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The women's gymnastics team looked unified in striking dark blue tracksuits for their arrival in Rome during the 1960 Summer Olympics. George Silk - Getty Images 1960: Wilma Rudolph
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.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal; born 10 February 1940) is a British former track and field athlete. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.
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 ...
This category is for the sport of women's athletics in the decade 1960s. 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; ... 1960 in women's athletics (10 P) 1962 in women ...
The 1960s were wild. In a good way, of course. ... The aforementioned even became a symbol of social change as women chose shorter and edgier cuts and men grew out their locks to lengths that were ...
1960 – Captain of the women's section of the Rome Olympic team. 1964 – World Trophy for Australasia (Helms Award) [4] 1965 – Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to athletics in New South Wales [4] 1978–1980 – First female Trustee of the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust [41] 1983 – Olympic Order ...