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Charlotte Cooper. The first modern Olympic Games to feature female athletes was the 1900 Games in Paris. [3] Hélène de Pourtalès of Switzerland became the first woman to compete at the Olympic Games and became the first female Olympic champion, as a member of the winning team in the first 1 to 2 ton sailing event on May 22, 1900.
Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 53 kg. Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 57 kg. Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 62 kg. Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 68 kg.
Volleyball has been part of the Summer Olympics program for both men and women consistently since 1964. Brazil, France, the United States and the former Soviet Union are the only teams to win multiple gold medals at the men's tournament since its introduction. The remaining six editions of the Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament were won each ...
Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics. Gymnastics events have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. For 32 years, only men were allowed to compete. Beginning at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, women were allowed to compete in artistic gymnastics ...
C. Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Women's cross-country (7 P) Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Women's individual time trial (7 P) Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Women's keirin (3 P) Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Women's omnium (3 P) Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Women's sprint (9 P) Cycling at the Summer ...
Melanie Roche, four time Olympic medalist in softball Softball was introduced as an Olympic sport for women only in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The decision to add the sport to the 1996 Olympic program was made in 1995. The IOC earlier had established a committee the prototype of their International Olympic Commission on Women and Sports. Anita DeFrantz as committee chair starting 1992 would be ...
Women's freestyle wrestling competition was first held at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2013, the IOC voted to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympic program. The president of the sport's governing body, FILA (now United World Wrestling ), resigned after a subsequent motion of no confidence , and several of the FILA leadership followed suit.
A women's water polo tournament was introduced for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Hungary has been the most successful country in men's tournament, while the United States is the only team to win multiple times at the women's tournament since its introduction. Italy was the first to win both the men's and women's water polo tournaments.