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Article: Olympic Track Star Willye White Dies
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- February 7, 2007
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CHICAGO - Willye White, a five-time U.S. Olympian and two-time Olympic silver medalist, died Tuesday. She was 67 years old.
White died of pancreatic cancer at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to Sarah Armantrout, a longtime friend who was with White when she died.
White competed in five consecutive Olympic Games between 1956 and 1972 and remains the only American to have competed on five Olympic track and field teams, according to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
She was a 16-year-old sophomore in high school when she won a silver medal in the long jump in the 1956 games in Melbourne, Australia. It marked the first time an American woman ever won a medal in that event. She won her ...