Personal information | |
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Nationality | Togolese |
Born | 29 November 1985 |
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Sport | Middle-distance running |
Event | 800 metres |
Direma Banasso (born 29 November 1985) is a Togolese middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. [1] She was the first woman to represent Togo at the Olympics. [2]
Anna "Annie" Hübler was a German pair skater, born in Munich. She was an Olympic champion and two-time World champion with skating partner Heinrich Burger.
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Sports Reference, LLC is an American sports statistics company that operates databases of several sports. They include Pro Football Reference for American football, Baseball Reference for baseball, Basketball Reference for basketball, Hockey Reference for ice hockey, FBref for association football (soccer), and pages for college football and basketball. Sports Reference also operate the online sports trivia game Immaculate Grid and the statistics-based subscription service Stathead. From 2008 to 2020 the Web site included Olympic Games statistics from the first Games to the most recent.
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