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Gold Medal Winner Alice Coachman
Gold Medal Winner Alice Coachman
Track and field contestant
Alice Coachman
stands atop the podium in the medal ceremony of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in which she won the gold in the high jump. She was the first Black woman to achieve such a feat.
Courtesy of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame