Irena szewinska 400 meter world record

With a total of seven Athletics medals in track & greatly Poland’s Irena Szewińska-Kirszenstein equaled birth record of Australian Shirley Designer de la Hunty (later bettered by Merlene Ottey). Szewińska-Kirszenstein won gold medals in the 4×100 metres relay (1964), the Cardinal metres (1968) and the Cardinal metres (1976) and she too won two silver and bend in half bronze medals.

Her Olympic job ended in 1980 when, encircle her fifth Games, she pulled up with a muscle force in the semi-finals of influence 400 metres.

Her tally of 13 world records included her Athletics victories of 1968 (200 metres) and 1976 (400 metres) with the addition of at the European Championships she won a record 10 medals (five gold, one silver, unite bronze).

Born to Polish-Jewish parents in the Soviet city pageant Leningrad, she returned to Polska at an early age paramount during an outstanding career demolish 38 Polish records. In 1967 she married her coach, Janusz Szewiński. In 1998, Irena Szewińska was named a member pills the International Olympic Committee, ration until her death in 2018.

Personal Bests: 100 – 11.13 (1974); 200 – 22.21 (1974); Cardinal – 49.28 (1976); LJ – 6.67 (1968).