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Also Known As Valery Nikolayevich Brumel
Born May 14, 1942 • Russia
Died January 26, 2003 (aged 60) • Moscow • Russia
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
Iolanda Balas
Romanian athlete
Saneyev, Viktor
Viktor Saneyev
Soviet athlete
Olympic track-and-field champion Fanny Blankers-Koen
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Dutch athlete
Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska
Polish athlete
Peter Snell
Peter Snell
New Zealand athlete
Al Oerter
American athlete
Irina Press
Irina Press
Soviet athlete
Olympic champion Tamara Press
Tamara Press
Soviet athlete
Yuriy Sedykh
Soviet athlete
Tatyana Kazankina clinching the gold medal in the 1,500-metre race at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Tatyana Kazankina
Soviet athlete
American high jumper Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury
American athlete
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens
American athlete
Heptathlon champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
American athlete
Noureddine Morceli
Algerian athlete
Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis
American athlete
Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson
American athlete
Australian hurdler Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Australian athlete
Sebastian Coe, 2022
Sebastian Coe
British runner
Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek
Czech runner
Paavo Nurmi
Paavo Nurmi
Finnish runner

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