She was subsequently named Sports Illustrated's Sportswoman of the Year.
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Sportswoman and sportsman of the year went to Serena Williams and Stephen Curry.
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In 2018, Muzinda was named Junior Sportswoman of the year in South Africa.
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Highlights of this year's awards ceremony included Bolt and Biles winning Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year.
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By 2003, she had won bronze at the Commonwealth Games and was named Fiji's Sportswoman of the Year.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Sunday about the sportswoman and firearms authority Sheila Link misspelled the name of the company where Mrs.
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The Californian and three-time shooting gold medalist also became the first sportswoman in history to win medals in six consecutive Games.
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She was Sports Illustrated's Sportswoman of the Year in 2011 and honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2012 ESPYS.
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Sports Sports Illustrated has been naming its Sportsman or Sportswoman of the Year -- a worthy yardstick of sports excellence and fame -- since 363.
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"The situation with Darya Klishina appears to be cynical mockery of the Russian sportswoman by the IAAF," news agencies quoted Zhukov as saying.
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The 37-year-old, three-time gold medalist is also the only sportswoman in Olympic history to win six medals in six consecutive Games.
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In 2018, Muzinda was named Junior Sportswoman of the year in South Africa by the Africa Union Sports Council Region Five Annual Sports Awards.
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" Russian Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov backed her up: "The situation with Darya Klishina appears to be cynical mockery of the Russian sportswoman by the IAAF.
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Asking a sportswoman to listen when her body is telling her to slow down or stop can be the biggest challenge for physiotherapists like Mark.
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Champion athlete – and sportswoman of the year – Simone Biles is showing off her stunning figure and gold medal-winning moves in the 2017 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.
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Some three to four years later, the sportswoman chose to sail for 71 days and 14 hours, covering more than 26,000 miles during the course of her journey.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - World number ones Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams completed a clean sweep for tennis as they won the Laureus Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards on Monday.
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The world's highest-earning sportswoman who raked in $29.7 million last year, according to Forbes magazine, said she had taken the drug, for the past decade to treat health problems.
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The 1901 Paris-Berlin road race featured Camille du Gast, a French sportswoman and philanthropist, and Baroness Hélène van Zuylen, wife of the president of the Automobile Club de France.
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The manager of the Soviet team, accusing the British of a "dirty provocation which was aimed at the blackmailing of this well-known and remarkable sportswoman," pulled his athletes from the competition.
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Among female athletes overall, the range of testosterone levels is quite large, but the average elite sportswoman has a higher one than an average woman (just as the typical basketball star bumps ceilings).
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Five-times grand slam champion Sharapova, the world's highest-paid sportswoman, earned $29.7 million last year, according to Forbes magazine, most of it from endorsements, appearances and royalties rather than victories on court.
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"Well done on reducing one of the greatest sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sportswoman into a faceless prop," Rowling tweeted along with Knight's tweet of his drawing.
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Whatever else is happening on any other tennis court in the world will become irrelevant as Russian multi-millionaire Sharapova, who turned 30 last week, resumes a career that made her the world's richest sportswoman.
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American gymnast Simone Biles, who became the most decorated gymnast in world championship history when she won her 25th medal last year, won her third Sportswoman of the Year gong after winning the award in 2017 and 2019.
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It's a rainy Wednesday on the night of the Women's Sports Foundation's Annual Salute and Megan Rapinoe, midfielder for the U.S. Women's National Team, is about to win an award for being the 2019 Team Sportswoman of the Year.
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The former sportswoman, who was a member of the national youth skiing team and had studied to become a diplomat before she began helping her husband Valter Kramar run the family business, says those skills helped her become a successful chef.
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Prince Albert presented the Sportswoman of the Year, while Princess Charlene presented the Sport for Good award to the South African association "Waves for Change," a charity which, like her own foundation, teaches children to swim and gives them a purpose.
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Shields, who was in New York to accept the Women's Sports Foundation (WSF) Individual Sportswoman of the Year Award for the second time, told Reuters on Wednesday the incident and cancellation marked one of the toughest moments in her career.
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MONACO (Reuters) - World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic crowned a winning return to the courts after surgery with the Laureus sportsman of the year award on Monday, while American gymnast Simone Biles won the sportswoman of the year prize.
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And with her second husband, Mr. Arlen, an author in his own right, she wrote a biography of her aunt, "The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher," which is to be published this year.
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This year, the midfielder and U.S. Women's National Soccer Team captain has been honored with many awards: the 2019 Ballon d'Or, the 2019 Best FIFA Women's Player, the Women Sports Foundation's 2019 Team Sportswoman of the Year and many others.
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"The All-Russian Swimming Federation informs that we received documents from the International Swimming Federation (FINA) which confirm that the sportswoman has been temporarily suspended from competition due to the possibility of breaking anti-doping regulations," ARSF said on its website (www.russwimming.ru).
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PARIS (Reuters) - Ash Barty was not the only Australian sportswoman competing in elite competition in France this weekend and the newly-crowned Grand Slam tennis champion has sent a message of support to the Matildas ahead of their women's World Cup opener.
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Here in Squamish, a city whose spectacular natural beauty makes it a mecca for athletes and whose small size ensures that people know one another's business, Miller is considered an outgoing, upbeat person and a passionate sportswoman who has made competing central to her life.
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Sometime in 2009, when Pechstein's doping case was in the news in Germany and some of the German fans who once loved her and voted for her as the country's sportswoman of the year were now turning on her, Grosse sent her an email.
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"The moment that best captures this reaction for me was back in 2013, when a young boy watching Mona Seraji and Shahla Yasini [another Iranian sportswoman] surf for the first time at Ramin Beach stopped and asked us if this was something boys could do too," Dr Britton says.
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List of winners: Sportsman of the Year: Lewis Hamilton and Lionel Messi Sportswoman of the Year: Simone Biles Team of the Year: South Africa Men's Rugby Team Breakthrough of the Year: Egan Bernal Comeback of the Year: Sophia Floersch Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability: Oksana Masters Action Sportsperson of the Year: Chloe Kim Best Sporting Moment: 'Carried on the shoulders of a nation' – Sachin Tendulkar Lifetime Achievement Award: Dirk Nowitzki Laureus Academy Exceptional Achievement Award: Spanish Basketball Federation Laureus Sport for Good Award: South Bronx United Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Radnedge
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Best Female R&B/Pop Artist BEYONCÉ Best Male R&B/Pop Artist BRUNO MARS Best Group MIGOS Best Collaboration CHANCE THE RAPPER FT. 2 CHAINZ & LIL WAYNE – "NO PROBLEM" MIGOS FT. LIL UZI VERT – "BAD AND BOUJEE" Best Male Hip-Hop Artist KENDRICK LAMAR Best Female Hip-Hop Artist REMY MA Video of the Year BEYONCÉ – "SORRY" BRUNO MARS – "24K MAGIC" Video Director of the Year KAHLIL JOSEPH & BEYONCÉ KNOWLES-CARTER – BEYONCÉ "SORRY" Best New Artist CHANCE THE RAPPER Album of the Year LEMONADE – BEYONCÉ Dr. Bobby Jones Best Gospel/Inspirational Award LECRAE – "CAN'T STOP ME NOW (DESTINATION)" Best Actress TARAJI P. HENSON Best Actor MAHERSHALA ALI YoungStars Award YARA SHAHIDI Best Movie HIDDEN FIGURES Sportswoman of the Year Award SERENA WILLIAMS Sportsman of the Year Award STEPHEN CURRY Centric Award SOLANGE – "CRANES IN THE SKY" Coca-Cola Viewers' Choice Awards BEYONCE – "SORRY"
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Robson was also nominated for "WTA Newcomer of the Year" and William Hill "Sportswoman of the Year" in November,2012 William Hill Sportswoman of the Year formstack.com. Retrieved 26 November 2012. winning the former award.
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Again she won the award for Belgians Sportswoman of the Year.
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Nichola was awarded the Oxfordshire Sportswoman of the year award in 2007.
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She was named as Serbia and Montenegro Sportswoman of The Year 2003.
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At the end of this season she was selected at the Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year, dethroning Merlene Ottey, who had won twice consecutively (and who would have eleven further wins).Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year . RJR Sports Foundation.
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She was named as Antigua and Barbuda's sportswoman of the year in 2011.
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In recognition of her achievements in 2009, Ghribi topped a poll organised by the Arabic language daily Assahafa and was named as the "Best Sportswoman in 2009" in Tunisia.Tunisia: Habiba Ghribi Elected Best Sportswoman in 2009. All-Africa (2010-03-08).
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The Sportswoman of the Year Award is given by the Women's Sports Foundation every year. This foundation recognizes both an individual and a team Sportswoman on their performance over a 12-month period. This award is given based on their new records and their world championships won. In 2012, the winners of the Sportswoman of the Year Award were Gabrielle Douglas (Individual Sport) and Alex Morgan (Team Sport).
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Again she won the award for Sportswoman of the year for the Northeast KNGU.
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List of winners and nominees of the Anugerah Sukan Negara: Sportswoman of the Year.
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She once again won the award for Sportswoman of the year for the Northeast KNGU.
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She once again won the award for Sportswoman of the year for the Northeast KNGU.
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Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi (born 1 March 1968) is the most decorated Indian sportswoman in weightlifting.
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On 20 November 2007 Reade was named The Sunday Times Young Sportswoman of the Year.
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In 2002, the Olympic Committee of Serbia decided to declare her the sportswoman of the year.
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An avid sportswoman, Charles enjoys scuba diving, cycling and canoeing. She speaks Dutch, English and Papiamento.
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She was also an accomplished and enthusiastic sportswoman, and was said to be an excellent shot.
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Austin won the Seychelles Sportswoman of the year in 2003 when she was just 14 years old.
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The Olympic Committee of Serbia declared her the best sportswoman for the second year in a row.
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Victor was named the Paralympic Sportswoman of the year by the United States Olympic Committee in 2009.
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He was married to the Olympic sportswoman Ernestina Maenza Fernández-Calvo, with whom he had a child.
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Emma de Broughe (born 6 September 2000) is a sportswoman from Australia who plays field hockey and cricket.
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Janssen is the son of Annemarie Verstappen, a former world champion swimmer and Dutch Sportswoman of the year.
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The following table reflects past winners of the Sportswoman of the Year Award in individual and team sports.
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Anita K. Madden (née Myers; February 3, 1933 – September 27, 2018) was an American sportswoman, socialite and activist.
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Orana was qualified as the karate sportswoman of 2012 during a ceremony that was organized by the Youth, Culture and Sport, supported by the Mayor, which was declared as the most outstanding one in Gjilan. Fortesa Orana is also announced as the 2012 Sportswoman from FKK (The Karate Federation in Kosovo).
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Elizabeth Foster Cassatt Stewart (August 14, 1875 – May 31, 1931), known as Elsie, was an American sportswoman and socialite.
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Dorothy Rice Sims (June 24, 1889 – March 24, 1960) was an American sportswoman, aviator, bridge player, artist, and journalist.
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Rachel Laura Atherton (born 6 December 1987) is a British professional downhill mountain bike racer, and is a multiple time UCI World Champion. Atherton began riding BMX at the age of 8 and mountain biking at the age of 11. She was both Sunday Times' Sportswoman of the Year and BBC Midlands Junior Sportswoman of the Year in 2005, and then BBC Midlands Sportswoman of the Year in 2008. In October 2015, a video of Atherton overtaking 91 competitors in five minutes during a race went viral.
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Van Gerner competed at WK Rotterdam where she placed 19th in the AA and 9th in the team final. Later she competed at EK Birmingham and placed fourth on balance beam. She was again named Sportswoman of the year in the province of Flevoland and Sportswoman of the year for the Northeast KNGU.
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Lettice Curtis (1 February 1915 – 21 July 2014) was an English aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot, and sportswoman.
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She is a 28-year-old sportswoman (modern rhythmic gymnastics). She meets Girin at the exhibition where Anna's statue is present. Sima breaks a stereotype of sportswoman: instead of being ignorant, she is well-educated, fond of literature and arts and speaks English. Polish actress Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass is a prototype of her appearance.
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In 1980, Cree was named the New South Wales Sportswoman of the Year. She received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000.
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In 2015 Botha won Auckland's Youth Sportswoman of the Year award and North Harbour Junior Sports Woman of the Year award.
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The 2002 Sukma Games, officially known as the 9th Sukma Games, was a Malaysian multi-sport event held in Sabah from 7 to 14 September 2002. Perakian gymnast Ng Shu Mun, Kuala Lumpurian athlete Ngew Sin Mei and Negeri Sembilan athlete Petra Nabila Mustafa were announced as Best Sportsman, Best Sportswoman and Most Promising Sportswoman of the event respectively.
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She is currently reading towards a Diploma in Sports Management through the University of South Africa (UNISA). She worked as a community dietitian in Bloemfontein during 2015. She was also named as Sportswoman of the Year by the University of the Free State in 2015. KovsieSport awarded Karla as UFS Sportswoman of the Year in 2016.
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Carrington was named as New Zealand's senior Māori sportswoman and overall Māori sportsperson of the year in November 2012. In the 2013 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to kayaking. At the 2016 Halberg Awards, she won the Sportswoman of the Year and also won the Supreme Award.
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In 1967, she was chosen the Dutch Sportswoman of the Year. She is a niece of the Olympic speed skater Kees Broekman.
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Torch lighters were the athletes Daniel Tutai and Patricia Taea, the Cook Islands' junior sportsman and sportswoman of the year for 2008.
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Winfield's nickname is "Loz". In March 2020, she married Australian sportswoman Courtney Hill. The two have lived together in England since 2018.
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Subsequently, Barker was named Carwyn James Junior Sportswoman of the Year at the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year awards in 2012.
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Wynter educated at the University of the West Indies in Mona, and was awarded University Sportswoman of the Year in 2015 and 2016.
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She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1981 after having won a silver medal at the World championships the same year.
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She also won a Commonwealth Games gold for women's singles in 1978. Sylvia was Malaysia's Sportswoman of the Year twice in 1975 & 1978.
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She started swimming training lessons in the nearby town of Heviz. She was nominated for Hungarian Disabled Sportswoman of the Year in 2019.
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Siobhán Hoey (born 17 July 1970) is an Irish sportswoman from Portarlington, County Laois. She has competed in both track and field and bobsleigh.
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Appelmans was elected as the Belgian Sportswoman of the year 1990 & 1991\. She was nominated for the Karen Krantzcke Sportsmanship Award in 1994 & 1995\.
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Karthika Banda was born on 17 August 1977 in Hyderabad, India. She is a post-graduate in Sociology from Osmania University and a Sportswoman.
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In 2008, Wakefield was nominated for Gold Coast Sportsperson of the Year. In 2010, she was nominated for the Queensland Junior Sportswoman of the Year.
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An avid sportswoman, Balfe was known to her friends by the nickname, "Rocky." Thomson, David (2010). Gary Cooper. New York: Faber and Faber. p. 35. .
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In the balance beam final, Liukin scored 16.025 to claim silver behind Shawn Johnson's 16.225. With her fifth Beijing medal, Liukin tied Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller for the most gymnastics medals won by an American in a single Olympic Games. Following her success in Beijing, Liukin was named the USOC Female Athlete of the Month (August) and ultimately USOC Co-Sportswoman of the Year alongside swimmer Natalie Coughlin; the Women's Sports Foundation Individual Sportswoman of the Year; FIG Athlete of the Year and USAG Sportswoman of the Year. In addition, she was ranked third in the Associated Press' 2008 Female Athlete of the Year voting.
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Downie was the Sky Sports Sportswoman of the Month for April 2015. On 20 December, she was named the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.
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Kathleen Pelham Burn Moore, Countess of Drogheda (1887 – 18 March 1966) was a British socialite, aviator, and sportswoman. She was one of the "bright young things".
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Mitti was described as an "ardent sportswoman" who enjoyed skating, swimming, tennis, boxing, and equestrian activities. She married theatre composer and conductor Laurent Halet (1863-1932).
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Hofstätter was the Austrian Sportswoman of the Year for Carinthia in 1993. Hofstätter played on the WPBA Tour until her retirement, doing so from 1993 onward.
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After the end of the season Wüst was elected as the best Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 2006. She was also elected female skater of the year.
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Women's 3000m Final. IAAF (2006-08-19). Retrieved on 2011-03-19. She was named as the most promising sportswoman at the end-of-year SOYA Awards.
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Madeleine Astrid Gurdon, Baroness Lloyd-Webber (born 30 November 1962) is an English former equestrian sportswoman, and the third and current wife of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Tilly’s Pony Tails is a series of children’s books, published by Orion Children’s Books in the United Kingdom. The series was created by equestrian sportswoman Pippa Funnell.
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In 2013, she was voted Marlborough Sportswoman of the Year. In 2014 and 2015, she won the supreme award Marlborough Sportsperson of the Year. In 2016, she was again vote Marlborough Sportswoman of the Year, beaten to the supreme award by rally co-driver John Kennard. MacKenzie and Edward were team nominees in the Halberg Awards in both 2014 and 2015, but on neither occasion did they become finalists.
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The European Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award was named the Frank Taylor Trophy since 2003 in honour of the former president of both AIPS and UEPS.
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Sunstar Entertainment represents a number of Australian sporting identities and celebrities, including around the world sailor, Jessica Watson and Australian cricketer, Mitchell Starc and Australian sportswoman Ellyse Perry.
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Volya is married to sportswoman and TV presenter Lyasan Utiasheva and they have a son Robert, born 14 May 2013, and a daughter Sofia, born 6 May 2015.
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Blanche Edith Thompson (1874-1963) was a notable New Zealand piano teacher, sportswoman and social reformer. She was born in Brown's Bridge, North Canterbury, New Zealand in 1874.
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Mübeccel Argun Tek (190926 April 1982) was a Turkish sportswoman, teacher of physical education and radio presenter, who worked for the BBC Turkish Service in London, United Kingdom.
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Louise Vernon was also a 2 time Sportswoman of the Year Finalist in 2008 and in 2009. She has also been competing at the ITU World Triathlon Series.
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Constance Palgrave Abraham, MBE (12 May 1864-3 October 1942) was a New Zealand community leader and sportswoman. She was born in Palgrave, Suffolk, England on 12 May 1864.
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Zorana Arunović (; born 22 November 1986) is a Serbian sport shooter. She was the world champion of 10 metre air pistol and Serbian Sportswoman of The Year for 2010.
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Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor (March 7, 1870 – April 5, 1918) was an American sportswoman, bookbinder, suffragist, and socialite, and co-founder of a golf club in Illinois named Onwentsia.
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Potter was a keen sportswoman who particularly enjoyed horseback riding. She designed for women like herself, saying in 1948: > Large numbers of American women want clothes that are refined.
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Milič's father, Vladimir Milić, a Serb from Croatia based in Belgrade, was a shotputting champion in former Yugoslavia. His mother, Metka Papler, was also a successful sportswoman in Yugoslavia.
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Rachel Hampton (born 24 January 1975 in Whyalla, South Australia) is a State and National League representative in field hockey, coach, manager, performance analyst and indigenous sportswoman from South Australia.
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Top 25 Lists - 1978. Brinkster Track and Field. Retrieved on 2015-09-30. In recognition of her achievements that year she was honoured as the Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year.
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In March 2017, Cox was awarded the Sporting Equals Sportswoman of the Year at the Lycamobile British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSAs) held at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
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Yasemin Şahin (born June 25, 1988 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish female handballer playing in left wing position. The tall sportswoman is a member of the Turkish national team.
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She was a member of the Durham University Boat Club from 1989 to 1991. In 1989, Thomas was the second recipient of The Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year award.
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Hilda M Light (1890–1967) was a pioneering sportswoman in the 1920s. She captained the England women's hockey team and served as President of the All England Women's Hockey Association (AEWHA).
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Bernadette 'Bernie' Murray (born 1985) is a Northern Irish sportswoman. She is a camogie player for Armagh GAA. She is also a teacher. She made her inter- county debut in 2003.
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Retrieved on 2010-09-22. She was voted the Swiss Sports Personality of the Year in 1978.Credit Suisse Sports Awards - Athlete Profile - Cornelia Bürki. Sportswoman of the Year 1978 - Athletics.
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Margareta Kozuch (, born 30 October 1986) is a German female volleyball player who plays for Atom Trefl Sopot, and previously played as a wing-spiker for TuS Berne Hamburg, CVMJ Hamburg, TV Fischbek (who changed their name to NA Hamburg), and Unicom Starker Kerakoll Sassuolo. She was Hamburg's sportswoman of the year in 2005. She represented the German women's national volleyball team in the FIVB World Grand Prix 2009. She was German sportswoman of the year in 2010.
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The Jamaican Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year is an annual election, organised by the RJR Sports Foundation, which honours outstanding achievement(s) in sport by Jamaican athletes during the previous year.
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Cleopatra Borel (from 2005 until 2010 Borel-Brown; born 10 March 1979) is a female shot putter from Plaisance, Mayaro, Trinidad and Tobago and a 2014 Sportswoman of the Year Award recipient.
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In 2002, she was honored to light a torch at the national Independence Day celebrations. In 2007, she was awarded "Sportswoman of the Year" title by the Israeli Association for Disabled Sports.
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Legote did not compete at the 2012 London Olympics. She was named Klerksdorp Sportswoman of the Year in 2011 and 2012. 2013-2016 Legote competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia.
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She was elected Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year in 1994 and 1995, ending the string of six consecutive titles by Krisztina Egerszegi. After retiring from competitions, she briefly worked as a TV presenter.
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The closing ceremony was held on Monday, 19 August 2009, beginning at 20:00 MST (UTC+8) at the Putra Indoor Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. The closing ceremony begins with a series of song performance by local Malay singers. After the performance, the best sportsman and best sportswoman trophy were awarded to a swimming sportsman from Thailand and a swimming sportswoman from Vietnam respectively. This was followed by a speech from Dato' Zainal Abu Zarin, the president of the ASEAN Para Sports Federation.
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The Women's Sports Foundation gave her the 2004 Sportswoman of the Year Award, and the Laureus World Sports Academy named her World Sportswoman of the Year. She also released a combination autobiography and golf instructional book, Golf Annika's Way. Sörenstam's life both on and off the golf course changed in 2005. In February, she announced that she had filed for divorce from David Esch, her husband of eight years, and this was finalised in August but it did not adversely affect her golf.
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Catherine Adipo (also referred to as Catherine Constance Adipo and Catherine Adipo Wejuli) is a Ugandan sportswoman, sports administrator and the first female FIFA referee in Uganda as well as East and Central Africa.
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Fatma Ay (born May 1, 1992) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Muratpaşa Bld. SK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman is goalkeeper.
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In her capacity as Company Secretary, Anne Abeja Muhwezi sits on the Board of Directors of Housing Finance Bank, in Uganda. She is an accomplished champion sportswoman, excelling in badminton, lawn tennis and pool.
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A keen sportswoman, she played hockey and squash for the RUC. In 2013, when the World Police and Fire Games was held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she served as the chair of the board.
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In connection with the 49th association days the sportsman of the year 2015 Sebastian Graser (Parachuting/HSV Red Bull Salzburg) and the sportswoman of the year 2015 Susanne Menda (Weightlifting/HSV Langenlebarn) were honoured.
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Yuliya Andriychuk (; born May 17, 1992) is a Ukrainian handballer playing in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Ardeşen GSK. She played for Ukrainian national team. The sportswoman plays in the left back position.
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Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year . RJR Sports Foundation. Retrieved on 2015-09-27. Returning to international competition in 1979, she achieved a 100 m individual and relay double at the Central American and Caribbean Championships.
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Ceren Demirçelen (born February 23, 1992) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Kastamonu Bld. GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman is line player.
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Leon Štukelj, the most successful Slovenian sportsman Tina Maze, the most successful Slovenian sportswoman This is a partial list of Slovenian sportspeople. For the full plain list of Slovenian sportspeople on Wikipedia, see :Category:Slovenian sportspeople.
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For her sport results, she was twice selected as the best sportswoman of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The readers of the women's magazines "Una" and "Zena 21" voted her an award as “Woman of the year”.
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In November, along with Heather Watson, won "Young Sportswoman of the Year" at the 2012 Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Awards.Watson and Robson honoured in London 10sballs.com. 9 November 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
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It was at the time when Viktoria began to flourish as a sportswoman. During the period of coaching at “Arsenal”, Ukrainian television filmed many reportages about Viktoria. Soon the athlete herself became a TV host.
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She was the first woman from Tamil Nadu to receive the Arjuna Award – India's top national honour for sport.Railway sportswoman contributes Rs 1 lakh to Railways. Business Standard (2013-09-03). Retrieved 2020-05-17.
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On 22 December 2013, she received the prestigious award for Sportswoman of the Year in Belgium as well as the VTV Award for "Belgian Player of the Year" for the second year in a row.
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Micheen Thornycroft was nominated for an ANSA (Annual National Sports Award) Sportswoman of the Year Award in 2013, with two other nominees, Cara Black (tennis player) and Rachel Goromonzi (hockey player) also being recognised as deserving of the award. The event was held at the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare on 11 December. Thornycroft received a silver medal for the accolade whilst Black and Goromonzi received gold and bronze medals respectively. In 2015, Thornycroft was again nominated for an ANSA Sportswoman of the Year Award.
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Since 1937 the newspaper annually honor the best sportsman or sportswoman from Västerbotten with the so-called VK-guldet (VK Gold). Among the prizewinners are Ingemar Stenmark, Anja Pärson, Marta Vieira da Silva and Assar Rönnlund.
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Serpil Çapar (born July 7, 1981) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Zağmos SK. She was member of the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman is goalkeeper.
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She is also a seven-time world allround champion, a fourteen-time world single distance champion, and a five-time European allround champion. In 2014, she was elected by Reuters as the Sportswoman of the World.
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In 2006, Krajnyák was nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability. In 2016, Krajnyák was named the Disabled Sportswoman of the Year by the Hungarian Sports Journalists Association.
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Austria at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship European qualification match. Aslı İskit is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays for Thüringer HC and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the back position.
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Elif Sıla Aydın (born April 11, 1996) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Kastamonu, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the back position.
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Gonca Nahcıvanlı (born Hune 29, 1979) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman is line player.
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Madame Colonel Alexandra Kudasheva (1873–1921?) was a Russian sportswoman and female soldier, notable both for her endurance riding feats, and for commanding of one of the first fully integrated combat units during World War I.
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Derya Tınkaoğlu (born April 3, 1988) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi SK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays as goalkeeper.
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Because of Kuitunen's successes in cross-country skiing in 2007, she was awarded Finnish Sportswoman of the Year. Kuitunen also won the Tour de Ski in 2008–09. Virpi Kuitunen married Jari Sarasvuo on 16 July 2010.
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Wolf was chosen as Austrian Sportswoman of the Year in 1987 and 1988, and in 1996 was awarded a gold medal for services to the Austrian Republic. She retired in December 1990 due to a knee injury.
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The Sportswoman of the Year Awards are voted on by the public. Prior to its debut at Cipriani in 2011, the Annual Salute was held at the Waldorf–Astoria and Marriott Marquis hotels in New York City.
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Jenna McCormick (born 7 September 1994) is a professional Australian sportswoman who plays soccer for Spanish Primera División club Real Betis and played Australian rules football for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition.
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Burge was awarded the inaugural Sportswomen's Association of Australia (SA Division) 'Sportswoman of the Year' award in 1966.Australian Women biographical profile - Dianne Burge She was named as the 'Athlete of the Century' by Athletics South Australia.
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Esin Sağdıç (born 11 January 1988 in IzmirEuro handball) is a Turkish female handballer playing in right wing position. The tall sportswoman at is a member of the Turkish national team. Sağdıç plays for Muratpaşa Bld. SK.
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A versatile sportswoman, Suzanne Lièbrard participated in July 1917 at the first women's events in the French Athletic Championships at the stadium of Brancion at Paris. In 1921 she participated at the 1921 Women's Olympiad in Monaco.
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On 25 February 1944, Singh married Sushila Kumari of Dungarpur, and they had one son and two daughters. Their daughter Princess Rajyashree Kumari was also a first class shooting sportswoman who received the Arjuna Award in 1968.
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Elise Christie was named Nottingham Sportswoman of the Year in 2013 and 2015 (and runner-up in 2014). She was named Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year in 2017, in recognition of her world title success at the 2017 World Championships. She was in a relationship with Hungarian short track speed skater Shaolin Sándor Liu between October 2015 and the 2018 Winter Olympics. Christie discussed via a social media post in 2019 highlighting mental health awareness that she had suffered from depression and anxiety for a two year period, including self-harm.
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Yasemin Güler (born April 10, 1994) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Kastamonu Bld. GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the right wing position.
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Fatmagül Sakızcan (born March 31, 1992) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Kastamonu Bld. GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the left wing position.
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Diğdem Hoşgör (born October 2, 1991) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Muratpaşa Bld. SK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the left back position.
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Carine Mbuh Ndoum Yoh (born 10 April 1993) is a Cameroonian football forward last played in the Turkish Women's First Football League for Ataşehir Belediyespor and the Cameroonian national team. The tall sportswoman plays in the midfield position.
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Sharran Alexander was born in Maida Vale, London. Sharran is a sumo wrestler who is listed in British Sumo Federation as 2nd Kyu grade. She was named as the heaviest sportswoman in the 2013 Guinness World Records at .
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The 2001 recipient of the Carreras Sports Foundation Special Award, she was also named Jamaica's Sportswoman of the Year for 2002–2003. In October 2007, she received the Courtney Walsh award for Excellence from Prime Minister Bruce Golding.
