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The This Girl Can campaign was developed by Sport England to promote sport amongst women. The first TV ad was aired on 12 January 2015. The first TV ad was aired on 12 January 2015. It was accompanied by cinema, outdoor, and social media advertising, which included a Twitter campaign using the hashtag #thisgirlcan.
Charlotte "Eppy" Epstein (1884–1938), managed the United States Women's Olympic Swimming Team in the 1920s, and founded the National Women's Life Saving League in 1914, and the New York's Women's Swimming Association (WSA), which she led from 1917-1939. Known as "Mother of Women's Swimming in America", she helped enable women to become ...
In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris-Nez in France to ...
This is a complete list of women's World Championships medalists in short-course swimming from 1993 to 2021. 50 metre freestyle. Year
List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women) 10 languages. ... This is the complete list of women's World Aquatics Championships medalists ...
This is a list of women's Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming from 1930 to 2022. Current program ... Statistics; Cookie statement ...
FINA adopts a new 'gender inclusion policy' that permits only swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women's events. World swimming policy, in effect, bans transgender athletes from ...
Environmentalist Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an impressive feat in and of itself.What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost.