精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上13 Wilma Rudolph People called Wilma Rudolph “the Black Pearl”, “the Black Gazelle” and “the fastest woman in the world”. In nineteen sixty, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics. Wilma Rudolph was born in nineteen forty, in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. She was born too early and only weighed two kilograms. She had many illnesses when she was very young, including pneumonia and scarlet fever. She also had polio,