Edith McGuire became the top sprinter of the 1960s, winning six Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championships and an Olympic gold medal in Tokyo, Japan, in 1964. McGuire was also the only American woman ever to hold three AAU titles at different times, in the 100 and 200 meters and the long jump.
Shirley was the first Australian woman to win an Olympic medal in athletics in 1948.
American track star considered one of the world’s fastest women
Heather McKay is regarded as the best female squash player of all time.
Fencer Helen Smith is a triple Olympian, Commonwealth champion and nine times Australian champion. She was the first Australian woman to become a qualified Fencing Master at Arms and has coached community-based fencing for over 30 years.
The youngest woman ever to be inducted into the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Hall of Fame, Albany resident Nancy Lopez won forty-eight tournaments and earned more than $5 million in prize money during her career.
Often called “the strongest woman in the United States,” Cheryl Haworth is a competitive weight lifter who emerged in the late 1990s as a popular icon for women in sports. While still a teenager, she became national champion, junior world champion, and an Olympic medalist.
In the early 1970s, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley was the first Aboriginal woman to represent Australia in world tennis and compete at Wimbledon.
One of the first women in the United States to own and operate a lighting fixture manufacturing company.
Championship golfer and tennis player