Mabel Staton, trailblazer who was US team’s only female long jumper at the 1952 Olympics, dies at 92
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Mabel Staton, trailblazer who was US team’s only female long jumper at the 1952 Olympics, dies at 92

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Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for the United States in the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, died Thursday. Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women’s track team, was inducted into the university’s athletic Hall of Fame in 2011. Senior associate athletic director Thad Dohrn said Landry’s daughter notified the school of her mother’s death, which came after a long battle with cancer. She went on to win four national long jump titles and anchored the winning 4x100-meter relay team for the United States at the 1955 Pan American Games.

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