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This is a list of female athletes by sport. Each section is ordered alphabetical by the last name (originally or most commonly known). For specific groupings, see Category:Sportswomen. Sasha Cohen Ellen van Dijk Hagar Finer Sarah Hughes Giselle Kañevsky Morgan Pressel Irina Slutskaya Dara Torres, 4x Olympic champion swimmer
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
The 2023 World Athletics Rankings document the best-performing athletes in the sport of athletics, according to World Athletics' individual athlete ranking system. Individual athletes are assigned a points score best on an average of their best recent competition performances.
The Russian-born Sharapova annually was one of the best-paid female athletes in the world and ranks fourth in all-time women's tennis earnings (over $38 million) while being a big hit via ...
Bookending her legendary comeback from a two-year break, seven-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles is the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 2023.. The 26-year-old earned the title for ...
The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. A one-off edition of the championships was also held the same year at the 1980 Summer Olympics to include the IAAF -approved international women's events in 400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres which were not added to the Olympic athletics programme that year ...
Here is a list of some of the top female athletes to keep an eye on this season. Lyv Lindeman (100- and 300-meter hurdles, 100) of Delphos Jefferson At last year's Division III state meet as a ...
American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936, except for 1980. [2] A total of 90 female gymnasts have represented the United States. American women have won 62 medals at the Olympics – 11 in team all-around, 11 in individual all-around, 7 in vault, 10 in uneven bars, 11 in balance beam, and 12 in floor exercise.