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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, ...
5.695 m Noemí Simonetto Argentina: 5.60 m Ann-Britt Leyman Sweden: 5.575 m 1952 Helsinki details: Yvette Williams New Zealand: 6.24 m Aleksandra Chudina Soviet Union: 6.14 m Shirley Cawley Great Britain: 5.92 m 1956 Melbourne details: Elżbieta Krzesińska Poland: 6.35 m Willye White United States: 6.09 m Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili Soviet Union
At the 2021 Prefontaine Classic, Thompson-Herah set another 100 m personal best, Jamaican and Diamond League record of 10.54 s, becoming the first woman to break the 40 km/h barrier, then ran times of 10.64 s and 10.65 s. For her season she was voted Laureus Sportswoman of the Year, and World Athletics World Female Athlete of the Year.
The United States Women's National Team has had several athletes become icons since the 1990s. Most recently, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe have joined the likes of Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach as ...
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.
As part of its 65th-anniversary celebration, Barbie adds Venus Williams and more elite female athletes to its Role Models series. […]
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 ...
In 2008, an image of her silhouette was used in the logo for the second professional women's soccer league in the United States: Women's Professional Soccer. [175] ESPN named her the greatest female athlete in 2012. [176] In 2013, Hamm became the first woman inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame, located in Pachuca, Mexico. [177]