles led coverage in the Times, Blankers-Koen was deemed "remarkable" for her victory in the 80-meter hurdles, having previously won the 100-meter dash. Summarizing the Games' track and field results, reports acknowledged no male successor to Jesse Owens and said, "For a parallel to Owens' performance it is necessary to turn to the women's championships [and] the remarkable Mrs. www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/history/1948-main.html   (208 words)

1.html You may see her tomorrow night in the Coliseum Relays as Fanny Blankers-Koen, the Flying Housewife, who has reached heights previously unknown by any woman track and field athlete in the history of athletics. Opposite the name it says that Fraulein Koen jumped 5 feet 1 inch to tie with Annette Rogers of the United States and Doris Carter of Australia for sixth place. You will remember Fanny as the greatest single athlete, man or woman, to emerge from the pack in the London Olympics last summer. www.trackandfieldnews.com /general/back_track/40.html   (807 words)

Olympic Legends: Blankers-Koen Long after she retired, Fanny Blankers-Koen rejected any suggestion she was a feminist heroine. "Fanny Blankers-Koen did pioneering work in the emancipation of women in sports, without bragging about it." By common consent, however, Blankers-Koen was too old to pose a serious threat in the four events she was allowed to enter under the rules of the day -- the 100 and 200 metres, the 80 metres hurdles, the 4x100 relay. www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/13oly-ath2.htm   (502 words)

Fanny Blankers-Koen --  Encyclopædia Britannica Fanny Blankers-Koen winning the 80-metre hurdles at the 1948 Olympics in London. At the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in London, England, Dutch track and field athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen became the first woman to earn four gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics. One of the great ballerinas of the Romantic period, Fanny Elssler was known for her sensuousness and great dramatic skill. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002609   (680 words)

Blankers-Koen, Fanny - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Blankers-Koen, Fanny This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. She won four gold medals at the 1948 Olympics. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Blankers-Koen,+Fanny   (333 words)

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