Sports Archives - Infinite Women

Fu Yuanhui

Chinese Olympian swimmer

Mary Dilys Glynne

As well as being a leading scientist, Mary Glynne was also a distinguished mountaineer.

For twenty years, men and women competed together in skeet shooting at the Olympics. But after Zhang Shan won the gold in 1992, the International Shooting Union suddenly felt it necessary to prevent women from shooting against the men, with a separate women’s event established for the 2000 Olympics.

Shamila Kohestani

Afghan-American football player and activist

Madge Syers

Ice skater Madge Syers entered the all-male figure skating world championships and placed second. Officials promptly banned women from the championships until a ladies event was organised in 1905.

Katinka Hosszú

Hungarian world champion swimmer

Katharin Dewey

After bobsledder Katharin Dewey piloted her four-person team to victory at the U.S. national championships in 1940, women were summarily banned from the sport, a situation that would last decades.