Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for ...

At the Olympics, he qualified for the final but suffered a broken foot on a warm-up jump and was forced to scratch from the final. He was still ranked sixth in the world, the first of 14 world ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for the United States in the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics ...

JJK was a four-time Olympian, who won the long jump gold medal in 1988, and long jump bronze in 1992 and 1996. In Olympic heptathlon competition she won the silver medal in 1984 and the gold medal in ...

Pedroso followed his world indoor successes of 1993 and 1995 with further victories in Paris in 1997, Maebashi in 1999 and ...

In 1952, she made history as the only American woman to compete in the long jump at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. She defied both racism and the limitations of gender in athletics.

Later this year, the eyes of the athletics world will be fully focused on Japan with the World Athletics Championships Tokyo ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for the United States in the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics ...