Wilma glodean rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter from clarksville, who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and fieldfollowing her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics games
Rudolph was acclaimed the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman, and the first African American woman, to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 pounds (2.0 kg) Rudolph, who was born into poverty in the racially segregated south, was the twentieth of twenty-two siblings from her father's two marriages.Shortly after Wilma's birth, her family moved to clarksville,where she grew up and attended elementary and high school. Her father, Ed, who worked as a railway porter and did odd jobs in Clarksville, died in 1961; her mother, Blanche, worked as a maid in Clarksville homes and died in 1994.
Rudolph suffered from several early childhood illnesses, including pneumonia and scarlet fever, and contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) at the age of four.She recovered from polio, but lost strength in her left leg and foot. Physically disabled for much of her early life, Rudolph wore a leg brace until she was eight years old. Because there was little medical care available to African American residents of Clarksville in the 1940s, Rudolph's parents sought treatment for her at the historically black meharry medical collage in about 50 miles (80 km) from Clarksville
For two years Rudolph and her mother made weekly bus trips to Nashville for treatments to regain the use of her weakened leg.She also received subsequent at-home massage treatments four times a day from members of her family and wore an orthopedic shoe for support of her foot for another two year Because of the treatments she received at Meharry and the daily massages from her family members, Rudolph was able to overcome the debilitating effects of polio and learned to walk without a leg brace or orthopedic shoe for support by the time she was twelve years old.
Rudolph was initially homeschooled due to the frequent illnesses that caused her to miss kindergarten and first grade. She began attending second grade at Cobb Elementary School in Clarksville in 1947, when she was seven years old.Rudolph attended Clarksville's all-black Burt High School, where she excelled in basketball and track. During her senior year of high school Rudolph became pregnant with her first child, Yolanda, who was born in 1958, a few weeks prior to her enrollment at Tennessee state university in Nashville. In college Rudolph continued to compete in track. She also became a member of the delta sigma theosorority. Rudolph graduated from Tennessee State with a bachelor's degree in education in 1963. Rudolph's college education was paid for through her participation in a work-study scholarship program that required her to work on the TSU campus for two hours a day
Where her practice made her topped the track even polio got affected,not even legs were working but her desire to run made her to topped the track
Where her life teaches us that
Even at any circumstances if you have a strong desire to do that you can attain any thing in your life
Just think of it
You May might you couldn't able to do something because of disturbance or circumstances
Is that a issue? After you read this story
Rudolph was acclaimed the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman, and the first African American woman, to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 pounds (2.0 kg) Rudolph, who was born into poverty in the racially segregated south, was the twentieth of twenty-two siblings from her father's two marriages.Shortly after Wilma's birth, her family moved to clarksville,where she grew up and attended elementary and high school. Her father, Ed, who worked as a railway porter and did odd jobs in Clarksville, died in 1961; her mother, Blanche, worked as a maid in Clarksville homes and died in 1994.
Rudolph suffered from several early childhood illnesses, including pneumonia and scarlet fever, and contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) at the age of four.She recovered from polio, but lost strength in her left leg and foot. Physically disabled for much of her early life, Rudolph wore a leg brace until she was eight years old. Because there was little medical care available to African American residents of Clarksville in the 1940s, Rudolph's parents sought treatment for her at the historically black meharry medical collage in about 50 miles (80 km) from Clarksville
For two years Rudolph and her mother made weekly bus trips to Nashville for treatments to regain the use of her weakened leg.She also received subsequent at-home massage treatments four times a day from members of her family and wore an orthopedic shoe for support of her foot for another two year Because of the treatments she received at Meharry and the daily massages from her family members, Rudolph was able to overcome the debilitating effects of polio and learned to walk without a leg brace or orthopedic shoe for support by the time she was twelve years old.
Rudolph was initially homeschooled due to the frequent illnesses that caused her to miss kindergarten and first grade. She began attending second grade at Cobb Elementary School in Clarksville in 1947, when she was seven years old.Rudolph attended Clarksville's all-black Burt High School, where she excelled in basketball and track. During her senior year of high school Rudolph became pregnant with her first child, Yolanda, who was born in 1958, a few weeks prior to her enrollment at Tennessee state university in Nashville. In college Rudolph continued to compete in track. She also became a member of the delta sigma theosorority. Rudolph graduated from Tennessee State with a bachelor's degree in education in 1963. Rudolph's college education was paid for through her participation in a work-study scholarship program that required her to work on the TSU campus for two hours a day
Where her practice made her topped the track even polio got affected,not even legs were working but her desire to run made her to topped the track
Where her life teaches us that
Even at any circumstances if you have a strong desire to do that you can attain any thing in your life
Just think of it
You May might you couldn't able to do something because of disturbance or circumstances
Is that a issue? After you read this story
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