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Oct 10, 2017 · Donna de Varona’s first Olympic Games came in 1960 when she was only 13. Four years later, the swimmer won two gold medals. At that time, college scholarships for women athletes didn’t exist ...
May 31, 2023 · La destacabilísima carrera de Donna de Varona como nadadora quizás se vea superada por su labor como activista en favor de la igualdad de género en el deporte. Podríamos dividir su interesante y fructífera vida en dos exitosas etapas en la que su carrera como nadadora conformaría la primera. Hablemos de ella: pese a que quedara última en la primera competición en la que participó, con ...
Miss deVarona won 37 individual national championship medals, including 18 golds and three national high point awards. She held world records in 8 long course events and American records in 10 short course events, which would have been world records if FINA still recognized 25 yard pool times as they did until 1957. Most of Donna’s world and ...
Feb 16, 2024 · She was born Joanna Crussie DeVarona on February 12, 1953 in San Francisco, younger sister to Olympic swimmer Donna de Varona. Her start came as a dancer rather than an actress, ...
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Donna de Varona (San Diego, 26 de abril de 1947) é uma ex-nadadora dos Estados Unidos, com ascendência mexicana e irlandesa. Ganhadora de duas medalhas de ouro nos Jogos Olímpicos de Tóquio em 1964. [1] Foi recordista mundial dos 200 metros medley entre 1961 e 1966, e dos 400 metros medley entre julho de 1960 e julho de 1962, e entre 1964 e ...
May 6, 2001 · Donna de Varona, an ultra-busy mother of two, was at Churchill Downs for yesterday's Kentucky Derby. Photo courtesy of Patti Longmire Somewhere along the line, Donna de Varona made the leap from ...
Dec 26, 2017 · Donna de Varona is a born fighter. At 13 she was the youngest athlete to have competed in the Olympics, the first female sportscaster in the United States and an activist for “clean” athletes ...
