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Sanya Richards-Ross - 5 Olympic medals. Fanny Blankers-Koen - 4 Olympic medals. Betty Cuthbert - 4 Olympic medals. Cathy Freeman - 2 Olympic medals in running. Kim Gevaert - sprint runner. Florence Griffith Joyner - 5 Olympic medals. Wilma Glodean Rudolph - 4 Olympic medals in athletics. Kelly Holmes - 3 Olympic medals in middle distance ...
See also: List of nicknames used in basketball. "Ack-Ack" = Tom Heinsohn, American forward-center [ 4 ] "Action Jackson" = Mark Jackson, American point guard [ 5 ] "The Admiral" = David Robinson, American center [ 6 ] "A.I." = Allen Iverson, American shooting guard [ 7 ] "Air Jordan" = Michael Jordan, American shooting guard.
Ranked world No. 2 at the end of the year in 1968 • 1968 US Open champion • 1977 Wimbledon champion • 1972 Australian Open champion • 1973 Australian Open women's doubles champion • 1973 French Open women's doubles champion • 1973 and 1975 US Open women's doubles champion. Jean Walker-Smith. United Kingdom. 1924.
The addition of "ette" or "Lady" to team nicknames angers some proponents of women's athletics, who call their use sexist — and comes across as a tired anachronism to many 21st century girls ...
Listed below are English sportsmen and sportswomen of note and some notable individuals born in England. David Beckham. Jenson Button. Lewis Hamilton. Wayne Rooney. Barney Aaron (Young) (1800–1850), lightweight boxer, Hall of Fame [ 1 ] Harold Abrahams (1899–1978), athlete, Olympic champion (100-metre sprint) and silver (4x100-m relay), one ...
Big Three, The Three Tenors, GOATs= Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal,Novak Djokovic Boom Boom Boris, The Lion of Leimen, Baron von Slam = Boris Becker [8] The Barcelona Bumblebee = Arantxa Sánchez Vicario [9] [10] [11]
Jane Flemming – multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist. Debbie Flintoff-King – Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee. Cathy Freeman – Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee. Tracey Freeman – multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist.
She won the women's junior golf championship for New South Wales in 1929, and the New South Wales Women's Amateur Championship in 1932, 1934, and 1935. [34] Sir Henry Cotton (1988, Knight Bachelor, [35] 1907–1987); Cotton had accepted the knighthood and it was made effective before his death. It was not appointed posthumously despite his ...