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Carlota Gooden
Carlota
Gooden
is a Panamanian
sprinter
. She was
the first woman
to represent
Panama at the Olympics
.
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
, third in the
1959
Pan American Games
60 metres
and third in the 1959
Pan American
Games 100
metres. 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.