Portal:Track And Field

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Here European and Canadian Jews have produced some of the best. Fanny Rosenfeld of Canada won Olympic gold in 400-meter relay in 1928, and was elected in 1950 Canada’s best female athlete of the half-century. Harold Abraham of England won the 100 meter dash in the Paris Olympics, and became one of England’s leading sprinters. Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska of Poland is considered the greatest female track and field athlete of all time. In the Tokyo Olympics she won gold in the 400 meter relay and silver in the 200 meter. In Mexico she won gold in the 200 meter, totaling seven Olympic medals.