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Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio 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. Rudolph competed in the 200-meter dash and won a bronze medal ...
Wilma Rudolph United States: Dorothy Hyman Great Britain: Giuseppina Leone Italy: 200 m details: Wilma Rudolph United States: Jutta Heine United Team of Germany: Dorothy Hyman Great Britain: 800 m details: Lyudmila Shevtsova Soviet Union: Brenda Jones Australia: Ursula Donath United Team of Germany: 80 m hurdles details: Irina Press Soviet ...
Triple jump details: Józef Szmidt Poland: 16.81 m (OR) Vladimir Goryaev Soviet Union: 16.63 m Vitold Kreyer Soviet Union: 16.43 m Shot put details: Bill Nieder United States: 19.68 m (OR) Parry O'Brien United States: 19.11 m Dallas Long United States: 19.01 m Discus throw details: Al Oerter United States: 59.18 m (OR) Rink Babka United States ...
Wilma Rudolph was never supposed to walk again. Less than a decade later, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics. Women's History Month: Wilma Rudolph's ...
The 1960 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees ranked by the number of medals won during the 1960 Summer Olympics, held in Rome, Italy from August 25 to September 11, 1960. A total of 5,338 athletes from 83 countries participated in these Games, competing in 150 events in 17 sports. [1]
The 1960 Summer Olympics (Italian: Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 (Italian: Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy.
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Key: OR = Olympic record . Note: For the only time in Olympic sprint history, every finalist ran their fastest time for the event in the heats and their slowest time in the final, owing to rain, head winds and the schedule where the finalists had less than 90 minutes rest between the semi-final and final, instead of the usual entire day.