Carlota Gooden
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Panamanian |
Born |
Panama City, Panama | 7 June 1936
Sport | |
Sport | Sprinting |
Event(s) | 100 metres |
Carlota Gooden (born 7 June 1936) is a Panamanian sprinter. She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics. She finished second in the 1959 Pan American Games 4 × 100 metres Relay (with Jean Holmes-Mitchell, Marcela Daniel, and Silvia Hunte), third in the 1959 Pan American Games 60 metres and third in the 1959 Pan American Games 100 metres.[1] She was descended from Barbadian canal workers. In 1955, she earned an athletic scholarship to Tuskegee University, one of the premier African American women’s track programs.[2]
References
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Carlota Gooden Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
- ↑ "Carlota Gooden's Athletic Citizenship". Retrieved 23 June 2017.
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