从1928年阿姆斯特丹奥运会开始，女选手才被允许参加奥运会田径比赛，当时女子田径比赛共设有100米、800米、跳高、铁饼和4×100米接力比赛。美国选手伊丽莎白·鲁滨逊以12秒2的成绩战胜加拿大选手罗森菲尔德和史密斯，成为奥运会历史上首位女子田径冠军。同时，这个成绩还平了鲁滨逊本人保持的世界纪录。

Betty Robinson was a 16-year-old student who did not know she was a good runner until a teacher spotted her running after a train and timed her in a corridor back at school. Robinson competed in her first meet only four months before the 1928 Olympics. In her first outdoor meet, she set a world record for 100m. The 1928 100m was the first women's track event to be contested in Olympic history. Robinson won the final by half a metre in what was only her fourth track meet ever. She also earned a silver medal in the 4x100m relay.

1931年，鲁滨逊在一次飞机失事中大难不死，但她也受到严重的伤害：脑震荡、断了一条腿、手骨折、前额被划开一道伤口。鲁滨逊昏迷了7个星期，并在此后的两年里都无法行走。 但鲁滨逊没有向伤病低头，她在1936年奇迹般地参加了德国柏林奥运会，这次她又与队友一起夺得4×100米接力金牌。

Three years after her Olympic triumph, Robinson was badly injured in an airplane crash. The man who found her thought she was dead, so he put her in his car trunk and drove her to a mortician. She was unconscious for seven weeks and she could not walk normally for two years…but she did survive. Robinson wanted to return to competitive sprinting, but she was no longer able to bend her leg fully at the knee, so she could not assume the crouched starting position. She could, however, run in relays. In 1936, Betty Robinson won a second gold medal as a member of the U.S. 4x100m relay team. 

 
（Agencies)   

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