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Jo Ann Terry-Grissom (born August 4, 1938) is a retired female hurdler from the United States, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics.
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Jo Ann Terry-Grissom (born August 4, 1938) is a retired female hurdler from the United States, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics.
Terry got interested in track and field white at Crispus Attucks High School where she graduated from in 1956. [1] in Terry was the 1960 AAU champion in both the high hurdles and the pentathlon. She attended Tennessee State University where she competed on the track team as well as the basketball team. She represented team USA in the 1960 Olympics where she finished 4th in her heat of the 80m Hurdles. Four years later she once again competed for team USA in the 1964 Olympics but this time in the Long Jump where she finished 19th in her round. In 1962, in between the olympic years, she won the 80m hurdles at the 1963 Pan American Games. [2] [3] [4]
Terry got married in on November 23, 1963, to Leo Warner Grissom Jr. [5] She became a physical education instructor at various schools in the IPS system. [6]
She is featured in the 2018 documentary Mr. Temple and the Tigerbelles which focuses on coach Ed Temple and 40 African American female athletes who helped break the color barrier in the sport. [7]
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Rudolph competed in the 200-meter dash and won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100-meter relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics at Melbourne, Australia. She also won three gold medals, in the 100- and 200-meter individual events and the 4 x 100-meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Rudolph was acclaimed the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games.
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