Olympian Archives - Infinite Women

Fu Yuanhui

Chinese Olympian swimmer

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.

Katinka Hosszú

Hungarian world champion swimmer

Mina Wylie

One of Australia’s first Olympians, 1912 silver medal-winning swimmer

Allyson Felix

Olympic champion track and field athlete

Peggy Fleming

Peggy Fleming is a renowned American figure skater known for her graceful skating style and her 1968 Olympic gold medal.

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.

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.

Hestrie Cloete

South African high jumper

Beatrice Vio

Italian Paralympic fencing champion and activist