Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Rudolph was born on June 23rd 1940 and died November 12th 1994 and Died of brain cancer. When she was younger she was dianosed with polio!

she liked to run in the track

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Wilma Rudolph's eyelash color was of course brown!

Wilma Rudolph's best time in the 100 was an 11.0 timed in the 100 meter finals at the 1960 Rome Olympics. However, since there was a tail wind of 2.75 meters per second, higher than the limit of 2.0 meters per second, the time was not recognized as a new world record. Her best 'official' 100 meter dash time was a hand timed 11.2 set at a meet in Stuttgart in 1961.

She went through the Sraight of magellan

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Different articles give different numbers of siblings. The most reliable say that Wilma was the 20th out of 22 children, meaning she had 21 siblings. Other articles say there were 19 children in the family and Wilma was 17th, with 18 siblings.

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Wilma Rudolph made the "Wilma Rudolph Foundation.

Wilma Rudolph was 4 years of age when she go Polio

Wilma Rudolph met Robert Eldridge at high school.

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Wilma won gold in 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, and 4x100 meter relay at the 1960 Games in Rome and won bronze in 4x100 meter relay at the 1956 Games in Melbourne.

She had polio in her left foot. Polio was a crippling disease that had no cure.

Wilma Rudolph married William Ward first in 1961 but then divorced. She later married Robert Eldridge in 1963 and had four children. They too were later divorced.

Wilma Rudolph was a colored woman. She had to face the probelms of segregation. Because she was colored woman, people wouldnt let her do the things she wanted to do.

She was a very good runner at track. but she couldnt ever show because of segregation, when segregation was over she was one of the first colored woman track runners. There is a statue of her running in Kentucky.

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they are all married nd are in tenesse i think.

Rudolph was United Press Athlete of the Year 1960 and Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year for 1960 and 1961. Also in 1961, the year of her father's death, Rudolph won the James E. Sullivan Award, an award for the top amateur athlete in the United States, and visited President John F. Kennedy

She was voted into the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1973 and the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1974.

She was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983, honored with the National Sports Award in 1993, and inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994

In 1994, the portion of U. S. Route 79 in Clarksville, Tennessee between the Interstate 24 exit 4 in Clarksville to the Red River (Lynnwood-Tarpley) bridge near the Kraft Street intersection was renamed to honor Wilma Rudolph.

They took all the coal that was in Callao. ... How did the Lady Wilma win the race, even though they didn't have any coal? They won the race because Praiseworthy suggested to use wood for fuel.

• she passed the trail of tears
• went to college within the trail of tears was going
• cherokee cheif was married to wilma mankiller
• mankiller says that she has always belived in the ability of the cheeroke 'to sloveour own problems'

Rudolph Reti died in 1957.