Wilma Rudolph biography

 Wilma Rudolph biography

 Wilma Rudolph, in full Wilma Glodean Rudolph, (born June 23, 1940, St. Bethlehem, close to Clarksville, Tennessee, U.S.—died November 12, 1994, Brentwood, Tennessee), American sprinter, the primary American lady to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics.

Rudolph was sickly as a baby and couldn't stroll with out an orthopedic shoe till she was 11 years previous. Her willpower to compete, nevertheless, made her a star basketball participant and sprinter throughout highschool in Clarksville, Tennessee. She attended Tennessee State University from 1957 to 1961. At age 16 she competed within the 1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia, successful a bronze medal within the 4 × 100-metre relay race. In 1960, earlier than the Olympic Games at Rome, she set a world file of twenty-two.9 seconds for the 200-metre race. In the Games themselves she received gold medals within the 100-metre sprint (tying the world file: 11.3 seconds), within the 200-metre sprint, and as a member of the 4 × 100-metre relay crew, which had set a world file of 44.4 seconds in a semifinal race. She was Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) 100-yard-dash champion (1959–62).

Her strikingly fluid fashion made Rudolph a specific favorite with spectators and journalists. She received the AAU’s 1961 Sullivan Award because the yr’s excellent newbie athlete. After retiring as a runner, Rudolph was an assistant director for a youth basis in Chicago through the Nineteen Sixties to develop women’ track-and-field groups, and thereafter she promoted working nationally. She was named to the National Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1974, the International Sports Hall of Fame in 1980, and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983, within the first group of inductees. Her autobiography, Wilma, was printed in 1977.