Olga Fikotová
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Olga Fikotová (13 November 1932 in Praha) is a Czechoslovakian athlete who competed mainly in the Discus.
She competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the Discus where she won the gold medal ahead of Soviet pair Irina Beglyakova and Nina Ponmaryova.
During the games she fell in love with the American athlete Harold Connolly who won the hammer throw. The couple married after the Olympics but divorced in 1973. Fikotova took part in every Olympics till 1972.
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