[DOC] [TLE] Wilma Rudolph - Wikipedia [PAR] Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940  November 12, 1994) was an 
American track and ... Rudolph contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio 
virus) at age four. ... At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome she won three 
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became the first American woman to win three gold ... Stricken with double 
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Question: Having overcome childhood polio that crippled a leg, she won 3 sprint gold medals in the 1960 Olympics
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