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Wilma Rudolf
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter from Clarksville, Tennessee, 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. Due to the worldwide television coverage of the 1960 Summer Olympics, Rudolph became an international star along with other Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay(later known as Muhammad Ali), Oscar Robertson, and Rafer Johnson who competed in Italy. n 2004, the United States Postal Service honored the Olympic champion by featuring her likeness on a 23-cent stamp
. She died on November 12, 1994, in Brentwood, Tennessee, after losing a battle with brain cancer.
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