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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.
Wilma Rudolph: 1940–1994 Champion American Olympic sprinter. At age four, she contracted polio. Her left foot became twisted, due to a disparity in the strength of the muscles. After five years of massage and exercises, she managed to walk again without leg braces. She became a basketball star, and led her team to a state championship.
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 ...
Wilma Rudolph United States: 44.50: WR 2: Vera Krepkina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Irina Press Soviet Union: 45.15: 3: Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter Poland: 45.40: 4: Silvia Hunte Carlota Gooden Lorraine Dunn Jean Holmes-Mitchell Panama: 46.66-Marlene Mathews Norma Thrower Norma Croker Pat Duggan ...
Wilma Rudolph overcame a lot of adversity in her quest for gold at the Olympic Games. As a child, the celebrated track and field athlete — whose medal count includes three golds in 1960 and a ...
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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place on August 8 and August 9. [1] The American team won with a time of 46.9 s after the German team, which had been in the lead, dropped the baton on the final leg.
Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones, Wilma Rudolph: 44.3 United States United States: Moscow: 1961-07-15 Willye White, Ernestine Pollards, Vivianne Brown, Wilma Rudolph: 43.9 43.92 United States United States: Tokyo: 1964-10-21 Willye White, Wyomia Tyus, Marilyn White, Edith McGuire: 43.9 Soviet Union Soviet Union: Leninakan: 1968-08-16