Wilma Rudolph's Life And Accomplishments

Wilma Rudolph, in full Wilma Glodean Rudolph, American sprinter, the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics. At the Olympic games, she took gold in the 100-metre dash, in the 200-metre dash, and as a member of the 4 by 1 100-metre relay team, which had set a world record of 44.0. At age 16 she competed in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, captivating a bronze medal in the 4 by 1 100-metre relay race. After being a humble runner, Rudolph was an assistant director for a youth club in Chicago during the 1960s to develop girls ' track-and-field teams, and subsequently she sponsored running nationally. 9 seconds for the 200-metre race. In 1960, beforehand the Olympic Games at Rome, she set

Resilient Rudolph had not ever even caught of the Olympics until high school, she appeared the Olympic trials in Seattle and capable for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia at the age of sixteen, as a high school junior. For myself, Rudolph was captivated thru her gold medals since she had recurrent the achievement of another of her heroes, famed African American athlete Jesse Owens, who won three gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Germany, in front of notoriously racist Nazi officials. At Melbourne, she was eradicated from the 200-meter event and did not make the final race, but she ran the third leg of the 4 × 100-meter relay and won a bronze medal. A journalist for Time magazine wrote, "Running for gold medal glory, Miss Rudolph frequently got away to good starts with her arms compelling in definitive style, then smoothly shifted gears to a graceful stride that made the rest of the pack seem to be agitating on a treadmill. '" And I absolved them right then and there… They passed my bronze medal around so that everyone could touch, feel and see what an Olympic medal is like. At the trials, she set a world record in the 200-meter race that would stand for the following eight years, and qualified for the Olympic team in the 100 meter, 200 meter, and 4 × 100 relay. Per Great Women in Sports, she told a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, "I remember going back to my high school this particular day with the bronze medal and all the kids that I disliked so much or thought I disliked … put up this immense huge banner: 'Welcome Home Wilma. The winners of the encounter were invited to the Olympic Trials, held two weeks later at Texas Christian University.