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Nikolina Shtereva
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 and were held every four years except in 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to the World Wars. 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.
Nikolina Shtereva was born on January 21, 1955. She is a former middle distance runner from Bulgaria. Shtereva mainly competed in 800 metres, but she also won national titles in 1500 metres and 3000 meters. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada she won a silver medal over 800 metres behind Russian Tatyana Kazankina who won the gold but ahead of East German Elfi Zinn who won the bronze. She also competed at the 1980 Olympics, but finished seventh. At the European Indoor Championships she won gold medals in 1976 and 1979 and a bronze medal in 1981.
The desire to use her talents for the Glory and Honor of her God and Country propelled her in an attempt to excel at the highest level of sporting achievement to inspire future generations of her countrymen to do the same upholding the highest standards of patriotic fervor.
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