Cheryl Renee Toussaint (born December 16, 1952) is an

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athlete who mainly competed in the

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. She grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of

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, where she attended

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, setting the indoor record in the 600-yard run in 1970, the same year she graduated from high school. She competed for the United States at the

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held in Munich where she won the silver medal in the women's

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with her team mates Mable Fergerson,

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and 400 m bronze medalists Kathy Hammond. In 1987, Toussaint founded Tousse Running Apparel, a company designing custom Team track Apparel. Working with GK Elite Sportswear, Toussaint has developed a line of track and field uniforms that can be custom designed online. in 2015, Cheryl became the Meet Director for the Colgate Women's Games, the nation's largest track and field series for women.colgategames.com

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Tousse Running Apparel
1952 births American female sprinters Olympic silver medalists for the United States in track and field Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Erasmus Hall High School alumni Sportspeople from Brooklyn Living people Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Athletes (track and field) at the 1971 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games Track and field athletes from New York City Olympic female sprinters 21st-century American women {{US-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub