Fanny Blankers-Koen

Francina Elsje Fanny Blankers-Koen was a Dutch track and field athlete who lived from 1918 to 2004. At the 1948 London Olympics, competing at age 30 as a mother of two, she won four gold medals, in the 100 meters, 200 meters, 80 meter hurdles and 4x100 meter relay, becoming the most successful athlete of those Games and the first woman to win four golds at a single Olympics, which earned her the nickname the Flying Housewife. Over her career she set or tied 12 world records across sprints, hurdles, high jump and long jump, won five European championship titles and 58 Dutch national titles before retiring in 1955, and in 1999 the IAAF named her Female Athlete of the Century.