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      • Althea Gibson
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      • Sonja Henie
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      • Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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      • Annie Smith Peck
      • Wilma Rudolph
      • Junko Tabei
      • Lindsey Vonn
      • Kristi Yamaguchi
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      • Anita DeFrantz
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    • Shirley Chisholm
    • Pharaoh Cleopatra VII
    • Sarah Emma Edmonds
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    • Noor Inayat Khan
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    • Deborah Sampson
    • Trung Sisters
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Wilma Rudolph

June 23, 1940 - November 12, 1994
(Clarksville, TN - Brentwood, TN)

​"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose."

Remarkable Lives Revealed: Wilma Rudolph: Track and Field Champion
  • RUNNER
  • Overcame debilitating illness to become the FIRST American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics
  • The 20th of 22 kids(!!!), Rudolph contracted polio at age four, leaving her with a weak, twisted leg in a metal brace, and told by doctors that she would never walk again
  • Thanks to her family massaging her leg multiple times a day, as well as regular physical therapy treatments, she was eventually able to remove the brace
  • Not only did she walk just fine, she joined both the basketball and track teams at her school, winning every race she ran
  • Became more committed to her training after losing a high school track competition she'd been overly confident about winning
  • At her first Olympics, she was eliminated in the 200-meter trial, but helped her team win a bronze medal in the relay
  • Continued her training at Tennessee State, and set a new WORLD RECORD for the 200-meter race at the 1960 Olympic trials
  • Despite spraining her ankle the day before her first race, Rudolph set a WORLD RECORD for the 100-meter, and won gold medals in each of the three events she competed in
  • Upon returning home, she participated in Civil Rights protests in her hometown, demanding an end to racial segregation at restaurants and other public places
  • Retired from running in 1962 to become a coach and educator
  • Friend and mentor of Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • In her honor, the Women's Sports Foundation (founded by Billie Jean King) started the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award in 1996
  • Rudolph is often mistakenly cited as the first Black woman to win a gold medal -- in fact, that honor belongs to Alice Coachman
Bibliography: Allen, Kathy. Girls Race! Amazing Tales of Women in Sports. North Mankato: Capstone Press, 2014. Print.
Zuckerman, Gregory. Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports. New York: Philomel Books, 2018. Print.

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Biographies for Kids and Young Adults

Childhood of Famous Americans: Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Runner
Graphic Biographies: Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Track Star
(graphic novel format)
Remarkable Lives Revealed: Wilma Rudolph: Track and Field Champion
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
(picture book)
Little People, BIG DREAMS: Wilma Rudolph
(picture book)
When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball
(picture book)

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      • Cheryl Miller
      • Jackie Mitchell
      • Martina Navratilova
      • Annika Sorenstam
      • Toni Stone
      • Pat Summitt
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      • Keiko Fukuda
      • Tanni Grey-Thompson
      • Sonja Henie
      • Florence Griffith Joyner
      • Jackie Joyner-Kersee
      • Ibtihaj Muhammad
      • Annie Smith Peck
      • Wilma Rudolph
      • Junko Tabei
      • Lindsey Vonn
      • Kristi Yamaguchi
      • "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
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    • Mary McLeod Bethune
    • Empress Taytu Betul
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    • Mary Bowser
    • Charlotte Hawkins Brown
    • Gro Harlem Brundtland
    • Nannie Helen Burroughs
    • Empress Catherine II of Russia
    • Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
    • Shirley Chisholm
    • Pharaoh Cleopatra VII
    • Sarah Emma Edmonds
    • Queen Elizabeth I of England
    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    • Pharaoh Hatshepsut
    • Noor Inayat Khan
    • Belva Lockwood
    • Patsy Mink
    • Sandra Day O'Connor
    • Deborah Sampson
    • Trung Sisters
  • Computer Science & Math
    • Maria Agnesi
    • Jean Bartik
    • Kimberly Bryant
    • Annie Easley
    • Sophie Germain
    • Margaret Hamilton
    • Grace Hopper
    • Hypatia
    • Katherine Johnson
    • Sofya Kovalevskaya
    • Ada Lovelace
    • Maryam Mirzakhani
    • Emmy Noether
    • Ruchi Sanghvi
    • Dorothy Vaughan
  • Daredevils, Explorers, & Pilots
    • Ann Bancroft
    • Bessie Coleman
    • Amelia Earhart
    • Amy Johnson
    • Sacagawea
    • Freya Stark
    • Bessie Stringfield
    • Valentina Tereshkova
  • Engineers, Inventors, & Scientists
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      • Rachel Carson
      • Eugenie Clark
      • Sylvia Earle
      • Dian Fossey
      • Rosalind Franklin
      • Jane Goodall
      • Ruth Handler
      • Mary Jackson
      • Shirley Ann Jackson
      • Stephanie Kwolek
      • Hedy Lamarr
      • Mary Leakey
      • Wangari Maathai
      • Mary Sherman Morgan
      • Ellen Ochoa
      • Sally Ride
      • Stephanie Schwabe
      • Donna Shirley
      • Kathryn Sullivan
      • Ruth Wakefield
      • Peggy Whitson
      • Wu Chien-Shiung
    • 1800 - 1899
      • Hertha Ayrton
      • Florence Bascom
      • Katharine Burr Blodgett
      • Annie Jump Cannon
      • Martha Coston
      • Marie Curie
      • Lillian Gilbreth
      • Margaret E. Knight
      • Lise Meitner
      • Ynes Mexia
      • Maria Mitchell
    • - 1799
      • Mary Anning
      • Marie d'Arconville
      • Laura Bassi
      • Emilie du Chatelet
      • Catharine Littlefield Greene
      • Maria Sibylla Merian
      • Wang Zhenyi
  • Health & Medicine
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    • Sara Josephine Baker
    • Alice Ball
    • Clara Barton
    • Patricia Bath
    • Elizabeth Blackwell
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    • Rachel Fuller Brown
    • Mamie Phipps Clark
    • Gertrude Belle Elion
    • Marie Equi
    • Elizabeth Hazen
    • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
    • Karen Horney
    • Mae Jemison
    • Anandibai Joshee
    • Mary Eliza Mahoney
    • Florence Nightingale
    • Ogino Ginko
    • Mary Seacole
    • Jane Cooke Wright
    • Rosalyn Yalow
  • Performance Artists
    • Alicia Alonso
    • Marian Anderson
    • Josephine Baker
    • Lucille Ball
    • Misty Copeland
    • Dorothy Dandridge
    • Ellen DeGeneres
    • Katherine Dunham
    • Ella Fitzgerald
    • Evelyn Glennie
    • Martha Graham
    • Audrey Hepburn
    • Katharine Hepburn
    • Billie Holiday
    • Nichelle Nichols
    • Annie Oakley
    • Dolly Parton
    • Mary Pickford
    • Ma Rainey
    • Rihanna
    • Yma Sumac
    • Maria Tallchief
    • Rosetta Tharpe
    • Raven Wilkinson
  • Visual Artists
    • Etel Adnan
    • Sofonisba Anguissola
    • Mary Blair
    • Margaret Bourke-White
    • Julia Margaret Cameron
    • Judy Chicago
    • Artemisia Gentileschi
    • Alice Guy-Blache
    • Maija Isola
    • Lois Mailou Jones
    • Frida Kahlo
    • Yayoi Kusama
    • Dorothea Lange
    • Edmonia Lewis
    • Julia Morgan
    • Marianne North
    • Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
  • Picture Book Biographies
  • Bulletin of Awesomosity (aka, the blog)
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