by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 1, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Most runners today still think that Emil Zatopek was the greatest runner who ever lived. At the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, he won three gold medals in the 5,000 meters, the 10,000 meters and marathon, all in Olympic and world record times, a feat that will probably...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 21, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Babe Didrikson Zaharias was named the best female athlete of the 20th century by the Associated Press. In the 1932 Olympics, she became the only track and field athlete, male or female, ever to win individual Olympic medals in running, throwing and jumping...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 7, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Rafer Johnson was one of America’s greatest athletes. He was the world record holder and 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in the 1956 Olympics and also gold in the 1955 Pan American Games. He was the star of his Kingsburg High...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 28, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Dick Buerkle ran 3:54.93 to break the world record in the men’s indoor mile in 1978, and earned places on the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic teams. From age 12 onward, he had suffered considerable taunting from his classmates because he lost all the hair on his head...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 9, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Eva Szekely was brought up in Nazi-occupied Hungary in the 1930s and 1940s. Six million Jews were killed during the holocaust in Europe, including 70 percent of the Jewish population in Hungary. When she was 17, in the winter of 1944, members of Hungary’s fascist...
