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Osvalda Giardi
Osvalda Giardi (19 December 1932 – 1 July 2019) was an Italian high jumper and pentathlete. She won 10 titles at the Italian national championship, and was ranked at number 25 on the IAAF world leading list in 1957, with 1.63 m established in Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ... on 14 September. Biography Osvalda Giardi had a twelve year long career, appearing 23 times for the Italy national athletics team, Italian national team from 1954 to 1966. National records * High jump: 1.67 m ( Bergamo, 23 September 1962) - holder until 28 June 1969 National titles *8 wins in High jump (1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966) *2 wins in women's pentathlon, Pentathlon (1956, 1964) See also * Women's high jump Italian record progression References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the " '50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion. The period also saw great population growth with increased birth rates and the emergence of the baby boomer generation. Despite this recovery, the Cold War developed from its modest beginnings in the late 1940s to a heated competition between the Soviet Union and the United States by the early 1960s. The ideological clash between communism and capitalism dominated the decade, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, with conflicts including the Korean War in the early 1950s, the Cuban Revolution, the beginning of the Vietnam War in French Indochina, and the beginning of the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Along with increased testing of nucle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
