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Thelma (Fynn) Wright’s compelling and impressive international track career began at age seventeen when she represented Canada for the first time at the 1969 world cross country championships in Scotland and later that year at the Pan Pacific Games in Tokyo.
The next year she went on to win bronze medals in both the world cross country championships and the Commonwealth Games in the 1500m. Wright represented Canada at both the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games in the 1500m and won another bronze medal at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.
By the end of 1974, Wright was ranked in the top-fifteen in the world in both the 1500m and 3000m, the latter the newly recognized longest event for women at the time. Perhaps her single greatest performance was the silver medal 3000m run at the 1975 World FISU Games in Rome. Her time of eight minutes 54.9 seconds ranked her fifth in the world. A silver medal in the Pan American Games’ 1500m later that year and winning the Canadian cross country title seven times in the 1970s are also career highlights.
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Philly's Gangster Queen: Thelma Wright
In her early 20s, Thelma met her husband, Jackie Wright, a major player in the Philadelphia drug game. When her husband was murdered, Thelma was faced with a choice: start life over on the s... Read allIn her early 20s, Thelma met her husband, Jackie Wright, a major player in the Philadelphia drug game. When her husband was murdered, Thelma was faced with a choice: start life over on the straight and narrow or take over the family business. With a taste of success and the lure ... Read allIn her early 20s, Thelma met her husband, Jackie Wright, a major player in the Philadelphia drug game. When her husband was murdered, Thelma was faced with a choice: start life over on the straight and narrow or take over the family business. With a taste of success and the lure of easy money, she started transporting cocaine and heroin between Los Angeles and Philade... Read all
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Thelma Wright
Who Was Thelma Wright?
Thelma Wright met her husband, Jackie Wright, a major player in the Philadelphia drug game, when she was in her early 20s. When her husband was murdered, Wright was faced with a choice: start life over on the straight and narrow, or take over the family business. With a taste of success and the lure of easy money, Wright began transporting cocaine and heroin between Los Angeles and Philadelphia. But life in the game was not what she bargained for. Wright her life of crime behind for good in 1991 and published a memoir a decade later, With Eyes From Both Sides - Living My Life In and Out of the Game.
Early Life
Raised by loving parents in a wholesome Catholic household in South Philadelphia, Thelma Wright attended St. Maria Goretti High School before enrolling at Temple University, where she studied real estate management. According to her later-published memoir, she then relocated to Los Angeles, California, where she began initiating various business ventures, including founding a clothing design company entitled Jackiem Enterprises,
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