• Estella Agsteribbe
  Estella Agsteribbe
  Estella "Stella" Agsteribbe was a Dutch gymnast. She won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in her native Amsterdam.She was Jewish...
  
  , Olympic gymnastics champion (team combined exercises)
• Michelle Akers
  Michelle Akers
  Michelle Akers is a former leading American association football player, who starred in the historic 1991 and 1999 Women's World Cup victory by the U.S.. She won the Golden Boot as the top scorer in the 1991 tournament...
  
   soccer
• Amy Alcott
  Amy Alcott
  Amy Alcott is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1975, and won five major championships and 29 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame....
  
  , World Golf Hall of Fame
• Josée Auclair
  Josée Auclair
  Josée Auclair is a Canadian explorer.She lives with her husband Richard Weber and their two sons, Tessum and Nansen in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. Josée started cross-country skiing at the age of ten and competing at fourteen...
  
  
• Mao Asada
  Mao Asada
  is a Japanese figure skater.She is the 2010 Winter Olympic silver medalist, the 2008 & 2010 World champion, the 2008 & 2010 Four Continents champion, a two-time Grand Prix Final champion, the 2005 World Junior champion, the 2004–2005 Junior Grand Prix Final champion and a four-time Japanese...
  
  
• Yael Averbuch
  Yael Averbuch
  Yael Friedman Averbuch is an American soccer midfielder currently playing for Western New York Flash of Women's Professional Soccer, and is a member of the United States women's national soccer team....
  
  , soccer
• Angela Bailey
  Angela Bailey
  Angela Bailey is a former Canadian track and field athlete.-Career:Angela Bailey is the current Canadian Record Holder in the 100 metres. She holds the record in a time of 10.98 seconds. At the time that record gave her a ranking of fourth in the world...
  
  
• Oksana Baiul
  Oksana Baiul
  Oksana Serhiyivna Baiul is a Ukrainian professional figure skater. She is the 1994 Olympic Champion in Ladies' Singles and 1993 World Champion.-Early and personal life:...
  
  , figure skater, Olympic champion and World Champion
• Ann Bancroft
  Ann Bancroft
  Ann Bancroft is an American author, teacher, and adventurer. She was the first woman to successfully finish a number of arduous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.-Biography:...
  
  
• Valery Belenky
  Valery Belenky
  Valery Vladimirovich Belenky is a retired Soviet/Azerbaijani/German artistic gymnast who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 1996 Summer Olympics.He is Jewish, and was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR....
  
  , Olympic gymnastics champion (team combined exercises)
• Joan Benoit Samuelson
• Kajsa Bergqvist
  Kajsa Bergqvist
  Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003,...
  
  
• Sue Bird
  Sue Bird
  Suzanne Brigit "Sue" Bird is an American professional women's basketball player for the Seattle Storm and WBC Spartak Moscow Region....
  
  , US, WNBA
  Women's National Basketball Association
  The Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association...
  
   5' 9" point guard, 2x Olympic champion, 4x All-Star (Seattle Storm
  Seattle Storm
  The Seattle Storm is a professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2000 season began...
  
  )
• Bonnie Kathleen Blair  Speedskater
• Shannon Boxx
  Shannon Boxx
  Shannon Boxx is an American soccer midfielder currently playing for magicJack of Women's Professional Soccer and is a member of the United States women's national soccer team....
  
  
• Susan Butcher
• Ann Calvello
  Ann Calvello
  Ann Theresa Calvello was a U.S. athlete and notable personality in the sport of roller derby.Ann Calvello graduated from Presentation High School in San Francisco, CA in June 1947....
  
  
• Zefania Carmel
  Zefania Carmel
  Zefania Carmel was an Israeli yachting world champion.-Yachting career:As teammates on Israel’s Zevulun Bat-Yam Club, the two won the Israeli Championship in 1966 in the 420-Class, and topped an international field of competition in the same event on New York’s Hudson River in August 1967.Carmel...
  
  , world champion yachtsman
• Brandi Chastain
  Brandi Chastain
  Brandi Denise Chastain is a professional American soccer defender and midfielder who plays for the team California Storm of Women's Premier Soccer League and is a former member of the United States women's national soccer team....
  
