But with the pressure of a hometown crowd came the familiarity of sliding on her hometown track, and she finished a mere one-hundredth of a ...
... won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the 1960 Rome Olympics as the first American woman win three track and field gold medals a ...
first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
Alice Coachman, 90, Dies; First Black Woman to Win Olympic Gold
In 1960, Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics.
Alice Coachman, a star track and field athlete at Tuskegee Institute,
Alice Coachman Davis, first black woman to win an Olympic gold, dies
Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at the same Olympic game. Her performance also earned her the title of ...
Wilma Rudolph was the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics .
Patterson -Tyler was among nine African American female track athletes to compete at ...