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Ella Maillart, one of the great travelers of the 20th century Ella Maillart (or Ella K. Maillart; 20 February 1903, Geneva – 27 March 1997, Chandolin) was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman.
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Linda is sportswoman (Bikram Yoga, snowboarding, skiing, yoga, winter sports and others). Since 2016 she is in a relationship with Fernando Alonso. Her best friend is Rachele Fogar (daughter of Ambrogio Fogar) with which she often works together.
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Magda Maros (born 4 November 1951) is a Hungarian fencer who won three Olympic medals in the foil competitions. She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1980 after having won two Olympic medals the same year.
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When she competed in the Olympics, she was 5-4.5 (164 cm) tall and weighed 108 lbs (49 kg). That same year Sharon was Israel's National Women's all-around champion. She was named Israel's 1988 Sportswoman of the Year.
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Career Women of America, 1776-1840. Francestown, NH: Marshall Jones Company, 1950. Mme. Breschard is arguably the first nationally recognized professional sportswoman in the United States. Both are documented as performing in the United States between 1807 and 1817.
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Ledecky collected several end-of-decade honors. Fifty-two percent of SwimSwam.com readers voted Ledecky the top swimmer of the decade, ahead of Michael Phelps. Readers of The London Evening Standard voted Ledecky the International Sportswoman of the Decade.
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Non Evans (born 20 June 1974 )Western Mail 29 June 2014 Non Evans comes clean - 40 and proud of it! is a Welsh sportswoman who has competed internationally in four different sports, rugby union, judo, weightlifting and freestyle wrestling.
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Her father works in a Trimax Company and her mother is a house wife. She has elder brother named Ajinkya joshi. Her younger sister Kshipra Joshi is a sportswoman. She is married to Varad Laghate on 28 November 2014.
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Hayley Kristen Matthews (born 19 March 1998) is a Barbadian sportswoman. She plays international cricket for the West Indies as an all-rounder, and has also represented Barbados in the javelin throw at several international track and field competitions.
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Henrietta, Lady Gilmour (1852 – 2 January 1926) was a pioneering photographer and winter sportswoman. She is the creator of the Lady Henrietta Gilmour Photographic Collection of 1500 prints and 145 lantern slides held by the University of St Andrews.
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Ulyana Voitsik () (born October 12, 1989) is a Belarusian women's ice hockey player. Currently, she is a member of Istanbul Buz Korsanları SK team in Istanbul, Turkey playing in the forward position. The tall sportswoman at shoots left handed.
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Helen Cadman (born 1956 in England) is a former international netball sportswoman. She played for the England national netball team between 1977 and 1987.Sian Watkins, "Kiwis prove too strong in netball", The Age, Feb. 4, 1985, p. 29.
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At twenty years old she is the second youngest Dutch gold medalist in any discipline at a Winter Olympics. In December 2018, she was named the Dutch Sportswoman of the Year. Schulting studies at the Dutch Language Institute (NTI) in Leiden.
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Norkett resided in Llandarcy, Neath Port Talbot. Prior to enrolling at Cardiff Metropolitan University, she attended Neath Port Talbot College, where she was named sportswoman of the year as well as player of the year for both rugby and netball.
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Liu Lina (born 1979-02-20 in Xinjiang) is an Olympic equestrian sportswoman for China. Her best performance is winning the 2006 National Equestrian (Dressage) Championships. She will compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the dressage event.
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Phelan was a sportswoman who played hockey for Munster while she was in college. In 1931 she was Lady Captain of the Golf club in Kilkenny and became the first Ladies president in 1993. She was a regular bridge player.
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Baird is recognised as having been one of the leading sprinters in her class and was awarded the Young Disabled Sportswoman of the Year award in 1993. Though she is retired from international competition she still trains with coach John Oulton.
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Sissy van Alebeek (born February 8, 1976 in Schijndel, North Brabant) is a professional female cyclist from the Netherlands, who won the Dutch title in 2001 and therefore was named Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year at the end of the year.
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Dimitris Vergos participated in the 1920 Summer Olympics SEGAS mission of 1920. in the Belgium city of Antwerp. He participated in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling along with Sotirios Notaras and Pavlidis Vasileios.Greek sportswoman Wrestling Federation: Wrestling The Greek Olympics.
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She was named Laureus Sportswoman of the Year for 2014 and IAAF World Athlete of the Year in 2015. She is from a sporting family several Olympic medalists, which includes her sisters Tirunesh and Ejegayehu, and her aunt Derartu Tulu.
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Seda Yörükler (born 28 May 1984 in Bornova, Izmir) is a Turkish female handballer playing in left back position. The tall sportswoman at is a member of the Turkish national team. Yörükler is playing for İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyespor since 2000.
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Michelle Seymour (born 21 December 1965) is a former New Zealand representative sprinter. 1993 Set the current New Zealand National record for the Women's 100m. 1993 NZ Māori Sportswoman of the Year. 2018 Inducted into the Paraparaumu College Hall of Fame.
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At the 2009 World Championships she won two bronze medals in the 200-meter individual medley and 200-meter butterfly before becoming World Champion in the 400-meter individual medley. She was elected Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year for her achievements.
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She broke her own deaf world record in the women's hammer throw at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics with a distance of 66.35m, the previous best was 65.03m Trude Raad currently holds the Deaflympic records for the women's hammer throw and discus throw events. She was awarded the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2008 for her performances in deaf athletics including Junior deaf world records set by her in 2009 at the women's hammer throw and discus throw events. She was also nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2009.
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Only Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86 World Cup victories has more. With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, two World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three silver medals in 2007 and 2011), and four overall World Cup titles, Vonn is the most successful American ski racer and considered one of the greatest of all skiers. In 2010, Vonn received the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award and was the United States Olympic Committee's sportswoman of the year. Injuries caused Vonn to miss parts of several seasons, including almost all of the 2014 season and most of the 2013 season.
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The Dutch Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year are chosen annually by Dutch athletes from a shortlist compiled by sports journalists. The elections are organized by the Dutch Olympic Committee. All the winners receive a Jaap Eden Award to remember their title.
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Alison Downie (born 17 July 1984) is an Australian sportswoman most notable for her career as a basketball player for the Dandenong Rangers in the Women's National Basketball League. Downie is currently an Australian rules footballer, playing with in the AFL Women's competition.
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She suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1983, which killed both her parents, but recovered. In 1990 she was designated a Person of Cultural Merit, the first sportswoman in Japan to receive such an honor. She died of acute renal failure in 1995.
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She was also eighth on floor (14.75) and Brazil was seventh in team competition."30th Women’s Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Aarhus (DEN)" . gymnasticsresults.com. In 2006, she was the Brazilian Sportswoman of the Year.Giba e Laís Souza são os melhores atletas de 2006. ativo.
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Thelma Kingsbury (1911-1979), (later, in succession: Thelma Scovil, Thelma Welcome, Thelma Lougheed) was an English-born, naturalised American sportswoman who won major badminton titles in the British Isles and then in the USA from the early 1930s to the early 1950s.
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Outside her professional work, Douglas was a keen sportswoman with an interest in ice-skating, skiing and golf. She was an international ice-skating judge and ran an ice-skating club in Edinburgh. Douglas died on 27 August 1979 in Perth, Scotland.
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She represented Tunisia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing thirteenth in the first ever women's Olympic steeplechase race. In the 2016 Müller Anniversary Games, she won the women's 3000m steeplechase. She was voted the Best Sportswoman of 2009 by the Arabic daily newspaper Assahafa.
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Babalwa Ndleleni (born ) is a South African female weightlifter, competing in the 75 kg category and representing South Africa at international competitions. She competed at world championships, most recently at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships. In 2006 she became South African Sportswoman of the Year.
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Charles also competed in the 2011 Miss World pageant with 113 other contestants, broadcast live from London, the United Kingdom on November 7, 2011 where she became one of the Top 24 of Sportswoman and Top 30 of Beauty with a Purpose in the competition.
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Merissa Ria Aguilleira (born 14 December 1985) is a Trinidian sportswoman. She is a right-handed wicket-keeper batsman. She played for West Indies women's cricket team as well as for Trinidad and Tobago women's cricket team. In April 2019, Aguilleira retired from international cricket.
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Jelena Pirsl (born October 28, 1985 ) is a Croatian handballer playing for Ardeşen GSK and the Croatian national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the goalkeeper position. Between 2010 and 2012, she played for Maliye Milli Piyango SK before she joined Ardeşen GSK in 2014.
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She won the bronze medal in javelin at the 1974 European Athletics Championships. Urbančič was named Slovenian Sportswoman of the Year six years in a row, from 1969 to 1974. She continued to throw into Masters athletics age groups, setting the current W55 world record.
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During her career she won the London Marathon, the Boston Marathon, the New York City Marathon and the Nagoya Marathon. In 1990 and 1991 she was named Polish Sportswoman of the Year. Panfil is a four-time national champion in the women's 5.000 metres.
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Retrieved on 25 May 2015. At the European Championships in Stockholm in 1958, she was third in the 80 m hurdles. In 1959, she was voted GDR Sportswoman of the Year. Earlier in 1957 she married Heinz Birkemeyer and since 1960 competed under his name.
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Through his son, he was the grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge III, Armory Coolidge and William A. Coolidge. Through his daughter Sarah, he was the grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Newbold, who married Katherine Hubbard in 1914. A granddaughter, Eleonora Sears, became a prominent American sportswoman.
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Danièle Kaber (born 20 April 1960) is a retired female long-distance runner from Luxembourg. She set her personal best (2:29:23) in the marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Kaber is a three-time Luxembourgian Sportswoman of the Year (1985, 1986 and 1988).
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Since 2015 she has been Ireland's most capped women's field hockey international. According to some sources she is also "Ireland's most capped sportswoman in any code" and the holder of "the most international caps by any Irish athlete (male or female) across any sport".
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In 2014, she won the Seychelles Sportswoman of the Year Award for the second consecutive year. Eleven years earlier she had won the Young Female Athlete of the Year Award, and she has twice won the Seychelles Female Lifter of the Year in 2009 and 2013.
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Montell Marcelle Douglas (born 24 January 1986) is a British sportswoman. Originally a sprinter and former British record holder for the 100 metres at 11.05 seconds, in 2017 she took up bobsleigh, and became part of the Great Britain women's two-woman bobsleigh team the following year.
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Six men share this honor with her: Swede Jörgen Persson, Croatian Zoran Primorac, Belgian Jean-Michel Saive, Serbian-American Ilija Lupulesku, Swede Jan-Ove Waldner, and German Jörg Roßkopf. She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1986 after becoming European champion the same year.
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Bibby on the floor during the Canberra Capitals v Townsville Fire 2011/12 home opener. Bibby is in blue, wearing long white socks. Jessica Bibby (born 23 August 1979) is an Australian sportswoman. She has played over 200 games in the WNBL and won several WNBL Championships.
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Kübra Yılmaz (born January 8, 1991) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Ardeşen GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the right wing position. Between 2010 and 2013, she played for Muratpaşa Bld. SK.
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Margaret Blick Kigozi, commonly known as Maggie Kigozi, is a Ugandan medical doctor, business consultant, educator, and sportswoman. She is a consultant at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). She formerly served as the Executive Director of the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), from 1999 until 2011.
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Perihan Topaloğlu Acar (born Topaloğlu on August 31, 1987) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Ardeşen GSK, and the Turkey national team. She is the captain of both teams. The -tall sportswoman plays in the left back position.
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Ellie Katherine Brush (born 19 August 1988) is an Australian sportswoman who plays soccer for Sydney FC in the Australian W-League. She has also played Australian rules football for Greater Western Sydney in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She also studied physiotherapy at Charles Sturt University.
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Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in 2004Hadath was a keen sportsman. He was on the school and college teams at St Edmunds and Peterhouse. After leaving school, he play Rugby as an amateur, but injury stopped him from playing for Devon. Florence was also a keen sportswoman.
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Lucero has worked as a sports broadcaster for ESPN, NBC and ABC. She is a member of the Colorado Sportswoman Hall of Fame. She is married to former NBA player Danny Schayes and is the daughter- in-law of Basketball Hall of Fame player Dolph Schayes.
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Burcu Dolunay (; born February 17, 1984 in Izmir, Turkey) is a Turkish female swimmer competing in the freestyle events. The tall sportswoman at is a member of Galatasaray Swimming team since 2006. She studied at Istanbul University. Dolunay is holder of several national records in freestyle.
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It was penned by Arunlal Ramachandran and it was directed by Deepu Karunakaran. It stars Manju Warrier an ex-railway sportswoman who as a volleyball coach trains a group of prisoners portrayed by Babu Antony, Baiju, Padmaraj Ratheesh, Sudev Nair, Sudheer Karamana, Jacob Gregory, and Santhosh Keezhattoor.
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Hensel is an avid sportswoman. She has skied the Tasman Glacier, trekked in the Amazon and the South Pole, and climbed Mount Whitney, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Mount Aconcagua - the latter at age 60 to raise funds for a new physical education center on the Presque Isle campus.
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Grainey, p. 89. Rampone was named the winner of the WPS Sportswoman of the Year Award. Asante was nominated for Defender of the Year, while Branam received a Goalkeeper of the Year nomination. Following the season, Sky Blue FC named Pauliina Miettinen as their head coach for 2010.
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The 2004 Sukma Games, officially known as the 10th Sukma Games was a Malaysian multi-sport event held in Negeri Sembilan from 29 May to 6 June 2004. Sarawakian swimmer Daniel Bego and Perakian swimmer Cindy Ong were announced as Best Sportsman and Best Sportswoman of the event respectively.
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She received a "Sportswoman of the Year" trophy from her school for her achievements. Henry began modelling at the age of 15 and modelled in London three years later for seven months. She appeared in Malaysian rock band Estranged's music video "Itu Kamu". Henry holds a B. Arts.
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Yeo was awarded Singapore's Sportsgirl of the Year award in 1994, and the Sportswoman of the Year awards in 1993, 1995 and 1999. She was prevented from winning any more due to a rule that stopped athletes from winning more than three times. This rule has since been lifted.
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Austria at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship European qualification match. Nurceren Akgün (born June 20, 1992) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Muratpaşa Bld. SK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the line player position.
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She won two medals at the European Indoor Championships. She became Hungarian champion in 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1985.Hungarian Championships - GBR Athletics She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1979 after having won the European Indoor Championships and the Summer Universiade the same year.
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She was also a nominee for the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award, alongside Serena Williams. Nike was Li's clothing and footwear sponsor for many years, dating back to her early tennis career. Li used Babolat Pure Drive GT rackets. In 2009, Li was signed by IMG.
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She was born in Helsinki. She competed in the 1972 AMF World Cup held in Magallanes, Philippines and voted "Sportswoman of the Year". Krogerus was inducted into the WBW International Bowling Hall of Fame in 2002, almost twenty years after retiring from competitive bowling at 51 years of age.
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As a Ladies' Gaelic footballer she played for Armagh in the 2006 All-Ireland final. She has also been an All Star on three occasions and was named as the 2014 TG4 Senior Player's Player of the Year. In 2010 she was named Northern Ireland Sportswoman of the Year.
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The 2008 Sukma Games, officially known as the 12th Sukma Games was a Malaysian multi-sport event held in Terengganu from 31 May to 9 June 2008. Selangorian swimmer Foo Jian Beng and Sarawakian swimmer Marellyn Liew were announced as Best Sportsman and Best Sportswoman of the event respectively.
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Rina Matewai Ruru (5 June 1902 - 26 August 1977), known as Lena Ruru, was a notable New Zealand community leader, sportswoman, pianist and Māori welfare worker. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki iwi. She was born in Gisborne, East Coast, New Zealand in 1902.
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In East Germany (GDR) there was also an annual vote for the Best Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year, from 1953 to 1989, chosen by the readers of the daily newspaper Junge Welt. Since 1990, after reunification, the East and West German awards merged into one single award.
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She started her Para swimming career in 1997 and she also made her debut at the International level in 2004. She made her debut at the Paralympics in 2008. In 2016, she was awarded the Best Sportswoman of the Year by the Icelandic Sports Association by the Disabled.
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In another case in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia on 1 December, a Grab driver was dropping a passenger off when he was punched in the face by a former Malaysian sportswoman who has anger issues. The driver allegedly dropped off both the woman and her mother at the wrong house, although the correct house was a few houses away. The former sportswoman allegedly punched the driver when the driver was trying to take a picture as evidence of wrongful treatment by both passengers. There was supposed to be a press conference held to allow both driver and the assailant to make amends in the next four days but the assailant did not attend the press conference as promised.
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In the 2015 Winter Deaflympics she created history after winning gold medals in all five events such as giant slalom, super combined, slalom, downhill and Super-G. Tereza Kmochová was awarded the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2015 for her achievements in the sport of alpine skiing especially claiming five gold medals during the 2015 Winter Deaflympics which was held in Russia. She was also nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2007 and 2010. Despite her deafness, she was eligible to represent Czech Republic in the 2015 Winter Universiade, 2017 Winter Universiade, FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 and FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017.
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Lind graduated from Phillips Academy in 2002. In 2003, she became a national debutante, at The National Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball in Washington, D.C. She attended Princeton University for college, graduating in 2006. At Princeton, Lind received the C. Otto von Kienbusch Sportswoman of the Year Award, given to a Princeton senior woman of high scholastic rank who has demonstrated general proficiency in athletics and qualities of a true sportswoman, as well as the Carol P. Brown Senior Woman Award by her Princeton teammates for being a source of inspiration, dedication, and perseverance in pursuit of excellence. Lind pursued an M.B.A. with an accounting concentration at Rider University, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, graduating in December 2010.
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The 2010 Sukma Games, officially known as the 13th Sukma Games, was a Malaysian multi-sport event held in Malacca from 12 to 19 June 2010. Host Malaccan swimmer J. Karthik and Federal Territorian swimmer Chan Kah Yan were announced as Best Sportsman and Best Sportswoman of the event respectively.
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In 1999, she appeared on German television, giving dressage commentary, and was named the German Sportswoman of the Year. There was speculation that she may make a bid for the 2000 Olympic team. She did not compete in the 2000 Olympics, and by early 2013, she had officially retired from competition.
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Ertürk admits that her managers contributed much to her development in football. The tall sportswoman played also varsity volleyball. Ertürk received a bilingual secondary school diploma (French immersion diploma). Her poor knowledge of Turkish became a language barrier and a communication problem during her time with the Turkey national team.
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V. Henry-Anderson learned to play golf in her youth in Edinburgh. At age 12 she won a prize playing in a mixed foursome with her brother at Blairgowrie,"The Sportswoman". Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (May 25, 1907): 518. where she won the Watson gold medal twice in 1900.
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Verena "Vreni" Schneider (born 26 November 1964) is a retired ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the fourth most successful female ski racer ever (after Lindsey Vonn, Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Mikaela Shiffrin) and was voted "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century".
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She produced two books of Score-Reading Exercises for the Novello Primer Series and published several of her own compositions. Daymond was also a keen sportswoman. Toward the end of her life, she learned Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier by heart so she would have them with her when she was blind.
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She also won four New Zealand national titles. She was named Māori Sportsperson of the Year twice, and New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year in 2000. Rorani retired from the professional tour in 2002, after winning gold medals in both the women's doubles and mixed doubles at the Commonwealth Games.
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Through her job, Pam often interacted with other characters and she became "a trusted and central figure" within the community. Pam was even- tempered, a member of the school committee and an active sportswoman. She was anxious that her eldest son, Adam, completed his studies, so he could study medicine.
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The 2000 Sukma Games, officially known as the 8th Sukma Games, was a Malaysian multi-sports event held in Penang from 25 May to 3 June 2000. Perakian swimmer Allen Ong and Kuala Lumpurian swimmer Sia Wai Yen were announced as Best Sportsman and Best Sportswoman of the event respectively.
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She was chosen as the Georgian sportsman of the year 1980 and placed fourth in the vote for the Georgian sportswoman of the 20th century. After retiring from competitions she worked as a professor of mathematics at the Tbilisi State University and from 2002 to 2005 headed the Georgian Archery Federation.
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Anna Power (born Anna Edwards) is a British equestrian sportswoman who competes in the sport of show jumping. She is based in Clevedon, North Somerset. In 2010 Edwards won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup and was part of the Great Britain team that won the 2010 FEI Nations Cup of Austria.
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Celia Brackenridge OBE (22 August 1950 – 23 May 2018) was a British sportswoman, campaigner and academic. In the mid-1980s, Brackenridge was recognised as the most capped Great Britain lacrosse player. She founded the Women's Sports Foundation UK and also conducted research into the physical and sexual abuse of young sportspeople by coaches.
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Edith Hope Goddard Iselin (January 17, 1868 – April 1970) was an American heiress and sportswoman who was the first American woman to compete as a crew member in the America's Cup yacht race.Profile and portrait of Hope Goddard Iselin at the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame & Museum She also owned thoroughbred racehorses.
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She was declared Best Sportswoman in Inter- Governmental College Athletic Meet 2006. In the men's section the males of B.A 1st Year stood 1st in the 200m and 400m races and in the shot put while a B.A 3rd year student stood 2nd in 800m race in Inter-Governmental College Athletic Meet 2006.
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And she won the best sportswoman award in 1989 for Athletics, Vollyball and Netball. She had to give up Netball and volleyball to focus on Athletics when she came to the national level. She grew up in Melsiripura, a remote area in Sri Lanka's Kurunegala District.Hurdles star Kulawansa says Lanka has medal potential .
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Merve Adıyaman (right) at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship European qualification match against Austria. Merve Adıyaman (born September 12, 1994) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Üsküdar Belediyespor, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the right back position.
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Noeline Brokenshire (née Gourley, born 1 December 1925) is a former New Zealand sportswoman, who represented her country in field hockey, and as a hurdler at the 1950 British Empire Games. Later she was a gallery owner and noted woodturner, and the founder and publisher of New Zealand's first woodworking magazine, Touch Wood.
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The 2006 Sukma Games, officially known as the 11th Sukma Games was a Malaysian multi-sport event held in Kedah from 28 May to 4 June 2006. Negeri Sembilan weightlifter Zulkifli Che Rose and Negeri Sembilan swimmer Lew Yih Wey were announced as Best Sportsman and Best Sportswoman of the event respectively.
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In 1933, Marcinkus advanced to the rank of lieutenant, which was conferred by Lithuanian President, Antanas Smetona. In the same year he married Aleksandra Lingytė. Lingytė was also a prominent Lithuanian sportswoman; she won several basketball championships for Lithuania. Around the same time, inspired by Klemensas Martinkus, Marcinkus became a paratrooper instructor.
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From 2004 to 2006, she was the SDSC's Sportswoman of the Year. On 27 February 2008 Goh received a special award at the SDSC's Sports Superstar Awards 2007 for outstanding achievements in swimming, and in August that year she was conferred the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Medal) in the National Day Awards.
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Elián is an avid sportswoman, she was part of the Venezuela National Female Volleyball team. She represented Venezuela during the Juegos Suramericanos Juveniles in 2009. Before the pageant, she was playing for the Aragua volleyball team in the Venezuelan league. She helped her team win the national championships in 2010 and 2011.
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Lily Poulett-Harris (2 September 1873 – 15 August 1897) was an Australian sportswoman and educationalist, notable for being the founder and captain of the first Women's cricket team in Australia. Poulett-Harris continued to play until forced to retire due to ill health from the tuberculosis that was eventually to claim her life.
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Isinbayeva debuts with 5.00m World Record in Donetsk! – Updated She received the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year in recognition of her achievements – it was also the fifth time she had been nominated for the award in as many years.Isinbayeva wins prestigious world sports award again. IAAF (27 May 2009).
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Betül Yılmaz (born 31 October 1988 in Ümraniye, Istanbul) is a Turkish female handballer playing in left back position. The tall sportswoman at is a member of the Turkish national team. She was educated in physical education and sports at Kocaeli University. Yılmaz is since 2005 a member of Üsküdar Belediyespor in Istanbul.
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She represented her country in the West Indies Championships. She won the women's singles championship; the mixed doubles partnering with Fuarnando Roberts, and the women's doubles partnering with Madge Bond. In 1961, Foster was given the first Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year award. She remains the youngest winner at 11 years old.
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Nađa Higl (Serbian Cyrillic: Нађа Хигл; born 2 January 1987) is a Serbian swimmer. She was World Champion in 200 m breaststroke. Higl was awarded the title "Serbian Sportswoman of the year" for the year 2009 by the Olympic Committee of Serbia and Golden Badge, award for the best athlete of Serbia.
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In 2014 she was again named Latvian sportswoman of the year. In June 2015, she competed in the inaugural European Games, for Latvia in wrestling in the women's freestyle -63 kg division. She earned a bronze medal. She qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics, but was again knocked out in the quarterfinals.
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Anna Polivanchuk made her Deaflympic debut at the 2005 Summer Deaflympics along with her twin sister, Alexandra Polivanchuk and claimed bronze medals in the women's 100m backstroke, 4×100 freestyle relay and 50m backstroke events. Anna was also the part of the Swedish team which claimed the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay event as a part of the 2005 Deaflympics which also consisted Alexandra Polivanchuk. Anna also competed at the 2009 Summer Deaflympics and claimed gold medals in the women's 100m backstroke and 200m backstroke events. Anna Polivanchuk was awarded the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2006 and was also nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2007 and 2009.
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The tall sportswoman is a member of Gaziantep Halter İhtisas S.K. in her hometown, where she is coached by Mehmet Doğan. As of July 2012, her best accomplishment at international level is a fourth place achieved at the 2011 European Weightlifting Championships in Kazan, Russia. Tunadağı qualified to participate at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Margaret Gisolo (Oct. 21, 1914 - Oct. 20, 2009) was an American sportswoman and educator who while still a child was a pioneer in the history of women in baseball as the first girl to play American Legion baseball, a predecessor of Little League. At the time, she was "featured in newspapers across the country".
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Tanja Bogosavljević (born ; April 24, 1989) is a Serbian handballer playing in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Muratpaşa Bld. SK and the Serbia national team. The -tall sportswoman is playing in the back position. She played for HC BMS Milenium in her country before she transferred to the Antalya-based team Muratpaşa Bld.
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Emily Cecil, 1st Marchioness of Salisbury, by Joshua Reynolds (1780) Mary Amelia 'Emily Mary' Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury (16 August 1750 - 22 November 1835), was an English aristocrat, Tory political hostess and sportswoman. The marchioness's eccentricity was frequently remarked upon, in particular her style of dress; her clothes were often of her own design.
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Nataliya Kotsina (born ; September 7, 1991) is a Belarusian handballer playing in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Kastamonu Bld. GSK and the Belarısian national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the left wing position. In January 2015, she transferred from SHC Gorodnichanka Grodno in her country to the Antalya-based Muratpaşa Bld.
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Grethe Werner (28 May 1928 – 30 October 2014) was a Norwegian sportswoman, a pioneer in women's sport in Norway, active in handball, gymnastics and track and field athletics. She was born in Oslo, and was married to Olaf Evjenth. She represented the clubs Grefsen IL (handball), Oslo Turnforening (gymnastics), and Torshaug IF (track and field).
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She was the first player to captain Cork to both All-Ireland senior championships. She was also named as an All Star on eleven occasions. In 2015 Buckley and her team mate and fellow dual player, Briege Corkery, were named joint winners of the 2015 The Irish Times/ Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year Award.
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At the end of the year she had won 72 matches in a solar year, a true record of the WTA. Janković had successful nose surgery immediately after Madrid to correct a breathing problem. The surgery prevented her from practicing for three weeks. Olympic Committee of Serbia declared her the sportswoman of the year.
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Dorothy Edith Simons (née Nash, 16 February 1912 - 13 September 1996) was a notable New Zealand sportswoman, sports journalist and writer. She was born in Greymouth, New Zealand, in 1912. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to youth and sport, in the 1974 New Year Honours.
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Fatma Atalar (born October 9, 1988 ) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for İzmir B.B. SK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the center back position. She played for Trabzon Bld. SK (2006–2007) before she joined İzmir B.B. SK in 2013.
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In 2000 Dench was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. His daughter, Michelle is a distinguished Australian sportswoman. She played high level basketball before taking up Australian football playing over 100 games for her club Melbourne University. She also represented Victoria and Australia as well as captaining her club to a premiership.
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Slovenian Sportsman of the year and Slovenian Sportswoman of the year are annual awards presented on the base of Slovenian sports reporters' voting for the best sportsman and sportswomen of the previous year. The first awards were awarded in 1968. Until 1991, Slovenia was part of SFR Yugoslavia as the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.
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Diane de Poitiers was born on 9 January 1500, in Château de Saint-Vallier, Drôme, France. Her parents were Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier, and Jeanne de Batarnay. Unusually athletic, Diane kept a fit figure by riding and swimming regularly. She became a keen sportswoman, remaining in good physical condition for her time.
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In 1972 Gyarmati set a world record in the 100 m butterfly in the semifinals. She also won four medals (two gold) at the 1970 European Championships. For these achievements she was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1970–1972. In her career, she won 28 Hungarian national championships and set two world records.
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Joy Foster is a Jamaican table tennis player. She set the Guinness World Record as the youngest sportsperson to represent their country in an international match when she participated in the West Indies Championship in 1958, aged eight. She is also the first and youngest recipient of the Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year Award.
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Foo Kune started playing badminton at the age of six and turned professional by twelve. She first participated in a junior competition at age 12 in 2005. She had her international debut Thomas and Uber Cup Qualification for Africa in 2010 held at Uganda. She was named Sportswoman of the Year in 2015 in Mauritius.
