Wyomia Tyus
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Wyomia Tyus is a retired American track and field sprinter, and the first person to retain the Olympic title in the 100 m.
Tyus in 1968
Ed Temple
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Edward Stanley Temple was a women's track and field pioneer and coach. Temple was Head Women's Track and Field Coach at Nashville's Tennessee State University for 44 years and was Head Coach of the U.
Wyomia Tyus
…It was in this same year that Tyus's father died leaving the job of male role model in Tyus's life to her soon to be track coach at Tennessee State Ed Temple. Tyus, from Tennessee State University, participated in the 1964 Summer Olympics at age 19. In the heats of the event, she equaled Wilma Rudolph's world…
Ed Temple at the 1960 Olympics
The Coach Ed Temple statue at First Horizon Park in Nashville