    Soccer
• Jennifer Capriati
  Jennifer Capriati
  Jennifer Marie Capriati is a former world number one ranked professional tennis player, and the winner of three women's singles championships in Grand Slam tournaments. Capriati made her professional debut in 1990 at the age of 14 when she reached the finals of the hard court tournament in Boca...
  
  
• Sasha Cohen
  Sasha Cohen
  Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen is a U.S. figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World Championship medalist, the 2003 Grand Prix Final Champion, and the 2006 U.S. Champion.-Personal life:...
  
  , US, figure skater, reigning US Figure Skating Champion & Olympic silver
• Rebekah Colberg
  Rebekah Colberg
  Dr. Rebekah Colberg ,Dates of birth and death were provided and confirmed by the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee-August 24, 2010 is known as "The Mother of Women's Sports in Puerto Rico".-Early years:...
  
  
• Nadia Comăneci
  Nadia Comaneci
  Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer...
  
    Gymnastics
• Shay Doron
  Shay Doron
  Shay Doron is an Israeli professional basketball player in the Israeli league. She plays for Elitzur Ramla.-Biography:Doron was born in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, to Yehuda and Tamari Doron...
  
  , Israel & US, WNBA 5' 9" basketball guard (New York Liberty
  New York Liberty
  The New York Liberty is a professional basketball team based in New York City, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was one of the eight original franchises of the league...
  
  )

F-J

• Joy Fawcett
• Jennie Finch
  Jennie Finch
  Jennie Lynn Finch , who occasionally uses her husband's surname Daigle, is a former American softball player who pitched for the USA national softball team and the Chicago Bandits. Finch helped lead Team USA to the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics...
  
   Softball
• Hagar Finer
  Hagar Finer
  -Biography:Hagar Finer was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 15, 1984. She took up martial arts at the age of 13 and became the Israeli karate champion for her age group. At 17, she switched to boxing at the urging of her coach, Raanan Tal.-References:...
  
  , WIBF bantamweight boxing champion
• Peggy Gale Fleming  Figure Skating
• Vonetta Flowers
  Vonetta Flowers
  Vonetta Flowers is an American bobsledder and athlete. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team...
  
  
• Julie Foudy  Soccer
• Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi
  Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi
  Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi is a French slalom canoer who competed from the 1980s to the late 1990s.-Career:She is Jewish...
  
  , France, slalom canoer, Olympic bronze (K-1 slalom), 5 golds at ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
  ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
  The ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships are an international event in canoeing organized by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships have taken place every year in non-Summer Olympic years since 2002. From 1949 to 1999, they had taken place in odd-numbered years...
  
   (2x K-1, 3x K-1 team)
• Cathy Freeman
  Cathy Freeman
  Catherine Astrid Salome "Cathy" Freeman, OAM is former Australian sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame.Freeman was the first ever Aboriginal...
  
  
• Kim Gevaert
  Kim Gevaert
  Kim Gevaert is a former sprint athlete from Belgium.-Career:Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics...
  
  
• Missy Giove
  Missy Giove
  Melissa "Missy" Giove is a former professional downhill mountain biker. Her nickname is The Missile.Giove was one of mountain-bike racing's first mainstream female superstars, did some ads for Reebok, is the all-time leader in NORBA downhill wins with 14, and is second on the World Cup list with 11...
  
  
• Maria Gorokhovskaya
  Maria Gorokhovskaya
  Maria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya was a Ukrainian gymnast. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, she won seven medals, the most medals won by any woman in a single Olympics....
  
  , Olympic 2x gymnastics champion (all-around individual exercises, team combined exercises)
• Janet Guthrie
  Janet Guthrie
  Janet Guthrie is a retired professional race car driver and the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500....
  
  , Race Car driver (first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500
  Indianapolis 500
  The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, also known as the Indianapolis 500, the 500 Miles at Indianapolis, the Indy 500 or The 500, is an American automobile race, held annually, typically on the last weekend in May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana...
  
   and Daytona 500
  Daytona 500
  The Daytona 500 is a -long NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is one of four restrictor plate races on the Cup schedule....
  
  )
• Dorothy Stuart Hamill
• Mia Hamm
  Mia Hamm
  Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm is a retired American soccer player. Hamm played many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team and was a founding member of the Washington Freedom. Hamm has scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female,...
  
