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Track Legends Wilma Rudolph and Alice Coachman Pass Away

3/6/2026

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Wilma Rudolph died at 54 from a malignant brain tumor in Brentwood, Tennessee, according to her sister.
She won three Olympic gold medals at the 1960 Games, making her the first American woman to win track golds.
Alice Coachman, the first Black woman to win an Olympic high jump gold at the 1948 London Games, died at 90 in Albany, Georgia, after a stroke and cardiac arrest.

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Wilma Rudolph died at 54 from a malignant brain tumor in Brentwood, Tennessee, according to her sister.
She won three Olympic gold medals at the 1960 Games, making her the first American woman to win track golds.
Alice Coachman, the first Black woman to win an Olympic high jump gold at the 1948 London Games, died at 90 in Albany, Georgia, after a stroke and cardiac arrest.