Despite wearing leg braces as a child, sprinter Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals in a year.
1960 Winter Olympics: 4 (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze). 1960 Summer Olympics: 1 (1 silver).
Gymnast Larissa Latynina of the former Soviet Union has won 9 gold medals, the most of any woman in Summer Olympics history. She won gold in three different Olympics: 1956 - Team competition, All Around, Vault, Floor Exercise 1960 - Team Competition, All Around, Floor Exercise 1964 - Team Competition, Floor Exercise She also won 5 silver and 4 bronze medals in her Olympic career. Her 18 total Olympic medals is a record for most medals won by an individual in Olympic competition.
That was the 1960 Summer Olympics.
No, the Olympics were held in 1956 and then again in 1960.
I think it was in Rome, Italy
She won three Gold Medals in the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Jesse Owen in 1936 and Wilma Rudolph in 1960.
she won three medals in the 1960 Olympics in rome.
1960.
Wilma Rudolph
In the 1960 Olympic Games Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals. As an aside, Wilma was from Tennessee.
Wilma Rudolph was a super Black woman track athlete. She won three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics. She died in 1994.
Wilma Rudolph.
Wilma Rudolph
Britain won 6 Silver medals along with 2 Golds and 12 Bronze, to make a total of 20 medals in the 1960 summer Olympics, held at Rome.
Nigeria has won 14 gold medals in olympic since 1960.
Three time gold medalist Wilma Rudolph was diagnosed with polio at the age of 7. She was 'cured' at the age of 12 and went on the become the fastest woman in the world, winning three gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.