Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, has died.

The premier women's high jumper in the United States for a decade from 1979 to 1989, Dorothy Louise Ritter surprised the world by winning the gold medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. She won the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A century after its start, Brattleboro’s Harris Hill introduced a new women’s trophy over the weekend, only to see a storm condense the annual two-day event into a dizzying four-hour flurry of ...

Individual event winners for the final tryouts for the U.S. Olympic women's track and field team ... 18, of Chicago, high jump. (AP Photo/File) “Being on the Olympic team was not about winning ...