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This is a list of female athletes by sport. Each section is ordered alphabetical by the last name (originally or most commonly known). For specific groupings, see Category:Sportswomen. Sasha Cohen Ellen van Dijk Hagar Finer Sarah Hughes Giselle Kañevsky Morgan Pressel Irina Slutskaya Dara Torres, 4x Olympic champion swimmer
The prominent women's sports leagues in the United States and Canada serve as the pinnacle of women's athletic competition in North America. The United States is home to the vast majority of professional women's leagues. In North America, the top women's leagues feature both team sports and individual athletes.
While sports which involve female participation are often collectively called, "women's sports", the overwhelming majority are not, and are in fact "female variants" a.k.a. "the female equivalent" of sports which were first played by and popularized by men and boys, making these two sporting groups distinct.
also: People: By occupation: Sportspeople: By nationality: American: Women also: People : By gender : Women : By nationality : By occupation : Sportswomen : American Articles on individual American sportswomen may be added directly to this category, but should be moved to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
List of women's doubles Grand Slam tennis tournament champions: The only pairing to complete the Grand Slam is the team of Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver in 1984, and their eight consecutive major win-streak remains the all-time record. [1] [2] Maria Bueno in 1960 and Martina Hingis in 1998 also won the Grand Slam, though with multiple ...
The Professional Women’s Hockey League, created via a merger of competing leagues last year, played its first season with a slate of teams identified only by their city names.
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Sheila Taormina from the United States and Truus Klapwijk from the Netherlands are the only women to have competed three different sports. [1] Of the athletes who participated in two or more Summer Olympics in two different sports, 49 are Swedish and 23 of them participated in the home Olympics in Stockholm 1912.