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Lillian Barbara Board, MBE (13 December 1948 – 26 December 1970) was a British athlete. She won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens.
As an Olympic champion in the early 1960s, Rudolph was among the most highly visible black women in America and abroad. She became a role model for black and female athletes; her Olympic successes helped elevate women's track and field in the United States. Rudolph is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer.
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 34 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 10 by women. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 73 countries. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 73 countries.
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 ...
Her fame increased markedly when in 1965 she was appointed captain of the San Francisco Bay Bombers. She appeared on 19 consecutive all-star teams in that sport, and was the highest-paid female athlete in the 1960s [2] and 1970s. Joan usually skated as the distaff heroine of the sport, no matter what team she appeared with.
September 1, 1960 (heats and quarterfinals) September 2, 1960 (semifinals and final) Medalists; Wilma Rudolph ... Athlete Nation Time Notes 1: Giuseppina Leone
1960s in women's winter sports (9 C) This page was last edited on 2 August 2020, at 15:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, she represented Great Britain in the women's 800 metres. Perkins finished second behind Joy Jordan at the 1962 WAAA Championships [8] and shortly afterwards represented England in the 880 yards at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia. [9] [10]