track and field athletes

A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.

Biography of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, highlighting her fight with asthma and her rise to track and field success.

A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Jesse Owens, an African-American track and field athlete who broke Olympic records by winning four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Games in a Nazi-controlled Germany.

Presents a brief biography of Jesse Owens, in simple text with illustrations, including information on his early years, and how he won four gold medals in track and field at the Olympic Games.

Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who became an Olympic legend, and challenged Hitler's dream of Aryan superiority.

A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history.

A biography of Carl Lewis who many think is the greatest track-and-field athlete of all time.

A biography of the young American whose four years of intense training enabled him to win the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics.

Profiles Wilma Rudolph, who overcame polio to become a runner, the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals, and the founder of a group that helps poor children to do better in school and learn sports.