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Sagitta (athletic Club)
Sagitta was a female athletic club in the Netherlands founded by Jan Blankers in 1936. Integrated with Blauw-Wit into Phanos on 1 January 2000. Between 1950 and 1954 the 4 × 100 m relay won five national titles. Sagitta athletes participated in Dutch 4 × 100 m relay in several olympic games. Athletes * Corrie Bakker * Fanny Blankers-Koen * Loes Boling * Annemieke Bouma * Stans Brehm * Nel Büch * Ciska Jansen * Gré de Jongh * Ans Niesink * Nel Roos-Lodder * Hilda Slaman * Lies Sluijters * Tilly van der Zwaard * Els van Noorduyn Elsemia Marianne Helene "Els" van Noorduyn (born 25 May 1946) is a retired Dutch shot putter who finished in eighth place at the 1968 Summer Olympics with a throw of 16.23 m. She runs her sports-related company Els van Noorduyn B.V. Reference ... References {{reflist, refs= [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Blankers
Johan "Jan" Blankers (23 April 1904 – 17 July 1977) was a Dutch athlete and coach. He competed in the triple jump at the 1928 Olympics, but failed to reach the final. He won the national title in this event in 1931 and 1932, but later tore an Achilles tendon, which resulted in his retirement and in a slight limping for the rest of his life. In September 1935 Blankers met Fanny Blankers-Koen at an athletic competition. He was impressed by her talent, but also noticed faults in her running technique. He eventually became her coach and married her on 29 August 1940. They had a son Jan (born 20 August 1941) and a daughter Fanny (born 12 February 1946). In 1935, Blankers also became a national athletics coach and prepared the Dutch team to the 1936 Olympics. Soon after he founded a woman's athletics association ''Sagitta'' in Amsterdam to promote sports among women. Within a few years ''Sagitta'' became the leading woman's athletics club in the Netherlands. At the 1938 European Ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |