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Lily Kronberger - four-time World Champion, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame; Michelle Kwan - two-time Olympic medalist, five-time World champion, and nine-time U.S. champion; Emilia Rotter - four-time World Champion; Irina Slutskaya - two-time World Champion; Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi - Olympic champion two-time World champion, U.S. champion
The 100 Best Female Footballers in the World is an annual global ranking of the best female footballers.The list was started by The Offside Rule podcast in 2016. Since 2018 it has also been published in association with the British newspaper The Guardian who have published the male equivalent since its inception in 2012.
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) [1] is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, [a] she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, including a joint-record 186 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.
This list of notable awards honoring sportswomen gives the country of the sponsoring organization, but some awards are open to sportswomen around the world. The list includes sub-lists for general awards to female athletes, for awards to association football (soccer) players, to basketball players and to women players in other sports.
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 However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 following disqualification of Chermoshanskaya for use of performance-enhancing drugs. [7]
Babe Didrikson Zaharias was a multi-sport athlete who excelled in golf, track and field, and basketball, and is considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. United Women's Sports LLC (UWS) is a professional sports company founded in 2016 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Operating women's professional sports leagues as a ...
The top-ranked singles player is the player who, over the previous 52 weeks, has garnered the most ranking points on the WTA Tour. Points are awarded based on how far a player advances in tournaments and the category of those tournaments. The WTA has used a computerized system for determining the rankings since November 3, 1975. Since 1975, 29 ...
List of All England women's doubles champions; List of Denmark Open women's singles champions; List of Olympic medalists in softball; List of PSA women's number 1 ranked players; List of World Championships medalists in weightlifting (women)