    Soccer
• Liz Heaston
  Liz Heaston
  Elizabeth "Liz" Heaston Thompson is an American athlete who is the first woman ever to score in a college football game. She accomplished this feat on October 18, 1997 as a placekicker for the Willamette University Bearcats, which was competing in the National Association of Intercollegiate...
  
  , first female athlete to play and score in a college football
  College football
  College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
  
   game
• Kelly Holmes
  Kelly Holmes
  Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
  
  
• Sarah Hughes
  Sarah Hughes
  Sarah Elizabeth Hughes is an American figure skater. She is the 2002 Olympic gold medalist and 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies singles.-Personal life:...
  
  , figure skater, Olympic champion
• Ana Ivanović
  Ana Ivanovic
  Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open...
  
  
• Helen Jacobs
  Helen Jacobs
  Helen Hull Jacobs was a World No. 1 American female tennis player who won ten Grand Slam titles. She was born in Globe, Arizona, United States.- Tennis career :...
  
  , tennis, highest world singles ranking # 1
• Emily Jacobson
  Emily Jacobson
  Emily Phillipa Jacobson is an American sabre fencer.-Background:Jacobson is a daughter of David Jacobson, a member of the 1974 U.S. National fencing team in saber and also a former Yale fencer, and Tina Jacobson, who has also fenced competitively.She is the younger sister of fellow U.S...
  
  , US saber fencer
• Sada Jacobson
  Sada Jacobson
  Sada Molly Jacobson is an American fencer. Her hometown is Dunwoody, GA. She is the 2008 Olympic Individual Sabre silver medalist and 2004 Olympic Individual Sabre bronze medalist. She has been training at Nellya fencers from a young age.-Background:Jacobson is a daughter of David Jacobson, a...
  
  , US saber fencer, ranked # 1 in the world, Olympic silver
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner-Kersee is a retired American athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the women's heptathlon as well as in the women's long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in those four different events...
  
  
• Shawn Johnson
  Shawn Johnson
  Shawn Machel Johnson is an American artistic gymnast. She was the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and all-around, and floor exercise silver medalist, the 2007 all-around World Champion, and the 2007 and 2008 U.S. all-around champion...
  
  
• Malia Jones
  Malia Jones
  Malia Jones is a model and surfer.- Life and career :Jones was born in Loma Linda, California, although she returned to Kailua, Hawaii, at the age of two. Jones is of Hawaiian, Spanish-Filipino, German and English descent . She began to surf competitively in her early teens, and at age 15 won the...
  
  
• Marion Jones
  Marion Jones
  Marion Lois Jones , also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA...
  
    Track and Field

K-R

• Giselle Kañevsky, Argentina, field hockey Olympic bronze
• Ágnes Keleti
  Ágnes Keleti
  Ágnes Keleti is a retired Hungarian artistic gymnast. The winner of 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, she is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time. She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-Career:Keleti is Jewish, and...
  
  , 5x Olympic gymnastics champion (2-time floor exercises, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam, team exercise with portable apparatus)
• Kim Yu-Na, figure skater
• Billie Jean King
  Billie Jean King
  Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society...
  
    Tennis
• Ilana Kloss
  Ilana Kloss
  Ilana Sheryl Kloss is a former professional tennis player and the commissioner of World Team Tennis.-Tennis career:Kloss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Before turning professional, in 1972 she won the Wimbledon juniors singles title. In 1974 she won U.S...
  
  , tennis doubles, highest world doubles ranking # 1
• Olga Korbut
  Olga Korbut
  Olga Valentinovna Korbut , also known as the Sparrow from Minsk, is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team....
  
    Gymnastics
• Lily Kronberger
  Lily Kronberger
  Lily Kronberger , also spelled Lili Kronberger, was a Hungarian figure skater competitive during the early years of modern figure skating...
  
  , figure skater, 4x World Champion, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame
• Daniela Krukower
  Daniela Krukower
  Daniela Yael Krukower is a former judoka from Israel who represented Argentina since 1999.-Biography:...
  
  , World Judo Champion
• Michelle Kwan
  Michelle Kwan
  Michelle Wingshan Kwan is an American figure skater. She is a two-time Olympic medalist, a five-time World champion and a nine-time U.S...
  
    Ice Skating
• Debbie Lee
• Nancy Lieberman
  Nancy Lieberman
  Nancy Elizabeth Lieberman , nicknamed "Lady Magic", is a former professional basketball player who played and coached in the WNBA.Lieberman is regarded as one of the greatest figures in women's basketball....
  
