Dr Margaret Downing
Margaret Downing was a pioneer in women’s sports, especially basketball, in Arkansas in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Margaux Isaksen
Margaux Isaksen was a world-class competitor in the modern pentathlon, an Olympic sport in which athletes compete in fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and cross-country running. A three-time Olympian, Isaksen first started competing at the international level when she was fifteen.
Bhagwani Devi
Nonagenarian Indian track and field athlete
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.