Wyomia Tyus
Wyomia Tyus grew up in Griffin, Georgia, running barefoot on red clay before she ever saw a track. Coached at Tennessee State by Ed Temple of Tigerbelle fame, she stunned the sport by winning the 100 metres at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as an unknown teenager. Four years later in Mexico City she set a world record of 11.08 seconds and became the first person — of any gender — to successfully defend an Olympic 100-metre title; a feat not repeated until Usain Bolt forty-four years later. She ran that Mexico final in black shorts as a quiet tribute to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose podium protest had been punished the day before. A founding member of the Women's Sports Foundation and a 1980 inductee of the U.S. Track & Field Hall of Fame, she turned her second career into decades of advocacy for women and girls in sport.
“The time was right, and I was ready — but no one talked about me because I was a woman.”
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Wyomia Tyus
Wyomia Tyus grew up in Griffin, Georgia, running barefoot on red clay before she ever saw a track. Coached at Tennessee State by Ed Temple of Tigerbelle fame, she stunned the sport by winning the 100 metres at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as an unknown teenager. Four years later in Mexico City she set a world record of 11.08 seconds and became the first person — of any gender — to successfully defend an Olympic 100-metre title; a feat not repeated until Usain Bolt forty-four years later. She ran that Mexico final in black shorts as a quiet tribute to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose podium protest had been punished the day before. A founding member of the Women's Sports Foundation and a 1980 inductee of the U.S. Track & Field Hall of Fame, she turned her second career into decades of advocacy for women and girls in sport.
“The time was right, and I was ready — but no one talked about me because I was a woman.”
OUR FREEDOM. OUR FUTURE.
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