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    Emil Zátopek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɛmɪl ˈzaːtopɛk] ; 19 September 1922 – 21 November 2000) was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three...
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  • orienteering competitor Emil Wojtaszek (1927–2017), Polish politician Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), Czech long distance runner Emil Zsigmondy (1861–1885),...
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  • Zátopek is a 2021 Czech biographical film about Emil Zátopek. It is directed by David Ondříček and stars Václav Neužil. It was selected as the Czech entry...
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  • Legend. This award has been called The Emil Zátopek Award since 2001, after the first chosen legend, runner Emil Zátopek. Since 2002, Czech Foundation of the...
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    Olympic Congress. The event was won by Emil Zátopek of Czechoslovakia, the nation's first Olympic marathon medal. Zátopek completed a long distance triple that...
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    The Škoda 109E locomotive (also marketed as Emil Zátopek locomotive) was originally conceived in 2004 and designed for operation in Austria, Germany, Hungary...
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    javelin at the 1952 Summer Olympics (only an hour after her husband, Emil Zátopek, won the 5,000 m), and the silver medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics....
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    and the first for 20 years, following in the footsteps of the Czech Emil Zátopek in 1950, Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak of Poland in 1958, Finland's Juha Vaatainen...
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     Emil Zátopek (TCH) August 4, 1950 Turku, Finland 29:01.6  Emil Zátopek (TCH) November 1, 1953 Stara Boleslav, Czech Republic 28:54.2  Emil Zátopek (TCH)...
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    title twice: Paavo Nurmi became the first in 1928 and he was followed by Emil Zátopek, Lasse Virén, Haile Gebrselassie, Kenenisa Bekele and Mo Farah. Two women...
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    Olympics, joining fellow Finn Hannes Kolehmainen (1912), Czechoslovakia's Emil Zátopek (1952) and Russian Vladimir Kuts (1956). After them, Miruts Yifter (1980)...
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    known for the Athletics Club of Emil Zátopek Kopřivnice. Like the local stadium, the club also bears the name of Emil Zátopek, a local native who is one of...
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  • Finland 13:58.2  Gunder Hägg (SWE) 1942-09-20 Gothenburg, Sweden 13:57.2  Emil Zátopek (TCH) 1954-05-30 Paris, France 13:56.6  Vladimir Kuts (URS) 1954-08-29...
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  • athlete to run more than 20 kilometers in one hour was Emil Zátopek, in September 1951. Zátopek also set the 20,000 meters world record in the same race...
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    were the legendary Czech couple and Olympic athletics gold medalists Emil Zátopek and Dana Zátopková. They had planned for a tiny mid-week wedding, but...
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    1938: Ilmari Salminen (FIN) 1946: Viljo Heino (FIN) 1950: Emil Zátopek (TCH) 1954: Emil Zátopek (TCH) 1958: Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL) 1962: Pyotr Bolotnikov...
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    international success came in 1954, when he defeated the favourites – Emil Zátopek and Christopher Chataway – in the 5000 m at the European Championships...
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    the Wembley Stadium on 31 July, behind the Czechoslovak runner Emil Zátopek. Zátopek was dominant and lapped all competitors bar Mimoun and bronze medallist...
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    Kenenisa joined another elite group of athletes: Hannes Kolehmainen (1912), Emil Zátopek (1952), Vladimir Kuts (1956), Lasse Virén (twice, in 1972 and 1976) and...
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    included defending champion Emil Zátopek of Czechoslovakia and fifth-place finisher Veikko Karvonen of Finland. Zátopek's primary challenger was Alain...
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    1948 London details Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia Alain Mimoun  France Bertil Albertsson  Sweden 1952 Helsinki details Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia Alain...
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    Richards  Great Britain Étienne Gailly  Belgium 1952 Helsinki details Emil Zátopek  Czechoslovakia Reinaldo Gorno  Argentina Gustaf Jansson  Sweden 1956...
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    upset by Billy Mills, and never won an Olympic gold medal. However, Emil Zátopek gave him one of his own gold medals, which Clarke described as one of...
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  • voices is Eva, a worker in a Bata factory in Partizánske, Slovakia. Emil Zátopek worked in a Bata factory in Zlín. Bata-ville: We are not afraid of the...
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    of 2:21:23, which was faster than the existing Olympic record held by Emil Zátopek. Niskanen entered Abebe Bikila and Abebe Wakgira in the marathon at the...
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    Freud Edmund Husserl Alphonse Mucha Adolf Loos Tomáš Baťa Kurt Gödel Emil Zátopek Milan Kundera Ivan Lendl Notable people from Moravia include (in order...
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  • (plant), a legume genus Emil Zátopek, athlete from Czechoslovakia Zátopek (film), a 2021 Czech film about him Lukáš Zátopek, Czech ice hockey player...
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    Gaston Reiff became the Olympic champion ahead of the Czechoslovakian Emil Zátopek. Willem Slijkhuis from the Netherlands won bronze. Prior to the competition...
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  • a marathon in less than three hours with a time of 2:59:10 in 2003. Emil Zátopek, winner of one silver and four gold medals at the 1948 Olympics and 1952...
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    Hossa, Miroslav Šatan and Pavol Demitra all come from Czechoslovakia. Emil Zátopek, winner of four Olympic gold medals in athletics, is considered one of...
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