Madeline Manning

Madeline Manning

Personal information
Born	January 11, 1948
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Medal record Women's athletics Competitor for the  United States Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City 800 metres 1972 Munich 4x400 metres relay Pan American Games 1967 Winnipeg 800 metres Summer Universiade 1967 Tokyo 800 metres

Madeline Manning Mims (born 11 January 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former American athlete.

She is a graduate of Tennessee State University and a famed member of their TigerBelles.

Between 1967 and 1981 she won ten national titles and set a number of American records. She participated in the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Olympics. She likely also would have participated in the 1980 Games in Moscow, were they not boycotted by the United States. At the 1968 Olympics she was awarded a gold medal in the 800 m, the only American woman to win this event. Until 2008, she was the youngest winner of the event. At the 1972 Games in Munich she won a silver medal in the 4 x 400 m relay with teammates Mable Fergerson, Kathy Hammond, and Cheryl Toussaint.

In 1984 she was inducted into the United States National Track and Field Hall of Fame.

She is founder and president of the United States Council for Sports Chaplaincy and has been a chaplain at the 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, and 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. She also has a ministry through sports and the arts known as Ambassadorship, Inc.^[1] She is also an author, speaker and contemporary gospel recording artist, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 2005.^[2] She is currently studying for a Master of Divinity degree at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is one of the chaplains of the Tulsa Shock of the WNBA.^[3]

She competed through the mid 1970s under the hyphenated name of Madeline Manning-Jackson.^[4] She married John Jackson in 1969 but divorced him by 1970. Her son from that marriage, John Jackson III was the NCAA Triple Jump champion while competing at the University of Oklahoma. After briefly retiring from the sport, she returned running with anger and frustration, to the point that her coach had to train her separate from other athletes on her team and had to ask her to slow down.^[5]

References

1. Greater Cleveland: The Salvation Army, 40 year anniversary Invitation http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use/www_use_greatercleveland.nsf Archived February 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
2. "2005 Inductees, Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame website (accessed August 3, 2010).
3. Lynn Jacobsen, "Then and now: Ex-Olympian Madeline Manning Mims gives back by ministering to athletes", Tulsa World, August 3, 2010.
4. http://books.google.com/books?id=iSxylfm58foC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=Madeline+jackson+mims&source=bl&ots=Mn6KE8kCHt&sig=do5OiwjNfJHRlgO2EdJOEt9Ws84&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OUhuVPm_L4zWoATEmoDYDg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Madeline%20jackson%20mims&f=false
5. http://www.clevelandwomen.com/people/madeline-manning-mims.htm

External links

• USATF Hall of Fame
• Sports Reference
• IAAF 2008