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Q: What disease did Wilma Rudolph have to overcome as a child?
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Was Wilma Rudolph's child Xurry a girl or a boy?

Wilma Rudolph's child, Xurry Eldridge, is a boy.


Was Wilma Rudolph the only child?

No


Did Wilma Rudolph have polio?

Wilma Rudolph had polio but she also ran track with polio.


What was Wilma Rudolph like as a child?

You can just search that on Google not hard to find.


How did Wilma Rudolph over come her disease?

She was born prematurely, which was the main cause, and developed polio when she was 3. She got measles, mumps, chicken pox, and pneumonia two times when she was a child and her mother and siblings helped her through it all.


What happened to Wilma Rudolph when she was a child to make her three olympic gold medals more amazing?

She had polio in her legs.


When Wilma Rudolph was a child something happened to her that makes her 3 Olympics gold medals all more amazing what happened to her?

she had polio in her legs


When Wilma Rudolph was a child something happened to her that makes her 3 Olympics gold medal all more amazing what happened to her?

she had polio in her legs


When Wilma Rudolph was a child something happened to her that make her 3 Olympic gold medals all the more amazing that what happen to her?

she had polio in her legs


When Wilma Rudolph was a child something happened to her that makes her 3 Olympic gold medals all the more amazing. what happened to her?

she had polio in her legs


When Wilma Rudolph was a child something happened to her that makes her 3 olympic gold medals more amazing what happened to her?

She spent her childhood in a leg brace.


How many brothers or sisters does Rudolph have?

Different articles give different numbers of siblings. The most reliable say that Wilma was the 20th out of 22 children, meaning she had 21 siblings. Other articles say there were 19 children in the family and Wilma was 17th, with 18 siblings. So far, there is no listing of exactly how many brothers Wilma Rudolph had.