Melinda Cockshutt
The month after her 50th birthday, Australian athlete Melinda Cockshutt won the women’s division of the 2024 Ultraman Australia triathlon, as well as being the oldest woman to complete the race.
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Delores Brumfield White
Delores Brumfield (Dee) White began playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) as a young teenager in the post–World War II years, helping take the Fort Wayne Daisies to two league championships. She later taught physical education and was a coach at Henderson State University (HSU) in Arkadelphia (Clark County).
Mary Kate Callahan
She helped spearhead a lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association to allow disabled swimmers to take part in the state meet along with their able-bodied classmates.
Sara Mardini
Syrian swimmer and human rights activist
Iris Critchell
Iris Cummings Critchell served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot during World War II. The National Flight Instructors inducted her into the Hall of Fame in 2000 for her exemplary career as a flight instructor.
Wauba Debar
Indigenous swimmer from Tasmania who saved her captors from stormy seas
Anne Brunell
Australian gold medal winning swimmer, and Vice President of the Amputees Association.
Fanny Durack
In 1912, Fanny Durack became the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
Helen Johns
Helen Johns won a gold medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics at just 17.
Rose Pitonof
At 15, she won the Boston Light Swim, setting a new record. The seven men she was competing with all dropped out before the finish line. She later appeared in a vaudeville act during which she gave swimming and diving lessons in a portable tank.