http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/iolanda-balas-1.html
http://www.wnsstamps.ch/en/stamps?search%5Blike%5D=RO105.04
http://www.wnsstamps.ch/en/stamps?search%5Blike%5D=RO105.04
1.74 m | Thelma Hopkins (GBR) | 5 May 1956 | Belfast[1] |
1.75 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 14 July 1956 | Bucharest[1] |
1.76 m | Mildred McDaniel (USA) | 1 December 1956 | Melbourne[1] |
1.76 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 13 October 1957 | Bucharest[1] |
1.77 m | Zheng Fengrong (CHN) | 17 November 1957 | Beijing[1] |
1.78 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 7 June 1958 | Bucharest[1] |
1.80 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 22 June 1958 | Cluj-Napoca[1] |
1.81 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 31 July 1958 | Poiana Brasov[1] |
1.82 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 4 October 1958 | Bucharest[1] |
1.83 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 18 October 1958 | Bucharest[1] |
1.84 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 21 September 1959 | Bucharest[1] |
1.85 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 6 June 1960 | Bucharest[1] |
1.86 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 10 July 1960 | Bucharest[1] |
1.87 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 15 April 1961 | Bucharest[1] |
1.88 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 18 June 1961 | Warsaw[1] |
1.90 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 8 July 1961 | Budapest[1] |
1.91 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | 16 July 1961 | Sofia[1] |
1.92 m | Ilona Gusenbauer (AUT) | 4 September 1971 | Vienna[1] |
Her last world record remained unbeaten for 10 years! (1961 to 1971)
She was born in Timișoara, Romania.
Close to Freidorf, where Johnny Weissmuller (the best Tarzan actor) was born.
He was an even MORE domineering sports champion.
As an amateur swimmer, HE NEVER LOST A RACE!
"Johnny Weissmuller (born Johann Peter Weißmüller; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in movies. Weissmuller was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal [water polo]. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs's ape man Tarzan in films, a role he played in twelve motion pictures. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known. His character's distinctive, ululating Tarzan yell is still often used in films."
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When looking at the image on the stamp: I think, this is impossible how she does this! Watching a high jumper in action, well it is just fluid motion.
ReplyDeletethanks for participating.
PPS: I just read your older post on Michelle Obama, and the USPS policies surrounding (dead) people on stamps: I heard this policy recently changed. Is this true?
ReplyDeleteThat's a long time to be undefeated.
ReplyDelete@viridian: yes, the policy was changed recently. But bureaucracy will still prevail, against many possible subjects of such stamps.
ReplyDeleteI remember her and Thelma Hopkins but never knew she made it to a stamp. She held that record a long time too.
ReplyDeleteWow, that was a pretty impressive steady climb with her world records!
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