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Yelena Gorchakova
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Yelena Yegorovna Gorchakova was born on May 17, 1933. Yelena is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the Javelin. Gorchakova trained at Burevestnik in Moscow. She competed for the USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the Javelin where she won the bronze medal.
She repeated this bronze medal 12 years later in the 1964 Games in Tokyo. This was a disappointing result for her, as in the qualification she set the new World Record at 62 meter 40 centimeter that was beaten only eight years later.
Yelena Yegorovna with all her dedication and devotion in her play achieved many goals in her overall athletic career. She had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by just giving some extra hard work and efforts. She never lost hope in herself and always fought hard to achieve her goal. She is still remembered as one of the best athletes in the history of Olympics.
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