Wilma Rudolph

**Wilma Rudolph**  foi una atleta d'Estaos Xuníos.

Yera la ventena de 22 hermanos d'una familia probe. Neña prematura, tuvo una doble neumonía a los cuatro años, y con seis, un ataque de poliomielitis dexó-y paralizada una pierna mientres dellos años. A pesar d'eso, el so tesón llevólu a superar estes contrariedaes, y foi una bona xugadora de baloncestu y corredora nel institutu. 

Compitió nes eliminatories pa clasificar a los Xuegos Olímpicos de Melbourne en 1956, llogrando una plaza nel equipu olímpicu gracies a la so segunda plaza nos 200 metros llisos. Sicasí, cayó esaniciada na so serie, al quedar tercera na so serie tres la soviética María L. Itkina y l'alemana Kohler. Participó nel relevu de 4 x 100, onde l'equipu d'Estaos Xuníos quedó en tercer posición, tres Australia y el Reinu Xuníu.

Rudolph ganó en 1957 el campeonatu nacional *junior* de 75 y 100 yardes. La maternidá atayó la so progresión en 1958. En 1960 ganó nes eliminatories de seleición pa los Xuegos Olímpicos de Roma 1960, les pruebes de 100 y 200 metros llisos. Nesos xuegos olímpicos llogró la medaya d'oru en dambes pruebes, según tamién nel relevu curtiu.
En 1961 en Moscú igualó'l récor mundial de los 100 metros llisos con 11,3 y romper en Stuttgart cuatro díes más tarde con 11,2 convirtiéndose na muyer más rápida del mundu.

La so gracia y guapura, según l'axilidá valiéron-y el nomatu de "*La gacela Negra*". Retirar a finales de 1962, con 22 años, y morrió en 1994 d'un tumor cerebral. 

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[[Wilma Rudolph
African American athlete
She is the fastest runner in the world

Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph 1960.jpg
Rudolph in 1960
Personal information
Full name Wilma Glodean Rudolph[1]
Nickname(s) Skeeter[2]
The Black Gazelle
The Tornado
The Black Pearl
Born June 23, 1940
Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee, United States
Died November 12, 1994 (aged 54)
Brentwood, Tennessee, United States
Residence Nashville
Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)[1]
Weight 130 lb (59 kg)[1]
Sport
Sport Track and field
Club TSU Tigerbelles, Nashville
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome 100 m
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome 200 m
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Melbourne 4×100 m relay
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American track and field sprinter who competed in the 100 and 200 meters dash. Rudolph was acclaimed the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.[3]

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games.[4][5][6][7] A track and field champion, she elevated women's track to a major presence in the United States. As a member of the black community, she is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer. Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), Oscar Robertson, and Rafer Johnson, Rudolph became an international star due to the first worldwide television coverage of the Olympics that year.[8]

The upstart sprinter emerged from the 1960 Rome Olympics as "The Tornado, the fastest woman on earth".[9] The Italians nicknamed her La Gazzella Nera ("The Black Gazelle");[10] to the French she was La Perle Noire ("The Black Pearl").[11][12]

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