Emil Zátopek Emil Zátopek Emil Zátopek (; 19 September 1922 – 22 November 2000) was a Czechoslovak long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life. He was nicknamed the "Czech Locomotive". In 1954, Zátopek was the first runner to break the 29-minute barrier in the 10,000 metres. Three years earlier in 1951, he had broken the hour for running 20 km. He
Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell Carl Friedrich Justus Emil von Ibell (29 October 1780 – 6 October 1834) was a senior government official ("Amtmann") who famously survived an assassination attempt in 1819, and who ended up as president of the government in Hesse-Homburg which by this time was part of the German Confederation. The Ibell family had originated in France, but they were Protestants, and so following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 they left their homeland to build a new life in Germany. Carl Ibell was his parent's only recorded son, and their fourth recorded child,