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Diane Roberta Gerace (born October 26, 1943) is a retired female world champion
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, who represented her native country at the
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in Tokyo, Japan. Competing with an injured ankle she finished in fifth place in the world. She also finished 15th in the pentathlon. Gerace has held the Canadian Track and Field Records in Shot-put, Broad Jump, High Jump, Pentathlon and in 1964 the World Indoor Record in High Jump. At the Canadian Olympic Trials in August 1964, Gerace was the gold medalist and won the Women's Aggregate Trophy for Most Outstanding Athlete.
She claimed the silver medal at the
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Born in
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, she was coached by Willi Krause, who also put Gerry Moro on the 1964 Olympic team in the pole vault and decathlon. She is the mother of actor and former NBA player
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and international model and actress Jeanene Fox famous around the world for her athletically starring role in the
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(a brand of men's body spray) "Billions" commercial and famous in Italy for her role as "La Filippona" on the popular Italian satirical television program
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