What is Irena Szewińska?
[[File:Irena Szewinska 2012.jpg|thumb|200px|Szewinska (2012)]] '''Irena Szewińska''', [[née]] '''Kirszenstein''' (<small>Polish pronunciation:</small> {{IPAc-pl|i|'|r|e|n|a|-|sz|e|'|w|i|ń|s|k|a}}; 24 May 1946 – 29 June 2018) was a Soviet-born Polish [[Sprint (running)|sprinter]]. She was born in [[Leningrad]]. She was [[Jew]]ish.<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Siegman|title=Jewish sports legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame|publisher=Brassey's|pages= 176–177, 252–253|year=2000|isbn=1-57488-284-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1jBV8GvioMUC&pg=PA176}}</ref> She was the only athlete in history, male or female, to have held the [[world record]] in the 100m, the 200m and the 400m.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/sprints-legend-irena-szewinska-dies-100302 |title=Multiple Olympic medallist and world record-breaker from Poland passes away |access-date=2018-06-30}}</ref> She won three gold medals at the [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Olympics in Tokyo]], [[1968 Summer Olympics|1968 Olympics in Mexico City]] and at the [[1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Olympics in Montreal]]. She also won two Olympic silver medals in 1964 and two Olympic bronze medals in 1968 and [[1972 Summer Olympics|1972]]. Szewińska died at a military hospital in [[Warsaw]] on 29 June 2018 from [[endometrial cancer]] at the age of 72.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pap.pl/en/news/news,1476703,polish-athletics-champion-irena-szewinska-dies-aged-72.html |title=Polish athletics champion Irena Szewińska dies aged 72 |access-date=2018-06-30 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/first-lady-polish-sport-irena-szewinska-dies-72-100636692--spt.html?guccounter=1 |title='First lady of Polish sport' Irena Szewinska dies at 72 |access-date=2018-06-30}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} * [http://www.jewsinsports.org/ Jews in Sports] * [http://www.worldwhoswho.com/views/entry.html?id=kir-0543 KIRSZENSTEIN-SZE