Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, has died.

An antidiscrimination lawsuit on her behalf helped lead to one of the first multiracial track teams in the Midwest.

Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women's track team, was inducted into the university's athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.

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BLOOMINGTON — Greg Bell, a gold-medal long jumper at the 1956 Olympic Games and member of the IU Athletics Hall of Fame, died Saturday at his home in Logansport. He was 94. Born in Terre Haute ...

Arguably his greatest career achievement athletically came at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where Bell won the gold medal with a 7.83-meter long jump. In 1957, Bell helped IU win Big ...

World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that Greg Bell, the 1956 Olympic long jump champion, died on Saturday (25) at the age of 94. He had been the oldest living Olympic gold medallist in ...