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"Babe Didrikson Zaharias's Legacy Fades", The New York Times, June 25, 2011; Babe Didrikson Zaharias – Note: Although this is the official site of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation, this site once contained a number of notable factual errors that have since been corrected. For example, it stated that she won all of the events she entered ...
Eva Dawes made the next height but was unable to make 1.62m leaving her with the bronze medal. The two American jumpers Jean Shiley and Babe Didrikson jumped evenly through the rest of the competition. Both cleared a new world record of 1.65 m (5 ft 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) on their first attempt and then missed at 1.67 m (5 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).
Taurasi is the all-time leader for the most consecutive gold medal wins in basketball. Five other individuals, all American, have won three golds – Katie Smith , Dawn Staley , Sheryl Swoopes , Seimone Augustus , and Breanna Stewart – and 23 other players, not including the previously mentioned, have won three medals.
In 1932, soon after winning three medals at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, track star Mildred "Babe" Didrikson appeared in an automobile advertisement, and the Brundage-led AAU quickly suspended her amateur status. Didrikson objected that she had not been paid and that regardless, the rules for maintaining amateur status were overcomplex.
Babe Didrikson is one of the leaders, innovators, activists, entertainers, athletes and artists who defined the last century.
Multi-sport American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias was breaking boundaries in sports in the early 1900s. She was voted the Greatest Female Athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the ...
Babe Didrikson: High jump — 1.65 Annette Rogers — 1.58 6 Jean Shiley — 1.65 Lillian Copeland: Discus throw — 40.58 OR: Margaret Jenkins — 30.22 9 Ruth Osburn — 40.12 Babe Didrikson: Javelin throw — 43.69 OR: Nan Gindele — 37.95 5 Gloria Russell — 36.74 6
Team USA has dominated men's 5x5 basketball at the Olympics, winning 16 of 20 gold medals since the event made its debut as a medal sport in 1936.