  , Hall of Fame basketball
• Kristine Lilly
  Kristine Lilly
  Kristine Marie Lilly Heavey is a retired American soccer player who last played for Boston Breakers of Women's Professional Soccer and was a member of the United States women's national soccer team for 24 years...
  
  
• Lisa Leslie
  Lisa Leslie
  Lisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood is a former American professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner...
  
    Basketball
• Nancy Lieberman
  Nancy Lieberman
  Nancy Elizabeth Lieberman , nicknamed "Lady Magic", is a former professional basketball player who played and coached in the WNBA.Lieberman is regarded as one of the greatest figures in women's basketball....
  
  , US, WNBA player, general manager, & coach, Olympic silver, Hall of Fame
• Tatiana Lysenko
  Tatiana Lysenko
  Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko is a Soviet and Ukrainian gymnast, who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994.She is Jewish. Tatiana was known for her exceptional difficulty level and haughty style on the floor...
  
  , 2x Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises)
• Shannon MacMillan
  Shannon MacMillan
  -References:...
  
  
• Kate Markgraf
  Kate Markgraf
  Kate Markgraf , is an American soccer defender and was a member of the U.S. women's national team.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ann Penelope Marston
  Ann Penelope Marston
  Ann Penelope Marston was an unrivaled archery champion prior to her death from stroke, caused by complications of diabetes, at age 32. She was the U.S.A. National Archery Champion from 1949-1960....
  
  
• Helene Mayer
  Helene Mayer
  Helene Mayer was a world champion Olympic fencer who competed for Nazi Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics, despite having been forced to leave Germany and resettle in the United States because she was of Jewish family background.She was Jewish, and was born in Offenbach am Main.-Fencing...
  
  , foil fencer, Olympic champion
• Maria Mazina
  Maria Mazina
  Maria Mazina is a Russian women's épée fencer.-Fencing career:Mazina began fencing at the age of 12.Mazina, who is Jewish, is a 5-time world women's épée champion.-Olympics:She won a team bronze medal in the 1996 Olympics...
  
  , épée fencer, Olympic champion
• Tiffeny Milbrett
• Cheryl Miller  Basketball
• Heather Mitts
  Heather Mitts
  Heather Blaine Mitts Feeley is an American professional soccer player who is a defender in the Women's Professional Soccer league. Mitts played college soccer for the University of Florida, and thereafter, she has played professionally for the Philadelphia Charge, Boston Breakers, Philadelphia...
  
  
• Shirley Muldowney
  Shirley Muldowney
  Shirley Muldowney , also known professionally as "Cha Cha" Muldowney and the "First Lady of Drag Racing", is a pioneer in professional auto racing. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association to drive a top fuel dragster...
  
    Dragracing Driver
• Elena Myers
  Elena Myers
  Elena Myers is the first female motorcycle racer to win a race in the 76 year history of American Motorcyclist Association Pro Racing. Myers won Race 1, Round 4 of the 2010 season of the AMA Supersport Championship at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California on 15 May 2010...
  
   Motorcycle racer
• Leah Neuberger
  Leah Neuberger
  Leah Thall-Neuberger , nicknamed Miss Ping, was an American table tennis player.Leah Thall-Neuberger was ranked the # 3 table tennis player in the world in 1951.-Table tennis career:...
  
  , 29x US table tennis champion
• Heather O'Reilly
  Heather O'Reilly
  Heather Ann O'Reilly , also known by her initials HAO, is a member of the United States women's national soccer team and a two-time Olympic Gold medalist...
  
  
• Ellen Osiier
  Ellen Osiier
  Ellen Osiier was a Danish foil fencer.At the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, women’s fencing made its debut as Osiier won the gold medal at the age of 33 without losing a single bout....
  
  , Denmark
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
  
   (foil), Olympic champion fencer
• Cindy Parlow
• Candace Parker
  Candace Parker
  Candace Nicole Parker is an All-American basketball player for the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks and is also the younger sister of NBA player Anthony Parker. She was drafted to the team from Tennessee in 2008...
  
