Wilma Rudolph, American runner (died 1994)

Wilma Rudolph

African American athlete (1940–1994)

Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child 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. Rudolph competed in the…