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This list is not all-inclusive, and athletes may have been shown together with teams and groups, or on the sides, back, or front of the box. Most athletes appeared on the standard Wheaties box, while others appeared on the Honey Frosted Wheaties (HFW), Crispy Wheaties 'n' Raisins (CWR), Wheaties Energy Crunch (WEC), or Wheaties Fuel (WF) boxes.
1935 – First woman athlete depicted on a Wheaties box – Golfer and athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1936 – First African American athlete on a Wheaties box – Jesse Owens 1939 – First televised commercial sports broadcast sponsorship, of the 1939 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
She was the alternate captain of the 1998 Winter Olympics gold-medal winning United States Women's Hockey Team. In 1998, she was featured on a Wheaties box . She entered the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2011 and was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2014.
Forty years ago, it was a big deal when Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton became the first female athlete to be featured on the front of a Wheaties cereal box, a consumer-culture laurel reserved for ...
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Since highlighting track and field Olympian Jesse Owens, the first Black athlete to be featured on a Wheaties box in 1936, the brand has honored Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Serena Williams ...
The presence of Jerry Sandusky on this list of Wheaties athletes (in 2012, after he was indicted for numerous counts of child abuse) is an offensive prank--right? There's no chance General Mills put Sandusky on a box after his arrest; unless someone can supply a source for this it should be deleted. Frostfish 19:10, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
As she gets set to defend her U.S. Open title, Gauff is going to be on the cover of a limited-edition box of Wheaties, the cereal maker announced Tuesday. The U.S. Open begins next Monday. Gauff won the tournament in 2023 at age 19. That made her the youngest American champion at the event since Serena Williams in 1999.