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Athletics At The 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 Metres
The women's 800 metres middle distance event at the 1960 Summer Olympics, 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 6 and September 7. This was the return of the event for the first time since Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres, 1928. Dixie Willis had the best time in qualifying, thus the Olympic record, though Lyudmila Shevtsova, Lyudmila Lysenko (Birth name, née Shevtsova) had set the world record a month earlier in Moscow. In the final, Willis took the race out, marked by Shevtsova. By the final straightaway, Brenda Jones (athlete), Brenda Jones was also with Shevtsova and looking fast challenging Willis for the lead. Suddenly Willis stepped on the curb and fell off the track into the infield. Shevtsova edged into the lead and dipped at the finish to equal her own world record and take the gold in 2:04.3. Jones was electronically timed at being .08 behind though electronic timing would not become official for another 17 years. Ursula Donath w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Stadium (Rome)
Stadio Olimpico (; ), colloquially known as l'Olimpico (The Olympic), is an Italy, Italian Multi-purpose stadium, multi-purpose sports venue located in Rome. Seating over 70,000 spectators, it is the largest sports facility in Rome and List of football stadiums in Italy, the second-largest in Italy, after Milan, Milans San Siro. It formerly had a capacity of over 100,000 people, and was also called Stadio dei Centomila (Stadium of the 100,000). It is owned by Sport e Salute, a State-owned enterprise, government agency that manages sports venues, and its operator is the Italian National Olympic Committee. The Olimpico is located in northwestern Rome in the Foro Italico sports complex. Construction began in 1928 under Enrico Del Debbio and the venue was expanded in 1937 by Luigi Moretti. World War II interrupted further expansions; after the Italian campaign (World War II), Liberation of Rome in June 1944, the stadium was used by the Allies of World War II, Allies as vehicle storag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Żbikowska
Beata Żbikowska (born 16 April 1934) is a Polish middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar .... References External links * 1934 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Polish female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Poland People from Susz Athletes from Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Zawisza Bydgoszcz athletes 20th-century Polish sportswomen {{Poland-middledistance-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Kummerfeldt
Vera Kummerfeldt (born 11 April 1935) is a German middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar .... References 1935 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics German female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for the United Team of Germany Athletes from Wrocław West German Athletics Championships winners 20th-century German sportswomen {{Germany-middledistance-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Jordan
Joy Wilhelmina Jordan née Buckmaster (born 13 November 1935) is a former British (middle distance) athlete in the early 1960s, who held the world record for 880 yards in 1960 and competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Biography Born in Farnborough, Hampshire, Buckmaster finished third behind Janet Ruff in the 440 yards event at the 1956 WAAA Championships. She married Dennis Jordan (who would be her coach at the 1960 Olympic Games), in 1957 in north-west Surrey and competed under her married name thereafter. Jordan became the national 880 yards champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1958 WAAA Championships defeating her great rival Diane Leather. The same year she competed in the 800 metres event at the 1958 European Athletics Championships in Stockholm, where she came ninth in the final. On 14 June 1958 in London, she competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay in a British team which broke the world record with a time of 3:49.9. This record would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Goullieux
Nicole Goullieux (15 July 1931 – 19 June 2024) was a French Sport of athletics, athlete, who had specialized in the 800 metres, 800 meters and in Cross Country. Biography Goullieux was born in Paris. She won six titles at the :fr:Championnats de France d'athlétisme, French National 800m Championships in 1952, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1962. She also won five :fr:Championnats de France de cross-country, French Cross Country Championships, between the years of 1956 to 1963. Goullieux improved the :fr:Record de France du 800 mètres, French 800 meters record three times, running 2:12.7 and 2:10.5 in 1955 and 2:09.5 in 1959. In 1959, she won the gold medal in the 800 m during the Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade, Summer Universiade, at Turin in the time 2:11.1. She participated in the Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics, 1960 Olympics at Rome, but did not advance past the first round of the 800 m trials. Goullieux died in Le Neubourg on 19 June 2024, at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerda Kraan