    Basketball
• Danica Patrick
  Danica Patrick
  Danica Sue Patrick is an American auto racing driver, model and advertising spokeswoman. She is the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel racing, being the only woman to win in the IndyCar Series as well as holding the highest finish by a woman at the Indianapolis 500 of 3rd...
  
    Race Car Driver
• Zhanna Pintusevich-Block
  Zhanna Pintusevich-Block
  Zhanna Pintusevich-Block is a sprinter who has competed in the Olympic Games....
  
  , sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion
• Ellen Preis
  Ellen Preis
  Ellen Müller-Preis, née Preis, was an Austrian foil fencer. She was born in Berlin, Germany.In 1949, she was named Austrian female athlete of the year.-Fencing career:...
  
  , Austria (foil), 3x world champion fencer (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17x Austrian champion
• Irina Press
  Irina Press
  Irina Natanovna Press was a Ukrainian athlete.-Career:Press was Jewish. She won two Olympic gold medals for the USSR team, in 80 m hurdles and pentathlon...
  
  , 2x Olympic champion (80-m hurdles & pentathlon)
• Tamara Press
  Tamara Press
  Tamara Natanovna Press is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960s.-Career:Press is Jewish. She competed for VSS Trud...
  
  , 6 world records (shot put & discus); 3x Olympic champion (2x shot put & discus)
• Judit Polgár
  Judit Polgár
  Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.Polgár was ranked No...
  
  
• Ellen Preis
  Ellen Preis
  Ellen Müller-Preis, née Preis, was an Austrian foil fencer. She was born in Berlin, Germany.In 1949, she was named Austrian female athlete of the year.-Fencing career:...
  
  , foil fencer, Olympic champion and 3-time world champion
• Morgan Pressel
  Morgan Pressel
  Morgan Pressel is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the LPGA Tour. She turned pro at age 17 and is the youngest-ever winner of a modern LPGA major championship. Pressel has reached as high as fourth in the world rankings....
  
  , US, LPGA Tour golfer
• Cat Reddick
• Mary Lou Retton
  Mary Lou Retton
  Mary Lou Retton is an American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist. She was the first female gymnast from outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title, after 14 Eastern Bloc countries boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.-Personal life:Retton was born in Fairmont, West...
  
    Gymnastics
• Manon Rhéaume
  Manon Rhéaume
  Manon Rhéaume is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender. An Olympic silver medalist, she achieved a number of historic firsts during her career, including becoming the first and only woman ever to play in a National Hockey League exhibition game.In 1992 Rhéaume signed a contract with the Tampa Bay...
  
    Hockey
• Stephanie Rice
  Stephanie Rice
  Stephanie Louise Rice OAM is an Australian swimmer. She currently holds the world record in the 400 m women's individual medley, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Rice is trained by Michael Bohl from the St Peters Western Swimming Club in Brisbane...
  
    Swimming
• Libby Riddles
  Libby Riddles
  Libby Riddles is an American dog musher, noteworthy as the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.Riddles was born in Madison, Wisconsin to Willard and Marry Riddles, and moved to Alaska just before her 17th birthday. Her first race was the Clines Mini Mart Sprint race in 1978, when...
  
  
• Bobbie Rosenfeld
  Bobbie Rosenfeld
  Fanny Rosenfeld was a Canadian athlete, who earned a gold medal for the 400 metre relay and a silver medal for the 100 metre at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She was called the "best Canadian female athlete of the half-century" and a star at basketball, hockey, softball, and tennis...
  
  , runner & long jumper, world record (100-yard dash); Olympic champion (4x100-m relay)
• Keena Rothhammer
  Keena Rothhammer
  Keena Rothhammer is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States. She is Jewish....
  
  , Olympic swimming champion (800-m freestyle) and world champion (200-m freestyle); International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Emilia Rotter, pair skater, 4x World Champion
• Angelica Rozeanu
  Angelica Rozeanu
  Angelica Rozeanu was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin, and one of the most successful female table tennis players in the history of the sport.-Table tennis career:...
  
  , 17x table tennis world champion, Hall of Fame
• Wilma Glodean Rudolph
• Paula Radcliffe
  Paula Radcliffe
  Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE is an English long-distance runner. She is the current women's world record holder in the marathon with her time of 2:15:25 hours...
  
  
• Angela Ruggiero
  Angela Ruggiero
  Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice...
  
