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Ewa Kłobukowska-- world/European championships and records; discriminated and victimized by the world sport establishment, and especially by the Soviet Union and East Germany. Zhanna Pintusevich-Block - sprint runner, world 100-m & 200-m champion; Tamara Press - 6 world records (shot put & discus throw); 3x Olympic champion (2x shot put & discus)
1842 – English rower Ann Glanville achieved national celebrity becoming known as the champion female rower of the world; [10] her all-women crew often winning against the best male teams. [22] 1856 – The Swedish swimmer and bath house director Nancy Edberg arranged her first public Swimming exhibitions with female swimmers. [23]
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.
Sportswomen from athletics are the most successful overall, with eight wins and thirty-one nominations (excluding Jones' rescissions). American sportswomen have won more awards and nominations than any other nationality, with ten wins and thirty-six nominations. Serena Williams holds the record for the most awards with four. [12]
This is a list of female sports athletes who have been inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame, which recognizes the athletic and coaching achievements of women. [1]
dq1 The United States team of Kelli White, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, and Marion Jones originally won the 2001 World Championship in a time of 41.71 seconds, but were disqualified after Jones and White were found to have used performance-enhancing drugs.
In 2019 the W Series an all female racing championship in which the drivers can progress to Formula 1, Formula 2 and Formula 3 as a full-time or replacement driver. The series is free to enter but you must be picked by the series as one of the 18 best female drivers in the world. The series has 10 races at 8 tracks that do Formula 1 races.
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 However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 following disqualification of Chermoshanskaya for use of performance-enhancing drugs.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]