Shirley de la Hunty
Shirley was the first Australian woman to win an Olympic medal in athletics in 1948.
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Gwen Torrence
American track star considered one of the world’s fastest women
Heather McKay
Heather McKay is regarded as the best female squash player of all time.
Helen Smith
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.
Nancy Lopez
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.
Cheryl Haworth
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.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
In the early 1970s, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley was the first Aboriginal woman to represent Australia in world tennis and compete at Wimbledon.
Helen Bage
One of the first women in the United States to own and operate a lighting fixture manufacturing company.
Mary Kendall Browne
Championship golfer and tennis player
Jean Murrell Capers
In 1949, she became the first African-American woman elected to Cleveland City Council.