Who is Alice Coachman parents?
Evelyn Coachman
Fred Coachman
Alice Coachman/Parents
What is Alice Coachman full name?
Alice Coachman Davis
Alice Coachman Davis (November 9, 1923 – July 14, 2014) was an American athlete. She specialized in high jump and was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
Did Alice Coachman have siblings?
Dicena Rambo
Alice Coachman/Siblings
What is Alice Coachman age?
90 years (1923–2014)
Alice Coachman/Age at death
Alice Coachman, who became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal when she captured the high jump for the United States at the 1948 London Games, died on Monday in Albany, Ga. She was 90.
Is Alice Coachman dead?
July 14, 2014
Alice Coachman/Date of death
Is Alice Coachman still alive?
Deceased (1923–2014)
Alice Coachman/Living or Deceased
Is Alice Coachman alive?
Where was Alice Coachman die?
Albany, Georgia, United States
Alice Coachman/Place of death
Who was the first black woman athlete?
Alice Coachman of Albany, Georgia, clears the bar at five feet to win the running high jump in women’s national track meet in Grand Rapids July 6, 1948. Her story: Coachman was born in Albany, Georgia, and faced two barriers in training to become an athlete: She was black and she was a woman.
Who was Alice Coachman married to and how many children did she have?
Alice Coachman. Coachman realized that nothing had changed despite her athletic success; she never again competed in track events. She married N. F. Davis, had two children (Richmond and Diane), and strove to become a role model away from the athletic limelight.
How did Alice Coachman die cause of death?
Coachman died in Albany, Georgia on July 14, 2014, of cardiac arrest after suffering through respiratory problems. She had a stroke a few months prior for which she received treatment from a nursing home. She had two children during her first marriage to N. F. Davis, which ended in divorce.
Where was Alice Coachman Davis born and raised?
Coachman Davis was born on November 9, 1923, in Albany, Georgia. She was the fifth of Fred and Evelyn Coachman’s ten children.
When did Alice Coachman go to the Olympics?
Coachman completed a B.S. degree in Home Economics with a minor in science at Albany State College in 1949 and became teacher and track-and-field instructor. During World War II, the Olympic committee cancelled the 1940 and 1944 games. Alice Coachman’s first Olympic opportunity came in 1948 in London, when she was twenty-four.