Wyomia Tyus (pronunciation: why-o-mi; born August 29, 1945) is a retired American track and field sprinter, and the first person to retain the Olympic title in the 100 m (a feat since duplicated by Carl Lewis, Gail Devers, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Usain Bolt, and Elaine Thompson-Herah).

Wyomia Tyus, American sprinter who held the world record for the 100-meter race (1964–65, 1968–72) and was the first person to win the Olympic gold medal twice (1964, 1968) in that event. Learn more about Tyus’s life and career, including her other titles.

2021年7月22日 · Wyomia Tyus is the first back-to-back Olympic 100m champion. In an exclusive interview with Sky News, she talks about family tragedy, astonishing achievements on the track, and being a pioneer in ...

2020年10月20日 · The first person – man or woman – to accomplish the feat was Wyomia Tyus, the US sprinter who unexpectedly won gold at the 1964 Tokyo Games and successfully defended her title four years later in Mexico City.

In between Olympic victories, she also won the 200 at the 1967 Pan American Games. The holder of world records at both 100 yards and 100 meters, Tyus won eight National AAU titles, five of them outdoors. She was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1985.

2024年10月16日 · On October 15, 1968, at the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City, Wyomia Tyus became the first person — not the first Black woman, or the first Black person, or the first woman, but the first person — to win gold medals in the 100-meter sprint in two consecutive Olympics, a feat that would not be repeated for twenty years or exceeded for almost ...

Wyomia Tyus (pronunciation: why-o-ma; born August 29, 1945 in Griffin, Georgia, United States) is an American athlete. She was the first person to win and keep the Olympic title in the 100 m. She participated in the 1964 Summer Olympics at age 19.

Wyomia Tyus is the first person to win Olympic gold medals in the 100-meter race at two consecutive Olympic Games. The Griffin, Georgia, native ran for Tennessee State University, where she was a three-time winner in the indoor 60-yard dash and set world records in the event in 1965 and 1966.

2003年3月11日 · Wyomia Tyus was the first person to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100-meter dash. She also won silver and gold medals consecutively on 400-meter relay teams in the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games.

With three golds and one silver medal, Wyomia Tyus of Tennessee State was the most successful of all U.S. women track & field athletes at the Olympics, marks later equalled by Florence Griffith Joyner.