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One of the star performers at the Games was Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen.
Francina " Fanny " Elsje Blankers-Koen () was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Although international competition was hampered by World War II, Blankers-Koen set several world records during that period, in events as diverse as the long jump, the high jump, and sprint and hurdling events.
As the leading athlete in the Netherlands — in 1947 she won national titles in 6 events — Blankers-Koen was assured of a place on the Dutch team for the first post-war Olympics, held at Wembley Stadium in west London.
Fanny Blankers-Koen thereby became the first Dutch athlete to win an Olympic title in athletics, but she was more concerned with her next event, the 80 m hurdles.
When the British national anthem was played, the crowd in Wembley Stadium cheered, and Blankers-Koen briefly thought she had been beaten.
The final, on 6 August, was again held in the pouring rain, but Blankers-Koen completed the inaugural Olympic 200 m for women in 24. 4, seven tenths of a second ahead of runner-up Audrey Williamson — still the largest margin of victory in an Olympic 200 m final.
The Dutch team, consisting of Xenia Stad-de Jong, Netty Witziers-Timmer, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs and Blankers-Koen qualified for the final, but just before the final, Blankers-Koen was missing.
On 7 August 1955, Fanny Blankers-Koen was victorious for the last time, winning the national title in the shot put, her 58th Dutch title.
A year before her death, the first biography of Blankers-Koen was published, Een koningin met mannenbenen ( A Queen with men's legs ) by journalist Kees Kooman.
* Fanny Blankers-Koen was born in Baarn ( Lage Vuursche ) on 26 April 1918
Wembley was the main athletics venue for the 1948 Summer Olympics, with Fanny Blankers-Koen and Emil Zátopek among the notable winners.
Her performance was only overshadowed by that of Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four gold medals at the same Olympics.
Born Jeannette Josephina Maria Timmer in Amsterdam her greatest success was when she won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics, together with Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs and Fanny Blankers-Koen.
Born Gerda Koudijs in Rotterdam, her greatest success was winning the gold medal in the 4 x 100 m relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics, together with Xenia Stad-de Jong, Netty Witziers-Timmer, and Fanny Blankers-Koen.
She was an important rival for another Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four gold medals during the 1948 Summer Olympics and was voted " Female Athlete of the Century " by the IAAF in 1999.
Among the minor medallists was Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won the first international medals of her highly successful career.

Blankers-Koen and Koen
Just prior to the invasion, Koen had become engaged, and on 29 August 1940, she married Jan Blankers, thereby changing her name to Blankers-Koen.

Blankers-Koen and 26
* April 26 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete ( d. 2004 )

Blankers-Koen and 1918
** Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete ( b. 1918 )

Blankers-Koen and .
When Blankers-Koen gave birth to her first child Jan Junior in 1941, Dutch media automatically assumed her career would be over.
Blankers-Koen and her husband had other plans, and she resumed training only weeks after their son's birth.
During war domestic sports competition continued in German-occupied Holland, and Blankers-Koen would set six new world records from 1942 – 44.
Despite this, Blankers-Koen managed to break the world record in May 1944.
Six weeks before the Championships, Blankers-Koen gave birth to Fanny Junior, but this had not stopped her from resuming training shortly afterwards.
Blankers-Koen sped to the finish line in 11. 9, easily beating her opponents Dorothy Manley and Shirley Strickland, who took second and third.
Examination of the finish photo clearly showed that not Gardner, but Blankers-Koen had won, although both received the same time ( 11. 2s ).
In spite of her successes, Blankers-Koen nearly failed to start in the semi-finals of the 200 m, held the day after hurdles final.
Fanny Blankers-Koen won four of the nine women's events at the 1948 Olympics, competing in 11 heats and finals in 8 days.
Now known all over the world, Blankers-Koen received many offers for endorsements, advertisements, publicity stunts and the like.

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