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<p><strong>Plaque name: </strong>Memorial Van Damme</p>
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<p><strong>Location: </strong>Avenue de Marathon 135, Bruxelles, Belgium , 1020</p>
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<p><strong>Event discipline: </strong>One Mile</p>
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<p><strong>Plaque awarded: </strong>21/11/2019</p>
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<p><strong>Reason: </strong>Plaque categories - Legend and Competition</p>
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<p>Memorial Van Damme, Brussels, Belgium</p>
<p>At the 1976 European Indoor Championships in Munich, Belgian&nbsp;Ivo Van Damme&nbsp;took the 1500m gold medal.</p>
<p>&nbsp;That summer in Montreal, the 22-year-old Ivo raced to impressive Olympic silver medals at 800m and 1500m behind Alberto Juantorena and John Walker.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Tragically, Ivo died in a car crash that same year. &nbsp;In 1977, a group of Belgian sports writers led by Wilfred Meert organised the&nbsp;Memorial Van Damme&nbsp;meeting in his memory.</p>
<p>&nbsp;The meeting went on to part of the Golden Four, Golden League and today the Diamond League. I had the honour of setting the meeting's first world record in 1981.</p>
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<h3>Plaque categories - Legend and Competition</h3>
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<p><strong>Location: </strong>Avenue de Marathon 135, Bruxelles, Belgium , 1020</p>
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<p><strong>Plaque awarded: </strong>21/11/2019</p>
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Memorial Van Damme

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