Florence Griffith Joyner (Flo Jo)
Florence Griffith Joyner (Flo Jo)
Florence Griffith Joyner (Flo Jo)
Florence Griffith Joyner (Flo Jo)
Marion Jones of the United States won gold in the 100 dash, 200 meter dash, 4x100 meter relay, and 4x400 meter relay at the 2000 Games in Sydney. She has since been stripped of those medals due to her admitted use of performance enhancing substances.
Margaret Abbott in ladies golf at the 1900 Games in Paris.
Wilma Rudolph.
Jenny Thompson
Wilma Rudolp got her career by running in the Olympics and winning three gold medals. She was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field.
America has traditionally had one of the most successful Olympic gymnastic teams. The woman with the most Olympic medals is Larissa Latynina.
That was Fanny Blankers-Koen of Netherlands who won four gold medals at the 1948 Games in London in 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, 80 meter hurdles, and 4x100 meter relay.
1. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s.2. She became the first American woman ever to win three gold medals in track and field events in 1960.
That is Paula Weishoff who won two medals, a silver with the 1984 team and a bronze with the 1992 team.