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Saint Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, with a cannon. Academics - Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great; Actors - Genesius [1] Comic actors - Maturinus; Accountants - Matthew; Advertisers - Bernardino of Siena [2] Air travellers - Joseph of Cupertino; Altar servers - John Berchmans, [3] Tarcisius, Lorenzo Ruiz; Ambassadors - Gabriel the Archangel
In the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Peters competing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland and won the gold medal in the women's pentathlon. She had finished 4th in 1964 and 9th in 1968. To win the gold medal, she narrowly beat the local favourite, West Germany's Heide Rosendahl, by 10 points, setting a world record score.
Meanwhile, she missed the 1932 Summer Olympics in her home country. Still unable to kneel for a normal 100 m start due to the fractures and surgeries on her left leg, [3] Robinson was a part of the US team of 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The US team was running behind the heavily favored Germans, but the Germans dropped ...
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
She competed in the women's 800m event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, [2] and was the sole flag-bearer for her country in the Parade of Nations during the opening ceremony. [ 4 ] Maloney also competed at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, finishing 4th in the women's 800m final.
She is widely recognised as the most successful Asian female runner of all time, after winning the Athens olympic gold medal in 2004. In a relatively short elite career that effectively ended before the age of 25, her most significant achievement was to win a shock gold in the 2004 Olympic Games in the women's 10,000 m at the age of just 20.
On 6 August 2021, after running in the leading pack runners for most of the race, Salpeter came in 66th in the women's marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with a time of 2:48:31. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] She was in the front pack of runners with four kilometers (2.5 miles) to go, in a battle for the bronze medal with Molly Seidel , when she had to ...
In the previous year, Irvine had run in the Boston Marathon, winning the women's 50–59 age group in a time of 3:11.00. [8] Many records for female runners over 50 years old were set by Irvine. She was the first woman in her age group to run for under 20 minutes in the 5-kilometer run, 38 minutes in the 10-km, and 3:00 in the marathon. [9]