Mia Gommers
![]() Mia Gommers in 1969 | |
Personal information | |
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Born | Stein, Limburg, the Netherlands | 26 September 1939
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Club | Unitas, Sittard |
Medal record |
Maria ("Mia") Francisca Philomena Hoogakker-Gommers (born 26 September 1939) is a retired Dutch athlete, who competed mainly in the 800 metres. She was the second female world record-holder over 1500 metres in October 1967 at Sittard (The Netherlands), breaking the record of Anne Smith, who set the record in June of that year, by almost two seconds.[1]
Gommers competed for The Netherlands in the 1968 Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the 800 metres, where she won the bronze medal.[2]
On 14 June 1969 she also broke Smith's world record on the mile in an event in Leicester. At the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens on 20 September 1969, she ran below Paola Pigni's new 1500 m record, but was beaten to the finish by Jaroslava Jehlickova. In 1969 she was chosen the Dutch female sportsperson of the year.
References
- ^ World record progression at athletix.org[permanent dead link]
- ^ Mia Gommers. sports-reference.com
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Dutch female middle-distance runners
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Former world record holders in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic athletes of the Netherlands
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- People from Stein, Limburg
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Dutch athletics biography stubs