Olga Fikotova Connolly, who won a gold medal in track and field for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, watched Harold Connolly of the United States win one the next day, and, in March 1957, married him as the highlight of a storybook Cold War romance, died on April 12 in Costa Mesa, Calif. She was 91.
The cause was breast cancer, her daughter Merja Connolly-Freund said. She died in her son Jim’s home, where she had been receiving hospice care, Ms. Connolly-Freund said.
The governing body European Athletics said Olga Connolly had been the last living female gold medalist from the Melbourne Games.