Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is Evelyn Ashford with 4. She won gold in 100 meter dash and 4x100 meter relay at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, 4x100 meter relay at the 1988 Games in Seoul, and 4x100 meter relay at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
Wilma Rudolph.
Wilma Rudolp got her career by running in the Olympics and winning three gold medals. She was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field.
Wilma Rudolph
1. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s.2. She became the first American woman ever to win three gold medals in track and field events in 1960.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing no woman athlete, American or other country, has won 5 Olympic gold medals in track and field. The most won by an American woman is 4 by Evelyn Ashford, 1 in the 100 meter dash and 3 in the 4x100 meter relay. Three other women have won 4 Olympic gold medals in track and field ... Bärbel Wöckel of East Germany, Betty Cuthbert of Australia, and Fanny Blankers-Koen of Netherlands.
I do believe it was Wilma Rudolph in the 1960 Olympic games in Rome.
She Broke woman world record, win Olympic medals, and put the USA on top in sprinting.
That was Fanny Blankers-Koen of Netherlands who won four gold medals at the 1948 Games in London in 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, 80 meter hurdles, and 4x100 meter relay.
Jenny Thompson
Tydia Pickett is a Track and Field Athlete, the first African-American woman to be in the Olympics in 1932.
on September 3rd 1960 Wilma g. Rudolph became the first woman to win three gold medals in track and field in one Olympic game.
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