Mae Faggs

Medal record
Women'sathletics
Representingthe United States
Olympic Games
	1952 Helsinki	4 × 100 metres relay
	1956 Melbourne	4 × 100 metres relay
Pan American Games
	1955 Mexico City	4 × 100 metre
	1955 Mexico City	100 metres

Aeriwentha ("Mae") Faggs Starr (April 10, 1932 inMays Landing, New Jersey – January 27, 2000 inCincinnati) was an American athlete who mainly competed in the sprint events. She graduated fromBayside High School, and then went toTennessee State University to run under Hall of Fame coachEd Temple.

She competed for the United States in the1952 Summer Olympics held inHelsinki,Finland where she won the gold medal in the 4 × 100 meter relay with her teammatesBarbara Jones,Janet Moreau andCatherine Hardy. Four years later she went to theMelbourne1956 Games as the sole returnee from the 1952 Games relay team, and teamed up withMargaret Matthews,Wilma Rudolph andIsabelle Daniels but failed to retain the title, only managing to come away with the bronze medal.^[1]

In 1955, she won theUSA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the100-yard dash, in 10.8, record time.^[2]USATF reports her personal record as 10.70, thoughfully automatic timing was extremely rare and only experimental during her career. She repeated winning the100 metres the following year in 11.7. She also won the200 metres or 220 yards three times in a row, 1954–1956.^[3] Indoors, she won the 220 yard dash six times between 1949 (as a 16-year-old) and 1956, equallingStella Walsh (who was later determined to be of ambiguous gender) for the most championships by an individual athlete in that event.^[3]

For many years, Mae taught athletics atPrinceton High School inCincinnati, Ohio, and led the Princeton High School girls' track and field team to the Ohio championship in 1989.^[4]

In 1976, she was elected into theNational Track and Field Hall of Fame.^[5]

She died on January 27, 2000, at her home in Woodlawn, Ohio, at age 67 due to cancer.^[6]

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• USA Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
• 1932 births
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• American women sprinters
• Tennessee State Lady Tigers track and field athletes
• Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
• Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• People from Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey
• People from Bayside, Queens
• Track and field athletes from Queens, New York
• Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• Bayside High School (Queens) alumni
• USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1955 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 1955 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
• Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
• 20th-century American sportswomen
• Olympic women sprinters

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