Dorothy Dodson

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dodson won 11 consecutive National Championships in the javelin throw, 1939–49.

Dodson was also the gold medalist in the shot put at the U.S. AAU Indoor Championships in 1941, 1945, and 1946.

[1] Like so many amateur athletes of the era, Dodson and her contemporaries were denied an opportunity to compete at the ill-fated 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games; a world at war would have to wait for such things.

The crowning achievement of Dodson's career came in 1948, when she represented the United States at the Summer Olympics in London.

[2] Dodson remains the last United States athlete, male or female, to compete in three throwing events at a single Olympic Games.