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This List of Indian Sportswomen includes Indian female sportspersons who brought laurels for the country at the international stage.. Indian professional badminton player P.V.Sindhu.
The first women's Test was played between England and Australia in 1934. [16] Women's cricket arrived in India much later; the Women's Cricket Association of India (WCAI) was formed in 1973. [17] The Indian women's team played their first Test match in 1976, against the West Indies. [18]
Football for women in Asia started later compared to their male counterparts. The seed of women's football in India was planted in the early 1970s. The first manager was Sushil Bhattacharya, in 1975 [3] [4] and from 1975 until 1991, the administration of the game was in the hands of the Women's Football Federation of India (WFFI), which comes under the Asian Ladies' Football Confederation ...
It is "a charitable educational organization dedicated to increasing the participation of girls and women in sports and fitness and creating an educated public that supports gender equity in sport." 1974 – Seven teams joined to form the Women's Professional Football League. [64] 1974 – The Portland Mavericks hired Lanny Moss to manage the ...
Professional women's basketball is slowly gaining more attention in South America. Many Latin American countries have professional women's leagues, but the only country to obtain success internationally is Brazil. The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup is a world basketball tournament held every four years for women's basketball national teams.
However, the India Women's team did not win any medals in the Women's Hockey World Cup. The present team is ranked tenth place by the Fédération Internationale de Hockey . [ 143 ] India has hosted three Men's Hockey World Cups—the first in 1982 in Mumbai , second in 2010 in Delhi—where the country finished fifth and eighth place ...
Times always change. For the world of sports, change in 2024 was on 3x speed. College sports realigned and entered a turbocharged world of pay-for play. The NFL moved more of its luggage into the ...
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.