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.
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
Denise Soesilo
German hockey player and environmental health activist
Iris Critchell
Iris Cummings Critchell served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot during World War II. The National Flight Instructors inducted her into the Hall of Fame in 2000 for her exemplary career as a flight instructor.
Dr Jessica Gallagher
Record-breaking Australian Paralympian and sport ambassador.
Marjorie Jackson
Marjorie Jackson was the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics in 1952.