Lucinda Williams (athlete)

Lucinda Williams

Williams (2nd left) at the 1960 Olympics

Personal information

Full name

Lucinda Williams Adams

Born

August 10, 1937 (age 78)
Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

Height

166 cm (5 ft 5 in)

Weight

51 kg (112 lb)

Sport

Athletics

Event(s)

Sprint

Club

TSU Tigers, Nashville

Achievements and titles

Personal best(s)

100 m – 11.7 (1960)
200 m – 23.4 (1959)^[1]^[2]

Medal record

Olympic Games
Competitor for the United States
	1960 Rome	4×100 m relay
Pan American Games
	1959 Chicago	100 m
	1959 Chicago	200 m
	1959 Chicago	4×100 m relay

Lucinda Williams (later Adams, born August 10, 1937) is a retired American sprinter. She won a gold medal in the 4×100 m relay at the 1960 Olympics, but failed to reach the finals of the individual 100 m and 200 m events in 1956 and 1960. She earned three gold medals at the 1959 Pan American Games in these three events.^[1]

References

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Olympic champions in women's 4×100 m relay

1928: Canada (Rosenfeld, Smith, Bell, Cook)
1932: United States (Carew, Furtsch, Rogers, von Bremen)
1936: United States (Bland, Rogers, Robinson, Stephens)
1948: Netherlands (Stad-de Jong, Witziers-Timmer, van der Kade-Koudijs, Blankers-Koen)
1952: United States (Faggs, Jones, Moreau, Hardy)
1956: Australia (Strickland de la Hunty, Croker, Mellor, Cuthbert)
1960: United States (Hudson, Williams, Jones, Rudolph)
1964: Poland (Ciepły, Kirszenstein, Górecka, Kłobukowska)
1968: United States (Ferrell, Bailes, Netter, Tyus)
1972: West Germany (Krause, Mickler, Richter, Rosendahl)
1976: East Germany (Göhr, Stecher, Bodendorf, Wöckel)
1980: East Germany (Müller, Wöckel, Auerswald, Göhr)
1984: United States (Brown, Bolden, Cheeseborough, Ashford)
1988: United States (Brown, Echols, Griffith Joyner, Ashford)
1992: United States (Ashford, Jones, Guidry, Torrence, Finn)
1996: United States (Devers, Miller, Gaines, Torrence, Guidry)
2000: Bahamas (Fynes, Sturrup, Davis-Thompson, Ferguson, Lewis)
2004: Jamaica (Lawrence, Simpson, Bailey, Campbell, McDonald)
2008: Russia (Polyakova, Fedoriva, Gushchina, Chermoshanskaya)
2012: United States (Madison, Felix, Knight, Jeter, Tarmoh, Williams)

Pan American Games champions in women's 100 metres

1951: Julia Sánchez (PER)
1955: Barbara Jones (USA)
1959: Lucinda Williams (USA)
1963: Edith McGuire (USA)
1967: Barbara Ferrell (USA)
1971: Iris Davis (USA)
1975: Pam Jiles (USA)
1979: Evelyn Ashford (USA)
1983: Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia (BRA)
1987: Gail Devers (USA)
1991: Liliana Allen (CUB)
1995: Chryste Gaines (USA)
1999: Chandra Sturrup (BAH)
2003: Lauryn Williams (USA)
2007: Mikele Barber (USA)
2011: Rosângela Santos (BRA)
2015: Sherone Simpson (JAM)

Pan American Champions in Women's 200 m

1951: Jean Patton (USA)
1955: Not held
1959: Lucinda Williams (USA)
1963: Vivian Brown (USA)
1967: Wyomia Tyus (USA)
1971: Stephanie Berto (CAN)
1975: Chandra Cheeseborough (USA)
1979: Evelyn Ashford (USA)
1983: Randy Givens (USA)
1987: Gwen Torrence (USA)
1991 – 1995: Liliana Allen (CUB)
1999: Debbie Ferguson (BAH)
2003 – 2007: Roxana Díaz (CUB)
2011: Ana Cláudia Lemos (BRA)
2015: Kaylin Whitney (USA)

US National Championship winners in women's 200-meter dash

1926–1979 Amateur Athletic Union	1926: Frances Keddie 1927: Ellen Brough 1928^OT: Florence Wright 1929: Maybelle Gilliland 1930–1931: Stella Walsh 1932^OT–1933 Olive Hasenfus 1934: not held 1935: Helen Stephens 1936: Beverly Hobbs 1937: Gertrude Johnson 1938: Fanny Vitale 1939–1940: Stella Walsh 1941: Jean Lane 1942–1948: Stella Walsh 1949–1950: Nell Jackson 1951: Jean Patton 1952: Catherine Hardy 1953: Dolores Dwyer 1954–1956: Mae Faggs 1957: Isabelle Daniels 1958: Lucinda Williams 1959: Isabelle Daniels 1960: Wilma Rudolph 1961: Lacey O'Neal 1962–1963: Vivian Brown 1964–1965: Edith McGuire 1966: Wyomia Tyus 1967: Diana Wilson 1968: Wyomia Tyus 1969: Barbara Ferrell 1970: Chi Cheng (TWN) 1971: Raelene Boyle (AUS) 1972: Alice Annum (GHA) 1973: Mabel Fergerson 1974: Alice Annum (GHA) 1975: Debra Armstrong 1976: Brenda Morehead 1977–1979: Evelyn Ashford

1980–1992 The Athletics Congress	1980: Karen Hawkins 1981: Evelyn Ashford 1982: Merlene Ottey (JAM) 1983: Evelyn Ashford 1984–1985: Merlene Ottey (JAM) 1986–1987: Pam Marshall 1988: Gwen Torrence 1989: Dannette Young 1990: Grace Jackson (JAM) 1991–1992^OT: Gwen Torrence

1993–present USA Track & Field	1993: Gwen Torrence 1994: Carlette Guidry-White 1995: Gwen Torrence 1996^OT: Carlette Guidry-White 1997: Inger Miller 1998–2002^OT: Marion Jones 2003: Torri Edwards 2004^OT–2005: Allyson Felix 2006: Rachelle Boone-Smith 2007–2009^OT: Allyson Felix 2010: Connie Moore 2011: Shalonda Solomon 2012^OT: Allyson Felix 2013: Kimberlyn Duncan 2014: Jeneba Tarmoh 2015: Jenna Prandini

Notes	OT: 1928, 1932, and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event. Distance:The event was over 220 yards until 1932, 1955, 1957-8, 1961-3, 1965-6, 1969-70 and 1973-4

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