Who was the first female track star??

Answer 1

Babe Didrickson - this woman had incredible athletic ability. She was also a world class golfer and basketball player.
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Didrikson represented the company as a one-woman team in eight of ten track and field events at the 1932 Amateur Athletic Union Championships. She placed in seven events, taking first place in five-shot put, javelin and baseball throws, eighty-meter hurdles, and long jump; she tied for first in the high jump and finished fourth in the discus throw. In three hours Didrikson singlehandedly amassed thirty points, eight more than the entire second-place team, and broke four world records. Her performances in the javelin throw, hurdles, and high jump qualified her to enter the 1932 Olympics, where she again broke world records in all three events. She won gold medals for the javelin and hurdles and, despite clearing the same height as the top finisher in the high jump, was awarded the silver medal because she went over the bar head first, a foul at that time

Answer 2

Florence Griffith Joyner, who was known as "FloJo," gained international sporting acclaim at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. She captured the first of three gold medals running the hundred meter dash in Olympic record time -- and when it was over, celebrated with her husband and coach, Al Joyner, also an Olympic gold medallist. This victory came just two months after she had set the woman's world record in the 100 meters at the Olympic trials. Griffith Joyner went on to win gold in the women's 200-meter dash shown here and in the 400-meter relay. She also won a silver in the 1600-meter relay, making her the first American woman to win four medals in track and field at a single Olympics. She also transformed the sport with her style, wearing bright, one-legged body suits and long painted fingernails. As her reputation as the world's fastest woman grew, rumors also spread about her possible use of performance-enhancing drugs. Griffith Joyner repeatedly denied the allegations and never failed a drug test. She retired from track and field after the '88 games and devoted her time to several businesses, charities, and to her daughter. Since 1993, she had also co-chaired the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. But she is most remembered for her dazzling performances in 1988. Florence Griffith Joyner was 38 years old when she died at her home in Mission Viejo, California,