Zola Budd

Zola Pieterse, still better known by her maiden name of Zola Budd (born May 26, 1966 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State in South Africa) is a former Olympic track and field competitor who, within a period of less than three years, twice broke the world record in the women's 5,000 meters, and twice was the women's winner at the World Cross Country Championships. Budd's career as a pioneer in women's distance running was as unusual as it was meteoric, in that she trained and raced barefoot. However her achievements on the track were often overshadowed by the political controversy she aroused during her short stay in Great Britain.

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