Black Sporting Heroes & She-roes

Black American artist, Henry Taylor (b. 1958) painted the Georgia, USA-born black sporting hero Alice Coachman Davis (1923-2014, aged 91), in his 2011 work, See Alice jump. 

Alice Coachman Davis was the, 1st black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. 

7th August 1948: Alice Coachman (of Tuskegee Uni) became the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track & field. 

The 1948 Olympic Games saw Fanny Blankers-Koen, "a big, raw-boned Dutchwoman", win 4 gold medals. 6 August 1948, Blankers-Koen had completed the inaugural Olympic 200m sprint for women in 24.4 secs, only 7/10^th  of a second ahead of runner-up Audrey Williamson. 

Audrey Patterson, the first African American woman to win an Olympic medal, was placed in third, although a finish photo discovered decades later indicates Shirley Strickland should have won the bronze.