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.
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The first African American woman to win a gold medal was Alice Coachman of Albany, Georgia who won the high jump event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
She was the first African American woman in the US congress
She was the first black woman to go to space.
Susan B Anthony is the "first woman to have her picture on an American Coin (Silver Dollar)"
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