Browsing: She went on to win four national long jump titles and anchored the winning 4×100-meter relay team for the United States at the 1955 Pan American Games.

         Mabel Landry Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for the United States in the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, died Thursday. The Chicago native was 92.