2. At the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne, Wilma won a bronze medal in 4x100 meter relay. At the 1960 Summer Games in Rome, she won gold in 4x100 meter relay, 100 meter dash, and 200 meter dash.
Greg Inglis is considered to be the fastest man in rugby. He completed the hundred meter dash in just over 10 seconds.
According to answers.com, Gathright has been clocked at 6.1 seconds in the 60-yard dash.
According to the fact that O.J. Simpson ran the 100 yd. dash in 9.4 seconds, it would calculate to him running the 40 yard dash in 3.6 seconds. (9.4 divided by 100 equals 0.09 seconds per yard times 40 yards equals 3.6 seconds) The 100 yd. dash may be true, but O.J. Simpson did not run a 3.6 40 My Answer: Even if he did run 9.4 on a 100 yrd dash, it would account to .094 per yard, meaning 3.76 seconds to finish 40 yards. However, it doesn't work that way since speed increases dramatically between the 3rd and 8th second approximately while we are sprinting, so a 40 yard dash is not as quick as 3.76. I'm guessing it would be around 4.1-4.2 realistically speaking for even someone as fast as OJ Simpson.
Darren Sproles ran the 40 yard dash in 4.48 seconds at the NFL Combine.
Wilma Rudolph did not participate in the mile run. She was a sprinter who specialized in the 100 meter dash and the 200 meter dash.
100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, and 4x100 meter relay.
Wilma Rudolph's fastest 200 was 22.9 at a meet in Texas in 1960.
Wilma Rudolph's automatic timed world record in the 100 meter dash, 11.41 seconds set at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, was bettered by Wyomia Tyus at 11.23 seconds at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. She had run faster times but those races were not automatically timed. Her best 100 meter dash time was a hand timed 11.2 set at a meet in Stuttgart in 1961. Wilma's automatic timed world record in the 200 meter dash, 22.30 seconds set at the 1960 Olympics, was bettered by Edith McGuire at 22.05 seconds set at the 1964 Olympics.
That would be Marion Jones of the United States who won gold in the 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, 4x100 meter relay, and 4x400 meter relay at the 2000 Games in Sydney. She has since been stripped of those medals due to her admitted use of performance enhancing substances.
Wilma Rudolph. Wilma won a bronze medal in 4x100 meter relay at the 1956 Games in Melbourne and gold medals in 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, and 4x100 meter relay at the 1960 Games in Rome.
That was Marion Jones of the United States. Jones had that medal, and all of her Olympic medals, stripped in 2007 after she admitted taking performance enhancing substances prior to the 2000 Olympics.
Wilma Rudolph who won gold in the 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, and 4x100 meter relay at the 1960 Summer Games in Rome.
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.
Wilma Rudolph's best time in the 100 was an 11.0 timed in the 100 meter finals at the 1960 Rome Olympics. However, since there was a tail wind of 2.75 meters per second, higher than the limit of 2.0 meters per second, the time was not recognized as a new world record. Her best 'official' 100 meter dash time was a hand timed 11.2 set at a meet in Stuttgart in 1961.
2. At the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne, Wilma won a bronze medal in 4x100 meter relay. At the 1960 Summer Games in Rome, she won gold in 4x100 meter relay, 100 meter dash, and 200 meter dash.
Saturday, November 12, 1994 is when Wilma Rudolph died; at the age of 54. Wilma Rudolph was the first women to ever win 3 gold medals in the same olympics. She won them in the 100 meter dash, the 200 meter dash and the anchor of the four by 100 meter.