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| Full name | Cheryl Renee Toussaint | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 16, 1952 (1952-12-16) (age 73) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Cheryl Renee Toussaint (born December 16, 1952) is anAmerican athlete who mainly competed in the800 metres.
She grew up in theBedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood ofBrooklyn,New York, where she attendedErasmus Hall High School, setting the indoor record in the 600-yard run in 1970, the same year she graduated from high school.[1] She competed for the United States at the1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich where she won the silver medal in the women's4 × 400 metres relay with her teammatesMable Fergerson,Madeline Manning and 400 m bronze medalistsKathy Hammond.
In 1987, Toussaint foundedTousse Running Apparel, a company designing custom Team track Apparel. Working with GK Elite Sportswear, Toussaint has developed a line of track and field uniforms that can be custom designed online.
in 2015, Cheryl became the Meet Director for the Colgate Women's Games, the nation's largest track and field series for women.[2]
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