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Fanny Blankers-Koen

1918 - 2004

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Francina Elsje "Fanny" Blankers-Koen (Dutch: [frɑnˈsinaː ˈʔɛlʃə ˈfɑni ˈblɑŋkərs ˈkun]; 26 April 1918 – 25 January 2004) was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning her the nickname "the Flying Housewife", and was the most successful athlete at the event. Having started competing in athletics in 1935, she took part in the 1936 Summer Olympics a year later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fanny Blankers-Koen has received more than 810,528 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Fanny Blankers-Koen is the 26th most popular athlete (down from 19th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 148th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Athlete.

Fanny Blankers-Koen is most famous for being the only woman to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games. She won the 100 meters, 200 meters, 80 meters hurdles, and 4x100 meter relay in the 1948 Olympics.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Fanny Blankers-Koen ranks 26 out of 3,059. Before her are Stanisława Walasiewicz, Javier Sotomayor, Mike Powell, Tamara Press, Ray Ewry, and Thomas Burke. After her are Leonidas of Rhodes, Lasse Virén, Aladár Gerevich, Marita Koch, Larry Scott, and Dorando Pietri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Fanny Blankers-Koen ranks 66. Before her are Richard Winters, João Goulart, Derek Barton, Henryk Szeryng, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and B. K. S. Iyengar. After her are Jin Youzhi, Yigal Allon, Jean-Marie Loret, Kakuei Tanaka, João Figueiredo, and Gabriel Axel. Among people deceased in 2004, Fanny Blankers-Koen ranks 51. Before her are Herbert C. Brown, Julia Child, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Otto Kumm, José López Portillo y Pacheco, and Elmer Bernstein. After her are Ko Yong-hui, Richard Avedon, Johnny Ramone, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Raymond Goethals, and Serge Reggiani.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Fanny Blankers-Koen ranks 195 out of 1,427. Before her are Johann Weyer (1515), Peter Stuyvesant (1612), Cees Nooteboom (1933), Anton Mussert (1894), Tiësto (1969), and Maarten Tromp (1598). After her are Johann Adam Reincken (1643), Corry Brokken (1932), Peter Bosz (1963), Johannes Heesters (1903), Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527), and Johan Jongkind (1819).

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Among ATHLETES In Netherlands

Among athletes born in Netherlands, Fanny Blankers-Koen ranks 1. After her are Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (1923), Tinus Osendarp (1916), Netti Witziers-Timmer (1923), Roelof Klein (1877), Chris Berger (1911), Arie van Vliet (1916), Willem Slijkhuis (1923), François Brandt (1874), Anna Dresden-Polak (1906), Harry Steevens (1945), and Bertha Brouwer (1930).

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