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IMAGINARY SUMMER OLYMPICS - Poll #42 - Athletics - Women's 200m; Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase; Swimming - Men's 200m Breaststroke; Judo - Women's Half Middleweight; Judo - Women's Middleweight


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IMAGINARY SUMMER OLYMPICS - Poll #42 - Athletics - Women's 200m; Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase; Swimming - Men's 200m Breaststroke; Judo - Women's Half Middleweight; Judo - Women's Middleweight  

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  1. 1. Event #181 - Athletics - Women's 200m

    • Fanny Blankers-Koen NED 1948
    • Marjorie Jackson AUS 1952
      0
    • Betty Cuthbert AUS 1956
      0
    • Wilma Rudolph USA 1960
    • Edith McGuire USA 1964
      0
    • Irena Szewińska POL 1968
    • Renate Stecher GDR / GER 1972
      0
    • Baerbel Eckert (Woeckel) GDR / GER 1976 1980
      0
    • Valerie Brisco-Hooks USA 1984
      0
    • Florence Griffith-Joyner USA 1988
      0
    • Gwen Torrence USA 1992
      0
    • Marie-Jose Perec FRA 1996
    • Pauline Davis-Thompson BAH 2000
      0
    • Veronica Campell (-Brown) JAM 2004 2008
    • Allyson Felix USA 2012
    • Elaine Thompson (-Herah) JAM 2016 2020
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT
  2. 2. Event #182 - Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase

    • Gulnara Samitova-Galkina RUS 2008
    • Habiba Ghribi TUN 2012
    • Ruth Jebet BRN 2016
      0
    • Peruth Chemutai UGA 2020
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT
  3. 3. Event #183 - Swimming - Men's 200m Breaststroke

    • Frederick Holman GBR 1908
      0
    • Walter Bathe GER 1912
      0
    • Hakan Malmrot SWE 1920
      0
    • Robert Skelton USA 1924
      0
    • Yoshiyuki Tsuruta JPN 1928 1932
    • Tetsuo Hamuro JPN 1936
      0
    • Joe Verdeur USA 1948
      0
    • John Davies AUS 1952
      0
    • Masaru Furukawa JPN 1956
      0
    • Bill Mulliken USA 1960
      0
    • Ian O'Brien AUS 1964
      0
    • Felipe Munoz MEX 1968
      0
    • John Hencken USA 1972
      0
    • David Wilkie GBR 1976
    • Robertas Zulpa URS / LTU 1980
    • Victor Davis CAN 1984
      0
    • Jozsef Szabo HUN 1988
      0
    • Mike Barrowman USA 1992
      0
    • Norbert Rozsa HUN 1996
      0
    • Domenico Fioravanti ITA 2000
    • Kosuke Kitajima JPN 2004 2008
    • Daniel Gyurta HUN 2012
    • Dmitriy Balandin KAZ 2016
      0
    • Zac Stubblety-Cook AUS 2020
      0
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT
      0
  4. 4. Event #184 - Judo - Women's Half Middleweight

    • Catherine Fleury FRA 1992
      0
    • Yuko Emoto JPN 1996
      0
    • Severine Vandenhende FRA 2000
      0
    • Ayumi Tanimoto JPN 2004 2008
    • Urska Zolnir SLO 2012
      0
    • Tina Trstenjak SLO 2016
    • Clarisse Agbegnenou FRA 2020
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT
  5. 5. Event #185 - Judo - Women's Middleweight

    • Odalis Reve CUB 1992
      0
    • Cho Min-sun KOR 1996
      0
    • Sibelis Veranes CUB 2000
    • Masae Ueno JPN 2004 2008
    • Lucie Decosse FRA 2012
    • Haruka Tachimoto JPN 2016
    • Chizuru Arai JPN 2020
    • I WILL PASS THIS EVENT

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  • Poll closed on 11/16/2022 at 07:00 PM

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OK, these are the most difficult selections so far

 

Athletics - Women's 200m

I won't vote for the GDR runners or Flo-Jo because of the doubts everybody has about their integrity.

