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Gabrielle Lisa Thomas (born December 7, 1996) [3] is an American track and field athlete specializing in 100 and 200 meter sprint who is the 2024 200m Olympic champion. Born in Georgia and raised in Massachusetts, Thomas competed in college for Harvard University before beginning a professional track career in 2018.
For her history-making season, Thompson-Herah received World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year award, was named Best Female Athlete of the Year by the International Sports Press Association (529 journalists from 114 countries), Female Athlete of the Year by the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association, Athlete of ...
Before King, the only women to win the award were the female members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team, who were prevented from competing in the Games due to the American-led boycott of the Soviet ...
[4] [5] [6] She is the World, Olympic, Youth Olympic, and X Games champion in the halfpipe and the first to win the title at all four major events. Kim was awarded Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year two times (2019, 2020) [7] and five ESPY Awards, including Best Female Action Sports Athlete three years in a row.
Clark is only the fourth women’s basketball player to be honored as the female athlete of the year since it was first presented in 1931, joining Sheryl Swoopes (1993), Rebecca Lobo (1995) and ...
NANTERRE, France — Katie Ledecky cannot be stopped. Ledecky won her ninth gold and 14th overall medal Saturday, taking the 800-meter freestyle and concluding her fourth Olympic Games in style.
Lia Catherine Thomas [2] (born May 1999) is an American swimmer. She was the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship, having won the women's 500-yard freestyle event in 2022, before being barred from competing in women's events by World Aquatics.
At the 2020 Olympic Games, Ledecky emerged as the most decorated U.S. female athlete and became the first American female swimmer to win an individual event in three straight Olympiads. [11] In 2023, she won gold in the 800 meter World Championship, becoming the first swimmer—male or female—to win six World Championship gold medals in the ...