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Lillian Barbara Board, MBE (13 December 1948 – 26 December 1970) was a British athlete. She won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens.
Her fame increased markedly when in 1965 she was appointed captain of the San Francisco Bay Bombers. She appeared on 19 consecutive all-star teams in that sport, and was the highest-paid female athlete in the 1960s [2] and 1970s. Joan usually skated as the distaff heroine of the sport, no matter what team she appeared with.
The women's gymnastics team looked unified in striking dark blue tracksuits for their arrival in Rome during the 1960 Summer Olympics. George Silk - Getty Images 1960: Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal; born 10 February 1940) is a British former track and field athlete. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.
In 2021, de Varona joined the Women's Sports Policy Working Group, formed in opposition to President Joe Biden's Executive Order 13988 that mandates blanket inclusion for all transgender women athletes. To achieve this end, the Order's stated goal is "protecting the girls’ and women's competitive categories, while crafting accommodations for ...
Between 1957 and 1960, Heiss dominated women's figure skating like nobody since Sonja Henie. She was the World and U.S. Champion each year, and at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , California , Heiss captured the gold medal, being ranked first by all nine judges.
1960 – Captain of the women's section of the Rome Olympic team. 1964 – World Trophy for Australasia (Helms Award) [4] 1965 – Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to athletics in New South Wales [4] 1978–1980 – First female Trustee of the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust [41] 1983 – Olympic Order ...