Fulgencia Romay (born January 16, 1944) is a retired sprinter from Cuba. At the 1968 Summer Olympics she helped win a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay, the first Olympic medal ever won by Cuban women. At the 1972 Summer Olympics she won another relay medal, this time a bronze. Subject: The Olympic Rings. ... Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ... mens 100m champion ... Athletics Medal Winners at the 1972 Munich Olympics Internal links Olympic Games Summer Olympic Games 1972 Summer Olympics Categories: Athletics at the Olympics | 1972 Summer Olympics ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sprints are races in athletics. ... The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in Mexico City in 1968. ... The Games of the XX Olympiad were held in 1972 in Munich, West Germany. ...
La Habana CUB - Three Jamaican and nine Cuban stars were inducted into the Central American and Caribbean Confederation (CACAC) Hall of Fame, in two separate ceremonies held in Kingston on Thursday and in Havana on Saturday.
Sprinters Leslie Laing, Dr Lennox Miller and sprint hurdler Keith Gardner were honored by CACAC president and IAAF Coaches Commission chairman Víctor López, who also awarded Pablo Montes, Hermes Ramírez, Juan Morales, Violeta Quesada, Miguelina Cobián, the late Marlene Elejalde, Carmen Laura Valdés y FulgenciaRomay, all Olympic medallists.
On the same day, October 20, Elejalde, Romay, Quesada and Cobián also claimed the 4x100m relay silver, the first Olympic medal ever achieved by Cuban women.
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