Alice Coachman

Alice Marie Coachman (after marriage to Davis ; born November 9, 1923 in Albany , Georgia ; † July 14, 2014 there ) was an American athlete .

Life

Although Alice Coachman did not have the best training opportunities because of racial segregation in Georgia, she won the high jump at the AAU ( Amateur Athletic Union ) championships in 1939 and remained undefeated at the AAU championships in this discipline until 1948. She also competed in the sprint and relay, and won a total of 25 AAU titles.

After the Olympic Games in 1940 and 1944 were canceled due to the Second World War, Alice Coachman was able to compete at the Olympic Games in 1948 for the first time. She won the high jump with 1.68 meters in front of the same height British Dorothy Tyler .

Alice Coachman was not only the only American woman to win a gold medal in athletics in 1948, but she was also the first black American woman to win Olympic gold.

After the Olympic Games in 1948, Alice Coachman ended her career, married and worked as a teacher in Atlanta . In 1952, Alice Coachman was the first black American woman to advertise a branded product (Coca-Cola) on posters. She died on July 14, 2014 at the age of 90 in her native Albany, Georgia.

swell

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996 Track and Fields Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

Web links

Alice Coachman in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Richard Goldstein: Alice Coachman, 90, Dies; First Black Woman to Win Olympic Gold. Obituary in The New York Times on July 14, 2014 (accessed July 15, 2014).

personal data
SURNAME	Coachman, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Coachman, Alice Marie (full name); Davis, Alice Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American athlete
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Albany , Georgia, USA
DATE OF DEATH	July 14, 2014
Place of death	Albany , Georgia, USA

[1] Richard Goldstein: Alice Coachman, 90, Dies; First Black Woman to Win Olympic Gold. Obituary in The New York Times on July 14, 2014 (accessed July 15, 2014).