Ewa Kłobukowska
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 Ewa Kłobukowska running the 4x100 relay in 1964 |
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Competitor for  Poland |
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| Women’s Athletics | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 1964 Tokyo | 4x100 m relay |
| Bronze | 1964 Tokyo | 100 m |
| European Championships | ||
| Gold | 1966 Budapest | 4x100 m relay |
| Gold | 1966 Budapest | 100 m |
| Silver | 1966 Budapest | 200 m |
Ewa Kłobukowska (born 1 October 1946 in Warsaw, Poland) is a former Polish sprinter.
She won the gold medal in the women's 4x100 m relay and the bronze medal in the women's 100 m sprint at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
In 1965 in Prague she set a world record in the 100 m sprint with the time 11.1 s.
In 1966 at the European Athletics Championships in Budapest she won two gold medals in the 100 m sprint and the 4x100 m relay and the silver medal in the 200 m sprint.
Kłobukowska was also the first Olympic athlete to fail a gender test.[1] Having registered "one chromosome too many", she failed an early form of the chromatin test in 1967 and was subsequently banned from competing in professional sports. The exact type of her chromosomal anomaly was never revealed.[2] It has been reported that a number of years later she became pregnant and gave birth to a son.[3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ "Sports gender controversies". Daily Telegraph. 2009--08-20. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/6061375/Sports-gender-controversies.html. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- ^ Sloane, Ethel. Biology of Women (2001) 4th edition, Cengage Learning p159
- ^ Patricia Warren. "The Rise and Fall of Gender Testing". outsports.com. http://web.archive.org/web/20041125093406/www.outsports.com/history/gendertesting.htm. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
- ^ David Smith. "Caster Semenya sex row: 'She's my little girl,' says father". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/aug/20/caster-semenya-sex-row-athletics. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
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