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Remembering Dianne Durham, the Olympic hopeful from Gary

Remembering Dianne Durham, the Olympic hopeful from Gary
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Chicagoan Dianne Durham will be inducted into USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame

Durham was the first Black woman to win a USA Gymnastics national championship and later became a gymnastics instructor in Chicago.

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Barrier-breaking gymnast Dianne Durham dies at 52

Barrier-breaking gymnast Dianne Durham dies at 52
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Dianne Durham, first Black woman to win USA Gymnastics national championship, has died at 52

Dianne Durham, first Black woman to win USA Gymnastics national championship, has died at 52 By McKay Bolden February 6, 2021 / 7:57 AM / CBS News Dianne Durham, the first Black woman to win a United States Gymnastics national championship, died in Chicago at the age of 52 on Thursday. Her husband told the Associated Press that Durham had a short illness. Durham was a trailblazer in American gymnastics. At only 14 years old, Durham won the all-around at the 1983 national championships and was the first Black woman to do so in the organization s history. Durham and Mary Lou Retton were the first star American pupils of Romanian-American gymnastics coaches, Bela and Martha Karolyi. Durham won the McDonald s International Invitational in Los Angeles in 1983, however her injuries slowed her down, forcing the gymnast to miss the 1983 world championships.

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Dianne Durham, the first Black national champion of US gymnastics, dies at 52

Dianne Durham, the first Black national champion of US gymnastics, dies at 52 At just 14 years old, Dianne Durham stood before thousands of spectators on the biggest stage in American gymnastics. She’d just hurt her foot in an earlier, near-perfect balance beam routine but she wasn’t thinking about the pain, she told a CBS reporter. She’d been “having too much fun to let it bother” her, she said. She didn’t let the pressure of being one of the only Black competitors at the 1983 Gymnastics Championships of the USA bother her either she was poised to become its first Black champion.

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