Presents biographical profiles of important women in sports history, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence. Found insideEddie Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph (left) and members of the U.S. women's track team in 1960. African American athletes have had notable success in ... Ranging from Cold War tensions to gender anxiety to controversies around doping, Lindsay Parks Pieper explores sex testing in sport from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Found insideThe US men's track team won 15 of 24 events, but the Soviets demonstrated talent ... and demonstrated at the Rome Olympics in 1960 that American women could ... Found inside – Page 1127As expected, she continued her dominance in track and field, though she admitted to ... Kansas, before their trip to Rome for the 1960 Olympic Games. A timely memoir about world record-breaking Tyus's 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections. Through the stories of six athletes--Coachman, Ora Washington, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph, Wyomia Tyus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee--Jennifer H. Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American ... Found inside – Page 80In proportion to their numbers in the American population, Black women were overrepresented on the US Olympic track and field teams: 12 of 18 women in 1960, ... Found inside – Page 478For the first time, women were allowed to compete in track and field events. ... In 1960, women were given the opportunity to compete in the 800 m followed ... Found inside – Page 110Wilma made the track team her freshman year. At the beginning of her crucial sophomore year, the year of the trials for the 1960 Olympic Games, ... Found inside – Page 122She made the track team her freshmen year and she became a sprinter. Wilma's sophomore year, 1960, was the year of the Olympic Trials, but she started to ... Found inside – Page 238Of the total 63 athletes, coaches and executives who took part, there was only one woman participant, who was a track and field athlete. In the 1960s the ... Found inside – Page 94Soon after , a women ' s track and field team began competing for the Institute and trained along side the men ' s team . ... The Tennessee State Tigerbelles dominated AAU and Olympic track and field competition from 1947 into the 1960s . Found inside – Page 9155) Metheny concluded by noting how college women in the 1960s were able to ... The largest women's team was track and field (nine women), of whom three ... Found inside – Page 180Rudolf began training with the girls track team at Tennessee State during her summers while ... By 1960, Rudolf had healed and made the 1960 Olympic team. Found insideRudolph was the Tennessee State star who won gold medals at the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics. Shortly after, women's participation in track and field ended for ... From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author David Maraniss, a groundbreaking book that weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Rome Olympics, eighteen days of theater, suspense, victory, and defeat ... Found inside – Page 60Since the turn Of the century, Black women have participated in every phase ... the Black woman is best known for her competition in track and field but she ... Found inside – Page xvii... of African American women track stars who emerged at the 1960 Olympic Games, but who had been gaining ground in the U.S.–U.S.S.R. track and field meets ... Found inside – Page 25Sporting Women, 1850-1960 Jean Williams. wider activist community that also included track and field athletics, a version of Czechoslovakian handball called ... Found inside – Page 118One of the first companies to field a women's track team was the ... Central Railroad team , which at one time boasted 1932 Olympic gold medal winner ... A biography on the life of Wilma Rudolph, hero of the 1960 Rome Olympics. Written in graphic-novel format. An account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reveals the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that pays tribute to such athletes as Cassius Clay and Wilma Rudolph while evaluating the roles of ... Found insideIn individual track-and-field sports, Olympic gold medalists from the Ukrainian SSR ... V. Krepkina (1960, women's long jump OR, 6.37 m), L. Lysenko (1960, ... Found inside – Page 339The first matches of a truly international char- cost of transporting women's teams could better be applied to acter occurred ... to include five track and the world , apart from the Olympic games and Pan - American games field events for women in the 1928 games at Amsterdam . ... 81 in . stood for 25 years but fell in 1960 to another ( 1956 ) ; N. and R. McWhirter , Get to Your Marks ! a Short History U.S. ... Found inside – Page 152The Session decided that sports had to be practised by 25 countries ( as opposed to only 20 previously ) to be admitted as Olympic sports . The women's 800 m was accepted for the 1960 track and field programme . Members voted 22 to 9 to ... Found inside – Page 215... toward an increasing black presence on the United States Olympic team. In 1960, a majority of women on the American track and field team were black. Found inside – Page 148Indeed, since World War II, American women had triumphed in the Olympic ... Rudolph won three gold medals in track and field at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Found inside – Page 35A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics Sue Macy ... HER COACH , ED TEMPLE , SERVED AS COACH OF THE U.S. WOMEN'S OLYMPIC TRACK TEAM IN 1960 AND 1964. Found inside – Page 166The Struggle for Control of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics, 1960-2000 Ying ... which organized a U.S. women's track and field team for the Paris games . Found inside – Page 192Women, Gender, and World Politics: Perspectives, Policies, and Prospects ... That UBC did not have a women's track and field team until the early 1960s, ... Found inside – Page 84... of eighty-five participating countries had women on their Olympic teams, and only six events— gymnastics, fencing, track and field, swimming and diving, ... Found inside – Page 269Was awarded THE BABE DIDRICKSON ZAHARIS TROPHY for the outstanding female athlete in the U.S.A. for 1960 . 13. ... electrified the track world by placing six women on the 1956 United States Olympic Track and Field team for the 16th ... Found inside – Page 34Since the Tigerbelles made up most of the U.S. women's track and field team at the Rome Olympics, Temple served as coach of the team. Found insideHe won or shared seventeen Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) ... head coach of the U.S. Olympic Women's Track and Field Team twice, in 1960 and 1964, ... Found inside – Page 75Miss McGuire won the 200 - meter dash in mary of outstanding performances by women Olympic record time of 23.0 seconds . ... Edward Having coached the women's team at the 1960 Temple has coached the women's track and Olympics ... Drawing on historical records and contemporary interviews, Cahn chronicles the remarkable transformation made by women's sports in the the 20th century, revealing the struggles faced by women to overcome social constraints and behavior ... Found insideTHE NATIONAL OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP 12 Records Fall at ' 80 Edition MASTERS Twelve Records ... victorious 26 : 35 clocking " Mimm was on the 1960 Olympic club , and he ' s running better now than he was then , ” Scully said . ... Grissom , 41 , dominated the women ' s 40 - 44 competition . Found insideOlympic. Games26. although many americans may think of Jessie Owens' success ... these trailblazing african american women were followed by track and field ... This work is a history, based on many interviews and meticulous research in primary source documents, of women's track and field, from its beginnings on the lawns of Vassar College in 1895, through 1980, when Title IX began to create a ... Found inside – Page 14But most women ' s athletic records were improved quite dramatically in the early 1950s . ... twenty - one seconds between 1952 and 1955 ; Marjorie Jackson and Betty Cuthbert broke the 200 metres record three times between 1952 and 1960 . ... a men ' s and women ' s track and field team at the Olympics ; two who broke senior track records while still teenagers ; the first Aboriginal to play at Wimbledon ... Found insideWallechinsky has a uniquely vast knowledge of the Olympics and an unrivalled head for arcane – now the two are combined in this collection of 150 unexpected Olympic lists, including: • The eight slowest Olympic competitors • The ... Found inside – Page 692New York : United States Olympic Association , 1961 . “ N.Y. Meet Summaries . ” Track and Field News , January 1960 : 11 . “ National Amateur Athletic Union ... Found inside – Page 13900During the 1960 In 1976 , Dr. Butler became the founding di Olympics , women's track and field , heretofore said " The measure of a man's success in life ... Found inside – Page 56At the Helsinki Games, the American women's track-and-field team brought ... Overall, in the four Olympics between 1948 and 1960, American women won six of ... The author discusses the high points of her track career and gives advice on training and sportsmanship for aspiring track athletes. Found inside – Page 75Fran's national reputation as an authority in track and field sports is an impressive one . 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