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She was the number-one-ranked woman in the United States and the world [56] [57] in both 1957 and 1958, and was named Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years, garnering over 80% of the votes in 1958. [58] She also became the first Black woman to appear on the covers of Sports Illustrated [59] and Time. [60]
First African-American Winter Olympic gold medal winner: Vonetta Flowers (two-woman bobsleigh). (See also: Shani Davis, 2006) First African American to become majority owner of a U.S. major sports league team: Robert L. Johnson (Charlotte Bobcats, NBA) [Note 7] (see also 2001) First African American to hold the #1 rank in tennis: Venus Williams
Jasmine Plummer (born c. 1993 Harvey, Illinois) is an American football player who was the first-ever female quarterback for a Pop Warner football team. [1] At the age of 11 years old, she became the first female quarterback and the first black female athlete to play in the Pop Warner Super Bowl youth football tournament, [2] specifically the 56th Annual Pop Warner Super Bowl (Junior Pee Wee ...
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American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...
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Jackson became the first Black woman to win a Winter Olympic gold in an individual sport. [2] Jackson also is the first American woman to win an Olympic speed skating gold since Chris Witty in 1000m in 2002 , and the first American woman to win the women's 500m since Bonnie Blair in 1994 .
After several failed attempts, Flowers turned to bobsledding, and found success as a brakewoman almost immediately. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she, along with driver Jill Bakken, won the gold medal in the two-woman event, becoming the first African American woman to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. After the Salt Lake City Games ...