22nd April 2016 by What's What Team

Stricken by polio, this athlete still won three Olympic gold medals

Wilma Rudolph, an American athlete, was stricken by polio when she was four years old. But this did not deter her from running. She became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field events at the Rome Olympics in 1960.

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