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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 and 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.
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 ...
A. Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay; Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 80 metres hurdles; Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres
1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. 0–9. 1960 in women's athletics (10 P)
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 ...
2012 – The 2012 Summer Olympics in London were the first Games in which women competed in all sports in the program, [323] and every participating country included female athletes. [324] [325] The U.S. Olympic team had more women than men for the first time — 269 female athletes to 261 men. [325]
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
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.