Youngest Olympic female champion in athletics.
Started in athletics at the Catholic Youth Organization team. She was selected to 1952 US Olympic team for age of 15 and won 4x100 metres gold, which led her to youngest athletics gold medallist in history.
| Championship | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Pan American Games | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| USA vs USSR Series | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| International total | 8 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| Championship | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA Track & Field Championships | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| US Olympic Trials | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| National total | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Year | Championship | Event | Venue | Place | Mark | Record | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Olympic Games | 4x100m | Rome | 1 | 44.5 | WR= | |
| 1959 | Pan American Games | 4x100m | Chicago | 1 | 46.4 | CR | |
| 1959 | Pan American Games | 60m | Chicago | 2 | 7.4 | ||
| 1959 | USA vs USSR Series | 100m | Philadelphia | 1 | 11.7 | ||
| 1959 | USA vs USSR Series | 4x100m | Philadelphia | 2 | 45.0 | ||
| 1958 | USA vs USSR Series | 4x100m | Moscow | 1 | 44.8 | ||
| 1958 | USA vs USSR Series | 100m | Moscow | 1 | 11.6 | ||
| 1955 | Pan American Games | 100m | Mexico City ↗ | 1 | 11.5 | CR | Adjusted: 11.90 |
| 1955 | Pan American Games | 4x100m | Mexico City ↗ | 1 | 47.0 | CR | Adjusted: 47.12 |
| 1952 | Olympic Games | 4x100m | Helsinki | 1 | 45.9 | WR |
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