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Also Known As hurdle race

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Olympic track-and-field champion Fanny Blankers-Koen
Babe Didrikson
Edwin Moses
Sally Pearson at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Australian hurdler Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
How sprinters jump over hurdles
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Sally Pearson
Australian athlete
Olympic track-and-field champion Fanny Blankers-Koen
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Dutch athlete
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
American athlete
Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang
Chinese athlete
Australian hurdler Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Australian athlete
Alvin Kraenzlein.
Alvin Kraenzlein
American athlete
Gail Devers
American athlete
Edwin Moses
Edwin Moses
American athlete
David George Brownlow Cecil
British athlete
Lee Calhoun
American athlete
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Irina Press
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Glenn Davis
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Earl J. Thomson
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