SportsCentury
No. 41 -- Wilma Rudolph
S1 • E12 Apr 9, 1999 30m
Wilma Rudolph was an American sprinter who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Rudolph was acclaimed the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
