Inese Jaunzeme
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| Gold | 1956 Melbourne | Javelin | |
Inese Jaunzeme (Russian: Инеса Вилисовна Яунземе) (born May 21, 1932 in Pļaviņas) is a Latvian former athlete who competed mainly in javelin. She trained at Dynamo in Riga.
She competed for the USSR in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in javelin, and won the gold medal. She was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1957). Jaunzeme is also a Candidate of Medical Science, having defended her dissertation in 1969.
| Olympic champions in women's javelin throw |
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| 1932: Babe Didrikson | 1936: Tilly Fleischer | 1948: Herma Bauma | 1952: Dana Zátopková | 1956: Inese Jaunzeme | 1960: Elvīra Ozoliņa | 1964: Mihaela Peneş | 1968: Angéla Németh | 1972: Ruth Fuchs | 1976: Ruth Fuchs | 1980: María Colón | 1984: Tessa Sanderson | 1988: Petra Felke | 1992: Silke Renk | 1996: Heli Rantanen | 2000: Trine Hattestad | 2004: Osleidys Menéndez |
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