AFP, Warsaw :
Polish track star Irena Szewinska, who won Olympic gold medals in three different events, died on Friday night aged 72, her husband and former coach Janusz Szewinski said.
“Irena died around 2030 in Warsaw at the military hospital,” Szewinski told Polish news agency PAP, explaining that she had been suffering from cancer.
“She had been fighting her illness for a long time, but felt relatively well in recent days.”
“Madame Irena Szewinska has left us – the first lady of Polish sport,” tweeted Polish president Andrzej Duda.
