- Mia Gommers
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Mia Gommers Personal information Born September 26, 1939 Medal recordWomen's Athletics Competitor for Netherlands
Olympic Games Bronze 1968 Mexico City 800 metres European Championships Silver 1969 Athens 1.500 metres Maria ("Mia") Francisca Philomena Hoogakker-Gommers (born September 26, 1939 in Stein, Limburg) is a former 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 Rosemary 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.
On June 14, 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 September 20, 1969, she ran below Paola Pigni's new 1500 m record, but was beaten to the finish by Jaroslava Jehlickova.
References
- (Dutch) Dutch Olympic Committee
Records Preceded by
Anne Rosemary Smith
Women's 1500m World Record Holder
1967-10-24 – 1969-07-02Succeeded by
Paola Pigni
Awards Preceded by
Ada KokDutch Sportswoman of the Year
1969Succeeded by
Atje Keulen-DeelstraCategories:- 1939 births
- Living people
- Dutch athletes
- Middle distance runners
- Olympic athletes of the Netherlands
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- People from Limburg (Netherlands)
- Former world record holders in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Dutch athletics biography stubs
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