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Ildikó Tordasi (née Schwarczenberger; 9 September 1951 - 13 July 2015) was a Hungarian foil fencer. She competed in the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics and won four medals. Schwarczenberger was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year after winning the world title in 1973. In 1976 she won another world title and an Olympics gold medal.
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Alice Lee Moqué was an avid sportswoman. "An enthusiastic follower of all out door sports, Mrs. Moqué not only skates, rows and cycles, but is an expert swimmer and a fair shot with a rifle." She was one of the first women in America to be a bicyclist, in the face of strong social opposition.
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She also continued her medal hunt at the 2003 Winter Deaflympics as she claimed gold medals in the women's parallel slalom and slalom events, silver medal in the downhill category and a bronze medal in the women's giant slalom event. Petra was also nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2000 and 2003.
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She competed for Hungary in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico and won the bronze medal in the pentathlon. She also won nine Hungarian Championships between 1966 and 1969 in the 100 and 200 meter sprints, the 100 meter hurdles, long jump and pentathlon. She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1967.
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The club Sportverein 1923 e. V. offers many departments. From football to bowling, chess and baseball, every sportsman and sportswoman can follow his or her interests. Over the last few years, various teams from one department or another have made their way into the national leagues, with the first team from the baseball department even reaching the Second Bundesliga.
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In 1976, Freeman became the first athlete with a disability to win The Courier-Mail Sportswoman of the Year award. In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal. The Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association's Tracey Freeman Athlete of the Meet award is named after her. In December 2016, Freeman was inducted into the Australian Paralympic Hall of Fame.
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Lyn Fullston (3 March 1956 - 1 June 2008) known by her friends and peers as Lefty, was a World Champion Australian Cricketer, Australian netball representative, gifted sportswoman and dedicated Physical Education teacher in South Australia. Fullston took up cricket in 1977 and first represented South Australia in 1979, before her International debut versus India in the 1982 World Cup.
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Munnings's second (and final) rally of the 2016 season in Liepāja saw her again score points by reaching the end of the event. She had accumulated enough points to win the FIA European Rally Championship Ladies Trophy. In late 2016, Munnings was one of four athletes shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Sportswoman of the Year.
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She was featured in Vogue, and named the Professional Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation. Susan Butcher withdrew from the same race after two of her dogs were killed by a moose, but she became the second woman to win the race the next year and subsequently won three of the next four races.
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Petra Kamstra (born 18 March 1974) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands, who won one WTA-title in doubles during her career. She reached her individual career-high singles ranking on 2 October 1995, when Kamstra became the number 70 of the world. Twice she was named the Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year (1990 and 1992).
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2015 Nafi Thiam was elected Belgian Sports woman of the year. 2016 she was European Athletics Rising Star of the Year, IAAF Rising Star of the Year and Belgian Sportswoman of the Year. 2017 Thiam became IAAF Female World Athlete of the Year. Furthermore, she was among Forbes 30 under 30 for Europe and officially became UNICEF Ambassador.
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On January 2, 2015 she was awarded 'Nordic Female Fighter of the Year'. The same month, Finnish sports journalists honored her as 'Sportswoman of 2014', category MMA. In addition to her career in MMA, the BJJ purple belt competes in submission wrestling and Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournaments. As of September 13, 2015 she retired from MMA.
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The Rotterdam Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year is an annual election, organised by the city's division for topsport named Rotterdam Topsport. The award goes to sportspeople who were born or have lived in Rotterdam. Rotterdam was the first city in the Netherlands to honour its sportspeople for their achievements at the end of the year.
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The Amsterdam Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year is an annual award given to sportspeople associated with Amsterdam (through birth or otherwise), organised since 1999 by the city's division for elite sport named Topsport Amsterdam in cooperation with the city council. Awards are also given for the "Coach of the Year" and the "Talent of the Year".
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The Belgian Sportsman of the Year is elected at the end of each year by professional sportjournalists and former winners,Nieuws sport.be, 5 december 2019, article in Dutch annually since 1967. A Belgian Sportswoman of the Year title has been given out since 1975. Top winners include Ingrid Berghmans (8 wins), Kim Clijsters (8) and Eddy Merckx (6).Sportgala.
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In Debrecen she won the 50 m freestyle for the fifth time in a row but lost her 100 m freestyle title to Britta Steffen due to a bad turn, finishing second. She also won gold in the 4×50 m freestyle. A few days after the tournament she was elected Dutch Sportswoman of the Year.
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In 1982, the organisation would give out awards for the first time for the sportswoman and sport-team of the year. In 1971, the women's volleyball club was created, with the mountaineering, orienteering and canoe club being founded two years later. The Canoe club would separate in 1976, and the women's gymnastics and trampoline club was founded in 1970.
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She began playing rugby when she attended Lynfield College. She is of the Ngāpuhi tribe, and is also of Chinese and European descent. In 2013, she won the Junior Māori Sportswoman of the Year award and was a finalist for the same award in 2014. Nathan-Wong was selected for the women's sevens team to the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Martyna Wojciechowska (born 28 September 1974 in Warsaw as Marta Eliza Wojciechowska)Biography on www.martynawojciechowska.pl is a Polish TV presenter, mountaineer, traveller, journalist, sportswoman and writer. In 2010, she completed the Seven Summits. She presents the television series Kobieta na krańcu świata (Woman at the Edge of the World), and is the editor in chief of National Geographic Poland.
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In late September at the Tier IV Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships in Seoul, she was forced to retire from her quarterfinal match with Eleni Daniilidou while tied at one set apiece. She did not play on the tour the remainder of the year. For her achievements, she was named "2007 Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year".
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She was the flag bearer for Mauritius during the Parade of Nations. As a junior player, she won the Under-15 and Under-19 African tournaments. She was awarded the Sportswoman of the year in 2015 in Mauritius. In doubles, she partnered with Yeldy Marie Louison, while in mixed doubles, she partnered with Georges Julien Paul.
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Grace Jackson-Small (born 14 June 1961) is a Jamaican former athlete who competed mainly in the 100 and 200 metres. She won an Olympic silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and is a former Jamaican record- holder in the 200m and 400m. She was Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year in 1986 and 1988.
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The closing ceremony was held at the Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil at 20:00 on 29 October 2001. The games was closed by the Minister for National Unity and Community Development, Datuk Dr Siti Zaharah Sulaiman. Thai swimmer Voravit Kaw Kham was voted the Best Sportsman title, while Theresa Goh of Singapore won the Best Sportswoman title.
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Albertsen self-identifies as a Christian in the Protestant tradition and professes a respect for all religions. She advocates a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle, one that combines fitness, beauty, strength and style. She is an active sportswoman. Among other things, she cooks, paints, rock climbs, water skis, runs marathons, plays tennis and golf, and does yoga.
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Tessy Scholtes (born 1 June 1981 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgian karateka and politician. In 2002, she finished as runner-up in the world championships in the kumite 60 kg+ category. For the achievement, she won the title of Luxembourgian Sportswoman of the Year. On 7 December 2009 she declared her retreat for personal reasons.
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She won the Rome Derby on 2 occasions, the Hickstead Derby, the Geneva Derby, the Berlin Derby and the South African Derby twice. She toured America and won the Grand Florida Championship, The Madison Square Garden's Championship and the All American Showjumping Championship. She represented Great Britain for 14 years on the Olympic Nations Cup Team and was awarded the FEI Badge of Honour. She won the European Show Jumping Championship. Was British Sportswoman of the year 3 times and South African Sportswoman of the Year 8 times Awarded the “Premio Caprilli” by the Italian Equestrian Federation for her outstanding achievements. Awarded the “Golden Spurs” by the French Federation in conjunction with the Cadre Noir for her contribution to Showjumping Won the FEI/Samsung World Challenge on 4 Occasions.
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At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she won silver in the 500 m time trial and gold in the sprint. At the 2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, she won the team sprint with Shanaze Reade, the individual gold in the sprint, and a third gold in the keirin. She crowned the year by being named Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year for 2007, becoming the first cyclist to win the award in its 20-year history. Pendleton was also voted Sports Journalists' Association's sportswoman of the year for 2007. sprint at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships During her build-up to the Olympics she won two gold medals at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the sprint, and the team sprint, again with Reade.
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She competed at the 1952 Olympics and finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m and fifth in the 400 m freestyle events. Hveger retired in 1954 after ending fifth in the 100 m freestyle at the European Championships. In 1966 she was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and 30 years later declared sportswoman of the century by Danmarks Idræts-Forbund.
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Revital Sharon (; born December 2, 1970) is an Israeli former Olympic artistic gymnast. At the age of 11, in 1982 Sharon won a gold medal at the International Workers’ Games in Italy. In 1988, Sharon was Israel's National Women's all-around champion, and was named Israel's 1988 Sportswoman of the Year. She was born in Kiryat Bialik, Israel, and is Jewish.
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Romane Jacqueline Elisabeth Goormachtigh (born 28 February 1970 in Dordrecht, South Holland) is a retired discus thrower from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. There she did not reach the final, after having thrown 58.74 metres in the qualifying heats. She was named Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year in 1993.
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Isabel's father, Simon, made corsets, and was also born in Germany. Later, she lived in Ketchum, Idaho, in a house she built to her specifications, where she lived for over 40 years. She attended the Faulkner School for Girls, and Vassar College, where she met Jane Mayer. She spoke four languages, and was an avid hunter and all-around sportswoman.
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In December 2016, Tai was awarded an MBE for her services to swimming. In March 2017, Tai was awarded the Youth Sport Trust Young Sports Person of the Year at the Lycamobile British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSAs) held at the London Hilton on Park Lane. In November 2019, Tai was named The Sunday Times’ Disability Sportswoman of the Year.
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In 1996, Carlton was named the Tasmanian Institute of Sport female athlete of the year, Tasmanian Sportswoman of the Year, and Hobart City Council Young Citizen of the Year. In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal. In 2001, she received the Tasmanian Athlete with a Disability of the Year award. She was added to the Tasmanian Sporting Hall of Fame in 2005.
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In October 2013, Gold was named as a face of CoverGirl. She appeared on the Cover of Sports Illustrated Magazine February 2014 Issue, GQ Japan and Teen Vogue. Later she was named the 2014 Sportswoman of the Year by the Los Angeles Council, and received an award that March during the L.A Sports ceremony. She's an ambassador for the KOSÉ Infinity beauty product.
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Gyöngyi Likerecz (born May 28, 1983 in Oroszlány, Komárom-Esztergom) is a retired female weightlifter from Hungary. She twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics (2000 and 2004) in the women's heavyweight division (- 75 kg). Likerecz was named Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year in 2001 after having won the world title the same year in Antalya, Turkey.
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Eileen Cikamatana (born 18 September 1999) is an Australian weightlifter who previously represented Fiji. She competed in the women's 90 kg event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal. Cikamatana was named 2017 Fiji's sportswoman of the year, but was controversially omitted from consideration for the 2018 Fiji sports awards following her gold medal winning performance at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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Decision by the Board, then the Yugoslav Olympic Committee, JOK since 1994. at the end of each calendar year proclaimed the most successful athletes. Initially declared sportswoman and sportsman, and later introduced the award for best the women's team, the men's team, coach, young sportsperson and youth team. The competition includes results from current Olympic sports, also and from Chess Olympiad.
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Valeriia Baranik (born ; November 17, 1993) is a Russian handballer playing in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Muratpaşa Bld. SK and the Russia national team. The -tall sportswoman is line player. She played for HC Lada Togliatti and Rostov-Don in her country and for BNTU Minsk in Belarus before she transferred to the Antalya-based team Muratpaşa Bld.
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In 2008 they became second in the Rowing World Cup meeting in Luzern and they qualified themselves for the 2008 Summer Olympics where they won Olympic Gold. In 2006 van Eupen received the "Golden Oar" first awarded to Janus Ooms in 1892. Between 2005 and 2008, three years in a row, she was given the Amsterdam Sportswoman of the year award.
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Porter has been recognised for her softball play. She has been named the Australian Softballer of the Year in 2005. That year, she was also recognised by being named Blacktown City's 2005 Sportsperson of the Year, and the 2005 Deadly Awards in the category of female sportswoman of the year. In 2008, she was the NAIDOC Sportsperson of the Year.
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Arnela Odžaković 2007 Arnela Odžaković (born September 5, 1983 in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a karateka and Bosnian sportswoman of the year 2007. She finished fifth in the female +60 kg kumite division at the 2006 WKF Karate World Championships. As of May 2010, karaterec.com ranks her number 10 among kumite females in the +60 kg division (129th overall).
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Marion Rice Hart (10 October 1891 – July 2, 1990)California, Death Index, 1940-1997. State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics. was an American sportswoman and writer. Hart was born in London, the fourth of six children of Isaac Rice, a businessman who founded the Electric Boat Company (producer of submarines for the US Navy and others).
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Margaret Alphonsi (born 20 December 1983) is an English former rugby union player who played as a flanker for Saracens W.R.F.C. and England before retiring in 2014. She was Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year in 2010, and was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in November 2016 during the opening ceremonies for the Hall's first physical location in Rugby, Warwickshire.
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Sports Illustrated named Blair their Sportswoman of the Year for 1994. By 1994, Blair's hometown of Champaign had renamed one of its streets Bonnie Blair Drive. She is a member of the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame and the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.BadgerStateGames.org: Hall of Fame Members In 2004, she was elected to the United States Olympic Hall of Fame.
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The Bukit Jalil Sports School (BJSS) (, SSBJ) is the first sports school in Malaysia. The school is located at the National Sports Complex compound in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur. Sekolah Sukan Bukit Jalil was opened in 1996 and the pioneers were only Form One and Form Four students. Ex-sprinter and former Sportswoman of the Years Marina Chin became head teacher in 2007.
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On 9 January 1983 she won the first women's World Cup Super-G race, held in Verbier. In 1992 she completed her medical studies in Munich, and in November 1994 married Theo Waigel, who was the German Finance Minister from 1989 to 1998. In 1980 she was named the German Sportswoman of the Year. She is the sister of alpine skier Maria Epple.
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Alenka Bikar (born 7 January 1974) is a retired female sprinter from Slovenia, born in Ljubljana. She specialised in the 200 metres, competing in three Olympic games from 1996 to 2004.Alenka Bikar at Sports Reference She was also named Slovenian Sportswoman of the Year in 2001. Bikar won the gold medal in the 200 m in the Mediterranean Games in 2005.
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Laurie Thomassin (born 2 July 1978) is a French retired breaststroke swimmer who won a gold medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2004 European Aquatics Championships. She also competed in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. More than one French sportswoman carry the name Laurie Thomassin: a pentathlon athlete Laurie Thomassin (b. 1986),Laurie Thomassin. pentathlon.
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Holliday also won the 1990 New Zealand women's road race title. In the 1991 New Year Honours, Holliday was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to cycling. She was named as New Zealand sportswoman of the year for 1990 at the Halberg Awards. She was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Monica Bascio (born September 16, 1969) is an American Paralympic cross- country skier, biathlete and handcyclist. Making her Paralympic debut at the Paralympic Winter Games Torino 2006, she has competed in a total of four Paralympic Games. At London 2012, Bascio secured two silver medals in handcycling. She was named the United States Olympic Committee’s Paralympic Sportswoman of the Year in 2013.
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Female and Child portrait was presented of "Girl on a pink background", "Portrait of cosmetologist A. Sakeranskaya" by Boris Korneev, "Portrait of Lena Molteninova" by Elena Kostenko, "Portrait of Sportswoman" by Valeria Larina, "Portrait of Tania Sherbakova" by Semion Rotnitsky, "Portrait of Mother" by Igor Veselkin, and some others.Портрет современника. Пятая выставка произведений ленинградских художников. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1983.
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She is born to English parents, Karen and Derek and she has two older brothers Richard (born 1985) and James (born 1987). Cook has been working as a model since age 14. She has a degree in environmental science and works for the Swiss animal help organization STS. She is also an avid sportswoman, participating in athletics and inline skating.
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Because of that achievement she was elected Dutch Sportswoman of the year. Her world record lasted until February 1992 and still stands as national record. Cooman took part twice in the Summer Olympics for the Netherlands: in 1988 in the 100 metres and 4 × 100 m relay and in 1992 in 100 metres. In 1995, Cooman ended her career as a professional athlete.
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Always a keen sportswoman, Searle represented her county in tennis and netball and represented the West of England in lacrosse whilst in her teens. She went on to gain a place in the Great Britain Dragon Boat Racing Team in 1998 for the European Championships in Rome and the 1999 World Championships in Nottingham, coming home with gold, silver and bronze medals.
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Jeanny Dom (born 5 February 1954) is a retired Luxembourgian table tennis player. She is currently the General Secretary of the European Table Tennis Union. During her career, Dom won the title of Luxembourgian Sportswoman of the Year a record seven times, which is also more than the record six times Marc Girardelli won the title of Luxembourgian Sportsman of the Year.
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Ayhan was a prominent Turkish sportswoman in a country which has a low female participation rate. Turkey's sports branches had a total 65,948 licensed women athletes and track and field was a minor sport; she was one of only 1632 licensed woman athletes, in a country with 35 million women population. Her success raised the profile of the sport in her country.
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Tom Maher who was the coach her called her up said "She's so good she could be the greatest sportswoman in the world. She's that extraordinary." Graf has described Jackson as one of the superstars of the game. Jackson was a member of the 1997 Australian Junior Women's Team that won a silver medal at the World Championships in Brazil.
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She was an accomplished athlete, fencer, tobogganist, skier, rifle and pistol shot, horse trainer and concert pianist. Gordon Bennett described her as "the greatest sportswoman of all time". After her husband's death she began to travel extensively, including crossing Morocco on horseback. She was active on the Parisian social scene, being known as "one of the richest and most accomplished widows in France".
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She was named the 1996 Sportswoman of the Year (in the team category) by the Women's Sports Foundation. She competed for the United States in international competition a total of 19 times. Her teams won 14 gold medals. In 1984, the USA sent its National team to the 1984 William Jones Cup competition in Taipei, Taiwan, for pre-Olympic practice.
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Aged fourteen, she became a European Junior champion in the 100 yard breaststroke, and next year won an Olympic medal. From 1995 through 2007 she won 17 medals at European championships and 53 Hungarian titles. She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year in four consecutive years, from 1997 to 2000. In 2014, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Radtke began her career in 1990 with VfB Gröbzig.USV- Spielerinnen privat: Kathleen Radtke She then played for the youth teams of CFC Germania Köthen and Hallescher FC where she has named 2001 Sportswoman of the Year. During the 2002/2003 season, she played for the youth academy of 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam and then joined the youth club, CFC Germania Köthen, in 2004.
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She was a member of the inaugural class of inductees to the University of Connecticut women's basketball "Huskies of Honor" recognition program. Lobo was named the 1995 Sportswoman of the Year (in the team category) by the Women's Sports Foundation. Lobo was the first player in the Big East Conference ever to earn first team all American honors for both basketball and academics.
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In her first round heat, Ágústa was up against Dawn Fraser, the eventual gold medallist. She finished her heat in sixth place in a time of 1:07.5, putting her in 22nd place overall so she did not qualify for the next round. In her swimming career she broke 52 national records and was nominated sportswoman of the year four times.
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She teamed with Pat Hurst, represented the United States at the 2007 Women's World Cup of Golf. She was voted Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year in 1999 and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000. She was recognized during the LPGA’s 50th Anniversary in 2000 as one of the LPGA’s top-50 players and teachers.
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She won the von Kiensbusch Award her senior year as Princeton's top senior sportswoman. Her Princeton career concluded with a record-breaking run to the NCAA Final Four in 2004 with then freshman teammate Diana Matheson, a member of the Canadian National Team. No other any Ivy League team has ever reached the NCAA Final Four of a 64-team tournament.
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That year, Kristie was also named USA Gymnastics Sportswoman of the Year. She competed at the US Nationals again in 2000, placing 24th, before retiring. Phillips lives in Troutman, North Carolina with her husband photographer Horatio Bannister and three children: Sebastian, Isabella and Eberlie. She owns KPAC, gymnastics facilities in Statesville and Mooresville, North Carolina, and is certified as an International Brevet judge.
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She put her 100m butterfly set in 1:04.38. She also performed in the 100 meter freestyle. Her time of 1:03.82 in the 100m backstroke set a Belgian record that would stand until Silke Van Hoof surpassed it in 2008 in Antwerp with an improved time of 1:02.86. In 1975, 1978 and 1979, she was elected Belgian Sportswoman of the Year.
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After the 1984 games, Dowling won three Mercury W.D. & H.O. Wills Star of Sport awards, a Sport Australia Award, a national Para Quad trophy for the best female athlete in international events, and a TAS TV Sportswoman of the Year Award. She received a British Empire Medal in 1985. In 2005, she was inducted into the Tasmanian Sporting Hall of Fame.
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He was son of Guillaume de Spoelberch (1874–1947) and Colienne de Neufforge (1882–1929). He married Katharine Kelso Stewart 28 April 1932, in Haverford; Katherine's mother was Elsie Foster Cassatt (1875–1931), a sportswoman from a prominent Pennsylvania family, niece of artist Mary Cassatt and great-niece of president James Buchanan. The couple had two sons, Guillaume and Jacques de Spoelberch.
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Cora Staunton (born 13 December 1981) is an Irish sportswoman. She is best known as a Ladies Gaelic footballer, winning four All-Irelands and three Ladies' National Football League titles with Mayo. She has also been an All Star on eleven occasions. In addition to playing Gaelic football, Staunton has also played three other football codes at a senior level.
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The Asian Sports Award (ASA) is a recognition programme conceived by Stropt and Sports Limited (HK) in collaboration with the Asian Sports Press Union (ASPU). Its aim is to honour, champion and promote the world-class sports heroes of Asia. They named Liu Xiang and Nicol Ann David as the recipients of the inaugural Asian Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards.
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Yolande Geddes-Hall is a Jamaican sportswoman who represented her country at four different sports. As a cricketer she played for Jamaica at the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup. Later she played ten women's test matches and two women's one-day internationals for the West Indies between 1976 and 1979. She also played netball, table tennis and softball for Jamaica.
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Swoopes was the 1993 winner of the Naismith College Player of the Year award, the Honda Sports Award, was selected as that year's WBCA Player of the Year, and was chosen to the Division I All-American squad in both 1992 and 1993. Swoopes was named the 1993 Sportswoman of the Year (in the team category) by the Women's Sports Foundation.
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Teresa Silva is a Spanish elite sportswoman with disabilities, founder and president of Fundación También. She has also made a name for herself in disciplines such as skiing and adapted sailing, in which she has been Champion of Spain and Regional Champion , respectively. Creator of the first female adapted alpine sit skiing competition team in Spain in 2007 . President of the Spanish 2.4 mR Sailing Association.
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Georges has been named Female Lifter of the Year by the Seychelles Weightlifting Committee on 13 occasions, she has also been named Sportswoman of the Year at the Seychelles Sports Awards four times in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2010. As well as working as a policewoman she has also served as vice chairperson of the athletes commission of the Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association.
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In August of the same year she was voted International Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Month after winning six gold medals in Edmonton. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games." In November 2015, she was awarded Cosmopolitan Magazine's 2015 Sportswoman of the Year.
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Nadig won her first major competition in 1970, the giant slalom at the Swiss Junior Championships. She finished sixth in the downhill at the world cup in 1971, and second in 1972. The same year she won two Olympic gold medals, beating the favorite Annemarie Moser-Pröll and becoming the Swiss Sportswoman of the Year. She also took part in the slalom, but failed to finish.
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Kristina Graovac (; born August 14, 1991) is a Serbian female handballer playing for Turkish handball team Ardeşen GSK and the Serbian national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the goalkeeper position. Between 2013 and 2015, she played in her country for ZORK Jagodina before she joined Ardeşen GSK in the 2015-16 season.. She played at the 2015–16 Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup for Ardeşen GSK.
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Duygu Sakallı (born June 13, 1991) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Ardeşen GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the left wing position. Sakallı played for İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi GSK between 2010 and 2013. She transferred to Genç Uşak SK in August 2014, and after one season to Ardeşen GSK in July 2015.
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She retired after the 1977–1978 season, in which she won national titles in the downhill and combined. In 1978 she built the Aparthotel Olympia in Filzmoos and ran it since then. Totschnig was named Austrian Sportswoman of the Year in 1976 and in 1996 was awarded a silver medal for services to Austria. Her father-in-law, Walter Habersatter, competed for Austria in ski jumping.
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Due to competition from more experienced players, Sandrić saw limited playing time with the national team in 2011 and 2012, scoring 4.8 points per game in the Eurobasket and 3.3 points per game in the Olympics. Sandrić is often described as the most beautiful sportswoman of Croatia. She was named Miss Mediterranean Games in 2009 by a poll of 80 accredited photographers from 23 countries.
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German teams won all three of the bobsleigh events at the Games. As a result of her Olympic win, Buckwitz was awarded the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), and was voted Brandenburg's Sportswoman of the Year. Buckwitz and Jamanka won the opening race of the 2018–2019 Bobsleigh World Cup in Sigulda, Latvia. Aside from her bobsleigh career, Buckwitz has worked as a state police officer.
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Several sports teams from Tuzla have participated in international competitions. Almost all of Tuzla's sports teams are named Sloboda, meaning freedom. The most popular sports in Tuzla include football (FK Sloboda); basketball (OKK Sloboda), karate (KBS Tuzla-Sinbra) and many others. The women's basketball team Jedinstvo Aida were European club champions in the late 1980s, with the most famous sportswoman from Tuzla in their midst – Razija Mujanović.
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Micheen Barbara Thornycroft (born 26 June 1987), is a Zimbabwean female rower. Born in Harare, she competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics in the single scull events for the national team. Thornycroft's achievements in the sporting discipline have seen her being nominated for the ANSA (Annual National Sports Award) Sportswoman of the Year Award twice, in 2013 and in 2015.
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Thornycroft did her tertiary education in South Africa. At Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Thornycroft read Human Kinetics and Ergonomics, and Ichthyology and Fisheries studies for her undergraduate education. She then did her Honours in Ichthyology and Fisheries studies. Thornycroft was also president of the Rowing Club and in 2009, she won the Sportswoman of the Year Award at the Rhodes University Sports Council Awards Dinner.
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Neuner has lived in the Bavarian village of Wallgau since birth. At the age of 16, she joined the German Customs Administration to become a member of the government-funded Customs-Ski-Team. Since winning three world championship gold medals in 2007, Neuner is one of her home country's most popular female athletes. She was named German Sportswoman of the Year in 2007, 2011 and 2012.
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Turner, like many UK Flat jockeys is based in Newmarket, Suffolk. In 2011, she became a member of the Jaguar Academy of Sport and received the 'Most Inspirational Sportswoman' Award at the 2011 Jaguar Academy of Sport Annual Awards. Turner was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours. In 2020, Turner became a racing brand ambassador.
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Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian politician and former sportswoman. She served as member of parliament of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from the Krishnagar constituency in the 14th Lok Sabha. She was defeated in the 2009 Indian general election by the actor turned politician Tapas Paul of the Trinamool Congress. She had been reportedly inactive in politics following her defeat.
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The games was opened by Abdul Taib Mahmud, the governor of Sarawak at the Sarawak Stadium. The final medal tally was led by Selangor, followed by host Sarawak and Terengganu. 6 national and 67 games records were broken during the games. Malaccan sprinter Khairul Hafiz Jantan and Terengganuan archer Nur Aqilah Yusof were announced as best sportsman and best sportswoman of the games respectively.
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The games was opened by Nazrin Shah, the Sultan of Perak at the Perak Stadium. The final medal tally was led by Terengganu, followed by host Federal Territory and Selangor. 5 national and 27 games records were broken during the games. Sabahan archer Eugenius Lo Foh Soon and Terengganuan sprinter Azreen Nabila Alias were announced as best sportsman and best sportswoman of the games respectively.
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The closing ceremony was held on 22 September 2018 at the Perak Stadium at 8:00 pm. Events: #Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah declared the games closed. #Eugenius Lo Fah Soon, Sabah archer awarded best sportsman title, Azreen Nabila Alias, Terengganu sprinter awarded best sportswoman title, Terengganu crowned as overall champion. #Cauldron extinguished, games hosting rights handed over to Johor, host of the 2020 Sukma Games.
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Kusum Renu was born on 30 January 1961 in Colombo and completed her education from Anula Vidyalaya, Nugegoda. At the school times, she was a good sportswoman, a Girl Guide, a school prefect and a member of the school debating team. She also played Esraj for the Eastern Band. Kusum Renu is married to Sriyantha Mendis, who is also a renowned actor and director.
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Annemarie "Mirl" Buchner-Fischer (February 16, 1924 - November 9, 2014) was a German Alpine skier. She was born in Ettal. At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo Buchner was silver medalist in the downhill, and bronze medalist in the slalom and in the giant slalom."1952 Winter Olympics - Oslo, Norway - Alpine Skiing" (Retrieved on February 27, 2008) She was also German Sportswoman of the Year in 1948.
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Kellie Louise Lucas (born 31 March 1978) is an Australian badminton player. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's singles, doubles, and mixed doubles event. She participated at the three consecutive Commonwealth Games in 1998, 2002, and 2006, and winning a women's team bronze medal in 1998. Lucas was crowned Ballarat's Sportswoman of the Year for the fourth time in her sporting career.
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As an ambassador for the women's game, in 1983 she received the Vaux Breweries North Sportswoman of the Year Silver Star Award. In 1984 she became the first woman player to be interviewed on national breakfast television appearing opposite Frank Bough and Selina Scott following the defeat against Sweden in the 1984 European Championship Final. In 1985 she was awarded the Sports Council Sports Award.
