Fanny Blankers-Koen

Four gold medals at London 1948 The first Olympics after World War II belonged to a 30-year-old Dutch mother of two. Fanny Blankers-Koen won the 100 meters, 200 meters, 80 meters hurdles and 4x100 meters relay, and women were then limited to three individual events, so the rules may have cost her more. Watch it for what it says about women's sport at the time: the most dominant athlete of those Games was a mother, and the event limits show how little room the Games then gave her.