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Barbara Jones

1937 - Today

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Barbara Pearl Jones (later Slater, born March 26, 1937) is a retired American sprinter. She was part of the 4 × 100 m relay teams that won gold medals at the 1952 and 1960 Olympics and at the 1955 and 1959 Pan American Games. At the 1952 Olympics she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, aged 15 years 123 days. She later became a member of the U.S. Paralympic Games Committee. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Jones is the 161st most popular athlete, the 3,695th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,595th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Barbara Jones ranks 161 out of 6,025. Before her are Hélène de Pourtalès, Maxie Long, John Anderson, Alfred Neuland, Vladimír Dzurilla, and Kipchoge Keino. After her are Ilmari Salminen, Nadezhda Olizarenko, Nándor Dáni, Vera Krepkina, Karl Röderer, and Thomas Hicks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Barbara Jones ranks 174. Before her are Yuri Manin, María Kodama, Viktor Ponedelnik, Foday Sankoh, Archie Shepp, and Harris Yulin. After her are Mikheil Meskhi, Manga, Paolo Bonacelli, Jay Rockefeller, Cornelis Vreeswijk, and Monica Zetterlund.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Jones ranks 3,695 out of 20,380. Before her are Tom Peters (1942), Denise Richards (1971), Kirk Acevedo (1971), Elizabeth Monroe (1768), James P. Allison (1948), and Chad Smith (1961). After her are Blake Lively (1987), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), David Ogden Stiers (1942), Richard Lester (1932), Teresa Wright (1918), and Charles Coburn (1877).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Barbara Jones ranks 51. Before her are Fred Kelly (1891), William Hoyt (1875), Harrison Dillard (1923), Hélène de Pourtalès (1868), Maxie Long (1878), and John Anderson (1907). After her are Jim Bausch (1906), Irving Baxter (1876), Walter Tewksbury (1876), Jim Hines (1946), Earle Meadows (1913), and John Powell (1947).

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