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In the process, Suhr took Isinbayeva's indoor world record. Isinbayeva was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus in 2007 and 2009. In 2007 she entered in the FICTS "Hall of Fame" and was awarded with "Excellence Guirlande D'Honneur". She was given the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports in 2009.
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She is the second gymnast to win this award after Nastia Liukin won it in 2009. In 2017, Simone won the Shorty Awards for the best in sports. At the 2017 Teen Choice Awards, Simone won favorite female athlete, and won Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year in 2017. In 2017, Biles was awarded the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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Ingrid van der Elst (born 4 May 1955) is a former Dutch sportswoman who represented her country in both cricket and field hockey. In hockey, she was a goalkeeper for the Dutch national indoor team, while in cricket she represented both the Netherlands and an "International XI", playing One Day International (ODI) matches for the latter team.Netherlands / Players / Ingrid van der Elst – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
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Back in the Netherlands, the family lived in Bergen and she went to school in Alkmaar. In 1968 she won her first Dutch national championship water skiing. The next year, at the age of 15, she won her first European championship, and in 1971 her one world championship, in the trick discipline. For that achievement she became the Dutch Sportswoman of the Year in 1971.
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She had her career peak in 1981 when she won bronze medals in the individual 400 m and relay at the 1981 IAAF World Cup and set two championship records to take a 200 metres/400 metres double at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics. As a result of her achievements that year, she was given the Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year award.
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Quin represented New Zealand at 12 world championship events, including the 2004 event, when she won the elite women's section. She was the first New Zealander to win a world elite championship in downhill mountain bike. She was nominated as a finalist for the Halberg Award for Sportswoman of the Year 2004. In 2008 Quin retired from the sport to have children, and returned in 2013.
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She represented Victoria between 1932 and 1936. In 1935, she received a testimonial match, a first for a Victorian sportswoman. Hills made a single Test appearance for Australia, in the first Women's test match in 1934. Batting in the middle order, Hills retired hurt from the first innings of the game, having broken her nose, therefore not making an appearance in the second innings of the match.
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In December 1944, Pell married Nuala O'Donnell, daughter of Charles Oliver O'Donnell and Josephine Hartford.Eric Pace, "Josephine Hartford Bryce, 88, Philanthropist and Sportswoman", The New York Times, June 10, 1992. They had four children: Herbert Claiborne Pell III, Christopher Thomas Hartford Pell, Nuala Dallas Pell, and Julia Lorillard Wampage Pell.Faye Zuckerman, "Pell Family Wedding a Mix of Two Cultures", The Providence Journal, September 2, 2003.
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"Simply Unstoppable" is a song by British rapper Tinie Tempah, taken from his debut studio album, Disc-Overy. The song features uncredited vocals from British singer Vanya Taylor. On 20 April 2011 the track was released as a promotional single in the form of the YES remix, a remix featuring American drummer Travis Barker and Irish sportswoman Katie Taylor, exclusively for use in a Lucozade advertising campaign.
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Tímea Nagy (born 22 August 1970) is a Hungarian épée fencer. She competed at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won individual gold medals in 2000 and 2004; her teams placed fourth-fifth. She won the individual world title in 2006 and a gold medal with the Hungarian teams in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999. In 2006, she was voted Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year.
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She often speaks at the annual International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England, and performed Yum-Yum in The Mikado at that festival in 1997. She is a Patron of the Carl Rosa Opera Company."Our Patrons". Carl Rosa Opera Company website, accessed 26 August 2010 An avid sportswoman and cooking enthusiast, she is married to former D'Oyly Carte principal flautist Andrew March.
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She won further bronze medals in 1956 in Bled and in 1957 in Duisburg. From 1958 in Poznań to 1961 in Prague, she was European champion four years in a row. She was elected Sportswoman of the Year in Hungary three years in a row from 1959 to 1961, after having come second in 1958. She worked as a journalist for Új Sport from 1960 to 1985.
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Charlotte "Lottie" Dod (24 September 1871 – 27 June 1960) was an English sportswoman, best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only fifteen in the summer of 1887. She remains the youngest ladies' singles champion. In addition to tennis, Dod competed in many other sports, including golf, field hockey, and archery.
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She was named Western Australian Sportswoman of the Year in 2007. After returning home after the World Cup De Vanna returned to a job at a petrol station. In May 2011 De Vanna was sent home from a training camp held to prepare the national team for the World Cup. Australian coach Tom Sermanni stated that the expulsion was for an unacceptable standard of behaviour.
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Her successes earned her two Jamaica Sportswoman of the year awards in 1970 and 1971. In 1972, she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley. She is still ranked number 3 on the school's all-time list. After battling with injuries Marilyn returned at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games but was a shadow of her former self only finishing sixth in the 400 m final.
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Dame Mabel June Hinekahukura Mariu (née Waititi, born 1 June 1932) is a New Zealand Māori community leader and former sportswoman. She represented New Zealand at netball, captaining the national side in 1960, and basketball. Between 1987 and 1990, she served as national president of the Māori Women's Welfare League. In the 1985 Queen's Birthday Honours, Mariu was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for public services.
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Leden was awarded an MBE in 1989 for her services to hang gliding, and has received many other awards, including the Royal Aero Club Gold Medal for 1995, and Sportswoman of the Year from Cosmopolitan magazine and Middlesex county. She also received the Hussein Medal for Excellence in recognition of her flight to Jordan by microlight, and the Star of the First Order by King Hussein.
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Philippa Rachel "Pippa" Funnell MBE (née Nolan, 7 October 1968) is an equestrian sportswoman who competes in eventing. In 2003, she became the first person to win the Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing (consecutive wins at Rolex Kentucky, Badminton and Burghley). She also won Badminton in 2002 and 2005. At the European Championships, she has won two Individual golds (1999–2001) and three team golds (1999–2003).
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Brown was born on July 11, 1935 in Latexo, in Houston County, Texas, a town that, according to Isobel Silden, Earlene "(could) no longer find on the map" by 1973.Silden, Isobel (1973). Sportswoman (Vol. 1–2), p. 142 Earlene's father was 'a 6-footer' and a semipro baseball player with the Negro League in TexasTrack and Field News, July 12, 1956Commire, Anne and Klezmer, Deborah (1999).
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After the Paralympics, the team's performance was considered impressive enough for it to be named the national "Team of the Year", and it received the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest sporting honour, from German President Horst Koehler. Mohnen beat Olympic gold medallists Britta Heidemann, Marion Rodewald and Oksana Chusovitina, and long-distance runner Sabrina Mockenhaupt, to take the title of Cologne's Sportswoman of the Year for 2008.
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Enith Sijtje Maria Brigitha (born 15 April 1955) was a leading competitive swimmer in the 1970s. She twice represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 (Munich, West Germany). She won two bronze medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the women's 100 m and 200 m freestyle. Brigitha twice was named 'Dutch Sportswoman of the Year', in 1973 and 1974.
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Melissa Moon Melissa Moon (born 16 September 1969) is a long-distance runner from Wellington, New Zealand. She is a two time World Mountain Running champion and has won 21 New Zealand athletics titles over her career. In 2001, she was named New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year. In 2008, she was named as one of the JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP).www.melissamoon.co.
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The emphasis has been respected that the athletes had to pursue themselves the sporting ideology, because otherwise no success would have been guaranteed. Each year, the best Dynamo-athlete were voted. Few could win 50,- M when they themselves were those who chose the sportswoman/ sportsman of the year. Dynamo employed a planning cycle that set out the club's objectives for the upcoming four-year period.
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Idaho Certificate of Death, Number 000456, 1957 She had also appeared opposite William S. Hart, Charlie Ray, Bryant Washburn, Wally Reid and others. She was five feet three inches high, weighed a hundred and ten pounds, and had blond hair and greyish blue eyes. She was an able sportswoman. With the advent of sound, Hawley's movie career largely ended; her last film was released in 1932.
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At the Hogspy Awards in April, Alcide was named Arkansas' Female Student-Athlete of the Year. She was named the US Reack and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association SEC Field Athlete of the Year. The awards kept coming, as she was adjudged Saint Lucia's Sportswoman of the Year for 2013. The announcement was made at the country's National Sports Awards, which fell on Makeba's 24th birthday.
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Ildikó Mincza-Nébald (born 6 December 1969, in Budapest) is a Hungarian épée fencer. Mincza-Nébald won the bronze medal in the individual épée event at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, losing the semi-final 14-15 to Ana Maria Brânză and winning 15-11 against Li Na in the play-off for third place. She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year for this achievement.
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Four years later at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece she won three medals. In the women's 200 metre individual medley SM11 event she won the silver medal and she also won the bronze medals in the women's 50 metre freestyle S11 and women's 100 metre freestyle S11 events. In 2007, she won the Disabled Sportswoman of the Year award, an annual award organised by the Dutch Olympic Committee.
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Laura Flessel-Colovic (born 6 November 1971) is a French politician and épée fencer who served as Minister of Sports from 2017 to 2018. Born in Pointe-à- Pitre, Guadeloupe, she has won the most Olympic medals of any French sportswoman, with five. Before 2007, she was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club Escrime, and now works with Lagardère Paris Racing. She is married and has one daughter.
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Angéla Németh (18 February 1946 – 5 August 2014) was a Hungarian track and field athlete, known as Angéla Ránky after her marriage. In competing for her native country at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, she won the gold medal in the javelin. She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1968 and 1969 after having won the Olympic title in 1968 and the European title in 1969.
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Murphy won her first major medal at an international event when she won gold at the 2013 European Sailing Championship. She was nominated for the 2013 RTÉ Sports Person of the Year in December 2013. On 16 August 2016, Murphy won the silver medal in the Laser Radial at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In December 2016, she was honoured as the Irish Times/Sport Ireland 2016 Sportswoman of the Year.
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Van Gerner competed at the 2008 EK Juniors Clermont Ferrand in France where the Netherlands placed 3rd in team competition. In 2009, she became the Dutch Junior Champion. She later competed at EYOF, Finland where she placed 3rd in the AA, 3rd on BB, 3rd in team final. She was named Sportswoman of the year in the province of Flevoland and Sporting Talent of the year for the Northeast KNGU.
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Van Gerner competed at the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan where she placed 5th on uneven bars and won a bronze medal in Team Competition alongside Lieke Wevers and Lisa Top. She later competed at the WOGA Classic in Dallas, Texas. She won a gold medal on balance beam and a silver medal in the all-around. Again, she won the award for Sportswoman of the year for the Northeast KNGU.
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Somerville was a devoted sportswoman who in 1903 had become master of the West Carbery Foxhounds. She was also active in the suffragist movement, corresponding with Dame Ethel Smyth.Gifford (1887) She was in London still recovering from the shock of Violet's death when the Easter Rising of 1916 broke out. On 9 May she wrote a letter to The Times, blaming the British government for the state of affairs in Ireland.
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach was born in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. When she was four, the family moved to the Bocken Estate in Horgen, near Lake Zurich, where she grew up. Her father, Alfred, was a wealthy businessman in the silk industry. Her mother, Renée Schwarzenbach- Wille, the daughter of the Swiss general Ulrich Wille and descended from German aristocracy, was a prominent hostess, Olympic equestrian sportswoman and amateur photographer.
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Phyllis Hodgkinson was a female English international table tennis player. She won a silver medal in the women's team event and a bronze medal in the women's doubles with Doris Jordan at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships. She was an all-round sportswoman playing lawn tennis for Kingsway and Lensbury, badminton, cricket for Gunnersbury Ladies and field hockey for Chiswick. She married Keith Lauder in 1947 and became Phyllis Lauder.
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Austria at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship European qualification match. Neslihan Yakupoğlu (born September 26, 1990) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Ardeşen GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the line player position. She played for Kastamonu Türk Telekom (2009–2010) and Maliye Milli Piyango SK (2010–2012) before she joined Ardeşen GSK in 2013.
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The pupil later informed police that Nokes had "manipulated" her into a relationship. A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service later commented "Nokes hid behind her reputation as an accomplished sportswoman and abused the position of trust . . . to manipulate the victim and fulfil her own sexual gratification." Nokes was placed on the sex offenders register for life and was also issued a restraining order against contacting the victim.
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Barbosa was the Brazilian junior national champion in the all-around in 2006, and became a senior in 2007. She has been a popular sports personality in Brazil since her first major appearance at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. In December 2007, she was named Brazil's Sportswoman of the Year, an award given in previous years to gymnasts Laís Souza and Daiane dos Santos.
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She obtained a master's degree in Law in 2006. In December 2006 she became Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year and became the new face of the Rabobank in their Dutch TV advertisements. She belonged to the Team PokerStars: Sportstars, and one could find her playing tournaments behind the nickname FatimaDeMelo on the PokerStars online poker card room. She left her role as Sporting Icon Pro in early 2020.
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This was also a Deaflympic record held by Alexandra in her Deaflympic career which was later surpassed by Ukraine's Ganna Lytvynenko at the 2009 Summer Deaflympics. In 2005, she was nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award for her splendid performance at the Melbourne Deaflympics. She was also awarded the Rookie and Talent of the Year award by the Swedish Deaf Sports Federation in 2005.
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One week later, she was named WPS Sportswoman of the Year. She remained with Sky Blue in a playing role for 2010 before switching to magicJack ahead of the 2011 Women's Professional Soccer season. On January 11, 2013 Pearce was one of three members from the United States women's national team that was allocated to the new NWSL club Sky Blue FC, along with Jillian Loyden and Kelley O'Hara.
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Karinkunnam 6's is a 2016 Indian Malayalam sports drama film directed by Deepu Karunakaran. It stars Manju Warrier an ex-railway sportswoman who as a volleyball coach trains a group of prisoners portrayed by Babu Antony, Baiju, Padmaraj Ratheesh, Sudev Nair, Sudheer Karamana, Jacob Gregory, and Santhosh Keezhattoor. The musical score and songs are composed by Rahul Raj. The film was released in Kerala on 6 July 2016.
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Hülya Şahin, aka Julia "Sunshine" Sahin, (born February 23, 1974 in Siegen, West Germany) is a Turkish professional female boxer with German passport. She is a former world champion in kickboxing and was world champion in amateur boxing as well. As of September 1, 2007, she is the undefeated WIBF world junior flyweight (48 kg) champion. The 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) tall sportswoman lives in Cologne, Germany.
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Two men, flying ace Justin Strong (Fred Oppey) and foreigner Montgomery Lyle (Anthony Aroney) are both in love with sportswoman Elsa Hope (Elsa Granger). Justin and Monty leave by motorcycle on a surveying trip and Monty leads his rival in the desert to die. He tells Elsa that Justin was killed by aboriginals. Elsa insists on seeing Justin's grave and drives out to the desert with Monty and her mother.
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She played for Rochdale in the 2011–12 FA Women's Premier League Northern Division to gain match fitness. After playing for Liverpool in 2012, Davies was named FA WSL goalkeeper of the year. She also won 2012 RAF Sportswoman of the Year. She started the opening two games of the following season for Chelsea in outstanding form, but was then posted to Oman with the RAF, curtailing her campaign.
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Krista Blunk played collegiate basketball with the Evansville Purple Aces women's basketball team from 1990-1994. While at Evansville, Blunk would start all four seasons, scoring 1,123 points (which ranks 12th all-time) and 113 3-pointers (which ranks eighth). During her senior season, Blunk was named the NCAA "Sportswoman of the Year" recipient for her athletic and academic achievements. Blunk would graduate from Evansville with honors in telecommunications.
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Additionally, during the event finals, she captured beam and floor titles also. She was nominated for the Sports Illustrated's Sportswoman of the Year award in November 2015. As a result of her successes, she is the third most successful gymnast at a World Championships of all time, trailing only Svetlana Khorkina and Gina Gogean. Nia Dennis – Westerville, Ohio (Legacy Elite) – Dennis competed as first-year senior gymnast in 2015.
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Anona Pak (born 29 November 1993) is a New Zealand badminton player. She was the women's doubles runner-up at the Waikato International tournament partnered with Vicki Copeland. She also received 2016 Massey University Manawatu sportswoman of the year at the Massey Blues Sports Awards, because of her success won the national championships in woman's doubles and mixed doubles. She was three times women's doubles bronze medalists at the Oceania Championships.
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Fiona Coghlan (born March 3, 1981) is a former Ireland women's rugby union international. Coghlan represented Ireland at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Women's Rugby World Cups. She also captained the Ireland team that won the 2013 Women's Six Nations Championship. In 2013 Coghlan was named The Irish Times/ Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year after captaining Ireland to their first ever Six Nations, Grand Slam and Triple Crown titles.
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Coghlan captained the Ireland team that won the 2013 Women's Six Nations Championship. In 2013 Ireland also achieved both a Triple Crown and Grand Slam. In 2013 Coghlan was named The Irish Times/ Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year after captaining Ireland to their first ever Six Nations, Grand Slam and Triple Crown titles. Coghlan was also captain when Ireland defeated both and for the first time.
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The couple are equine enthusiasts, and trained racehorses locally with Arthur Moore for many years.including Marcus du Berlais, which placed second and third in the 2004 and 2005 Grand Nationals, and the mare Fag an Bealach. His wife is a keen sportswoman who fly-fishes for Ireland and is involved with numerous charitable causes, including the Irish Haemophilia Society. He has an enduring interest in history stimulated by his ancestors.
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In January 2017, she was named Young Player of the Year at 2016 Continental Tyres Women's National League Awards, earning a spot in the Team of the Year as well. The following week, she was also named Sportswoman of the Month for December 2016 by The Irish Times. On 22 August 2017, she made her UEFA Women's Champions League debut in a 0–0 draw with KKPK Medyk Konin.
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Alison Levine (born April 5, 1966) is an American mountain climber, sportswoman, explorer and leadership consultant. She is the author of On the Edge and the executive producer of a documentary, The Glass Ceiling. She has ascended the highest peaks on every continent and also skied to both the North and South Poles. In 2010, she completed the Adventure Grand Slam by reaching the summit of Mount Everest.
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Mary Geaney is an Irish sportswoman. She played senior ladies' Gaelic football for Kerry, senior camogie for Cork and is also a former Ireland women's field hockey international. In 1976 she captained Kerry when they won the All- Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship and in 1980 she captained Cork when they won the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship. She was the first player to captain a team to both championships.
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Despite the pressure she won the time trial with a convincing victory and became the second Dutch women to win this title. At the end of the championships, Van Dijk finished 16th on a non-preferable hilly road race course. Due to her successful season she ended third in the 2013 Women's Road World Ranking. At the end of the year Van Dijk won the title Amsterdam Sportswoman of the year.
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She has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year lifetime achievement award. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1990, and in 2006, the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. In 2018, she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Bruce who plays for the Burnside club won the 2017 National title. At the annual Canterbury awards, she was named as sportswoman of the year and young player of the year. She was selected as part of the New Zealand team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Bruce won the 2016/17 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Burnside Bowls Club.
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Erdil used to perform windsurfing in her youth with her parents during the summer holidays in Turkey. She received her first windsurfing board and gear at the age of 13 from her father. The -tall sportswoman performs windsurfing professionally, competing in the freestyle, wave, and jump events in addition to her main class of slalom. Although the slalom branch is not an Olympic discipline, she prefers it due to its high speed in racing.
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Manuela Marxer-Lippuner (born 5 August 1965) is a retired athlete from Liechtenstein who competed in the heptathlon. She represented her country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984, as well as three World Championships. Her best results came, however, at the European Championships where she finished thirteenth and twelfth in 1990 and 1994 respectively. Between 1990 and 1994 she was chosen as Liechtenstein sportswoman of the year four consecutive times.
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Later that year, she was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland Espirito Santo Trophy team. She was captain of the University of Edinburgh golf team in 1976 and 1977, and was Scottish Universities Champion in 1977. She was named Scottish Sportswoman of the Year in 1976. Panton turned professional in 1978, the same year that the Women's Professional Golf Association was founded as a division of the PGA of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Her younger sister Sharon Chepkorir is also a runner. Their father John Koech runs a training camp in Kipajit village.Daily Nation, 29 June 2010: Celebrations galore as villagers await heroine's return Cherono won the Most Promising Sportswoman of the Year category at the 2009 Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year awards,The Standard, 12 December 2009: Colour and pomp at Soya Gala and repeated by winning the same category the next year.
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Lush was born in Hawthorn, Victoria, the daughter of John Fullarton Lush, a clerk, and his wife Dora Emma Louisa . She had two brothers, who served as officers in the Second AIF and RAAF during World War II. She was educated at Fintona Girls' School and the University of Melbourne, gaining a B.Sc. in 1932 and an M.Sc. in 1934. She was an active sportswoman, being selected for the University of Melbourne's women's basketball team.
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In 1970 and 1972 Rosendahl was chosen as the German Sportswoman of the Year. She had a degree in physical education and worked as athletics coach at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1976–1990) and Deutsche Leichtathletik-Verband (1993–2001). She is married to John Ecker, an American basketball player who won the 1969, 1970 and 1971 NCAA Championships as a member of the UCLA Bruins. Their son, Danny Ecker, is a world-class pole vaulter.
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On asking why, the lady answered smartly that she wanted to travel the world on bicycle with them. Bimal Mukherjee could not but praise the guts of the lady, not more than 21 wearing a blouse and shorts looking like a true sportswoman. But all four of them were unanimous in their decision of not taking the risk of having an attractive young woman as their companion. Ms.Pinto was very offended at this.
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Dujardin was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours, both for services to equestrianism. She was voted Sportswoman of the Year after winning the FEI championship, the first dressage rider to win that title. Dujardin also has a modern strip of public housing named after her in Enfield.
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This sportswoman was an avid ice skater and an excellent golfer; she won a number of tournaments, including a match play championship at the Newport, Rhode Island gold course in which she beat her male counterparts. She was, however, first and foremost a lover of horses. Her father had owned racing stables in the United States and in France. Her twin, Beatrice, would inherit the French stable and become a leading owner in that country.
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She was elected "biathlete of the year 2006" as well as "German sportswoman of the year 2006". In total she has 21 IBU Biathlon World Cup wins. In the 2006–07 World Cup season, she finished second for the overall World Cup title behind teammate Andrea Henkel. In the 2008–09 World Cup season, she finished second for the overall World Cup title behind Helena Jonsson, with both biathletes scoring 952 points.
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She was elected 1961 East German Sportswoman of the Year after winning the European Championship on the vault. She was one of the first gymnasts from the former GDR who reached world class status. Between 1961 and 1965 Starke won seven East German individual titles. She is now considered responsible for the rise of world class womenâs gymnastics in East Germany, and later became a longtime gymnast coach at her home club SC Leipzig.
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At the 2015 World Championships where she placed 107th All-Around, 70th with Hoop (13.908), 128th with Clubs (10.750) and 115th with Ribbon (13.050). She was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Portorož Chamber of Commerce in January 2014. In May 2015 she was announced as a recipient of the 2015 Young Hope scholarship fund. The fund aims to help young people achieve their goals in the fields of art, science or sport.
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Balfe married actor Gary Cooper on December 15, 1933, at her mother's home at 778 Park Avenue, New York; the wedding had been planned for the Waldorf Astoria hotel, but the location was probably changed to avoid public attention. In 1937, Balfe gave birth to their daughter, Maria Veronica Cooper. Following Cooper's death, Balfe married John Converse in 1964. She was an enthusiastic sportswoman and was the female California skeet champion in the 1930s.
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She won gold in both the women's pairs and singles lawn bowls as well as the 25m backstroke swim. Her final gold medal came at the 1972 Games in Heidelberg for the women's pairs lawn bowls, and went on to gain further medals in 1976 before retiring for competitive sport. Buck was awarded the British Empire Medal in the early 1970s and also received the Sportswoman of the Year award from the Sports Writers Guild.
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She was however a keen sportswoman, being both an expert rider and notable golfer. Her cousin, María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, married the Duke of Alba, and was the mother of the late Duchess of Alba, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva. So Carmen was a member of the richest echelons of Spanish society. She soon became aware of the appalling divide between her own class and the ordinary working people of Spain.
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Stacey Fluhler (née Waaka; born 3 November 1995) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She debuted for the Black Ferns in 2015, the same year her brother Beaudein Waaka made his Rugby sevens debut for New Zealand. Fluhler won the Junior Māori Sportswoman of the Year award that year. In 2016, she was also named in the development squad for the women's sevens and made her international debut in that form of the game.
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Dorothy Hill was born in Taringa, the third of seven children, and grew up in Coorparoo in Brisbane. She attended Coorparoo State School, and then won a scholarship to attend Brisbane Girls Grammar School. She received the Lady Lilley Gold Medal, and the Phyllis Hobbs Memorial Prize in English and History, in 1924. Hill was an enthusiastic sportswoman, who pursued athletics and netball at high school, and was an accomplished horsewoman at home.
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Biles was nominated for the 2019 ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete but lost to soccer player Alex Morgan. In November 2019, Biles won the People's Choice Award for The Game Changer of 2019. In February 2020 Biles was awarded the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year for the second consecutive year and third time overall, beating out nominees Allyson Felix, Megan Rapinoe, Mikaela Shiffrin, Naomi Osaka, and Shelly-Ann Fraser.
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Irene Margreta Maria de Kok (born 29 August 1963 in Eindhoven, North Brabant) is a retired judoka from the Netherlands, who is a two-fold world-champion and represented Holland at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There De Kok won the bronze medal in the women's half-heavyweight division (– 72 kg), alongside Laetitia Meignan from France. She was named Dutch Sportswoman of the Year in 1987 after having claimed her second world title.
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When Clement A. Griscom died on October 19, 1916, Horseshoe Plantation was divided up and part sold. Lloyd C. Griscom received on the west side naming it Luna Plantation while Frances C. Griscom, a sportswoman, received of the old plantation to the east and named it Water Oak Plantation. Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968, pp. 83-84. Frances Griscom was the 1900 United States Women's Amateur Golf Champion.
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Haave attended Evergreen High School where she competed in both basketball and volleyball. In 1980, she was named Sportswoman of the Year and later became the first woman to be named the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame High School Athlete of the Year. In her final year of high school, Haave set four basketball state tournament records, including recording a 100% single-game free throw record, and was named to a national All-America.
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She is one of the great women competitors of all time in international cycling. On 16 September 1978, Hage set a world hour record at Munich with 43.082 km. She improved the world 5 km, 10 km and 20 km records in the same ride. She was Dutch sportswoman of the year in 1976 and 1978 and the trophy awarded each year to the Netherlands' best woman cyclist is named after her.
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Hyun Hee (born October 4, 1976 in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) is a retired South Korean épée fencer. At the 2002 FIE World Championships Hyun won the women's individual épée final match over Imke Duplitzer of Germany 15–11. She, along with Chinese fencer Tan Xue were the first Asian fencers to win gold medals at the World Championships. In that year, Hyun was named South Korean Sportswoman of the Year.
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She went undefeated in all of her races against the best runners in the world. He performance at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup was a controversial one, as she attempted to pull back Hind Dehiba as the two duelled in the final straight. Langat fell and finished last. She claimed an 800/1500 m middle distance double at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, however, and was chosen as the Kenyan Sportswoman of the Year in December.
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Her best Grand Slam performance was at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the semifinal. In the same year, she was crowned Sportswoman of the Year at the Belgian Sport Awards. In 2016, Flipkens entered in her first Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and made it to the third round in singles. She is also the Belgian player who has played the most years in Fed Cup (16 years as of 2019).
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Jacinda Barclay (18 February 199112 October 2020) was an Australian sportswoman who played baseball, American football and Australian rules football at high levels. She represented the Australian national team in five Women's Baseball World Cups and played professional football for the Chicago Bliss in the Legends Football League and in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Citing her success across multiple sports, The Sydney Morning Herald called Barclay "the Sonny Bill Williams of women's sport" in 2016.
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Mabel Cheung (, born 17 November 1950) is a film director from Hong Kong. She is one of the leading directors in Hong Kong cinema. Elected "Freshman's Queen" when she was studying undergrad at the University of Hong Kong, she was also an avid sportswoman representing Lady Ho Tung Hall and HKU. Cheung is known for working with the migration issues of Hongkongers and overseas Chinese, especially before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.
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Born into an affluent bourgeois family, Ferrario worked as a clerk. She was an avid sportswoman and mountain climber, as well as a keen cyclist. After receiving her pilot's licence, she took part in several demonstrations and exhibition flights in 1913 and 1914, for example in Naples, Rome and Como. In October 1913, in connection with celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth in Busseto, she flew alongside Achille Landini.
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Shocked at the developments, Akil decides to embark on a journey and find out his biological parents, whom he comes to know stay in Chengalpet. On his trip to homeland, he starts to encounter problems in the form of Divya's father, who is against their affair. He feels that her daughter as a popular sportswoman could earn more through endorsing various brands. Enters Kumaraswamy (Prabhu), who plays a crucial part in the whole story.
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She was inspired by Cathy Freeman, as well as her contemporaries Regan Lamble and Steven Solomon.Jemima Montag. Commonwealth Games 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-08. A Jewish Australian, at age 15 was recognised for her wins at the state and national championships with the Australian 2013 Outstanding Jewish Junior Sportswoman of the Year Award. She made her first impact with a win in the under-20 section at the 2014 Oceania Race Walking Championships.
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Premios Nacionales del Deporte (National Sports Awards) are annual sporting awards given to best Spanish athletes. They are awarded by Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD) and sponsored by the Spanish Royal Family. The awards were established in 1982 and are always presented for best achievements in the preceding calendar year. The two most prestigious awards are Premio Reina Sofía for Best Spanish Sportswoman and Premio Don Felipe de Borbón for Best Spanish Sportsman.
