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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.
TV movie on American and Russian athletes at Moscow Olympics who fall in love. Stade 81 a.k.a. Starting Blocks: 1981 Documentary A short film documentary about the first Special Olympics. The First Olympics: Athens 1896: 1984 Drama TV mini-series about the origins of the Modern Olympics. 16 Days of Glory: 1986 Documentary
Patty Duke as a high school athlete who competes with boys. [10] Walk, Don't Run: 1966 Comedy Race walking Final film of Cary Grant, set during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. [11] The Games: 1970 Drama Marathon Ryan O'Neal and Michael Crawford as fictional distance runners. [12] The World's Greatest Athlete: 1973 Comedy Track
Films about Women's sports or female athletes of any age. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. C. Cheerleading films (1 C ...
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.
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.
The United States Women's National Team has had several athletes become icons since the 1990s. Most recently, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe have joined the likes of Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach as ...
She was selected as Australia's only female athlete at the 1960 Rome Paralympics. In 1967, she married Frank Hilton, whom she had met at the Northern Archers Club. [ 2 ] She worked as a shorthand typist until the birth of her twin girls, Nichole and Rachael, in 1970. [ 2 ]