The incredible BLANKERS-KOEN comes in 8th ALL-TIME – as a mother-of-two she won 4 GOLDS in the London Olympics of 1948!!!🥇🥇🥇🥇🇳🇱👇
As if that wasn’t enough…she held several World Records across multiple events, more No.1 World Rankings than any other 100m female sprinter in History, and a Track & Field career spanning the best part of two decades!!! ✊
The longevity of her Long Jump WORLD RECORD was matched by her elite distances; spanning over a decade in the World’s TOP 10!!! Were it not for World War II it’s fair to imagine she’d have added even more Olympic medals. In 1999 the IAAF named BLANKERS-KOEN as the “Female Athlete of the Century”…for many she remains the greatest female Olympian of All-Time!!!✨🙌