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Osterman received her second First Team All- American citation and repeated honors from the Big 12 and USA Softball. She also added the Honda Sports Award for softball that year as well. Osterman was named the 2005 Sportswoman of the Year (in the team category) by the Women's Sports Foundation. She also topped her previous UT single-season records for ERA (career best), strikeouts, strikeout ratio (all-time NCAA Junior Class record), shutouts, opponents batting average and complete games.
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Avdalyan won a gold medal at the 2009 World Weightlifting Championships. Avdalyan is the first ever weightlifter from the independent Republic of Armenia to win a gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championships and the first ever woman from Armenia to win a world championship in any sport. Armenian Sport Journalists Federation conducted an annual survey among 52 Armenian sport journalists who voted Nazik Avdalyan the best Armenian sportswoman of 2009. Avdalyan won by a record 520 points.
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In May 2012, Begum was shortlisted for the Muslim Women's Sport Foundation (MWSF) Ambassador Awards for the United Kingdom Sportswoman of the Year award held at Wembley Stadium. In January 2012, she was named in the British Bangladeshi Power 100 for her work in education, culture and sports. In February 2012, she won a special achievement award at the Canary Wharf Sports Awards. In September 2013, Begum was awarded Sports Personality of the Year at the Asian Achievers Awards.
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Ingrid Berghmans (born 24 August 1961 in Koersel), also known as Ingrid Vallot, is a judoka from Belgium who has eight times been named Belgian Sportswoman of the Year. A former world title holder, she is also an Olympic competitor. She won the gold medal in the -72 kg class at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where women's judo appeared as a demonstration sport for the first time. She was married to fellow Belgian judoka Marc Vallot.
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They made up between 10-15% of the student body by the time she completed her studies, however. She reported that fellow students were more accepting of her as a woman than the professors were. In the years she was studying, 1909 to 1914, the acceptance of women on campus improved dramatically. An enthusiastic sportswoman and equestrian, Frankenthal studied fencing, boxing, and ju-jitsu in order to prove that she was physically capable to defend herself against a man.
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Tanja Vučković (; born June 22, 1981) is a Serbian female handballer playing in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Zağnos SK and the Serbian national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the back position. Vučković played in her country for Jugopetrol Radn (2001–2004), RK Lasta (2005–2006) and ŽRK Zaječar (2010–2013) before she moved to Turkey to join the Antalya- based Muratpaşa Bld. SK in the 2014–15 season of the Women's Super League.
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Aguilleira along with reserve players are a part of a squad that is currently in a training camp at the West Indies High Performance Centre in Barbados. On 17 February 2013 West Indies were defeated by Australia by 114 runs in the finals. This was the ICC Women’s world cup at Barbourne Stadium. Also in 2013 Merissa Aguilleira was a nominee for Sportswoman of the Year at First Citizens Sports Foundation Awards ceremony, this was held at Queen's Hall.
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The BET Award for Sportswoman of the Year is given to the best and most successful female athlete of the previous year. The award was originally titled Best Female Athlete, but was later changed to its current title in 2010. As the only woman to win more than once, Serena Williams holds the record for most wins in this category with twelve, she also holds the record for the most nominations, being nominated every year since the awards inception.
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The following year, Jing again competed in the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, winning the single, double, and team events, and earning a second consecutive Sportswoman of the Year award. She continued collecting medals in the following years, taking a singles title at the 1997 Southeast Asian Games and two doubles and a team title at the 1999 Southeast Asian Games. In the 2000 Summer Olympics, Jing competed in both the singles and doubles events, the latter alongside Li Jiawei.
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Already a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), McGlynn was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. She was also named Alumna of the Year by the University of Strathclyde in 2009. She was voted runner-up in the Evening Times Sportswoman Woman of the Year in 2008. McGlynn took her first silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, riding alongside Louise Haston in the Sprint.
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Apart from her sports achievements, she also holds the distinction of being the only Taekwondo athlete to have won the "2004 National Sportswoman of the year" by the Malaysian Ministry of Youth & Sports. Furthermore, she was three time SEA Games Gold medalist in 1999, 2001 and 2007. She was the first athlete who won medal at Universiade Games in 2003. After that, once again she won a bronze medalists at 2005 World Universiade Games, Korea. Universiade.
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Nominated for BBC Young Sports Personality of the year in 2012, Saskia was chosen for her gold in the ISAF Youth World Championship and at the EUROSAF Youth Europeans, continuing on to claim the under-17 world title at the RSX Open Youth World Championships. She was nominated alongside Olympic and Paralympic medalists for the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards. Her Bournemouth University awards received include University Colours and a nomination for Sportswoman of the Year.
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Sarah Rowe (born 25 July 1995) is a dual code sportswoman and a former Republic of Ireland women's association football international. In addition to association football, Rowe has also played two other football codes at a senior level. She has played Ladies' Gaelic football for and women's Australian rules football for Collingwood in the AFLW. At club level, Rowe has played association football for Castlebar Celtic, Raheny United and Shelbourne Ladies in the Women's National League.
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Carroll taught at Marist-Sion College in Warragul before serving as Physical Education Teacher and Director of Sport at Mazenod College. His wife Kellie is a primary school teacher. The couple have 2 children. Carroll belonged to a sporting family - Carroll's three brothers Brendan, John and Paul all played seniors or reserves for Springvale, his father, Brian, played 10 VFL/AFL games for Fitzroy in 1963 and Carroll's sister, Jayne, was also a keen sportswoman and avid Scorpions fan.
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Tazmin Brits (born 8 January 1991) is a South African sportswoman. She won gold in the javelin throw at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics. She was in line to be selected for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, before being involved in a road accident, which left her hospitalised for two months. She also plays cricket, and was named in South Africa women's cricket squad for the Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series against Bangladesh in April 2018.
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Jim Thorpe at the 1912 Summer Olympics An athlete (also sportswoman or sportsman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed or endurance. The use of the term in sports such as golf or auto racing is somewhat controversial. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs.Collins English Dictionary, Millennium Ed. - 'athlete' Most professional athletes have particularly well-developed physiques obtained by extensive physical training and strict exercise accompanied by a strict dietary regimen.
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In 2000, she became the youngest woman to ever be selected for the USA Olympic volleyball team at 19. Over the summer of 2003 she was selected as one of eight finalists for the Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year Award in the team category. In 2004, Tom posed in a bikini for an FHM magazine article on female Olympic athletes, and one year later was ranked 91st of the magazine's 100 sexiest women list.
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Elin Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling (later Saltin, born 1 January 1932) is a Swedish retired gymnast. She competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in the obsolete event team portable apparatus. In 1956, she also won a bronze on the vault, the only Swedish gymnast to win an individual Olympic medal. Pettersson was the national champion in 1951 to 1958 and sportswoman of the year in 1955.
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She leads the company's international advertising campaigns until she was replaced in 2017 by Dakota Johnson. In October 2017, the brand launched its fourth edition of Intimissimi on ice in the Verona Arena, with costumes designed by Chiara Ferragni. In October 2017, Intimissimi opened a 500-square-foot store on New York's Fifth Avenue. For the 2017 campaign Mario Testino photographed Serbian ex-sportswoman Ana Ivanovic, food writer Ella Mills, model Irina Shayk, and actress Dakota Johnson.
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Along with Amy Linker and Jenny, Régny was one of the few French couturiers whose reputation was based on her sporty clothing, rather than other modes. She worked out of her own salon at 11, Rue La Boétie. As an experienced sportswoman and keen golfer, Régny was able to design garments that would meet the requirements of her clientele. She was assisted by her husband, who helped her develop a signature textile print for Alcot Fabrics in 1928.
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Judith "Jutta" Heine (born 16 September 1940) is a retired West German sprinter. She competed in the 200 m and 4×100 m events at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won two silver medals in 1960. In 1964 she finished fifth in the relay and was disqualified in the 200m heats for false starts. In 1962 Heine won one gold and two silver medals at the European Championships and was selected as West German Sportswoman of the Year.
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Eileen Karen Lee Chin Foo Kune, born 29 May 1982 is a Mauritian badminton player, turned politician. Two times Mauritian Sportswoman of the Year (2004, 2009), ranked first in the African continent on several occasions. She once participated at the Olympic Games (2008) and made it to the Commonwealth Games on several occasions (2002, 2006, 2010). In 2011, she won the bronze medals at the All-Africa Games in the women's doubles and mixed team event.
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Alix Louise Sauvage, OAM (born 18 September 1973) is an Australian paralympic wheelchair racer and leading coach. Sauvage is often regarded as the most renowned disabled sportswoman in Australia. She won nine gold and four silver medals at four Paralympic Games and eleven gold and two silver medals at three IPC Athletics World Championships. She has won four Boston Marathons, and held world records in the 1500 m, 5000 m and 4x100 m and 4x400 m relays.
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However, unlike English, distinction is made between older or younger. There are some words that have gender, for instance means "daughter", and means "son" and also means "male flight attendant" and meaning "female flight attendant". Another example would be , which equates to "sportsman", and , meaning sportswoman. Often, words like these (or certain suffixes such as "-a" and "-i" or "-wan" and "wati") are absorbed from other languages (in these cases, from Sanskrit through the Old Javanese language).
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While at Oklahoma State, she was diagnosed with malignant melanoma which led her to compete wearing long-sleeved shirts, a big floppy hat, and long slacks. McGuire won five times as a professional on the Japan Tour and was awarded the Sportswoman of the Year title at the 1996 Halberg Awards. She is the only New Zealander to have won the Women's Australian Open, and the British Ladies Amateur. She also played on the LPGA Tour from 1999 to 2003.
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She also received NWU Sportswoman of the Year 2018 for her performances at both domestic and international level. She was not initially included in the South African squad for the 2019 Netball World Cup. But she was later added to the squad as an injury replacement to Ine-Mari Venter during the back end of the tournament. She was also a key member of the South African squad which won the 2019 African Netball Championships which was held in Cape Town.
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Angela Madsen (May 10, 1960June 21, 2020) was an American Paralympian sportswoman in both rowing and track and field. In a long career, Madsen moved from race rowing to ocean challenges before switching in 2011 to athletics, winning a bronze medal in the shot put at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Madsen and teammate Helen Taylor were the first women to row across the Indian Ocean. She died in June 2020 while attempting a solo row from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
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The recipients are nominated by the Sports Reps before being approved by College Council. A number of former College Colours recipients have gone on to receive University full colours and an England shirt belonging to rugby league player Tom Lever is on display alongside the former president's board in the Porter's Lodge of the college. In 2018 the first Grizedale college member won the sportswoman of the year award. Moreover, Grizedale’s football and netball teams are some of the best in the university.
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She also has a great rivalry with three-time World champion Mao Asada from Japan. Kim was the highest paid athlete in the XXI Olympic Winter Games, the 5th, 7th, 6th and 4th top-earning sportswoman in the world in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively according to Forbes. The business magazine has also listed her in their 30 under 30 and Philanthropy lists. She was included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 of World's Most Influential People in 2010.
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She was named several times was the best sportswoman and shooter in the SFR Yugoslavia, Croatia, FRY, Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia. In 1988 and 1994 she received a Golden Badge of the Sport award for Yugoslavia's best athlete.DSL Sport awards In the 2008 games, she was the country's flag bearer at the opening ceremonies. Jasna is listed in the golden book of sport shooting as the only shooter participating at five Olympic Games while being a finalist in all five.
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Kerrie Meares (born 4 September 1982, in Blackwater) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She is the older sister of Olympic Champion Anna Meares. In 2002 and after winning 2 x Commonwealth Games Gold Medals in Manchester, Meares was awarded the Queensland Sportswoman of the Year. Later that year, she was awarded the Peter Lacey award, an award bestowed on Queensland Academy of Sport athletes who have achieved great international success as well as being an ambassador for their sport.
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She won the gold medal in the discus throw at the 1984 Summer Olympics, which earned her the Dutch Sportswoman of the year award the same year. Between 1973 and 1983 she won medals, including 15 gold, in the discus throw and shot put at every national championships. Stalman went to Arizona State University, where she was on the track and field team. She retired shortly after the 1984 Olympics to work as a journalist and athletics commentator with Eurosport.
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Rachel Parish (born 21 May 1981) is an English international sportswoman who won a shooting gold medal and silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Before going to university, she went to Wellington College in Berkshire. Already holding a degree in Biochemistry and Genetics from The University of Nottingham from 2002, Parish then read Medicine at Southampton University, graduating as a doctor in 2007. Parish is also a keen fencer, and has captained both the Nottingham and Southampton university fencing teams.
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She is known to be a skilled sportswoman and represented Costa Rica in dressage at the 1983 Pan American Games. She married Miguel Ángel Rodríguez on December 14, 1962 although she had met him as a teenager at a party in Barrio Aranjuez. They had three children: Miguel Alberto, Andrés and Ana Elena. During her time as First Lady she supported projects in benefit of older people and cancer patients, and was president of the Martín House of the Youth.
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Margaret Blackler died in 1957 without children, at which point the store became the property of several individuals, of which the major shareholder was the sportswoman Vera Kingston (Margaret's god-daughter). In 1983 following Vera's death the store was sold on once again, and all links to the original owners disappeared. The store remained open only a few years more, closing in April 1988. The site now includes a Wetherspoons chain pub, named Richard John Blackler in honour of the store's founder.
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Metka Sparavec (born December 9, 1978 in Maribor) is a retired female freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Slovenia. She represented her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she did not reach the final in either of her two individual starts (50 m and 100 m freestyle). Sparavec was named Slovenian Sportswoman of the year in 1999, after having claimed the bronze medal in the women's 50 m backstroke event at the 1999 European LC Championships in Istanbul.
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Agnes Elsie Diana Herbert (née Thorpe) (c.1880–1960) was a Manx writer, traveller and sportswoman. Raised on the Isle of Man, Herbert found the prospect of a life of domesticity confining so, with her cousin Cecily Baird, she set out for the Canadian Rockies where the pair taught English cookery to Chinese kitchen workers and gained their first exposure to big game hunting. Upon their return to Britain the cousins secretly began planning a solely sporting expedition, this time to Africa.
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She competes as part of the GB Taekwondo Academy, which is based in Manchester. In 2010 Jones won a bronze medal at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Jones competed for Great Britain at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore; she beat Vietnam's Thanh Thao Nguyen 9–6 in the 55 kg category final to become Great Britain's first gold medallist at the Games. She was named BBC Cymru Wales Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2010.
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Sunette Stella Viljoen (born 6 October 1983)2014 CWG profile is a South African sportswoman who has represented her country in both cricket and athletics. In athletics, she competes as a javelin thrower and has won an Olympic silver medal (in 2016) and two Commonwealth Games gold medals (in 2006 and 2010), as well as medals in various other competitions. As a cricketer, she represented the South African national team between 2000 and 2002, including at the 2000 World Cup in New Zealand.
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Napa is a sportswoman and daughter of former MP Dr Teariki Matenga. She has a long involvement in Netball, playing at a village level as a child before being part of the Cook Islands team at the 1981 South Pacific Mini Games. She played for the Cook Islands national netball team throughout the 1980's and 1990's, including at the 1987 World Netball Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, and the 1989 World Games in Germany. Eventually she rose to be team captain.
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In 1997, Hodgkinson was a finalist for the Halberg New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year, an honor bestowed upon New Zealand's greatest athletes. After a decade of living in Auckland, Hodgkinson now lives in Motueka with her husband Alistair Smart and their children. In 2009, Hodgkinson competed for the Motueka Marvels in the TVNZ game show series Top Town. The Motueka Marvels made it into the finals as the Wild Card team and lost to Taupo in the semi-final.
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In March 2020, Borgohain secured the Olympic berth in the 69 kg with a 5-0 win over Maftunakhon Melieva of Uzbekistan in the 2020 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament. With this, she has become the first ever sportswoman from Assam to qualify for the Olympics. She lost to the 2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships silver-medallist Gu Hong of China in a unanimous 5-0 verdict and signed off with a Bronze medal at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers.
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After taking advice and support from her elder brother, she sought alternative opinions and treatment from numerous specialists. Eventually, the Talented Athletes Scholarship Scheme (TASS) programme made contact with her; they provided the necessary treatment and support to aid her recovery. Just under three years later, she recovered enough to represent her country at the 2007 World series in Chennai, India. She was named UCL Sportswoman of the Year in March 2007, and successfully completed her studies, graduating with a Masters in Chemistry.
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In the first sprint race of that season on 1 December 2012, Olena finished third in Östersund, Sweden, and was second in pursuit in Italian Antholz-Anterselva in January 2013. Later on Pidhrushna took a hat-trick of medals at the 2013 Biathlon World Championships, where she won the gold in the sprint, was part of the women's relay team which won silver, and secured a bronze in the pursuit. For these achievements she was named as Ukraine's best sportswoman of 2013.
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Hodge named AVCA National Freshman of the Year In 2007, four players were named All-Americans, with Megan Hodge, Nicole Fawcett and Christa Harmotto taking first team and Alisha Glass named to the second team.Four Nittany Lions named AVCA All-Americans In 2007, Christa Harmotto finished the season with the second highest hitting percentage in the nation (.492)Harmotto nominated for Dapper Dan Sportswoman of the Year award and freshman Arielle Wilson finishing fifth in the nation with a .446 percentage.
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Dorothy Cunningham Donaldson (née Brown) (1915 – 4 September 2011) was an Irish sportswoman who was most prominent in the hockey, badminton and golf circles where she won a plethora of competitions during her 71-year playing career. She played for the Ireland women's national field hockey team between 1941 and 1947 except for the 1942 season. Donaldson was additionally a women's singles and mixed doubles champion in the Irish National Badminton Championships and until 1957 played for the Irish international team.
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Barbosa has become a very popular sports personality in Brazil since her first major appearance at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. She has developed a big fanbase among young girls and teenagers in Brazil. In December 2007 Barbosa was elected Brazil's Sportswoman of the year, an award also given in previous years to gymnasts Laís Souza and Daiane dos Santos. In December 2014, Barbosa has stated that rumours that she has gotten breast implants are untrue.
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics she was the flag bearer for Singapore and competed in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke events, but failed to reach the finals. Chan was named the Best Sportswoman of Singapore for five consecutive years (1967–1971). In 2002, she was inducted into the Singapore Sports Council Hall of Fame and ranked fourth among Singapore's 50 greatest athletes. Chan retired from competitions in 1973, aged 19, to become the first Singaporean female professional coach.
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She died in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire in 1946.England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 According to Nick Durlacher, Ruth's grandson, she was a ‘fine sportswoman’ this is the legacy she left behind for her family. She also played for the Irish Ladies Golf Team which took part in several international matches. ‘Sport in general, and competitive, team-based and mixed gender sport in particular, was considered to be an unsuitable pursuit for women.
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Manice was also an amateur but proficient swimmer, sailor, and tennis player. "'Sportswoman' is a term that does not appeal to me," she told a newspaper in 1904, "but it seems inevitable in these days, to describe the women to find health and rational enjoyment in open-air games." In 1905 Manice experienced health problems described as "extreme nervousness", which were attributed to her golfing. She sailed to Europe for rest and recovery, and announced that she would never play golf again.
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Georgina "Piggy" French (born 12 August 1980) is a British equestrian sportswoman who competes in eventing. She won Individual silver at the 2009 European Championships and a team gold at the 2018 World Equestrian Games. She earned selection for the 2012 Olympic Games, but was forced to withdraw due to an injury to her horse, DHI Topper W. She won the 2019 Badminton Horse Trials on Vanir Kamira, and finished second at the 2011 Badminton Horse Trials and the 2017 Burghley Horse Trials.
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Laia Sanz Pla-Giribert (born 11 December 1985), also known as Laia Sanz, is a Spanish sportswoman. She is a thirteen-time Women's Trial World Champion and ten-time Women's Trial European Champion in outdoor motorcycle trials. Official FIM Site She has also a member of the Spanish Female Team in the Trial des Nations, helping the team win the event five times (2000, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2011). In 2010, she competed in the Women's Enduro World Championship for the first time.
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She was selected as "Female Athlete of the Year" by the British Athletics Writers' Association (BAWA) four times, in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2000. Lewis won the Sunday Times "Sportswoman of the Year" a record three times, in 1994, 1998 and 2000. At the inaugural British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSA) in 2015, Lewis became the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Her British and Commonwealth record of 6831 points was set on 30 July 2000 in Talence, France.
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Erin Popovich has participated in three Paralympics. She won three gold medals and three silver medals while setting four world records at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Popovich won seven gold medals in seven races (including two relays), and set three world records and four Paralympic Games records. In 2005, Popovich won the first ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete with a Disability and was named the Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year.
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Nicolette Fernandes, (born June 19, 1983) is a professional squash player who represented Guyana. She won the only gold medal for Guyana at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games in Colombia beating Samantha Terán in the final which lasts in 5 sets. In 2007, Fernandes suffered a knee injury which kept her out of action for 23 months. In February 2010, Fernandes was named Guyanese Sportswoman of the year for the year 2009 by the Guyanese National Sports Commission (NSC).
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Katharina Molitor (born 8 November 1983) is a German sportswoman who competes as a javelin thrower and volleyball player. As a javelin thrower, she is a World Champion, having won gold in 2015, and her personal best throw is 67.69 m. As a volleyball player, she represents Bayer Leverkusen in the Erste Volleyball-Bundesliga, the highest tier of German volleyball. She is a two- time Olympian, having competed in the javelin throw for Germany at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Annie "Ann" Evelyn Clark (1903, Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia – 1983, Singapore) was an Australian sportswoman, a coach and netball umpire and administrator. After breaking her ankle in her first season of women’s basketball (netball), she decided to concentrate on umpiring and coaching. She was born to Victorian parents, George Cornelius Clarke and Martha Doige, the third of five and attended Redfern Public School. In 1929, she was a founding member of the New South Wales Women's Basketball (Netball) Association.
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Kudryavtseva was one of the finalist for the 2015 SportAccord Awards in category of the Sportswoman of the Year 2014. At the 2015 World Championships, Kudryavtseva for the first time became the youngest to win three World All-around titles at 17 years of age, she won with a total of 75.632 surpassing her previous score at Worlds. She is a former record holder under the (2013–2016) 20-point judging system in the all-around with a total of 76.450 points.
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The following day, in her maiden appearance at the Games, she achieved gold in the singles competition after defeating Wang 4–1.; . The Singapore Table Tennis Association made Feng the inaugural winner of its Best Player of the Year award on 12 February 2010.. As of 8 April 2010, she had worked her way up to a second-place ranking in the world. On 3 May 2010, the Singapore National Olympic Council named her Sportswoman of the Year for 2009.
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Location of Water Oak Plantation in 1913 When Clement A. Griscom died on October 19, 1916, Horseshoe Plantation was divided up and part sold. Lloyd C. Griscom received on the west side naming it Luna Plantation while Frances C. Griscom, a sportswoman, received of the old plantation to the east and named it Water Oak Plantation. Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968, pp. 83-84. Frances Griscom was the 1900 United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship.
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Her best performance came at the 1983 French Open, where she made it to the second round, then took fifth seed Pam Shriver to a third set before being eliminated. She was awarded the Croatian Sportswoman of the Year award from Sportske novosti in 1983. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Šašak represented Yugoslavia in the women's singles event, for what was then a demonstration sport. She fell in the second round, after beating third seed Laura Arraya.
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Verona van de Leur (born 27 December 1985) is a retired Dutch artistic gymnast and adult film performer. She was named Dutch Sportswoman of the Year in 2002 after winning the all-around silver medal at that year's European championships and the silver medal on floor exercise at the world championships. Van de Leur retired from gymnastics in 2008, after which she suffered personal difficulties, including a conviction for blackmail and a prison sentence. She began performing in adult webcam shows and then in adult films.
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Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek (née Kontsek; born 29 August 1939 in Budapest) is a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw event during her career. In 1964 she finished sixth in the Discus competition at the Olympics. She competed for Hungary in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico where she won the bronze medal in the discus throw competition. She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1965 after having won the Summer Universiade the same year held in her hometown, Budapest.
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She competed in the 2009 ISAF Match Racing World Championships with Nicky Souter, and came away with a first-place finish. In 2010, she was named the Australian Female of the Year Sailor. The same year, she earned the title of Australian University Female Sportswoman of the year and the 2010 Female Sailor of the Year. In 2011, Whitty, Nina Curtis and Olivia Price formed their Elliott 6m team in response to an announcement that the class of boat would be an Olympic event in London.
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Antonija Sandrić (born Mišura; May 19, 1988) is a Croatian professional basketball player for CCC Polkowice of the Basket Liga Kobiet and the Croatia national team. Sandrić has represented the national team in the 2009 Mediterranean Games, EuroBasket Women 2011, 2012 Olympics and EuroBasket Women 2013. She plays as a point guard and shooting guard, and is noted for her quick, aggressive style of play. Sandrić has also been featured in several polls for the most beautiful sportswoman, and her looks have attracted significant media attention.
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Brigitte Becue (born 18 September 1972 in Ostend) is a retired breaststroke swimmer from Belgium, who competed for her native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. In 1989, she won the silver medal in the women's 200 metres breaststroke at the European Aquatics Championships in Bonn, West Germany. Becue reached her highest peak at the 1995 European Aquatics Championships in Vienna, where she won three medals (two gold, one silver). She twice was named Belgian Sportswoman of the Year (1994 and 1995).
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In the singles event, Jing again swept her group, beating Karen Li and Sofija Tepes. She then defeated Sun Jin, Lijuan Geng, and Mihaela Steff to reach the semifinals, where she was defeated by Li Ju. In the bronze medal game, she lost to Chen Jing. In the doubles event, Jing and Li started in the round of 16, where they were defeated by Eldijana Bentsen and Tamara Boroš of Croatia. Jing again won the Sportswoman of the Year award for her Olympic performance.
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Statistically, Wohlwend is Liechtenstein's most successful racing driver in history. As well as being one of only three professional racing drivers ever to come from Liechtenstein – alongside Frederick von Opel and Manfred Schurti – she also has the most race starts, pole positions and race wins of any Liechtensteiner. The Schellenberg-based driver has also twice been nominated for Liechtenstein Sportswoman of the Year, in 2018 and 2019. During her early career, Wohlwend worked for the Vaduz branch of VP Bank in order to fund her racing.
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She captained the Australian team from 1981–83, during which time the team won to two World Team Squash Championship titles. As a junior player, Thorne won four Australian Junior Opens in 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1976.. Thorne retired from the international squash circuit in 1985. That year she won the Queensland Sportswoman of the Year award. Since retiring, she has been inducted into the Squash Australia Hall of FameSquash Hall of Fame and was an inaugural member of the Queensland Squash Hall of Fame.
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Natalie returns to Summer Bay in early 1998 with her husband Joel and teenage children Tom (Graeme Squires) and Gypsy (Kimberley Cooper). It is revealed that Joel and Natalie's reason for leaving was seventeen years earlier; Joel's father Jack (John Grant) was Natalie's swimming coach who molested her. She soon builds up a friendship with her brother-in-law Travis (Nic Testoni) and his wife Rebecca (Belinda Emmett). Natalie, a keen sportswoman and enters a local rowing club but an injury forces her to stop competing.
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Participating in the 100m breaststroke and 200m breaststroke, she finished twenty-ninth and thirty-first respectively. After converting to triathlon, Kemp-Arendt competed in that sport's first appearance in the Summer Olympics, in 2000. She took tenth place with a total time of 2:03:14.94. She has won the title of Luxembourgian Sportswoman of the Year a total of six times – two for swimming and four for triathlon – making her the only athlete (male or female) to have won it for success in two different sports.
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Out of the pool, Weekes has become something of an international celebrity after she was voted "the most beautiful sportswoman in the world" by high-profile German magazine Sports Life who featured her Black & White Atlanta Dream modelling shots, although water polo is not very popular in Germany. Weekes now combines her water polo with corporate speaking, modelling and television appearances. Weekes is married to former rowing Olympian Robert Scott the CEO of the Australian listed conglomerate Wesfarmers. They have two children and live in Perth.
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Robson qualified for the China Open and reached the second round but she lost to Lourdes Domínguez Lino in straight sets. At the HP Open in Japan, she was seeded 8th, the first time in her career she had been seeded at a WTA tournament. She reached the quarterfinals before losing to Chang Kai-chen in three sets, but the result ensured that she finished the year with a ranking of 53. In October, Robson was nominated for the Sports Journalists' Association Sportswoman of the Year.
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Cathy Freeman has won five National Sportswoman awards The inaugural National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sports Awards were held at Adelaide's Hilton International Hotel on 6 September 1986. The Awards were established to pay tribute to the contribution of Aboriginal men and women to Australian and international sport. Charlie Perkins, Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, strongly supported the establishment of the Awards and obtained Australian Government funding. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission continued funding after the Department ceased to exist.
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In 2009, while playing for Sky Blue FC, she simultaneously served as coach of the club while winning the 2009 Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs, and was named WPS Sportswoman of the Year. Pearce was the oldest player to appear in a FIFA Women's World Cup game (at age 40) until Formiga competed in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup at the age of 41. With 311 caps, Pearce is also the second- most capped player, male or female, in U.S. and world history, after Kristine Lilly.
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The inscription for Giles on the Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial Joanne May Giles (29 November 1950 – 22 February 2011) was a New Zealand television presenter and former representative sportswoman. She represented the country in pistol shooting at the 1997 Oceanian Championships in Adelaide, and the 2000 World Cup in Sydney.ISSF – International Shooting Sport Federation > Results She was one of New Zealand's first woman jockeys, and competed in motorsport and Rock 'n Roll competitions. Jo Giles was a candidate for ACT New Zealand in the 2005 general election.
