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Categories: Sportspeople from Clarksville, Tennessee, Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field, Deaths from brain cancer in the United States, Articles with short description, 20th-century African-American women
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Wilma Rudolph  Black Gazelle  Rudolph, Wilma  Rudolph, Wilma Glodean  Rudolph Wilma
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Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Wikipedia
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Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Wikipedia
American sprinter Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
National Women's Hall of Fame
Distinguished Americans series
Associated Press Athlete of the Year
James E. Sullivan Award
CAUSE OF DEATH
brain cancer
COUNTRY FOR SPORT
United States
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
EDUCATED AT
Tennessee State University
ETHNIC GROUP
African-American
GIVEN NAME
Wilma
Vilma
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEDICAL CONDITION
poliomyelitis
OCCUPATION
sprinter
PARTICIPANT IN
Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
Athletics at the 1959 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metres
PLACE OF BIRTH
Clarksville
PLACE OF BURIAL
Tennessee
PLACE OF DEATH
Brentwood, Tennessee
RECORD HELD
Men's 100 metres world record progression
SEX OR GENDER
female
SPORT
athletics
SPORTS DISCIPLINE COMPETED IN
dash
VICTORY
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
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Wilma Rudolph
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Wilma Rudolph
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Black Gazelle, Rudolph, Wilma, Rudolph, Wilma Glodean, Rudolph Wilma, Wilma G. Rudolph, Wilma Glodean Rudolph, Wilma Rudalph
Wikidata Alias
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Wilma Glodean Rudolph

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