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Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, Nelly Bly Jr. Occupation. Businesswoman. Notable work. Circumnavigated the globe on a bicycle. Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947), [ 1 ] known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world.
Sheila Christine Taormina (born March 18, 1969) [1] is an American former athlete who competed at four Olympics (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008), and was the first woman to qualify for the Olympics in three different sports (swimming, triathlon and modern pentathlon). [2] At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she earned a gold medal as a member of the winning U ...
Pan American Games. 2019 Lima. Freestyle. 2023 Santiago. Freestyle. Hannah Roberts (born August 10, 2001) is an American BMX freestyle cyclist. She is a five-time world champion in the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships and silver medalist in freestyle BMX at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Tillie Anderson (April 23, 1875 – April 29, 1965) was a road and track cyclist. Tillie, a Swedish immigrant and, from all accounts, an extremely strong-willed individual, outpaced the best of the best on the wheel, with times that are still impressive today. Born in Skåne, Sweden in 1875, Tillie emigrated to Chicago in 1891 at the age of 16.
Leah Goldstein. Leah Goldstein (born February 4, 1969, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a professional Canadian- Israeli road racing cyclist, former 1989 World Bantamweight Kickboxing Champion, and Israel's 1998 Duathlon champion. [1][2] In 2021, she became the first woman to win the overall solo division of the Race Across America ...
Sheila Young. Sheila Grace Young-Ochowicz (born October 14, 1950) is a retired American speed skater and track cyclist. She won three world titles in each of these sports, twice in the same year (in 1973 and 1976). In 1976, she also became the first American athlete to win three medals at one Winter Olympics.
Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) [1] is an American racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF–Oatly–Cannondale. [4] [5] She is the reigning USA National Road Race Champion [6] and won two gold medals in the women's individual road race and women's track cycling team pursuit at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Henrietta Johnston was the first known female portrait painter in the American colonies as well as the first woman pastelist. [ 6 ] Elizabeth Timothy was the first woman to print a formal newspaper as well as the first female franchise holder in the colonies. [ 4 ] Jane Colden was the first woman botanist in America.