Allyson Felix
Olympic champion track and field athlete
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Peggy Fleming
Peggy Fleming is a renowned American figure skater known for her graceful skating style and her 1968 Olympic gold medal.
Ilona Maher
American rugby player
Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Griffith Joyner, better known as Flo Jo, was one of the fastest women in the world in the 1980s, and she had the medals and records to prove it.
Jean Balukas
Billiards is not typically a sport where one would expect a dress code, but in 1987, player Jean Balukas found herself facing an ultimatum—wear formal attire or don’t play.
Wendy Scholtens Wood
Wendy Scholtens Wood, who later became an attorney in Little Rock, was one of the greatest women’s basketball players in Arkansas history.
Marg Jennings
Australian cricketer
Margo Koskelainen
Australian softball umpire and trailblazer for women’s sport
Inez Robie Patterson
Philadelphia’s Inez Patterson integrated pools and encouraged other African-American girls to swim too
Pherenike
Pherenike (l. c. 388 BCE) was an athlete from Rhodes who, because she was a woman, could not compete in the Olympic Games and, as a married woman, was not allowed to even watch them. Defying these rules and risking the death penalty, she disguised herself as a man to train her son to win.