Petra as First Name

Petra Schersing            Origin/Culture/Country: German
Petra Schersing: a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. She won eight medals in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 m relay in international competitions.

Petra Van Staveren            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch
Petra Van Staveren: is a former swimmer from The Netherlands, who won the golden medal in the 100 metres breaststroke at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Petra Liebetanz            Origin/Culture/Country: German-American
Petra Liebetanz: Liebetanz was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of a German IT engineer working for IBM and an art loving mother. She attended the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium in Kaarst where the family lived in the 1970s. Interested in photography from a young age,

Petra N?mcovß            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech Republic
Petra N?mcovß: is a fashion model and; founder and president of Happy Hearts Fund. In December 2004, she was injured in Thailand by a tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; her then-fiancT, Simon Atlee, was killed in the tsunami.During the Indian Ocean earthquake of December 26, 2004, Petra was at the Khao Lak resort in Thailand with her main photographer and fiancT, Simon Atlee when the tsunami struck where they were staying. Initially, Atlee was presumed missing, but his body was found and identified on March 3, 2005, on the shores of Sumatra (near the epicenter of the earthquake that caused the Tsunami).

Petra Burka            Origin/Culture/Country: Canadian
Petra Burka: is a former world champion figure skater and now coach.In 1961, she was the Junior Canadian Skating Champion and the Senior Canadian Champion between 1964-1966. In 1965 she won the World Figure Skating Championships, the first Canadian to win the event since Barbara Ann Scott in 1947.

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