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{{short description|American sprinter}}
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{{Infobox sportsperson
| name           = Edith McGuire
| image          = Edith McGuire 1964b.jpg
| caption        = McGuire at the 1964 Olympics
| full_name      = Edith Marie McGuire
| birth_date     = {{birth-date and age|June 3, 1944}}
| birth_place    = [[Atlanta, Georgia]], U.S.
| headercolor    = lightsteelblue
| height         = {{convert|1.73|m|ftin|abbr=on|order=flip}}
| weight         = {{convert|59|kg|lb|abbr=on|order=flip}}
| sport          = Athletics
| event          = Sprint, long jump
| club           = TSU Tigers, Nashville
| pb             = 100 m – 11.47 (1964)<br> 200 m – 23.05 (1964)<br> LJ – 5.91 m (1961)
| show-medals    = no
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Women's [[athletics (sport)|athletics]] }}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Tokyo]] | [[Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres|200 m]] }}
{{MedalSilver | 1964 Tokyo | [[Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres|100 m]] }}
{{MedalSilver | 1964 Tokyo | [[Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]] }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Pan American Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1963 Pan American Games|1963 São Paulo]] | [[Athletics at the 1963 Pan American Games|100 m]] }}
{{MedalBronze | 1963 São Paulo | Long jump }}
}}

'''Edith Marie McGuire''' (born June 3, 1944), later known as '''Edith McGuire Duvall''', is an American former sprinter.

Born in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], McGuire ran for [[Tennessee State University]]. TSU had a very successful women's sprinting team, The Tigerbelles, in the 1960s, including triple Olympic champions [[Wilma Rudolph]], [[Wyomia Tyus]], and McGuire.

Although McGuire's running career was short, she won six [[Amateur Athletic Union|AAU]] titles, in three different events. Her specialty, however, was the 200&nbsp;m/220 y, in which she won four of her six national titles. In 1964, she was undefeated in her favorite event, and went to [[Tokyo]] as the main contender for the 200&nbsp;m gold medal at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Edith McGuire |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/edith-mcguire-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203151141/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/edith-mcguire-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016}}</ref>

McGuire first competed in the 100&nbsp;m in Japan, and lost out in the final to teammate Tyus. But in the 200&nbsp;m final, she held off [[Poland]]'s [[Irena Kirszenstein]] to take the gold medal. She added a third medal to her tally as a member of the American 4 × 100&nbsp;m relay team, which placed second to Poland.

Edith McGuire ended her athletics career in 1965, and became a teacher. In 1980 she was inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Edith McGuire Duvall | url=http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/track_and_field/edith_mcGuire_duvall.pdf | access-date=July 5, 2017 | website=[[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719014426/http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/track_and_field/edith_mcGuire_duvall.pdf | archive-date=July 19, 2011 }}</ref> At present, she owns a number of [[fast food restaurant]]s in [[Oakland, California]] together with her husband Charles Duvall.

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{World Athletics|united-states/edith-mcguire-14348087}}
* {{USATF Hall of Fame|106}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|edith-marie-mcguire|Edith Marie McGuire|org_id=edith-mcguire|org_name=Edith McGuire|org_archive=20160920232730}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051025053328/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-916 |title=Edith McGuire at the New Georgia Encyclopedia}}
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102191157/http://www.tsu-alumni.org/olympic.htm |title=Tennessee State University: An Olympic Tradition}}

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