Gerarda "Gerda" Maria Kraan (; born 30 July 1933) is a retired female middle distance runner from the Netherlands, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1960 (Rome) and 1964 (Tokyo). In 1962 she won the gold medal in the women's 800 metres race at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T .... Kraan is the oldest sibling in a family of 14 children. Initially she trained in handball, while working as a police officer, and changed to athletics only in 1954, aged 21. At her first major race in 1958 she improved the Dutch record in the 800 m to 2,16.6. She shaved another 8 seconds from it the next year, and in 1960 qualified for the Olympics, where she was eliminated in a preliminary round. After that she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedřiška Kulhavá
Bedřiška Kulhavá (4 December 1931 – 20 February 2024) was a Czech middle-distance runner. She competed for Czechoslovakia in the women's 800 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Her daughter Jana Kulhava-Vápeniková competed in biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Albertville '92 (Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Arbèrtvile '92''), were a winter multi-sport event held from 8 to 23 February 1992 in and aroun .... Kulhavá died on 20 February 2024, at the age of 92. References 1931 births 2024 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Czech female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Czechoslovakia Sportspeople from Ústí nad Labem Athletes from the Ústí nad Labem Region {{CzechRepublic-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Haslam
Eleanor Jean Haslam (later Jensen; born 11 September 1939) is a Canadian sprinter. She competed in the 100 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics. She finished third in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games The 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (Welsh: ''Gemau Ymerodraeth Prydain a'r Gymanwlad'' 1958) were held in Cardiff, Wales, from 18 to 26 July 1958. It was the sixth edition of what would come to be known as the Commonwealth Games, the ... 4×110 yards relay (with Diane Matheson, Maureen Rever, and Freyda Berman). Haslam also finished sixth in the 220 yards and was eliminated in the heats of the 100 yards at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. References External links * 1939 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Canadian female sprinters Olympic track and field athletes for Canada Athletes (track and field) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krystyna Nowakowska
Krystyna Nowakowska (8 December 1935 – 15 November 2019) was a Polish female athlete. She represented Poland at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the 800 metres event. She also competed at the 1958 European Athletics Championships competing in 800 metres event and at the 1962 European Athletics Championships The 7th European Athletics Championships were held from 12–16 September 1962 in the JNA Stadium in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the ''Glasgow Herald''. Just before the m ... competing in the Women's 800 metres event. See also * Poland at the 1960 Summer Olympics References 1935 births 2019 deaths Olympic athletes for Poland Polish female middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics People from Ostrowiec County Athletes from Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship 20th-century Polish sportswomen Polish Athletics Championships winners {{Poland-middledi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gizella Sasvári-Csóka
Gizella Sasvári-Csóka (born 13 November 1932) is a Hungarian middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar .... References 1932 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Hungarian female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Hungary Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Hungarian sportswomen {{Hungary-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Daniels
Billie Jo Patricia "Pat" Daniels (in first marriage Winslow, in second marriage Bank, in third marriage Connolly; born September 1, 1943) is a retired female pentathlete and track and field coach from the United States, who was the U.S. track and field national champion in the 800 m in 1960 and 1961 and in the pentathlon from 1961 to 1967 and in 1970. She was national long jump champion in 1967. She won the gold medal in the pentathlon at the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada. A three-time Olympian (1960, 1964, 1968), she placed seventh in 1964 and sixth in 1968. She first represented the US in 1960, running just five days after her 17th birthday, days before beginning her senior year at Capuchino High School in San Bruno, California. She was the first coach of the women's track and field team at the University of California Los Angeles, which she led to AIAW national championships in 1975 and 1977. In 1983, she coached UCLA alumna Evelyn Ashford to a world record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Perkins
Phyllis Else Maureen Perkins ( Green; 22 February 1934 – 22 February 2023) was a British middle-distance runner who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Biography Under her maiden name of Green, she finished third behind Margaret Taylor in the 440 yards event at the 1952 WAAA Championships. before becoming the national 1 mile champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1954 WAAA Championships. Perins retained her 1 mile title at the 1955 WAAA Championships and won the 880 yards title at the 1956 WAAA Championships. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, she represented Great Britain in the women's 800 metres. Perkins finished second behind Joy Jordan at the 1962 WAAA Championships and shortly afterwards represented England in the 880 yards at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia. Perkins won another WAAA title at the 1963 WAAA Championships The 1963 WAAA Championships were the national track and field champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
