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Hestrie Cloete

South African high jumper

Regine Tugade-Watson

Regine Tugade-Watson is a world champion in athletics and was one of was one of five Guamanian athletes who participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Velma Springstead

Trailblazing Canadian track and field athlete

Dr Jessica Gallagher

Record-breaking Australian Paralympian and sport ambassador.

Louise Sauvage

One of Australia’s most successful Paralympians.

Mildred McDaniel

Atlanta native Mildred McDaniel excelled in basketball and gained fame in track and field by winning Olympic gold and setting a world record in the high jump.

Betty Cuthbert

In 1956, Betty Cuthbert won three Olympic gold medals, the first Australian to do so.

Sherlie Hereford Rainey (3 Feb. 1939-7 Aug. 1992), mayor of Woodmere (1985-89), was the first African-American woman to hold a mayoral position in Cuyahoga County. Also an athlete, Rainey set an American record for the standing long jump (1958) and was National Amateur Athletic Union champion of that event for 3 years. She was elected to the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.

Eleanor Egg

American track and field athlete.

Joetta Clark Diggs

American track and field champion