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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
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
2021 - Rachael Blackmore won the Grand National, becoming the first female jockey to win the race. [461] 2021 - Desiree Linden completed a 50K in 2:59:54, becoming the first woman ever to run 50 km under 3 hours and breaking the world record (previously 3:07:20 by Aly Dixon on September 1, 2019). This was Linden's first ultramarathon.
She was voted the Greatest Female Athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the Associated Press. The Williams sisters have redefined women in tennis and are credited with pioneering a game ...
Tamara Natanovna Press [nb 1] (10 May 1937 – 26 April 2021) [1] was a Soviet athlete who dominated the shot put and discus throw in the early 1960s. She won three gold medals and one silver medal at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and three European titles in 1958–1962.
1960 Rome details: Lynn Burke United States: Natalie Steward Great Britain: Satoko Tanaka Japan: 1964 Tokyo details: Cathy Ferguson United States: Kiki Caron France: Ginny Duenkel United States: 1968 Mexico City details: Kaye Hall United States: Elaine Tanner Canada: Jane Swagerty United States: 1972 Munich details: Melissa Belote United States ...
In 1960, she set the British national record time for the 80 metres hurdles twice. She ran a record time of 11.0 seconds in July 1960, [10] and later in the month, she ran a new record time of 10.9 seconds. [11] At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, Quinton won the silver medal in the 80 m hurdles. [1]
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 ...