So that leaves the four earliest winners, the three most recent champions and Szewińska of Poland.

I was tempted to vote for Szewińska but in the end I went for Wilma Rudolph who dominated the Rome Olympics.

 

Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase

Chemutai because the event was much stronger in 2021 than previous Olympics

 

Swimming - Men's 200m Breaststroke

I might be biased here. ;)

Usually I go for repeat champions like Kitajima but in this case David Wilkie's performance was so damn good in 1976 I can't ignore it.

The Americans dominated men's swimming in Montreal, winning all but one gold medal, and reigning champ John Hencken broke the world record by nearly a second. Unfortunately for him, Wilkie broke the world record by three seconds. It's one of the greatest performances in Olympic swimming.

 

Judo - Women's Half Middleweight

Judo - Women's Middleweight

And I go back to favouring repeat champions again.

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@Dragon I found your old post here. Yes, you have invented this whole thing :-) Thanks for an idea!

 

And thanks for bringing up stories like David Wilkie 1976 win. That's what I was hoping for, that we will remind ourselves some less popular and less known olympic stories!

 

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Athletics, women's 200m...I agree with @Dragon and I won't take into any consideration Flo-Jo and the East Germany's women, I was also tempted to go with Wilma Rudolph for all she represents (not only on the track), but in the end I feel I have to choose :JAM Elaine Thompson-Hera, hoping not to have to regret this choice in a few years.

 

Athletics, women's 3000m SC...once again, I agree with @Dragon...the Tokyo race was just on another level, so I go with :UGA Peruth Chemutai.

 

Swimming, men's 200m Breaststroke...here I'm also biased, therefore my pick is :ITA Domenico Fioravanti, the first man in history to double up 100m and 200m Breast in the same Olympics (only Kitajima did the same...and he did it twice). And if it wasn't for the doctors that ended prematurely his career, who knows?

 

Judo, women's Half-Middleweights (currently -63kg)...this is a no brainer, :FRA Clarisse Agbegnenou is surely the best judo player ever in this class (5 world titles, 5 european titles and so many international tournaments) and Tokyo was the apotheosis of an amzing career.

 

Judo, women's Middleweights (currently -70kg)...difficult choice...

so, I also have to go with the only woman who repeated herself in this weight class, :JPN Masae Ueno

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Well, the biggest problem for me now is that I would like to continue with some polls about some popular team events, but there was USSR team winning at least one gold in each of them.

 

As I count all the medals to the nowadays NOCs , i think in these events the medals will need to be counted to Russia as majority of the team members of USSR teams were Russian. I will try to count it, how many Ukrainians, Armenians etc. were there and if majority will be other than Russians, I will change it. Like in rowing, men’s Yugoslavian fours team was all Croatian, not Serbian.

 

So next poll or two are all about team sports… Stay tuned.

Edited by rafalgorka

 

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Results

 

ATHLETICS - Women's 200m

 

1. Elaine Thompson-Herah JAM

2. Marie-Jose Perec FRA (T)

3. Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM (T)

 

ATHLETICS - Women's 3000m Steeplechase

 

1. Peruth Chemutai UGA

2. Habiba Ghribi TUN

3. Gulnara Samitova-Galkina RUS

 

SWIMMING - Men's 200m Breaststroke

 

1. Kosuke Kitajima JPN

2. Daniel Gyurta HUN (T)

3. David Wilkie GBR (T)

 

JUDO - Women's Half Middleweight

 

1. Clarisse Agbegnenou FRA

2. Ayumi Tanimoto JPN

3. Tina Trstenjak SLO

3. Severine Vandenhende FRA* (T)

 

JUDO - Women's Middleweight

 

1. Masae Ueno JPN

2. Lucie Decosse FRA (T)

3. Chizuru Arai JPN (T)

3. Sibelis Veranes CUB (T)

 

Thanks for voting!

 

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