D.O.B: 04.26.18
N.O.C: Netherlands
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 63 kg
Final Year of Competition: 1953
Years Top 10: 10
Personal bests
100m: 11.5 (Netherlands 1943)
200m: 23.7 (Netherlands 1952)
800m: 2.29.0 (Netherlands 1935)
80m Hurdles: 11.0 (Netherlands 1948)
High Jump: 1.71 (Netherlands 1943)
Long Jump: 6.25 (Netherlands 1943)
Shot Put: 12.08 (Netherlands 1943)
Pentathlon/Heptathlon: 4,497 (Netherlands 1950)
4x100m Relay: 47.4 (Belgium 1950)
4x200m Relay: 1:41.0 (Netherlands 1944)
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!!!✨🙌
