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Ewa Janina Kłobukowska is a Polish former sprinter. She competed at the 1964 Olympics in the 4×100 m relay and 100 m sprint and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. She also won two gold and one silver medal at the 1966 European Athletics Championships. Kłobukowska set three world records, one in the 100 m and two in the 4×100 m relay. Kłobukowska was at one point considered to be the fastest woman in the world. The American Press made a statement, saying that nobody would beat Kłobukowska for the next 7–8 years following a race in Prague. Despite these successes and laurels, her records were annulled by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after a sex identification test in 1967 wrongly labeled her as not female. The test procedures were later determined to be inadequate.
Halina Sylwia Górecka is a retired Polish and German sprinter. At the Summer Olympics she competed for Poland in 1956, 1960 and 1964 and for West Germany in 1968. She won a bronze and a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay in 1960 and 1964, respectively. The Polish team set a world record in the 1964 final, but it was annulled after one teammate, Ewa Kłobukowska, failed a gender test in 1967.
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Czesław Kwieciński is a Polish wrestler who competed from 1964 to 1980 in the Summer Olympics. He was born in Romaškai, Lithuania. Kwieciński was a bronze medalist at the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics in wrestling in the 90 kg category (light-heavyweight). He married Ewa Gryziecka, a world record breaker in the javelin throw, and they had three children, settling in Gliwice.
Ewa Grajkowska-Stańko is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s. She finished sixth in the K-2 500 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
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Ewa Rydell is a Swedish former artistic gymnast who won two medals at the 1963 European Championships. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in the 11th and 8th place with the Swedish team, respectively. Her father Sven Rydell won a bronze medal in football at the 1924 Olympics.
Elżbieta Żebrowska was a Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles. Born in Warsaw, she was a gold medallist at the 1966 European Championships in Budapest in the 4 × 100 metres relay with Danuta Straszyńska, Irena Kirszenstein and Ewa Kłobukowska, and won the bronze medal in the 80 metres hurdles. She finished seventh in the final of the 80 metres hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City in 10.6 seconds. Żebrowska died on 23 December 2021, at the age of 76.
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