Wilma Rudolph Net Worth

Wilma Rudolph net worth is
$1.2 Million

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Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American athlete and an Olympic champion. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960.In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games. A track and field champion, she elevated women's track to a major presence in the United States. As a member of the black community, she is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer. Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay, who later became Muhammad Ali, Rudolph became an international star due to the first international television coverage of the Olympics that year.The powerful sprinter emerged from the 1960 Rome Olympics as "The Tornado, the fastest woman on earth". The Italians nicknamed her La Gazzella Negra ("The Black Gazelle"); to the French she was La Perle Noire ("The Black Pearl"). She is one of the most famous Tennessee State University Tigerbelles, the name of the TSU women's track and field program.

Full Name	Wilma Rudolph
Net Worth	$1.2 Million
Date Of Birth	June 23, 1940
Died	November 12, 1994, Brentwood, Tennessee, United States
Place Of Birth	Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
Height	1.8 m
Weight	59 kg
Profession	Track and field athlete
Residence	Nashvillie
Education	Tennessee State University
Nationality	American
Spouse	Robert Eldridge, William Ward
Children	Yolanda Eldridge, Djuanna Eldridge, Xurry Eldridge, Robert Eldridge Jr.
Parents	Blanche Rudolph, Ed Rudolph
Nicknames	Wilma Rudolph, Wilma Glodean Rudolph, Rudolph, Wilma
IMDB
Awards	James E. Sullivan Award, Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year
Star Sign	Cancer

#	Fact
1	As a child she was often so ill--at one time or another she contracted polio, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, chicken pox and double pneumonia--and bedridden so often that it was thought she would never be able to walk. Polio crippled her so badly that she was home-schooled for the first four years because she had to wear a leg brace that made it virtually impossible for her to walk to school.
2	There were 22 children in her family. She was the 20th.
3	A member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
4	Children: Yolanda (born 1958), Djuanna (1964), Robert Jr. (1965), and Xurry (1971).
5	Pictured on a USA 23¢ definitive (regular-issue) stamp in the Distinguished Americans series, issued 14 July 2004 in booklets and sheets.
6	Inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, 1983 (charter member).
7	Won three Olympic gold medals in 1960 (100-m. dash, 200-m. dash, 4x100-m. relay), and a bronze in 1956 (4x100-m. relay).

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Muhammad Ali's 50th Birthday Celebration	1992	TV Special	Herself
21st NAACP Image Awards	1989	TV Special	Herself
The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team	1984	TV Movie	Herself - Performer
Greatest Sports Legends	1979	TV Series	Herself
This Is Your Life	1978	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Way It Was	1976	TV Series	Herself
Sie 67 - Skizzen zu einem Porträit der modernen Frau	1967	TV Series documentary	Herself
ABC's Wide World of Sports	1961	TV Series	Herself
The Grand Olympics	1961	Documentary
To Tell the Truth	1960	TV Series	Herself - Contestant
The Ed Sullivan Show	1960	TV Series	Herself
Olympic Games 1956	1956	Herself