Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman

Paperback. Pub Date: 2000 Pages: 44 Publisher: Sandpiper Before Wilma was five years old. Polio had Paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again . she vowed. she'd run. And she did run-all the way to the Olympics. where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single olympiad. A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.