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Women's Track & Field Quiz

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Latest: Tuesday September 05, 2000 02:04 PM

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee Jackie Joyner-Kersee soars through the air as she competes in the U.S. Track and Field Trials in California. Andy Lyons/Allsport

1. At the 1948 London Olympics, Alice Coachman became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. What event did she win to earn that honor?
a. The high jump
b. The long jump
c. The shotput
d. The discus

2. Who was the Romanian high-jumper who won 140 straight competitions between 1957 and 1967 and won Olympic gold at the 1960 Rome and 1964 Tokyo Games?
a. Nadia Comaneci
b. Iolanada Balas
c. Cornelia Popa
d. Galina Astafei

3. Who was the first American to win a gold medal in the women's long jump?
a. Willye White
b. Kathy McMillan
c. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
d. Mabel Landry

4. Who was the Soviet shotputter who won gold at the 1960 Rome and 1964 Tokyo Games, but disappeared from competition when sex tests were introduced?
a. Tamara Press
b. Iryna Press
c. Johanna Luttge
d. Renate Garisch-Culmberger

5. Who was the Romanian discus thrower who became the first track and field athlete to compete in six Olympics?
a. Galina Zybina
b. Argentina Menis
c. Liesel Westermann
d. Lia Manoliu

6. Which was the first field event in which women were allowed to participate?
a. High Jump
b. Long Jump
c. Shot Put
d. Javelin

7. In what year was the women's pentathlon extended to the heptathlon?
a. 1964
b. 1972
c. 1984
d. 1996

8. Which events in the heptathlon were not in the women's pentathlon?
a. 800-meter run
b. The javelin toss
c. The 100-meter hurdles
d. All of the above

9. Who was Wilhelmina World Record?
a. The mascot for the East German team at the 1972 Munich Games
b. An unbeatable, but imaginary pentathlete made up by a Sports Illustrated writer
c. An imaginary foe made up by coach Bob Kersee to give his wife, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, incentive
d. The nickname for Pentathlete Wilhelmina Record, who set six world records between 1981 and '83, but none after the pentathlon became the heptathlon

10. Who was the first woman to break 7,000 points in Olympic heptathlon competition?
a. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
b. Glynis Nunn
c. Sabine John
d. Irina Belova

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