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Clare Elizabeth Taylor, (born 22 May 1965) is an English sportswoman, the first woman to have played on a World Cup team in both cricket and football. She represented England at both cricket, as a member of the winning World Cup cricket team in 1993, and football (World Cup 1995). She was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2000 for her services to women's sport. Taylor attended Moor End High School and still has her name on the athletics records board.
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She was elected with a majority of 1,851 votes (1.2 points in two- party-preferred terms), constituting a 19-point swing in what had been a safe Liberal seat, and was the first independent candidate to win the federal seat of Wentworth. However, on 20 May 2019, she was defeated in the 2019 federal election by the Liberal candidate Dave Sharma. Phelps is also a keen sportswoman, and in 2014, was appointed to the board of Hockey Australia. She is also an ambassador for Barnardos Australia.
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She clinched three medals during the event including two gold medals in women's 5 km and 10 km categories along with a bronze in women's 3×5 km relay event. Following the successful maiden appearance, she went onto dominate in the Winter Deaflympics until the 2003 edition and finished her career with 15 Winter Deaflympic medals and a solitary Summer Deaflympic bronze medal. She was awarded the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year in 1998 and was nominated for the relevant award on five occasions.
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Kate McIlroy (born 26 August 1981) is a New Zealand cyclist, triathlete and former runner. She won the World Mountain Running title in 2005 and was later named New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year at the Halberg Awards. She is the national women's record holder for the 3000 metre steeplechase with a time of 9:32.54 set in Heusden, Belgium during 2006. McIlroy converted to track in a bid to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but sustained a leg injury and was unable recover in time.
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At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she won a bronze medal in the sprint. Her performance at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta was even better, as she won silver in the points race, as well as another bronze in the sprint. In 1996, she also competed in the road race, despite being a track sprinter; however, she did not finish the race. Because of her performances on the velodrome, she was named Dutch Sportswoman of the Year in 1991 and in 1996.
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Abott struck out a NCAA Single Season current Record of 724 batters. She had 23 no-hitters and six perfect games and was named the 2007 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and the Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year award for Team Sports athletes. She also was the 2007 Honda Award Winner. She guided UT to its first SEC title and a berth in the CWS championship, where they lost to top-ranked Arizona in the best-of-three series final.
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Fernandes started off her career teaching at St Patrick's High School, Karachi. She also was a sportswoman, a dramatist, and musician.The Christian Voice, Karachi, 2 August 2009 From 1966 to 2009, she worked first as a teacher and then as Headmistress (Kindergarten/Junior Section) of the Karachi Grammar School. In January 2006, Norma Fernandes moved to a new area of responsibility within the Karachi Grammar School, as Advisor, working with the Board, the Principal and the Internal Management Team and also giving confidential advice to parents.
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Roland Bombardella (born 9 July 1957 in Dudelange) is a Luxembourgian soldier and retired sprinter. As an athlete, Bombardella held the national record for the 100 metres and 200 metres, and competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics, where he reached the semi-finals of the 200 metres. He won the title of 'Luxembourgian Sportsman of the Year' in four consecutive years (1975 – 1978), a record that has not been equalled.Although Jeanny Dom and Carine Risch have both won four consecutive titles as Sportswoman of the Year.
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Lynn Leong started playing squash at the age of five and went on to represent the country when she was 12. She emerged as a national squash champion twice, on two consecutive occasions in 1995 and 1996 before winning the Asian Individual Squash Championships title in 1996 defeating India's Misha Grewal.1996 Asian Individual Squash Championships She also represented Malaysia at the 1996 Women's World Team Squash Championships. In 1996, she was nominated for the prestigious national award Anugerah Sukan Negara for Sportswoman of the Year.
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She retained the Kenyan Sportswoman of the Year award. On 24 May 2008 the 19-year-old Pamela Jelimo set a new Kenyan record of 1:55.76, beating the one previously held by Jepkosgei.Daily Nation, 26 May 2008: Jelimo sets new world junior record Jelimo's dominance throughout the season prevented Jepkosgei from major victories, but won Olympic silver medal over 800 m. She collided with Caster Semenya of South Africa such that Jepkosgei fell and finished last in her heat at the 2009 World Championships.
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According to both Roscosmos and Space Adventures, the names of the crew, including the two Space Tourists, will be officially announced, in early 2021. However, unofficial sources have confirmed that one of the space tourist seats will be occupied by Austrian airline pilot and extreme sportswoman Johanna Maislinger. The second seat may go to Japanese entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu, who was offered a seat on Soyuz TMA-18M after British singer Sarah Brightman pulled out from the mission for personal reasons, but declined due to not having enough time to fully train for Soyuz TMA-18M.
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Tina Maze (; born 2 May 1983) is a retired Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer. Maze is the most successful Slovenian ski racer in history with a career that culminated with two gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was awarded the title of the Slovenian Sportswoman of the Year in 2005, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015, and with her four medals she is the most decorated Slovenian athlete at the Winter Olympics. Maze started her career as a giant slalom specialist, but later competed in all five alpine skiing disciplines.
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Sharon Firisua (born 15 December 1993) is a Solomon Islands track and field athlete. In 2013 she was named the Solomon Islands Sportswoman of the Year. She started training seriously in 2010 and at her second Pacific Games in 2015 she took two gold medals at 5000 and 1000mDOUBLE GOLD: FIRISUA EXTENDS GOLD TALLY FOR TEAM SOLOMONS, June 2015, The Island Sun, Retrieved 27 August 2016 and another in the half marathon in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she competed in the 5000 m event.
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As described in a film magazine, Cullen Dale (Reid) becomes engaged to Marian Westover (Swanson), and when explaining various photographs showing him intimately juxtaposed between divers young women, spreads a network of falsehoods which promise to involve him in subsequent difficulty. One photograph shows him with Jessica Ramsey (Cumming), a sportswoman who calls her men friends "pals." Learning of Cullen's engagement, she courts his company so consistently that the piqued Marian precipitates a secret marriage. The honeymoon is interrupted by a quarrel which terminates with Cullen's departure for Jessica's hunting lodge.
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The Olympic torch was brought from Lausanne, Switzerland to Batı Park in Samsun by the Turkish Olympic champion in wrestling, Taha Akgül. The torch relay began with lighting of the torches of the Turkish sportspeople as "Olympic ambassadors", the footballers Gökhan Gönül and Sabri Sarıoğlu, world-record holder female diver Şahika Ercümen and media presenter and sportswoman Ece Vahapoğlu. Led by the Minister of Youth and Sports Akif Çağatay Kılıç, they marched to the Mustafa Dağıstanlı Sports Hall, where the torch was handed over to the mayor of the Samsun Metroplotian Municipality, Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz.
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In 2000, she moved to Wellington, New Zealand and was quickly picked for the national team, the Silver Ferns. This caused some minor controversy, as the only rule in netball at the time for players switching between nations was a ban on playing for more than one nation in a calendar year. She was the 2003 New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year and a nominee in 2005. She became a New Zealand citizen in 2005, and represented New Zealand for 14 years before retiring from international netball in June 2014.
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She was elected Dutch Sportswoman of the Year and once again they were sports team of the year.Verona van de Leur Van de Leur and Renske Endel were drawn as a reserve for the World Cup of 2003 in Anaheim and the Dutch team was not placed among the top twelve. Therefore, the gymnast didn't qualify for the Olympics in Athens. Then it came to a rift between her coach Frank and Van de Leur, leading her to move to The Hazenkamp in Nijmegen, the club of trainer Boris Orlov.
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Chatterton was one of the few woman aviators at the time, and was good friends with Amelia Earhart. She flew solo across the U.S. several times, and served as sponsor of the Sportsman Pilot Mixed Air Derby and the annual Ruth Chatterton Air Derby during the 1930s; she also opened the National Air Races in Los Angeles in 1936.The Sportswoman (Magazine): Volume 12, Issue 11 p. 8 She taught British film and stage actor Brian Aherne to fly, an experience he described at length in his 1969 autobiography A Proper Job.
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Victoria Anatoliïvna Tereshchuk (Терещук Вікторія Анатоліївна; born 18 February 1982) is a female former modern pentathlete from Ukraine. A competitor since 1999 she was awarded a bronze medal in the women's modern pentathlon event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but was subsequently stripped of the medal after a doping re-test. She was World Champion in the individual and mixed relay events in 2011. For her World Championship victories, she was named Ukrainian Sportswoman of the Year and received the Order of Princess Olga in the Second Class.
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Ledecky's success has earned her Swimming World Female World Swimmer of the Year a record- breaking five times. Ledecky was also named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year in 2017, international female Champion of Champions by L'Équipe in 2014 and 2017, United States Olympic Committee Female Athlete of the Year in 2013, 2016 and 2017, and Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation in 2017.Roxanna Scott, "Katie Ledecky wins Female Athlete of the Olympic Games," USA Today (September 29, 2016). Retrieved December 27, 2016.
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The Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year is an annual award honouring the achievements of individual women from the world of sports. It was first awarded in 2000 as one of the seven constituent awards presented during the Laureus World Sports Awards. The awards are presented by the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, a global organisation involved in more than 150 charity projects supporting 500,000 young people. The first ceremony was held on 25 May 2000 in Monte Carlo, at which Nelson Mandela gave the keynote speech.
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After a few seasons training with Bnot Tiv'on Falkon started playing in the local senior league, where she joined ASA Tel Aviv University as she was attracted to their "eternal losers" tag. During her time at ASA Tel Aviv University, the club won 5 Ligat Nashim titles and 3 Israeli Women's Cup wins. At the age of 18, after receiving an "elite sportswoman" status from the army, Falkon decided to go to college in Kentucky to further her professional development, but returned to ASA Tel Aviv University when she discovered it wasn't what she expected.
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Dot Laughton (29 September 1913 - 8 March 1982) was a top-ranking sportswoman in South Australia representing Australia and South Australia in cricket and field hockey during the 1930s until retirement in 1953. In Cricket, Laughton scored 40 centuries in first class cricket domestically and made the world- record score of 390 in 1949. A State captain, she was selected for Australia tour to England in 1951 where she scored 47 runs from her only appearance. An award ‘The Dot Laughton Trophy’ is awarded to outstanding South Australian women cricketers.
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Occasionally she sang mezzo-soprano parts such as Octavian in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, which she has sung as early as 1911 in Zürich and again in 1918 under the composer's baton. She was a regular performer at the Bayreuth Festival during the 1920s and 1930s where her most frequently assailed role was that of Isolde in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. She had a long-time romantic relationship with Swiss millionaire's wife, Olympic equestrian sportswoman and amateur photographer Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille, who was the mother of writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach.Bilder mit Legenden.
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Jessica Evelyn Duffin (née Cameron; born 27 June 1989) is an Australian sportswoman. In cricket, she has made 117 international appearances and won four world championships as a member of the Australian women's team. A right- handed batter with a reputation as a big game performer, Duffin was named Player of the Final in both the 2012 ICC Women's World Twenty20 and 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup tournaments. She also won the 2013 Belinda Clark Award for being adjudged Australia's best international women's cricketer over the previous year.
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Team McCormick was the first team to ever win three consecutive U.S. national titles. At the 2008 Vernon World Championships, Joraanstad and Debbie McCormick's Team USA finished 6-5 after round-robin play and did not advance to the playoff round. Joraanstad, left, sweeping a stone with Natalie Nicholson at the 2010 Winter Olympics On June 4, 2008, Joraanstad received the Madison Sports Hall of Fame Club 2008 Sportswoman of the Year Award. At the US National Championship / Olympic Trials - Curling in 2009, Joraanstad won her fourth straight national championship while playing with Debbie McCormick.
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Rena Buckley is an Irish sportswoman who played for both the Cork senior ladies' football team and the Cork senior camogie team. She has also represented Munster in the Gael Linn Cup and Ireland at international rules. Between 2005 and 2017 she won 18 All-Ireland winners medals, making her one of most decorated sportspeople in Gaelic games. In 2012 she captained Cork when they won the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship and in 2017 she captained Cork when they won the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship.
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The Annual Salute to Women in Sports celebrates the achievement of female athletes across all sports. Held in October at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, the Annual Salute features a cast of celebrities, champion athletes and supporters of girls and women in sports. The fundraising gala is a charitable fundraising event with proceeds benefiting the Foundation's grants, research, educational and advocacy-related programming. The Sportswoman of the Year Award - Team and Individual, the Billie Jean King Contribution Award and the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award are presented during the gala.
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Born in Hove, England, Alcott was named after Sophia Loren's character in the 1961 film El Cid. She started skiing at 18 months old on a family holiday in Flaine, France, and first raced at the age of three. In 1993, Alcott won the Etoile D'Or French Village Ski Championship, became a member of the British Junior Alpine team in 1994 and won the 1995 Sunday Times Junior Sportswoman of the Year award. Every British summer from the age of 11 to 19 Alcott travelled to New Zealand to train in the winter.
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The unheralded victory made Patoulidou the first female Greek sportswoman to win an Olympic gold medal, Along with Pyrros Dimas, who won a gold medal in weightlifting during the same Games, Patoulidou is considered to have inaugurated a new era for Greek sports. Notably, Greek athletes often refer to Patoulidou's triumph as the defining moment and inspiration in their quest for Olympic success. After the 2 medals in 1992 the medal haul for Greece at the Olympics increased to 8 in 1996, 13 in 2000 and 16 in 2004.
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Later, Khairul Hafiz Jantan of athletics from Malacca and Nur Aqilah of archery from Terengganu were announced as best sportsman and best sportswoman respectively. Selangor was also announced as the overall champion of the games, beating host Sarawak. After the games flag lowered by Royal Malaysian Navy personnel and the cauldron extinguished, the Sukma Games responsibility was handed over to Perak, host of the 2018 Sukma Games where Zambry Abdul Kadir received the games flag as its symbolisation. A Perak segment performance was later performed by Perak dancers.
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Patrick came ninth in the final standings with 302 points. In November, the March of Dimes awarded her the title of Sportswoman of the Year in celebration of her dedication and success. Patrick at a post-season test session at Barber Motorsports Park in October 2007 Before the 2007 season, Patrick moved to Andretti Green Racing, in place of Bryan Herta in its No. 7 Dallara-IR05 Honda. She opened her season with two top-ten finishes in the first four races (eighth at St. Petersburg and seventh at Kansas).
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Lucy Tyler-Sharman (born Lucy Tyler, in Louisville, Kentucky on 6 June 1965) is an Australian Olympic and World Champion cyclist.W.A. Hall of Champions inductee booklet. (2006) Published by the Western Australian Institute of Sport. pp. 127-128 As a junior, Tyler was a gifted sportswoman, focussing on swimming at junior high school and later triathlons. She moved into criterium events while living in Florida and in 1988 made the move to velodrome events. In 1990 she trained and raced in Australia, initially living in New South Wales.
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In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman included Semenya in its annual list of "50 People That Matter" for unintentionally instigating "an international and often ill-tempered debate on gender politics, feminism, and race, becoming an inspiration to gender campaigners around the world". In 2012, Semenya was awarded South African Sportswoman of the Year Award at the SA Sports Awards in Sun City. Semenya received the bronze Order of Ikhamanga on 27 April 2014, as part of Freedom Day festivities. Semenya married her long-term partner, Violet Raseboya, in December 2015.
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Caring and compassionate, her generous heart was easily touched by a hard-luck story, which sometimes led to other officers accusing her of being too soft on criminals. But her instinctive perception and sympathy meant she could communicate easily with people from all walks of life. An active sportswoman, she was not afraid to be disliked and pull rank in order to get the best performance from those around her. Conway came to rely on her intuition and the two shared a good working relationship, based on mutual respect.
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Julia Jung (born 4 October 1979) is a retired German swimmer who won one gold and two silver medals in the 4×200 m freestyle relay at the European and world championships in 1994 and 1995. In 1995, she also won a national title and a European gold medal in the 800 m freestyle. In 1993 and 1994 she won six junior European championship titles, becoming one of the most successful junior European swimmers of all time. She was chosen the German Junior Sportswoman of the Year 1994.
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In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women, and after the world championships, she was named one of ESPNW's Impact 25 and chosen as Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation. She was also one of the finalists for Time magazine's 2016 Person of the Year. Biles was also nominated for a 2016 ESPY award for Best Female Athlete along with Elena Delle Donne, Katie Ledecky, and Breanna Stewart; Stewart won the award. In July 2017, Biles won the ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete.
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Simone Biles was named one of the most influential people in the World list by Time Magazine. In May 2018, it was announced that Biles and the other survivors would be awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. In December, it was announced that Biles was named ESPN The Magazine's most dominant athlete of 2018. In February 2019, it was announced that Biles was named Laureus' Sportswoman of the Year for the second time, beating out tennis players Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber, snowboarder Ester Ledecká, triathlete Daniela Ryf, and skier Mikaela Shiffrin.
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Tea Grubišić (born December 3, 1985) is a Croatian female handballer playing in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Ardeşen GSK and the Croatian national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the left wing position. She played in her country for RK Podravka Koprivnica (2004–2005), RK Lokomotiva Zagreb (2005–2011 and 2013–2015) and ZRK Samobor (2012–2013) before she transferred to the German team SG BBM Bietigheim. Grubišić moved the next season to Turkey to play for the Rize-based team Ardeşen GSK in the Women's Super League.
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After the tournament, Robson started to train with Gil Reyes, the former trainer of Andre Agassi. She was also named the MCC Young Sportswoman of the Year. She claimed the top ranking of ITF Junior Tour in April, despite not playing for two months because of shin splints. Robson on her way to her second junior Grand Slam final at the 2009 Australian Open; she repeated the trip a year later At the French Open, Robson was the top seed in the junior's competition, but was defeated in round two by Sandra Zaniewska.
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It stood as the highest score in any class of women's cricket for more than 90 years. Bill Frindall, Guinness Book of Cricket Facts and Feats, 1996 edition, p.201 Though more than 50 years of age, Bryant represented the first All England Women's Cricket team that played against the Rest at Leicester in 1933. Australian Women Cricketers Meet Veteran Sportswoman, The Age, 29 June 1937England Women v The Rest, Leicester, 1933 When Australian women toured England for the first time in 1937, she appeared for the Lancashire Women against them.
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Extraordinary performances in an ordinary world Klüft was nominated for four consecutive Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year awards from 2005–2008.Carolina Kluft: Laureus profile She has a mascot, a small stuffed toy representing Eeyore, that she takes everywhere. Klüft claims that this is not for luck, but to remind her of her philosophy that sport is for fun. She is one of very few athletes to at some time hold all five available international titles: Olympic, World Outdoor, Regional (Europe in her case) Outdoor, World Indoor and Regional Indoor.
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At the 1969 European Championships she won gold medals in both the 100 m and 200 m as well as a gold medal in 4x100 metres relay together with teammates Bärbel Podeswa, Renate Meißner and Regina Höfer. For this achievement she was selected as the DDR Sportswoman of the Year. At the 1971 European Championships she won a silver medal in relay together with teammates Karin Balzer, Renate Stecher and Ellen Stropahl. Kandarr then won a silver medal in 60 metres at the 1973 European Indoor Championships, behind Annegret Richter of West Germany.
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Sophie Frances Monique Devine (born 1 September 1989) is a New Zealand sportswoman, who has represented New Zealand in both cricket for the New Zealand national women's cricket team (the White Ferns), and in field hockey as a member of the New Zealand women's national field hockey team (the Black Sticks Women). She had since focused on cricket. She is known for not wearing a helmet when batting, a rarity in 21st century cricket. In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.
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The WNBA was incorporated in 1996 and began playing in 1997. Leslie was drafted on January 22 by the Los Angeles Sparks as part of the Initial Allocation phase of the draft. She helped the Sparks make the playoffs five consecutive times, but the team did not win a WNBA title until 2001. That year, Leslie was named the 2001 Sportswoman of the Year (in the team category) by the Women's Sports Foundation. On July 30, 2002, Leslie became the first woman to dunk the ball in a WNBA game.
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Natalia made her Deaflympic debut at the age of 17 in the 1997 Summer Deaflympics which was held in Copenhagen. Since then, she has never missed a single Deaflympic event as she further competed at the multi-sport event in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017. Natalia has claimed 13 medals in her Deaflympic career, including four gold medals. Natalia was awarded the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2007 after breaking three deaf swimming world records while clinching three gold medals in a single day.
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Earning almost $29million in prize money and endorsements, Williams was the highest paid female athlete in 2016. She repeated this feat in 2017 when she was the only woman on Forbes list of the 100 highest paid athletes with $27million in prize money and endorsements. She has won the 'Laureus Sportswoman of the Year' award four times (2003, 2010, 2016, 2018), and in December 2015, she was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine. In 2019, she was ranked 63rd in Forbes World's Highest-Paid Athletes list.
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Shane Elizabeth Collins (born 25 July 1963 in Ranfurly, New Zealand) is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who finished in eight position with the National Women's Field Hockey Team, nicknamed The Black Sticks, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. After an illustrious career in the police, Collins is now undertaking research in the field of sport policy. Collins is still an elite sportswoman but has switched from hockey to marathon running in more recent years. Recent achievements include representing New Zealand in the Portuguese half marathon.
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Heather Pamela McKay (née Blundell) (born 31 July 1941) is a retired Australian squash player, who is considered by many to be the greatest female player in the history of the game, and possibly also Australia's greatest-ever sportswoman. She dominated the women's squash game in the 1960s and 1970s, winning 16 consecutive British Open titles from 1962 to 1977, and capturing the inaugural women's World Open title in 1976, while remaining undefeated during that period. She was also a top-level player of other sports, including field hockey and racquetball.
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Four years later, she was part of the German team (Gudrun Theuerkauff, Heidi Schmid, Rosemarie Scherberger and Helga Mees) that received a bronze medal in the team competition. The team qualified from pool C, defeated France in the quarterfinal, lost to the Hungarian team in the semifinal, and defeated Italy in the bronze final. In 1961 Schmid became the world champion and also student world champion in foil, and was selected German sportswoman of the year. In addition, she won an individual silver medal at the 1957 world championships, and two team silver medals.
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Baker was the Waikato sports person of the year in 1989 and 1991; at the time, she was based in Cambridge. For her 1991 gold medal, she won the 1991 supreme award at the Halberg Awards, and she was named New Zealand sportswoman of the year. In the 1993 New Year Honours, both Baker and her sister Erin were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire, for services to rowing and as a triathlete, respectively. Baker was the Wanganui sports person of the year in 1993 and 1994.
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She spent several years working as a trainer and manager in sports clubs while quickly rising to the top of competitive fitness in Russia. In 2005 and 2006 she was awarded the title of “Best Non-Olympic Sportswoman of the Year” in the Kaliningrad Region. While winning fitness competitions on the international stage at the European and world championships, she finally earned her IFBB pro card to compete in the 2007 Olympia. She has been in the United States for over three years and now lives in California.
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Chuck Cobb has been married since 1959 to Sue M. Cobb, former U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica and Secretary of State of Florida. Sue Cobb is a lawyer, sportswoman, and author who chronicled her 1988 attempt to be the first woman from the United States to reach the summit of Mount Everest with a book entitled, The Edge of Everest. They have two sons, Christian (architect and Harvard MBA) and Tobin (investment banker and NYU MBA), and seven grandchildren, one named Fred who is a "Max Prestige" Call of Duty player.
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Cecilia Antonia Maria Wilhelmina (Cécile) Dreesmann was the fifth of seven children to Willem Dreesmann, the heir to Department Stores Vroom & Dreesmann and Anna Maria Alphonsa Peek. She grew up in a large, better-off Catholic family. Cécile Dreesmann was an accomplished sportswoman, riding champion, she participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964 for the Netherlands but a serious ski accident ended her sports career. She studied at the Royal School of Needlework in London and She preferred to use silk and often included precious stones or minerals in her work.
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Gerbi (in blue) with Cachola from Portugal at the bronze final of the 2015 European Games (Baku) At the 2014 Judo World Championship in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, Gerbi won the silver medal after losing by an ippon to Frenchwoman Clarice Agbegnenou in the final in the under-63 kilo category. In December 2014, she was named Israeli Sportswoman of the Year. In 2015, she won a bronze medal at the 2015 European Games. On 17 October 2015, Gerbi won the bronze medal in the Paris Grand Slam after defeating Miho Minei from Japan.
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Michelle Dench playing for the Mugars Michelle Dench is an Australian sportswoman who played women's Australian rules football and basketball in the Women's National Basketball League. Dench played for the Melbourne University Mugars in the Victorian Women's Football League. She was a member of the Australia women's international rules football team that played against Ireland in the 2006 Ladies' International Rules Series. Lane, Samantha (15 October 2006) Women join in changing rules She has been an All-Australian and the AFL Women's National Championships in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007\.
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After the 2012 Olympic Games she competed successfully in tournaments, winning 16 consecutive victories, the third longest series of victory between FILA elite wrestlers. In 2013 she won the title of European Champion for a second time, this time in the -63 kg weight category and she was named the sportswoman of the year in Latvia. By March 2014 she was number 1 ranked in the world, and in April she won her third gold medal at the European Championship. That year, Grigorjeva won a bronze medal at the World Championship.
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Judith Brenda Grinham, (born 5 March 1939), also known by her married name Judith Roe or also by her former married name Judith Rowley, is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships, and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games. Grinham is an Olympic gold medallist, Commonwealth and European champion, and former world record-holder. In 1956 and 1958 she was chosen as Great Britain's Sportswoman of the Year. In 1958 she became the first woman in any sport to hold/win Olympic, European and Commonwealth titles.
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Allaire du Pont (May 4, 1913 – January 6, 2006) was an American sportswoman and a member of the prominent French-American Du Pont family of chemical manufacturers who is most remembered as the owner of the Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame champion, Kelso. Born Helena Allaire Crozer, in 1934 she married Richard C. du Pont with whom she had a son, Richard Jr. and a daughter Helena. An avid sportsperson, she was an Olympic Trap shooter and a champion tennis player. Allaire du Pont and her husband were both glider and powered aircraft pilots.
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Jemma Mi Mi (born 4 March 1996) is an Australian netball player in the Suncorp Super Netball league, playing for the Queensland Firebirds. Mi Mi made her debut for the Firebirds in 2017, signing with the Brisbane-based franchise in late 2016. As a young sportswoman, Mi Mi played high-level touch rugby and represented the Australian under-15 and Queensland under-21 netball teams, before going on to represent Australia once more at the Netball World Youth Cup. She has played 11 of 29 matches in her first two seasons at the Firebirds.
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The first Summer Olympic Games was held in 1896 in Athens, but women competed for the first time in next games in 1900 in Paris. An Egyptian woman was scheduled to compete for the first time in the 1972 Summer Olympics, but the Munich massacre during that Games led to the departure of Egypt's delegation before the she could compete. The Egyptian woman made her first appearance in 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 88 years after the first tournament, to become the fourth Arab woman to take part in the Olympics after Algeria, Libya, and Syria. Since then, the Egyptian women have taken part in every Summer Olympic Games. The number of female Egyptian Olympic participants varied from their first appearance in 1984 Summer Olympics which witnessed the participant of 6 women, which was the highest (6 Sportswoman) till 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney (15 sportswoman)، Since then, number of participants increased on each tournament until it reached 37 women in 2016 Summer Olympics Same for sports, number of various sports that Egyptian women participated in one tournament was the maximum in first appear in 1984 Summer Olympics (4 sports) till 2000 tournament when it increased to 9, and it kept increasing till 2016 games (18 Sport).
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Jenkins was the sole gold medallist on the New Zealand standard distance team (including elite), the only other gold being won by sprint distance age-group athlete, Maddie Dillon. She competed at the 2012 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Auckland, New Zealand and won bronze in TRI3 classification. She was a panel member at the ITU Women's Committee Conference. In December 2009, she was named Waikato Sportswoman of the Year and was later nominated for a Halberg award as well as for the "Performance of the Year" award at the Triathlon New Zealand 2010 Awards.
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Arati Gupta (née Saha; 24 September 1940 – 23 August 1994) was an Indian Bengali long-distance swimmer, best known for becoming the first Asian woman to swim across the English Channel on 29 September 1959. In 1960, she became the first Indian sportswoman to be awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour in India. Born in Kolkata, India, Arati had been introduced to swimming at the early age of four. Her precocious talent was spotted by Sachin Nag, and later she was inspired by the ace Indian swimmer Mihir Sen to try to cross the English Channel.
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Playing with her South Korean club, KT&G; Hungkuk, Madelaynne scored 53 points against GS Caltex from the South Korean V-League.Volleywood.net: Top Ten Female Volleyball Scorers At the end of the 2010-2011 club season, Montaño finished in second place in the Most Valuable Player voting poll. Alongside international player Kenny Moreno, Montaño accepted to play with the Colombia National team, to pursuit the team qualification for the 2012 Olympics. For her achievements in the 2010/2011 season, Montaño was one of the finalists for the Colombian Sportswoman of the Year award, ultimately won by champion cyclist Mariana Pajón.
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Meares went on to win further medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in both the 500m Time Trial and Match Sprint in Melbourne, but retired before a third consecutive games in Delhi, India. As a Junior athlete, Meares was extremely successful breaking numerous State and National records in Sprint discipline events. She was a contender for the 2004 Olympic team, but pulled out from competition due to nagging back injuries, suffered during numerous crashes that occurred during competitions earlier that year. Meares retired from professional track cycling in 2007 and married former compatriot and sportswoman Emily Rosemond.
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She later admitted to having taken performance-enhancing drugs and, along with being stripped of her Olympic medals by the International Olympic Committee in 2007, her Laureus Award and nominations (2001 and 2003) were rescinded. The 2020 winner of the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year was the American gymnast Simone Biles who has won the award three times in four years. Sportswomen from athletics are the most successful overall, with eight wins and thirty-one nominations (excluding Jones' rescissions). American sportswomen have won more awards and nominations than any other nationality, with ten wins and twenty-nine nominations.
