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Portal:Sport of athletics/Selected biography/51 Iolanda Balaș (Romanian pronunciation: [joˈlanda ˈbalaʃ], Hungarian: Balázs Jolán, later Balázs-Sőtér Jolán; 12 December 1936 – 11 March 2016) was a Romanian athlete, an Olympic champion and former world record holder in the high jump. She was the first Romanian woman to win an Olympic ...
Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed. My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw. [18] Thorpe was a third-team All-American in 1908 [26] and a first-team All-American in 1911 and 1912. [5]
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An "all-round athlete" is a person who competes in multiple sports at a professional level. Examples of people who played more than one sport professionally include Jim Thorpe, Lionel Conacher, [11] [12] Deion Sanders, Danny Ainge, Babe Zaharias and Erin Phillips.
In the September 1996 issue of Sport, which was the publication's 50th-anniversary issue, Jordan was named the greatest athlete of the past 50 years. [251] Jordan's athletic leaping ability, highlighted in his back-to-back Slam Dunk Contest championships in 1987 and 1988, is credited by many people with having influenced a generation of young ...
Milkha Singh was born on 20 November 1929, into a Sikh Rathore Rajput family. [7] His birthplace was Govindpura, [8] a village 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Muzaffargarh city in Punjab Province, British India (now Kot Adu district, Pakistan).
Sidney Merlin (1856–1952), sports shooter; John Middleton (1910–1971), footballer; Colin Milburn (1941–1990), cricketer; Gordon Miller (born 1939), Olympic high jumper; Alan Minter (1951–2020), world champion boxer; Ivor Montagu (1904–1984), British national team and founder of the International Table Tennis Federation
The program has been used by young sports persons, including tennis player Swastika Ghosh and golfer Aadil Bedi. [ 148 ] In response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, Kohli and his wife Anushka Sharma pledged donations to the PM CARES Fund and the Maharashtra CM Relief Fund. [ 149 ]