Olga Fikotová
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Olga Fikotová (IPA: [ˈolɡa ˈfɪkotovaː]) (born November 13, 1932 in Praha) is a Czechoslovakian and later American 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. Olga Connolly took part in every Olympics till 1972 competing for the United States but without winning a further medal.
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