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Edith McGuire

Olympic medal record Women’s AthleticsGold 1964 Tokyo200 metresSilver 1964 Tokyo100 metresSilver 1964 Tokyo4x100 metre relay

Edith Marie McGuire (born June 3, 1944), later known as Edith McGuire Duvall, is a former American sprinter.

Born in Atlanta, McGuire ran for Tennessee State University. TSU had a very successful women's sprinting team in the 1960s, including triple Olympic champions Wilma Rudolph, Wyomia Tyus, and McGuire.

Although McGuire's running career was short, she won six AAU titles, in three different events. Her specialty, however, was the 200 m/220 y, in which she won four of her six national titles. In 1964, she was undeafeted in her favourite event, and went to Tokyo as the main contender for the 200 m gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

McGuire first competed in the 100 m in Japan, and lost out in the final to team mate Tyus. But in the 200 m final, she held off Poland's Irena Kirszenstein to take the gold medal. She added a third medal to her tally as a member of the American 4 x 100 m relay team, which placed second to Poland.

Edith McGuire ended her athletics career in 1965, and became a teacher. At present, she owns a number of fast food restaurants in Oakland, California together with her husband Charles Duvall.

v • d • eOlympic champions in women's 200 m1948: Fanny Blankers-Koen• 1952: Marjorie Jackson• 1956: Betty Cuthbert• 1960: Wilma Rudolph• 1964: Edith McGuire • 1968: Irena Szewinska• 1972: Renate Stecher• 1976: Bärbel Eckert• 1980: Bärbel Eckert• 1984: Valerie Brisco-Hooks• 1988: Florence Griffith-Joyner• 1992 Gwen Torrence• 1996: Marie-José Pérec• 2000: vacant • 2004: Veronica Campbell

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Categories: 1944 births | Living people | American sprinters | Olympic gold medalists for the United States | Olympic silver medalists for the United States | Athletes at the 1964 Summer Olympics | Olympic athletes of the United States | People from Atlanta, Georgia

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