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Also Known As El Caballo • Alberto Juantorena Danger
Born December 3, 1950 (age 74) • Santiago de Cuba • Cuba
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
Tatyana Kazankina clinching the gold medal in the 1,500-metre race at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Tatyana Kazankina
Soviet athlete
Valerie Brisco-Hooks
American sprinter
Sebastian Coe, 2022
Sebastian Coe
British runner
Peter Snell
Peter Snell
New Zealand athlete
Steve Ovett
British runner
Dave Wottle
American athlete
Jim Lightbody
American athlete
Sheppard, Mel
Mel Sheppard
American athlete
Lina Radke
German athlete
Mal Whitfield after winning the 800-metre race at the 1948 Olympics in London.
Mal Whitfield
American athlete
Ted Meredith
American athlete
Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska
Polish athlete
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix
American athlete
Marie-José Pérec
French athlete
Eric Liddell
Eric Liddell
British athlete
Doug Lowe
British athlete
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens
American athlete
Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson
American athlete
Australian hurdler Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Australian athlete
Paavo Nurmi
Paavo Nurmi
Finnish runner

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