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During 2005 Teter was hampered by a knee injury which required two surgeries; in her words: "there was a chunk of bone that had separated and it was kind of dangling around." At the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Teter was unsure how well she would be able to perform because of that injury. However, she went on to win the Olympic gold medal in halfpipe, beating out US teammate and friend Gretchen Bleiler, who won silver. Teter's accomplishment was rewarded further by the United States Olympic Committee who named her the USOC SportsWoman of the Year.
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Kostelić won the World Cup overall title again in 2003, but missed the following season due to knee surgery in October, her fourth in ten months, and thyroid surgery in January 2004. This caused 2004 to be the only year from 1998 to 2006 that she was not recognized as "Croatian Sportswoman of the Year." After more than 18 months aways from competition, she returned to World Cup competition at Sölden and finished eighth in the giant slalom in October 2004. At the World Championships in February 2005, she won three gold medals, despite being in ill health.
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Maraia Lum On is a former international lawn bowls competitor for Fiji. Lum On won the pairs silver medal with Willow Fong at the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto, Canada and four years later won the singles and pairs silver medal at the 1985 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne, Australia. Lum On started bowling in 1976 and was the 1982 Fiji Sportswoman of the Year. She had been inducted into the Fiji Sports Hall of Fame and in 1986 was the joint flag bearer for Fiji at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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While in France, Holmes met his future wife, Dr Rosalie Jobson, an Oxford graduate and an international sportswoman, to whom he subsequently proposed marriage while rowing on the Thames. His wartime observations on gunshot wounds re-awakened his interest in cerebellar disease which led to his classical analysis of the symptoms of cerebellar lesions described in his Croonian Lectures to the Royal College of Physicians in 1922. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1933 and delivered their Ferrier Lecture in 1944. He was made CMG in 1917, CBE in 1919 and knighted in 1951.
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At the 2004 Summer Olympics Veldhuis made her Olympic debut at the age of 25 and won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle, together with Inge de Bruijn, Inge Dekker and Chantal Groot. Her individual results at the Olympics were slightly disappointing with the 9th place in the 50 m freestyle and the 11th place in the 100 m freestyle. She was the anchor lady in the 4×100 m medley, she took over from de Bruijn who swam the butterfly leg, finishing 6th. At the end of 2004 she became Amsterdam Sportswoman of the year.
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As her father Ambrogio Fogar, Rachele is sportswoman (skydiving, swimming, scuba diving, equestrianism, hiking, bungee jumping, canoeing, kayaking, Muay Thai, trekking, running, skiing, sailing, snowboarding, paragliding, winter sports, water sports and others) and adventurous; she has various licenses, including boat license and parachuting license. Since 2015 she is in a relationship with Italian entrepreneur Alessandro Passoni: he is the owner of rural tourism (Mormoraia) and restaurant; produces and exports, worldwide, wine and olive oil. He owns many animals; in addition to dogs e cats, he owns: horses, ponies, geese, donkeys, goats, chickens and others. In the Mormoraia there is a lake.
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In the interim, Dixon worked as a journalist, working at NBC, PBS, and ABC. She was the first woman to do professional sports color commentary (for the Boston Lobsters of World Team Tennis), and in fact for her color commentary, Dixon was the first woman nominated for an Emmy Award in Sports Broadcasting. Dixon has also written for Sportswoman Magazine. Dixon owned a tennis health club in Sunderland, Massachusetts, and worked in sports marketing, for a number of years, before being recruited to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as its head women's tennis coach in 2002.
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The next year, she won gold in the singles at the ITTF Pro Tour Chinese Taipei Open in Taipei, and helped Singapore to the top spots in the women's team; and mixed doubles events at the 2007 SEA Games in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand. As at August 2008, Li was ranked sixth in the world. She won the accolade of Sportswoman of the Year from the Singapore National Olympic Council five times in a row between 2002 and 2006, and received a Meritorious Award in 2007.See also ; At the club competition level, Li played in the Chinese Table Tennis Super League.
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Lowther was a gifted athlete. The Times described her as "a brilliant fencer and sportswoman, who could hold her own in anything that required skill and brains." She was well known as an amateur player in championship women's tennis, and during the tennis season was a regular participant in the British tournaments at Edgbaston, Beckenham, Manchester and Wimbledon as well as on the traditional European circuit. In particular she played frequently at the German Ladies Championships (held at the prestigious Bad Homburg Tennis Club) from 1896–1901 and then in Hamburg (the Eisbahn-Verein auf der Uhlenhorst).
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Since its inception in 1954, Sports Illustrated American magazine has annually presented the Sportsman of the Year award to "the athlete or team whose performance that year most embodies the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement." Both Americans and non-Americans are eligible, though in the past the vast majority of winners have been from the United States. Both men and women have won the award, originally called "Sportsman of the Year" and renamed "Sportswoman of the Year" or "Sportswomen of the Year" when applicable. Tiger Woods and LeBron James are the only individuals who have received the award more than once.
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Her three Olympic medals in 1976 made her the first United States athlete to win three medals at one Winter Olympics. Her world sprint speed skating championships in 1973 made her the first United States female athlete to accomplish that feat. Her world sprint speed skating championship of 1973 and her world sprint track cycling championship of that same year made her the first athlete to win World championships in two sports in the same year. The United States Olympic Committee named her Sportswoman of the Year in 1976 and 1981 for her accomplishments in both cycling and speed skating.
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Melissa Jane Ruscoe (born 15 December 1976) is a New Zealand sportswoman who has served as captain of her country's national team in two different football codes: association football and rugby union. In soccer, Ruscoe made her Football Ferns debut in a 0–1 loss to Bulgaria on 24 August 1994, and finished her international career with 23 caps and 2 goals to her credit. After leaving behind her international career in soccer, she switched to rugby, joining the Canterbury team in New Zealand's women's provincial championship in 2003. As a loose forward, she made the Black Ferns the following year.
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She made her Deaflympic debut at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics as part of the US deaf basketball team that claimed the gold medal. She then became the member of the US deaf volleyball team and clinched silver and bronze medals at the 2001 Summer Deaflympics and 2005 Summer Deaflympics respectively. Apart from her Deaflympic career, she had a historic stint with Gallaudet University women's basketball team, scoring over 1000 points for Bison. In 1997, she was nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award for her performance in the basketball event at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics.
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She was the only woman who took part in all these Series. She would repeat her second-place finish in the Truck Series in 1999, and improved to eighth place in the Mustang Series, where she took a second-place finish in the last race of the year. She was received several awards during the year: the "Press Award" from Ford Motor Company; the "Best Female Driver Award" from the Scudería Rodríguez Foundation; and Hidalgo Government gave her the "Sportswoman of the Year" Award. 2000 saw Reyes traveling to Phoenix, Arizona to take part in Bondurant's Racing School.
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Harry Gosset was the son of statistician William Sealy Gosset and sportswoman Marjory Gosset, née Phillpotts. His paternal grandfather Frederic Gosset, a colonel in the Royal Engineers, was of Huguenot stock. His maternal grandfather James Surtees Phillpotts was headmaster of Bedford School.Frederick J O’Dell & Andrew N Williams, Dr Isaac Henry Gosset: Northampton's first Consultant Paediatrician and Inventor of the 'Gosset' Icterometer in Journal of Paediatric Health Care and Medicine, Volume 1 Number 1, December 2017, pp 10-15Though born in Oxford Harry Gosset spent most of his childhood in Ireland, where his father was statistician to the Guinness Brewery.
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Arianna Fontana OMRI (born April 14, 1990) is an Italian short track speed skater, who has won eight Olympic medals, among these a gold in the 500m short track at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Her medal haul following the 2018 Games made her the female short track skater with the most Olympic medals, and tied her with male skaters Apolo Ohno and Viktor An. It also made her the Italian sportswoman with the second highest number of Winter Olympic medals, behind Stefania Belmondo. She specialises in the 500 m event. She is nicknamed La Freccia Bionda (The Blonde Arrow).
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In 2002, Kirby was named as UK Coach of the Year (jointly with Alex Stanton, coach to marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe). In 2004, Kirby was one of the winners in the 'Manager/Coach' category of the BBC North West Sports Awards In 2006, Kirby was awarded the Mussabini Medal in the UK Coaching Awards. In 2008, Kirby was nominated for the Unsung Hero award in The Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year Awards. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to sport.
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On 15 September 2019, Dee was crowned Miss World Philippines 2019 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. The finals night comprised competitions in swimwear, evening gown, and two question and answer rounds. She competed with and won over thirty-nine (39) other delegates, and was crowned by outgoing Miss World Philippines 2018 Katarina Sonja Rodriguez by the end of the event. During the competition, Dee was conferred six (6) special awards: Miss Sportswoman by FILA, Miss GCOX, Miss Best Skin by Cathy Valencia, Miss BENCH/, Miss Myra E, and Miss Bluewater Day Spa.
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Legendary actress, the late Sridevi, was posthumously honoured with the Outstanding Achievement in Cinema award. In addition to the winners, other notable guests in attendance included television personalities Anthea Turner, Francine Lewis, Russell Kane, Emma Noble, actress Gemma Oaten, film director Gurinder Chadha, Adil Ray, Manish Bhasin, sportswoman Elise Christie and previous honouree Naughty Boy. ;2019 The 9th Asian Awards again hosted by Sanjeev Bhaskar on April 12, 2019 at The Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. The centenary anniversary of the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre was marked with the Founders award presented to the nephew of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
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Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery (January 27, 1922 – September 16, 2017) (married names: Penny Tweedy until 1974 and later Penny Ringquist until 1980) was an American sportswoman who bred and owned Secretariat, the 1973 winner of the Triple Crown. The youngest of three children, she graduated from The Madeira School in 1939 and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, then studied at the Columbia Business School, where she met her future husband, John Tweedy, Sr., a Columbia Law School graduate.nl.newsbank.com In March 2011, Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, awarded Chenery an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
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Dilara Buse Günaydın (born July 5, 1989 in Gölcük, Kocaeli Province, Turkey) is a Turkish female swimmer competing in the breaststroke events. The tall sportswoman at transferred to Galatasaray Swimming from Fenerbahçe Swimming. She graduated from Journalism Department at the Faculty of Communications from Istanbul University. Günaydın is holder of the national record in 50 m breastroke with 31.63 set at the 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. She represented her country in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China without advancing to the finals.
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The Taranaki Premier League team are defending Taranaki Champions and have won three successive premierships, completing the 2019 season unbeaten in the league and retaining the league challenge trophy. The team also hold the Sheffield United Plate won in the pre-season by defeating the 2018 Central Federation Cup winners Eltham AFC. The Moturoa Women's Premiership team are also defending Taranaki Champions, winning the league challenge trophy along with the Central Federation Cup and Duchess Cup titles. Moturoa players Fernanda Toscani and Hayden Murray were awarded the Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year at the 2019 Taranaki Prize Giving.
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Rumyana Neykova (; born 6 April 1973 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian rower. Neykova competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, where she won silver in Single Sculls, the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won bronze and the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won gold in the same discipline. Her current coach is her husband Svilen Neykov. In 2002, she set the world best time of 7:07:41 on 21 September in Seville ESP and she was named Bulgarian Sportswoman of the Year, as well as FISA Female Rower of the Year.
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Katja Seizinger (born 10 May 1972) is a former alpine ski racer, the most successful alpine racer from Germany. Born in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Seizinger won three Olympic gold and two bronze medals, and won eleven World Cup season titles: two overall, four downhill and five Super-G. She was a three-time winner of Germany's sportswoman of the year award. With Olympic downhill victories in 1994 and 1998, she became the first to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the same alpine speed event, and also the first woman to successfully defend an Olympic alpine title.
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Isava Fonseca in 1997. Flor Isava Fonseca (20 May 1921 – 25 July 2020)Fallece Flor Isava, la eterna dama del olimpismo venezolano was a Venezuelan sportswoman, journalist and writer as well as prominent member of Venezuelan society. For a number of years, she was the vice president of the Venezuelan Red Cross, following in the footsteps of her mother, who had been appointed president of this institution years before. She is also an active member of the Venezuelan associated press committee and has devoted much of her time and effort in helping the poor, the blind and prisoners from all over the country.
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The Best U.S. Female Olympian ESPY Award has been presented annually since 2009 to the sportswoman or team affiliated with the United States Olympic Committee and contesting sport internationally adjudged to be the best. The award serves in practice to replace the Best Female Olympic Performance ESPY Award, which was presented in 2005, and the Best U.S. Olympian ESPY Award presented in 2006. Balloting for the award is undertaken by fans over the Internet from amongst between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, and the award is conferred in June to reflect performance and achievement over the twelve months previous.
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Petra made her Deaflympic debut during the 1999 Winter Deaflympics and set milestones after claiming four gold medals in the women's downhill, giant slalom, slalom and Super-G events. With clinching four gold medals at the Davos Deaflympics, she became the first individual athlete either male or female to claim four gold medals in a single edition of the Winter Deaflympics. Petra Kurkova also bettered the gold medal achievements when compared to male counterparts mainly in the slalom and giant slalom events during the 1999 Winter Deaflympics. After her achievements at her first Deaflympic event, she was awarded the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 1999.
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She was born Principessa Iolanda Margherita Milena Elisabetta Romana Maria di Savoia () in Rome, Italy. As a young woman she was a great sportswoman, particularly interested in swimming and riding. During the Great War, newspapers published reports of her engagement to the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII, who was serving in Italy in 1918. There was no basis for these rumors, but they were resurrected in 1919 when Yolanda joined her mother Elena of Montenegro, sister Princess Mafalda of Savoy, and the Duchess of Aosta (Princess Hélène of Orléans) on a visit to Paris, where the prince happened to be at the same time.
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Quarrell played a key role during the '30s in the development of women's sports in South Australia, making it her business to speak up within an industry reluctant to cover the topic. As an active sportswoman herself, she provided diverse and learned insight into the motivation, commitment, efforts and achievements of sports throughout South Australia. Her work in the media highlighted the plethora of opportunities for women to be involved in sport from grassroots to international levels in a variety of roles and capacities. Quarrell used her work to protest against and ridicule the paternalism of sport's governing bodies and helped women's sports to become self-governing.
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In December, David won the inaugural Asian Sportswoman of the Year, beating more than 100 competitors who represented 25 sporting bodies. In 2008, David won ten tour titles and was unbeaten. David completed her most successful year to date, retaining her Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Open title for the third successive year in November to bring her 2008 WISPA World Tour title total to ten, extending her unbeaten Tour record since October 2007 to 53 matches. David celebrated her second full calendar year as world number one in the December Women's World Squash Rankings thus bringing her reign at the top of women’s squash to 30 straight months.
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The Sherwood Swimming Baths in Adlington's hometown of Mansfield, where she began swimming as a child, was renamed the Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre when it reopened after refurbishment in January 2010. The Yates Bar in Mansfield was renamed the Adlington Arms in her honour, although it soon reverted to its original name. In November 2008, Adlington was named as the Sports Journalists' Association's Sportswoman of the Year, receiving her trophy at a ceremony in the City of London from the Princess Royal, herself a former winner of that award. On 14 December 2008, she was voted third in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
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That was her fourth Olympic gold medal, making her the most successful female skier in the history of the Olympic Games. This record was set on 18 February 2006, only half an hour after Norway's Kjetil André Aamodt, winner of the men's super-G, became the first Alpine skier in men's competition to win four Olympic gold medals. She also became the first alpine skier to win the "Sportswoman of the Year" award at the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2006, in part for her accomplishment of winning races in each discipline during the year. Due to recurring injuries, Kostelić has not competed since the conclusion of the 2006 season.
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Rachel Morris (born 25 April 1979) is a British Paralympic sportswoman who has won Paralympic gold medals in both cycling and rowing. She took a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics as a handcyclist, and eight years later at Rio she won gold in the women's single sculls as a rower. She lost both her legs to Complex regional pain syndrome and cycles, in part, to manage the pain. She was born in Guildford, Surrey. Morris won two gold medals at the 2007 World Para-cycling Championships in Bordeaux, France; she won the time trial and road race events in the women's category B races.
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Simone Nagina Forbes (born 20 June 1981) is a Jamaican sportswoman, having represented Jamaica in no less than five sports, including netball, volleyball, basketball, football and softball. Forbes played netball with Jamaica U21 in 1998, before making her debut with the Jamaica national netball team the following year.2003 Netball World Championships: Player profile – Simone Forbes . Retrieved on 2009-10-19. She continued with the national team, winning bronze medals at two Netball World Championships (2003 and 2007) and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games; she also won a silver medal at the inaugural 2009 World Netball Series, followed by another bronze in 2010 World Netball Series.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's tenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1968, although it had previously competed in four editions under the name Zaire. Four athletes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, two per gender, were selected to the team across three different sports (athletics, judo, and taekwondo – the nation's sporting debut in Rio Janeiro) at the Games. Taekwondo fighter Rosa Keleku, the only qualified sportswoman of the team, served as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
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Hodges won numerous at regional level at the Central American and Caribbean Championships and Central American and Caribbean Games, including back-to-back victories in the individual 100 metres and relay at the championships in 1979 and 1981. She was the 100 m champion at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1978 – a feat for which she was chosen as the Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year. Her 100 m personal best of 11.14 seconds (a former Jamaican record) was set at that meet. She ran collegiately in the United States for Texas Woman's University and won the 100 m at the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women championships.
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The Standard, August 19, 2007: Humble Bosibori to keep tradition She is used to competing barefoot.Japan Times, August 29, 2007: Worlds notebook; Day 4 She won the Most Promising Sportswoman of the Year category at the 2007 Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year awards.SOYA Awards - 2007 winners She was coached by Dan Muchoki till 2007, after started to be followed by the Italian coach Renato Canova, when went under the management of Gianni Demadonna.IAAF: August 4, 2007: Focus on Africa - Ruth BOSIBORI In 2009, she improved her personal best to 9:13.16, winning at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final by a margin of seven seconds.
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In her first Winter Olympics for Hungary in 2014, Miklós finished 16th in the super combined and 7th in the downhill, achieving the country's best result in any Olympic alpine race, beating all skiers from Austria, the most successful nation in alpine skiing at the Olympics. The result also made her the top Hungarian sportswoman at the Games. She set a new personal best in World Cup competition with a fifth place in a downhill at Crans-Montana in 2014. She gained her first World Cup podium, also Hungary's first, with a third-place finish in a downhill at St. Moritz in January 2015.
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Her heart is set at ease by her husband's assurance that he is not horny, as Black Horse is. The couple adore their daughter, Tiantian, a tomboyish girl who dresses like a little boy, acts like one (being constantly engaged in ball games with the other kids in the neighbourhood), and is the unofficial leader of the group. She has a habit of confiding in her little diary, aspires to go to the Sports School and wants to be a professional sportswoman when she grows up. She has seen movies like Kungfu Soccer and Kung Fu Dunk umpteen times, and in her attempt to copy the moves, always gets herself injured.
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Hammon's prolific scoring for the Colorado State Rams made her an All-American three times, as well as Colorado Sportswoman of the Year. She led her team to a 33–3 record in the 1998–99 season and helped them advance to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet Sixteen. She was named the WAC Mountain Division player of the year for the 1998–99 season and surpassed University of Utah player Keith Van Horn as the WAC's all-time leading scorer. Hammon set many Colorado State all-time records, including points (2740), points per game (21.92), field goals made (918), free throws made (539), three-point field goals made (365) and assists (538).
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In 1939 the banquet began an annual tradition of naming the region's "Sportsman of the Year" and in 1999 the "Sportswoman of the Year". In recent decades all charitable contributions raised by the banquet go to the Boys and Girls club of Western Pennsylvania, which directly funds activities and equipment for nearly 7,000 youths annually. The organization also presently sponsors the annual Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic. Previous fundraisers included the occasional Dapper Dan Open golf tournament in the 1930s and 1940s, World Heavyweight Titles hosted at Forbes Field in the 1950s and 1960s and the Roundball Classic hosted at the Civic Arena from 1965 until the 1980s.
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On March 21, 1967, he was shot in Santo Domingo while traveling with Marino García, in an attempted assassination made by the late dictator Trujillo's supporters. He survived by driving himself to a medical clinic. On February 15, 1970, the Dominicana de Aviación flight wherein his sister Aída Imbert Barrera, his wife Guarina Tessón Hurtado, and his daughter, sportswoman Leslie Imbert Tessón, were travelling, crashed into the Caribbean Sea. He was Minister of Defense of the Dominican Republic from 1986 to 1988 (period in which he held the rank of Lieutenant General as incumbent of Defense); earlier that decade, his second-cousin Mario Imbert McGregor was also Minister of Defense.
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Linda Dawn McEachrane (born September 7, 1983) is a former swimmer from Trinidad and Tobago, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a 2004 USA Freshman Swimmer of the Year, and is named 2002 National Sportswoman of the Year by the Trinidad & Tobago Olympic Committee. McEachrane is also a former varsity swimmer for Tulane Green Wave, and a business graduate at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (2006). McEachrane qualified for the women's 100 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by posting a FINA B-standard entry time of 58.00 from a TTOC sanctioned time trial in Port of Spain.
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A number of UT Austin alumni have found success in professional sports. Seven-time Cy Young Award-winner Roger Clemens entered the MLB after helping the Longhorns win the 1983 College World Series. Several Olympic medalists have also attended the school, including 2008 Summer Olympics athletes Ian Crocker '05 (swimming world record holder and two-time Olympic gold medalist) and 4 × 400 m relay defending Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards '06. Mary Lou Retton (the first female gymnast outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title, five-time Olympic medalist, and 1984 Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year) also attended the university.
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Activity centre for artistic gymnastics The sport club, founded in 1888, has already managed to make a mark at national and international levels. The artistic gymnastics squad won many German championship titles in the 1970s and 1980s under coach Marianne Reimann. The highlight of the successes was the regional 1983 Sportswoman of the Year title earned by Niederwörresbach gymnast Heike Schwarm, along with her squad, which was recognized as Team of the Year. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, SV Niederwörresbach – the sport club – furnished West Germany with one third of its squad in the persons of Heike Schwarm and Angela Golz.
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Born to Brian and Bunny Foxhoven, Danielle was raised in Littleton, Colorado. She attended and played for J.K. Mullen High School in Denver, where she received several honors and awards during her time. Foxhoven was named the High School Athletic Association Player of the Year in 2006 and 2007, Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News Player of the Year in 2007, Colorado Sportswoman of the Year for Soccer in 2007 and 2008, NSCAA Youth All-America Team as a junior and senior, All-Centennial League First Team each season she played, and a 2008 Parade Magazine All-American. Foxhoven helped lead her team to 5A State Championship in 2007.
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Pippa Funnell, MBE, is a leading equestrian sportswoman in three- day eventing. In 2003 she became the first person and currently the only person to win eventing's greatest prize, the Rolex Grand Slam of eventing (consecutive wins at Kentucky, Badminton Horse Trials and Burghley Horse Trials). As part of the British team, she won a silver medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, a bronze medal at the 2002 World Equestrian Games and silver again at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Pippa Funnell is a trustee of the horse charity, World Horse Welfare, and the work of the charity features throughout the Tilly's Pony Tails books.
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While still a teenager, Adams was a finalist at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics and the 2004 Summer Olympics. At national level, she has won fifteen shot put titles at the New Zealand Athletics Championships between 2001 and 2018, as well as having a hammer throw national title in 2003. Adams also won four times at the Australian Athletics Championships between 2004 and 2008. From 2006 to 2012 she was chosen as the New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year seven times consecutively and has been awarded the Lonsdale Cup on five occasions in recognition as the leading national athlete in an Olympic sport.
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Kudryavtseva was also awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance, which saw her receive $5,000, a statue by Swiss artist Jean-Pierre Gerber and a watch. In 17–19 October, Kudryavtseva traveled in Tokyo for the 2014 Aeon Cup, representing team Gazprom (together with teammates Margarita Mamun and junior Veronika Polyakova) won the team gold. She won the All-around silver in the finals behind teammate Margarita Mamun. Kudryavtseva was one of the finalist for the 2015 SportAccord Awards in category of the Sportswoman of the Year 2014, along with Geva Mentor (GBR, Netball), Kaillie Humphries (CAN, Bobsleigh) and Marit Bjørgen (NOR, Cross Country Skiing).
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Boulden represented Wales from the age of 13 and had one of the most successful amateur careers in Welsh golfing history, including part in winning a record three Home Internationals (2008, 2009 and 2013). She represented Europe in Junior Ryder Cup and Junior Solheim Cup, and represented Great Britain & Ireland in the 2011 Astor Trophy, the 2012 Curtis Cup, plus 2011 and 2013 Vagliano Trophy. Individually, Boulden was Welsh Girls Champion (2008), Scottish Open Amateur Champion (2012), Welsh Open Amateur Stroke Play Champion (2013) and English Open Amateur Stroke Play Champion (2013), and was runner up at the 2010 Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship. She was named BBC Wales Young Sportswoman of the Year 2008.
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Junie Sng Poh Leng, (; born 6 June 1964) is a former Singaporean swimmer. She was a three-time double winner of the SNOC Sportswoman of the Year and the Sportsgirl of the Year awards in 1978, 1979 and 1980. Sng was awarded the Public Service Star for her contributions to sports in 1982. She was ranked seventh in a list of Singapore's 50 Greatest Athletes of the Century by The Straits Times in 1999. At the age of 11, Sng first represented Singapore at the 1975 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, where she won a gold and silver medal. In March 1977, she set a national record with a time of 4:39.9 in the 400-meter freestyle.
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She was nominated as one of the recipients for the Malaysian prestigious sport award Anugerah Sukan Negara for Sportswoman of the Year in 2006 and 2012. She was part of the Malaysian women's bowling team which received the 2017 Team of the Year award at the 2017 Malaysian National Sports Awards. Esther claimed her third Asian Games gold medal and her first Asian Games gold medal since 2006 in the women's trio event at the 2018 Asian Games. This also ultimately became the first gold medal for Malaysia at the 2018 Asian Games and also was the first Asian Games gold medal in bowling for Malaysia at the Asian Games since 2006.
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Burcu Pirinçci, aka Burcu Dindar, (born February 8, 1990) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for İzmir BB GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the center back position. Burcu Pirinçci married in 2013 to Hasan Dindar, a goalkeeper of the Yeni Bornovaspor football team. She played for Anadolu University SK between 2005 and 2008 before she transferred to İzmir BB GSK. She took part in the Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cups (2005–06, 2011–12 and 2012–13), Women's EHF Cup (2006–07, 2009–10 and 2010–11) as well as Women's EHF Challenge Cup (2007–08, 2008–09, 2014–15 and 2015–16).
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Francesca Vincenti (born July 1, 1965 in Malta) is a former windsurfer. She held the National Championship title from 1983 to 1986. Vincenti has been decorated as Malta's Sportswoman of the Year for 1985 and 1986, and ranked among the top 10 at World, European and Pre-Olympic championships. Amongst her titles, Vincenti won the 1985 pre-Olympic International Spa Regatta in the Netherlands, which also made her Dutch National Champion. She was crowned Mistral Freestyle World Champion in 1986, placed 3rd in the international Bermuda Cup in 1984, was 6th in the Sailboard World Championship 1983, held 3rd place in the Giro d'Italia 1983 and 1984 (a two-week, point-to-point, long-distance race around Italy).
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Married to the marquis Ambrogio Negrone (with whom she had a son, Vittorio), she was the first Italian woman to obtain (in 1933) a pilot's license from the Reale Unione Nazionale Aeronautica (RUNA). A keen sportswoman (swimming, ski, tennis), she preferred flying, an activity that at the time was mainly practised by men, the intended interpreters of the manly dynamism encouraged by Futurism and Fascism. On 5 May 1934, she established her first personal record by flying at an altitude of 5,544 metres with a Class C seaplane. Following this achievement and with the support of her friend Italo Balbo, she decided to attempt to beat Maryse Hilsz's world record of 11,289 metres.
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Chrissie Wellington was named the 2009 Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year at an awards ceremony on 23 November 2009, ahead of Jessica Ennis and Victoria Pendleton in an online public vote. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours for services to ironman triathlons and promoted to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to sport and charity. In December 2010, having previously awarded her the University's Sporting Achievement Award in 2007, the University of Birmingham granted her an honorary doctorate "as a tribute to her work in both her passions: sport and international development".
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Elisa ("Elly") Maria van Hulst (born 9 June 1959) is a former middle distance runner from the Netherlands. She competed in the 800 m and 1500 m events at the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1500 m and 3000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics; her best achievement was ninth place in the 3000 m in 1988. During her career she set one world record, on 4 March 1989 at the 1989 European Indoor Championships in Athletics in the 3000 m event (8:33.82), as well as three national records: in the mile (1986, 4:22.40), 1500 m (1987, 4:03.63) and 3000 m (1988, 8:33.97). In 1989 she was named Dutch Sportswoman of the Year.
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Halimahton was born in the Kampung Baru area of Kuala Lumpur in 1920.John Victor Morais (1973) Who's who Malaysia & Guide to Singapore, p102 She was educated at the Methodist Girls' School and later studied domestic science in Cambridge. She married Mohamad Baba, while her sister Ton Puan married Ghazali Shafie, who later served as a minister.Secret of success of an envoy's wife The Straits Times, 19 August 1963 A keen sportswoman, she played hockey and badminton.Onn Defends Malay Women The Straits Times, 28 January 1949Malay women make history The Straits Times, 27 April 1949 Entering political activism, Halimahton organised a women's protest against the proposed Malayan Union during a visit by British officials in 1946.
