Carlota Gooden

Carlota Gooden
Personal information
Born (1936-06-07) 7 June 1936
Panama City, Panama
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
SportSprinting
Event
100 metres

Carlota Gooden (born 7 June 1936) is a Panamanian sprinter. She was the first woman to represent Panama at the Olympics.[1]

She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics. She finished second in the 1959 Pan American Games 4 × 100 metres Relay (with Jean Holmes-Mitchell, Marcela Daniel, and Silvia Hunte), third in the 1959 Pan American Games 60 metres and third in the 1959 Pan American Games 100 metres.[2] She was descended from Barbadian canal workers. In 1955, she earned an athletic scholarship to Tuskegee University, one of the premier African American women's track programs.[3]

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Panama
1951 Bolivarian Games Caracas, Venezuela 1st 60 m 6.5
1st 100 m 12.5
1st 4 × 100 m relay 49.5
1954 Central American and Caribbean Games Mexico City, Mexico 1st 100 m 12.32
1st 4 × 100 m relay 47.49
1959 Pan American Games Chicago, United States 3rd 60 m 7.4
3rd 100 m 12.3
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 48.2
1960 Olympic Games Rome, Italy 25th (qf) 100 m 12.70
6th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 46.66
Ibero-American Games Santiago, Chile 1st 100 m 11.9
1st 4 × 100 m relay 47.2

Personal bests

References

  1. ^ "First female competitors at the Olympics by country". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carlota Gooden Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Carlota Gooden's Athletic Citizenship". 14 December 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2017.


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