Barbara Jones (athlete)

Barbara Jones Slater ( born March 26, 1937) is a former American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.

At 15, she won her first Olympic gold medal in track and field and is the youngest gold medalist of the Olympic athletics. Today she works at the Martin Luther King Center, is a member of the Paralympic Games Committee and the Committee for the Olympic Games Youth Advisory Committee 's in Atlanta.

In the XV. Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952, she won the team gold medal together with teammates Mae Faggs, Janet Moreau and Catherine Hardy, the team from Germany ( silver) and the team from Great Britain (bronze). In the XVII. Summer Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, she confirmed her performance and won the team gold medal again, this time together with Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams and Wilma Rudolph, before the team of Germany ( silver ) and the Polish team.

  • Americans
  • Olympian (United States)
  • Olympic gold medalist ( Athletics )
  • Sprinter (United States)
  • Born in 1937
  • Woman
Athletics (sport) Catherine Hardy Lavender 1960 Summer Olympics Lucinda Williams (athlete)
104760
de