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She currently ranks third in the history of the U.S. national team for international caps (276) and first for career assists (144). Twice named FIFA World Player of the Year in 2001 and 2002, Hamm and her teammate Michelle Akers were hailed by Pelé as two of FIFA's 125 greatest living players when he included them in the FIFA 100 to celebrate the organization's 100th anniversary. Hamm was named U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year five years in a row and won three ESPY awards including Soccer Player of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year. The Women's Sports Foundation named her Sportswoman of the Year in 1997 and 1999.
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During the layoff due to her shoulder surgery, sensing the fleeting nature of a professional athlete's career, Sharapova decided to focus on developing her name as a brand, beginning with meeting with her sponsors more extensively to further her brand. In January 2010, it was announced that Sharapova had renewed her contract with Nike, signing an 8-year deal for $70 million. This is the most lucrative deal ever for a sportswoman, dwarfing the previous record, which was Venus Williams' $43 million deal with Reebok. Following in the footsteps of tennis players who started clothing lines such as Fred Perry and René Lacoste, Sharapova launched her own tennis apparel line, the Nike Maria Sharapova Collection, in 2010.
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A skiing accident in Austria in 2005 resulted in a broken vertebra, rendering Brießmann a paraplegic. She went back to track and field athletics, winning the German national championship in the shot put with a throw of . In athletics she had a Disability sport classification of T55. In the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) world rankings her shot put throw of ranked her fifth in the world; her in discus put her in eighth place; and in the javelin with she was ranked eleventh. Einhausen named her their Sportswoman of the Year in 2009. However, T55 classification events were dropped from the track and field program for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
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The award was expanded to include New Zealand Sportswoman of the year, New Zealand Team of the year, Sky Sport Coach of the year, Emerging Talent and Halberg Disability Sport Foundation Disabled Sportsperson of the Year awards, as well as the Lion Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the Sport New Zealand Leadership Award and an award for New Zealand's Favourite Sporting Moment. The award was eventually renamed in Murray Halberg's honour, and since then the supreme award has been known as the Halberg award. The Awards help the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation to raise funds, which are then used to enhance the lives of physically disabled young people, their families and communities, by enabling them to participate in sport.
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Kraushaar was arrested in May 1940 and detained by the French authorities at the Gurs internment camp in the south of the country. Fellow internees included Irene Wosikowski and , exiled German communists who had been based with Kraushaar in France ever since the three women had been sent to Paris from Moscow at the end of 1935. The three were able to team up together at the internment camp where, as Kraushaar subsequently recalled, Irene Wosikowski, a committed sportswoman, organised other internees to become more physically active whether they liked it or not. Their stay in the camp was brief, however, as by the end of June 1940 had escaped to Toulouse.
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Cuthbert competed for her native country of Jamaica in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain, in both the 100 meter sprint and the 200 meter sprint in which she won the silver medals in both competitions, finishing behind the Americans Gail Devers and Gwen Torrence respectively. After running a good second leg in the 4 x 100 meter sprint relay final, Cuthbert injured a muscle in her leg - before she competed in the second chance and dropped out of the race. This was a disappointing finish to the Summer Olympic Games for her and the other women of the Jamaican relay team. In 1992, Cuthbert was also voted as the Jamaican "Sportswoman of the Year".
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Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille (left) and opera singer Emmy Krüger, 1933 Photo Annemarie Schwarzenbach Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille on a horse, Luzern, 1933 Photo Annemarie Schwarzenbach Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille (1883 in Thun, Switzerland – 1959 in Konstanz) was the daughter of Swiss General Ulrich Wille. She was a granddaughter of German diplomat Count Friedrich Wilhelm Bismarck (1783-1860) on her mother's side, and of novelist Eliza Wille (1809-1893) on her father's side. She was an equestrian sportswoman competing in main show jumping events in Switzerland and Germany, including the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. She is also known for her detailed photographic family diary, and as the mother of novelist, travel literature writer and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach.
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Lady Lettice Mildred Mary Ashley-Cooper was born on 12 February 1911,Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 the daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury and Constance Sibell Grosvenor. In 1936 her name was linked with the name of Edward VIII as a possible future wife; the King had declared that the future queen had to be "English, good, beautiful and a sportswoman", and the newspaper identified four names: Lady Anne Hope, daughter of the viceroy of India, Lady Mary Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster, Lady Angela Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sister of the Duchess of Gloucester, and Lady Lettice Ashley-Cooper.
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She was subsequently stripped of the medal after testing positive for the anabolic steroid turinabol in a doping re-test. After missing the 2009 season to have a child, Tereshchuk returned in 2010 and finished second in that year's mixed relay event at the World Championships in Chengdu, China, in addition to placing 16th in the individual competition. In 2011, she came in third at the European Championships before winning three medals at the World Championships in Moscow: gold in the individual and mixed relay events and bronze in the three- member team relay. As World Champion, she qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, was named Ukrainian Sportswoman of the Year, and was awarded the Order of Princess Olga in the Second Class.
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British National Road Race Champion's jersey in the 2010 Flèche Wallonne Féminine, a race she won on three occasions, 2003, 2005 & 2006. Cooke was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. She was awarded the Transworld Sport "Female Athlete of the Year" title in recognition of her achievements in 2008. She was also awarded the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year award. In June 2009 Cooke captured the Giro del Trentino title and won her tenth British National Road Race Championships title. After Cooke's Vision1 Cycling Team finished 7th in the 2009 UCI Team Rankings, Cooke closed the team after being unable to attract a major sponsor as the financial crisis of 2007–2008 hit.
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In 1995, Jing represented Singapore at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, where she took second behind Hong Kong's Chai Po Wa, and at the 1995 Southeast Asian Games. At the Southeast Asian Games, she won the singles and mixed doubles events, and came in second in the women's doubles event. Jing represented Singapore in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she competed in the Women's singles event. She swept her group, winning all three of her matches (against Kim Hyang-Mi, Xu Jing, and Petra Cada), but exited in the round of 16 after losing to China's Qiao Hong. For her Olympic performance, one of the best to that point in Singapore's history, Jing was named 1997 Sportswoman of the Year.
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Descendants of the Pingrees lived in the home until 1976. (It is also known as the Parker/Mills House.) The Acorns The Acorns Metamora (1931) Client: Gail Stephens Kinard Style: Log Lodge, Swiss Chalet Gail Stephens (Kinard), a "wealthy Detroit sportswoman" whose father was lumber baron Henry Stephens, hired Keyes to build "a magnificent lodge named 'The Acorns' in the quiescent hills of Metamora, far from the hustle and bustle of the motor city." Described as a "costly Norwegian hunting lodge," "an elaborate rural retreat" and a "palatial country estate," the building is constructed of large logs on the main floor and timber framing with board-and-batten exterior on the upper floor. Ornate murals reference the 19th-century Great Camps and Swiss chalet style of architecture.
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Following her spell at Krim, Farkas gave up professional handball and joined Vasas SC as goalkeeping coach. However, after a serious knee ligament injury of Győri ETO KC's first choice goalkeeper Orsolya Herr just before the 2006 EHF Cup Winners' Cup finals, she was reactivated and signed by the Western Hungarian team for the decisive two matches. Győr eventually lost the duel with an aggregate score of 51–48 and Farkas resumed to her coaching duties. During her time at Vasas, Farkas coached among others Žaneta Tóthová, who became the best sportswoman in Slovakia during this period, and Ágnes Triffa, who was given the Hungarian Junior Handball of the Year award in 2005 and made her full international debut in 2006.
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Gunpo's most famous resident is Yuna Kim, a 2010 Olympic champion and 2014 Olympic silver medalist in Ladies' singles figure skating. Born in Bucheon in 1990, Kim moved to Gunpo when she was six years old and later attended Suri High School. Widely regarded by Koreans as a hero and a national treasure, Kim was also cited as a hero by many of the younger figure skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics and was named the 2010 sportswoman of the year by the Women's Sports Foundation. Kim's agency, All That Sports, formally asked Gunpo to halt the development of a "Kim Yuna Street" in 2011, and in 2012 distanced the skater from a controversial statue of her that the city was attempting to erect without her knowledge.
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On August 13, 1934, Moscow sportswoman Nina Kámneva made a record parachute jump. She left the plane at an altitude of 3,000 m and opened a parachute 200 m from the ground. On September 20, 1934, in the newspaper of the Defense Society, On Guard, published the standards of the complex "Ready for Air Defense and Chemical Defense". On November 19, 1935, the Presidium of the Central Council of Osoaviakhim approved the Regulation on the primary organization of Osoaviakhim. In the summer of 1936, the Central Council of Osoaviakhim, taking into account the massive nature of the work on passing the standards "Ready for Air Defense and Chemical Defense", introduced the standards "Ready for Air Defense and Chemical Defense" of the 2nd class.
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Josette Andriot was a French film actress of the silent film era, best known for playing the role of Protéa in the series of espionnage films made between 1913 and 1919. She was born Camille-Élisa Andriot on 23 August 1886, in Paris (20e), the fifth of six children whose father was a dyer and their mother a florist. (Her youngest brother Lucien Andriot [1892-1979] became a noted cinematographer.) She joined the Éclair studios as an actress first in 1909, and then from 1911 she made around 60 films exclusively for that studio. She had no theatrical training, and the skills that she brought to the film studio were those of an accomplished sportswoman in riding, cycling, and swimming.
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In 1952 it established the annual Sportsman of the Year (Sportaš godine) and Sportswoman of the Year (Sportašica godine) awards for notable achievements in Yugoslav sports, selected by the jury of sports journalists from around the country. In 1990 it also began presenting awards for Men's Sports Team of the Year (Momčad godine) and Women's Sports Team of the Year (Ekipa godine) for notable achievements in Croatian team sports. In 1999 it was acquired by Europapress holding publishing company and since 2001 it is regularly published on Sundays. Later that year the Sportske Novosti Footballer of the Year award for the best football player in the world as voted by some of the world's top coaches and players was established.
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Masai's national record stood for less than a year, since in June 2009 Florence Kiplagat posted 30:11.53 in Utrecht, the Netherlands In August 2009, Masai narrowly defeated Meselech Melkamu of Ethiopia in the final of the 10,000 metres at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Athletics held in Berlin, Germany. The reigning 10000 metres Olympic and world champion Tirunesh Dibaba was sidelined due to injury. She was also awarded the Race Results Weekly Female Runner of the Year award and the Kenyan Sportswoman of the Year award in 2009. She began the buildup to her 2010 World Cross Country campaign with wins at the Cross Internacional Valle de Llodio and Cross Internacional de Soria, beating the rest of the field by some distance both times.
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Founded by Alicia Patterson and her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the publication was first produced on September 3, 1940 from Hempstead.Arlen, A., Arlen, M.J. The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016) For many years until a major redesign in the 1970s, Newsday copied the Daily News format of short stories and numerous pictures. (Ironically, Patterson was fired as a writer at her father's Daily News in her early 20s, after getting the basic facts of a divorce wrong in a published report.) After Patterson's death in 1963, Guggenheim became publisher and editor. In 1967, Guggenheim turned over the publisher position to Bill Moyers and continued as president and editor-in- chief.
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From this experience came his book A l'ombre d 'Angkor; notes et impressions sur les temples inconnus de l'ancien Cambodge (In the Shadow of Angkor: Notes and Impressions on the Unknown Temples of Ancient Cambodia). In June 1914, Groslier enlisted in the French army and was employed as a balloonist in the early part of World War I. It was during this time that he met and married sportswoman Suzanne Cecile Poujade; they eventually had three children. He was ultimately reassigned to French Indochina because of his knowledge of the Khmer language. Upon his arrival in Phnom Penh in May 1917, he was charged with a new mission: to found a new Cambodian art museum and organize a school of Cambodian arts.
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In preparation of the Olympic Wintergames of 1960 she went to Davos with the ladies of the unified German team and broke the multi-combination world record in Davos, Switzerland. With the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, she won, as the first German speed skater and as the first sportswoman of the GDR, a gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games, the gold medal over 500 m. That medal also was the first Olympic medal for any woman in speed skating, as it was not before on the Olympic program. She also won the silver medal over 1000 m and finished at a respectable 8th place over 1500 m, and all of this despite the prohibition of the entry for her husband/coach.
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Ariella Käslin (anglicised Kaeslin; born 11 October 1987) is a Swiss former artistic gymnast. She won all five gold medals at the 2007 Swiss National Championships,"Käslin Counting Down to Beijing" John Crumlish, International Gymnast, November 12, 2007 and has represented Switzerland at the World Championships in 2007, 2006 and 2005, and was a medalist on the World Cup circuit. Käslin represented Switzerland at the 2008 Olympics, where she placed 18th in the individual all-around final and 5th in the vault event final. In 2008, 2009 and 2010, Käslin was voted by the Swiss public as "Swiss Sportswoman of the Year"; only cyclist Tony Rominger (1992, 1993, 1994) had previously achieved three consecutive "Sportsman of the Year" awards in Switzerland.
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Since then, she had obtained a total of ten national championship titles, and won fourteen medals (ten golds, a silver, and three bronzes) in twenty international tournaments between 1992 and 2001. Moreover, Baidya became a quarterfinalist in the women's flyweight class at the 1995 World Taekwondo Championships in Manila, Philippines, and accepted several prestigious awards for her full dedication to the sport, including three as the sportswoman of the year by Nepal Sports Journalist Forum (1996, 1997, and 2003). Holding her distinction of becoming the nation's first ever taekwondo squad, Baidya qualified for the Nepalese squad in the women's flyweight class (49 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Earlier in the process, she placed third and booked her place on the Nepalese team from the Asian Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Miriam Rothschild was born in 1908 in Ashton Wold, near Oundle in Northamptonshire, the daughter of Charles Rothschild of the Rothschild family of Jewish bankers and Rózsika Edle Rothschild (née von Wertheimstein), a Hungarian sportswoman, of Austrian Jewish descent.Naomi Gryn, Rothschild, Dame Miriam, Jewish Women Encyclopedia, retrieved 3 March 2012 Her brother was Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild and one of her sisters (Kathleen Annie) Pannonica Rothschild (Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter) would later be a bebop jazz enthusiast and patroness of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker. Her father had described about 500 new species of flea, and her uncle Lionel Walter Rothschild had built a private natural history museum at Tring. By the age of four she had started collecting ladybird beetles and caterpillars and taking a tame quail to bed with her.
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As an amateur, Bodén was Swedish Junior National champion twice, and a member of the Swedish national team 1995–2000, representing her country in two World Amateur Team Championships, the 1998 and 2000 Espirito Santo Trophy. Bodén played golf at Oklahoma State where she qualified individually for the NCAA Women's Golf Championship three years running. A first-team All-American in 1999 and 2000, and three times Big-12 player of the year, she joined a group of only eight Cowgirls to earn at least three All-Big 12 selections, including Linnea Johansson, Caroline Hedwall, Pernilla Lindberg, Karin Sjödin and Linda Wessberg. Graduating with a degree in Anatomy and Physiology she was an Academic All-American, Oklahoma State Sportswoman of the Year in 2001, and won eight times representing her school.
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In 1994, she was recruited into its athletics program by the Kenya Prisons Service.The Standard, 28 October 2007: Catherine Ndereba: Racing to conquer the world Ndereba was awarded the 2004 and 2005 Kenyan Sportswoman of the Year awards.IAAF, 2 March 2006: Athletes dominate Kenyan Sports Awards She was awarded the Order of the Golden Warrior by President Mwai Kibaki in 2005.Daily Nation, Lifestyle Magazine, 15 November 2008: Fitting tribute to Marathon Queen Ndereba finished seventh at the 2009 London Marathon, equalling Katrin Dorre's record of 21 sub-2:30 hours marathons.IAAF, 27 April 2009: Ndereba matches Dorre’s record total of 21 sub-2:30 marathons She placed third at the Yokohama Women's Marathon later that year, finishing the course in a time of 2:29:13 hours.
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Bradford was born in Bega, New South Wales and grew up in Rubyvale, Queensland where her father, John 'Charles' Bradford, had been involved in the mining industry as a prospector and washing plant owner since approximately 1902. Having been a member of Fitzgerald's circus, Charles with his wife Emily, was also the proprietor of Bradford's Surprise Party Circus and Piano Orchestra which featured members of the Bradford family performing musical and comedy numbers and offering a program of acrobatic and trapeze acts held within their own marque or inside meeting halls throughout Far North Queensland in the early 1900s. May Bradford was an accomplished horse rider, competing in shows and being awarded the fastest time ever recordered by a man or woman for hunt riding on the Brisbane Showground in 1920. She was also an expert rifle shot and sportswoman.
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The couple later divorced. In the 1980 Moscow games, Ottey became the first female English-speaking Caribbean athlete to win an Olympic medal. Back in Jamaica, she was awarded an Officer of the Order of Nation, and the Order of Distinction for 'services in the field of sport'. In the 1982 Commonwealth Games, Ottey won a gold medal in the 200 m and silver medal in the 100 m. Nearly a decade later, in the 1990 Commonwealth Games, she won gold in both events. Ottey was named Ambassador of Jamaica after her gold medal win in the 1993 world championships. She has also been named Jamaican Sportswoman of the year 13 times between 1979 and 1995. Throughout her career, she has won nine Olympic medals, which ties with Allyson Felix for the most by any woman in track and field history .
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Sportske novosti was founded in 1945 and it first began awarding the Yugoslav Sportsman of the Year and Yugoslav Sportswoman of the Year awards in 1950 for greatest achievements in Yugoslav sports. The award, one of several Yugoslav national-level sporting awards, was given every year between 1950 and 1990, when it was discontinued due to the breakup of Yugoslavia. In 1952, the newspaper had launched a parallel award for Croatian athletes which honored best sporting achievements by sportsmen and sportswomen hailing from SR Croatia (1952–90) and later independent Croatia (1990–present). Winners of both the defunct Yugoslav awards and the present-day Croatian awards are selected through a poll of sports journalists from around the country who are members of the Croatian Association of Sports Journalists (Hrvatski zbor sportskih novinara), which was itself established in 1949.
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In 2009, she was shortlisted for the International Hockey Federation's World Player of the Year Award and has been named in the FIH World All Stars Team three times, in 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2009 and 2010 she was named as Player of the Year by the Hockey Writers' Club In 2009, 2011 and 2016 she was awarded the Majorie Pollard Salver, making her the first player to receive the award three times. In 2009, she was named as the BOA Athlete of the Year by Great Britain Hockey. Following her Gold Medal success Richardson-Walsh has received various awards and accolades from her home city of Nottingham, including; Nottingham City Transport naming a bus after her, local Brewery 'Magpie Brewery' creating a guest ale 'Golden Hels' in her honour and receiving The Nottingham Sportswoman of the Year Award.
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Upon the outbreak of World War I Holmes was appointed as consultant neurologist to the British Expeditionary Forces. Working with his neurosurgical colleague Percy Sargent (1873–1933) in a field hospital they had set up, he had a unique opportunity for the investigation of the effects of lesions in specific regions of the brain on balance, vision and bladder function. While in France, Holmes met his future wife, Dr Rosalie Jobson, an Oxford graduate and an international sportswoman, to whom he subsequently proposed marriage while rowing on the Thames. Holmes' observations on gunshot wounds re-awakened his interest in cerebellar disease; this culminated in his classical analysis of the symptoms of cerebellar lesions which were published in his Croonian Lectures to the Royal College of Physicians in 1922, where he added more cases of gunshot wounds to his 1st World War experience as well as patients with cerebellar tumours.
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" In December 2011, Summitt was honored as the Sports Illustrated sportswoman of the year. As the 2011-12 season progressed, the team and the fans recognized that it was likely to be Summitt's last year coaching, and Ann Killion of Sports Illustrated called it "heart-wrenching to witness" when Warlick broke down in tears at the end of the regular season. In March, John Adams wrote in the Knoxville News Sentinel that it would be "too much to ask” of Summitt and her staff to go through another season, and David Climer wrote in The Tennessean that it was time for Summitt to retire. Alt URL On April 18, 2012, after the Lady Vols lost to the unbeaten eventual champion Baylor Lady Bears in the Elite Eight in Des Moines, Summitt stepped down as head coach, ending her 38-year coaching career at age 59.
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Hamm was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation in 1997 and 1999. In June 1999, Nike named the largest building on their corporate campus after Hamm. In December 2000, Hamm was named one of the top three female soccer players of the twentieth century in the FIFA Female Player of the Century Award, finishing behind only Sun Wen and compatriot Michelle Akers. While at North Carolina, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top female soccer player in both 1993 and 1994, and won the Honda-Broderick Cup in 1994 as the nation's top female athlete. In March 2004, Hamm and former U.S. teammate Michelle Akers were the only two women and Americans named to the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players, selected by Pelé and commissioned by FIFA for the organization's 100th anniversary.
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After becoming the first freshman in school history to lead Texas in scoring and being named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year, Daniel Gibson entered the 2006 NBA draft and was selected in the second round by the Cleveland Cavaliers. In his one year at Texas, golfer Jordan Spieth led the University of Texas Golf club to the NCAA Men's Golf Championship in 2012 and went on to win The Masters Tournament three years after leaving the university. Several Olympic medalists have also attended the school, including 2008 Summer Olympics athletes Ian Crocker '05 (swimming world record holder and two-time Olympic gold medalist) and 4 × 400 m relay defending Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards '06. Mary Lou Retton (the first female gymnast outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title, five-time Olympic medalist, and 1984 Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year) also attended the university.
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Henzi qualified for the Swiss squad, along with her teammate and European junior champion Nathalie Schneitter, in the women's cross-country race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving one of the nation's two available berths for her team from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), based on her best performance at the World Cup series and Mountain Biking World Rankings. She successfully completed a 4.8-km sturdy, treacherous cross-country course with a career-high, sixth-place effort in 1:48:41, narrowly missing out the Olympic podium by more than two seconds. Shortly after the Olympics, Henzi established herself again as the top female cyclist by surpassing her teammate Esther Süss for another gold medal at the second and final stage of the Nissan UCI MTB World Cup in Ornans, France. Because of her continuous triumphs and a more profound dedication to the sport, Henzi was officially nominated to be the Swiss Sportswoman of the Year, but did not reach the final shortlist.
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Ellyse Alexandra Perry (born 3 November 1990) is an Australian sportswoman who has represented her country in cricket and association football, debuting for both the national cricket team and the national soccer team at the age of 16. Perry is the youngest Australian to play international cricket and the first to have appeared in both ICC and FIFA World Cups. Gradually becoming a single- sport professional athlete from 2014 onward, Perry's acclaimed cricket career has continued to flourish and she is now widely considered to be one of the greatest female players ever. A fast-medium all-rounder, Perry's mastery of both batting and bowling disciplines is reflected in several statistical achievements—she was the first player to amass a combined 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in T20Is, she holds the record for the highest score by an Australian woman in Test matches (213 not out), and she became just the third player to claim 150 wickets in women's ODIs.
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Camille du Gast (Marie Marthe Camille Desinge du Gast, Camille Crespin du Gast, 30 May 1868 – 24 April 1942) was one of a trio of pioneering French female motoring celebrities of the Belle Epoque, together with Hélène de Rothschild (Baroness Hélène van Zuylen) and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart the (Duchess of Uzès).Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart (French, Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart), Duchess of Uzès, with Camille du Gast was the first women to hold driving licenses in 1897, and alone was the first woman to be ticketed for speeding in 1898 (15 km/h instead of 12 km/h), and the first woman 'lieutenant de louveterie' (Wolfcatcher Royal) in 1923. Du Gast was known as "one of the richest and most accomplished widows in France," and as an accomplished sportswoman—a balloonist, parachute jumper, fencer, tobogganist, skier, rifle and pistol shot, horse trainer—as well as a concert pianist and singer. She was the second woman to compete in an international motor race.
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Her breakthrough year was 2006. On 24 March 2006 she won the women's 800 m event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a time of 1 minute, 57.88 seconds. She managed to beat veteran runner Maria de Lurdes Mutola of Mozambique. Later same year she won African Championships in Athletics at the 800 m event. She also beat Kenyan 800 m women's record twice. Jepkosgei was awarded the 2006 Kenyan Sportswoman of the Year award.The Standard 23 February 2007 Kipchirchir, Jepkosgei named Soya winners Jepkosgei made Kenyan History on 28 August 2007, where she won gold in the World Championship 800 m final in Osaka, becoming the first female Kenyan middle distance runner to achieve gold over 800 m. She led from start to finish to win in a time of 1 minute, 56.04 seconds, beating the Kenyan record and world leading time (1.56,18) she had set at the heats two days earlier.
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Courtney Hill (born 9 January 1987) is an Australian sportswoman who played cricket as a pace bowler for Queensland Fire and Brisbane Heat, before moving sports and countries to play rugby league for Leeds Rhinos Nicknamed "Corker" because her younger sister had difficulty pronouncing her name as a toddler, Hill was born in Maryborough, Queensland. She was raised in Monto, Queensland, and in Rockhampton, where she also learned to play cricket. In November 2009, Hill made her debut for Queensland Fire. In 2011, she moved to the Sunshine Coast to pursue a career in professional cricket. Injury prevented Hill from having much of an impact on the 2011–12 Women's National Cricket League season. The following summer, she had limited opportunities due to competition from other pace bowlers, but still played five of the eight WNCL matches and nine of the 12 T20s. In 2013–14, she enjoyed more success, taking wickets in both series at averages of 29.33 and 18.42 respectively. Hill was a member of the Brisbane Heat squad since its inaugural WBBL01 season (2015–16).
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Haide Klüglein (born 1939) is a female German swimmer, who is starting for the Flensburger Schwimmklub (Flensburg swimming club).Swimcharts.de (german) The multiple holder of swimming-records in Schleswig-Holstein (as of 2014),AK Rekordliste 5000 m Schleswig-Holsteinischer Schwimmverband (german) German Champion (in 2011 and in 2013 over 2,5 kilometres Open water swimming)Am Samstag beginnen die Masters Deutscher Schwimm-Verband (german)Haide Klüglein gewinnt DM-Gold Flensburger Schwimmklub (german) and German Vicechampion (in 2005 over 400 and 800 metres freestyle swimming)Uwe W. Schroeder: Aus der Geschichte des Flensburger Schwimmklubs von 1930 e.V. Flensburger Schwimmklub (german) as well as eight times World Championship-competitor (as of 2014)Super-WM-Auftritt in Montréal, Flensburger Schwimmklub (german) reached her biggest successes on long distances in Open water swimming of the Masters, which Klüglein usually completes with two short distances. Before every competition in Open water swimming the exceptional sportswoman is in the habit of checking the official given water temperature by her own thermometerSchnellste ist die Langsamste In Schwäbische Zeitung (german) – the German Swimming Federation dictates in general at German Championships at least 16 °C.
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Katalin Kovács (born 29 February 1976) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed in the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics and won eight medals, with three golds (K-2 500 m: 2004, 2008, K-4 500 m: 2012) and five silvers (K-2 500 m: 2000, 2012, K-4 500 m: 2000, 2004, 2008). Kovács also won a record 40 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships including 30 golds (K-1 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009; K-1 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009; K-2 200 m: 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011; K-2 500 m: 2005, 2006; K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2006; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011; K-4 1000 m: 2006), six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 2010, K-4 200 m: 2007, 2009, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998, 2007), and three bronzes (K-1 500 m: 2001, K-1 1000 m: 1999, K-2 500 m: 1999). She was elected Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year in 2002 and 2003.
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The GDR politicised its athletic achievements in its fight for recognition as an independent country and for the right to field its own teams at future Olympic Games. Following that, Enderlein was part of the delegation to the Women's Congress in Berlin from 25 to 27 June 1964.ND 10 June 1964, p. 5. Enderlein luged at the FIL World Luge Championships 1965 on 6 and 7 February in Davos and won her first World Championship title with an advantage of over one second after four heats, ahead of Petra Tierlich, Ilse Geisler and Barbara Winter.ND 8 February 1965, p. 4. A week later at the 1965 GDR Championships in Oberhof she won with a one-second advantage ahead of Petra Tierlich and Ilse Geisler, despite disqualification in the second heatonly two of the three heats were counted.ND 15 February 1965, p. 4. Because of her consistent achievements, Enderlein was ranked third in the vote for East German Sportswoman of the Year, behind Hannelore Suppe and Gabriele Seyfert.ND 24 December 1965, p. 8. The 1966 Luge Championships on the Spießbergbahn in Friedrichroda was cancelled due to föhn winds and the associated thaw; there were also no national championships that year.
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OBE ribbon In the 2001 New Year Honours, Lewis was promoted to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), having already been appointed MBE in the 1999 New Year Honours. In 2000, she was also presented with the Freedom of the City of Wolverhampton. In 2010, Lewis was inducted into the Wolverhampton Sporting Hall of Fame, while in 2011, she was then inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame. In 2013, Lewis was honoured at the annual Wolverhampton Famous Sons & Daughters Awards ceremony. In 2014, she was presented with an honorary degree from the University of Wolverhampton. With Dame Kelly Holmes, Christine Ohuruogu and Paula Radcliffe, Lewis enjoys acclamation as one of the "golden girls" of British athletics and, in 1998 and 2000 has been runner up in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. In 2003, Lewis was put forward as a candidate in the BBC Midlands great midlander of all-time award but lost out to eventual winner Reginald Mitchell the inventor of the Supermarine Spitfire. Lewis was voted "Sportswoman of the Year" by the Sports Journalists' Association (SJA) in 1997, 1998 and 2000, a joint-record three times, while also being named as runner up in 1996.
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