Erin Jackson of US 1st Black woman to win speedskating gold

[ASFN Admin]

Erin Jackson became the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics. Jackson won the 500 meters Sunday with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving the American speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games and first individual medal since 2010. The 29-year-old Jackson, a former inline skater who switched to the ice shortly before the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, joined fellow American Shani Davis as the only Black athletes to win long-track speedskating medals at the Olympics.

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