   Hockey

S-Z

• Briana Scurry
  Briana Scurry
  Briana Colette Scurry is a retired American soccer goalkeeper. Scurry was the starting goalkeeper for the United States women's national soccer team at the 1995 World Cup , 1996 Olympics , 1999 World Cup , 2003 World Cup , 2004 Olympics and 2007 World Cup...
  
  
• Monica Seles
  Monica Seles
  Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...
  
    Tennis
• Maria Sharapova
  Maria Sharapova
  Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...
  
  
• Yelena Shushunova
  Yelena Shushunova
  Yelena Lvovna Shushunova is a Russian gymnast, World, European, and Olympic Champion. Shushunova is renowned for her dynamic vaulting and tumbling skills as well as her longevity and exceptional consistency...
  
  , 2x Olympic gymnastics champion (all-around, team)
• Anna Sipos
  Anna Sipos
  Anna Sipos was a Hungarian table tennis player. She won 21 medals in the World Table Tennis Championships.-Table Tennis Career:Sipos won 11 gold medals in World Championships...
  
  , 11x world table tennis champion, Hall of Fame
• Irina Slutskaya, figure skater, 2x World Champion
• Annika Sörenstam
  Annika Sörenstam
  Annika Sörenstam is a Swedish-American professional golfer whose achievements rank her as one of the most successful golfers in history. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she won 90 international tournaments as a professional, making her the female golfer...
  
  
• Sheryl Swoopes
  Sheryl Swoopes
  Sheryl Denise Swoopes is an American professional basketball player who, subsequent to being waived into free agency, signed to re-join the WNBA to play with the Tulsa Shock in 2011. She was the first player to be signed in the WNBA when it was created. She has won three Olympic Gold Medals and...
  
    Basketball
• Helen Stephens
  Helen Stephens
  Helen Herring Stephens was an American athlete, a double Olympic champion in 1936.Stephens, nicknamed the 'Fulton Flash' after her birthplace Fulton, Missouri, was a strong athlete in sprint events - she never lost a race in her entire career - but also in weight events like the shot put and...
  
  
• Éva Székely
  Éva Székely
  Éva Székely is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. She won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics....
  
  , Olympic swimming champion (200-m breaststroke); International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Irena Szewińska
  Irena Szewinska
  Irena Szewińska is a retired Polish Jewish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events....
  
  , sprinter & long jumper, world records (100-m, 200-m, and 400-m); 3x Olympic champion (4x100-m, 200-m, 400-m)
• Dara Torres
  Dara Torres
  Dara Grace Torres is an American international swimmer and a twelve-time Olympic medalist. Torres was the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympic Games , and, at age 41, the oldest swimmer ever to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team...
  
  , 4x Olympic champion (400-m freestyle relay, 4x100-m freestyle relay twice, 4x100-m medley relay)
• Aly Wagner
  Aly Wagner
  Alyson Kay "Aly" Wagner is a former American soccer midfielder who last played for Los Angeles Sol of Women's Professional Soccer. She was a member of the United States women's national soccer team...
  
  
• Grete Waitz
  Grete Waitz
  Grete Waitz was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons between 1978 and 1988, more than any other runner in history...
  
  
• Abby Wambach
  Abby Wambach
  Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach is an American professional soccer player, coach and Olympic gold medalist. A four-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, she has been a regular on the U.S. women's national team since 2003...
  
  
• Joan Weston
  Joan Weston
  Joan Weston or Joanie Weston , known as the "Blonde Bomber", "Blonde Amazon", "Golden Girl", and "Roller Derby Queen", was a U.S...
  
  
• Michelle Wie
  Michelle Wie
  Michelle Sung Wie is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship. Wie would also become the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and the youngest to qualify for a LPGA Tour event...
  
    Golf
• Venus Williams
  Venus Williams
  Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...
  
    Tennis
• Serena Williams
  Serena Williams
  Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...
  
    Tennis
• Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi  Figure Skating
• Joanna Zeiger
  Joanna Zeiger
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  , triathlete, Ironman 70.3 World champion; world record (half ironman)

See also

• International Women's Sports Hall of Fame
• :Category:Women's association football
• Women's football around the world
  Women's football around the world
  Women's association football is played in an increasing number of countries around the world.For international competitions see the article International competitions in women's football.-See also:*Women's football...
  
   (lists FIFA women's national teams and others)
• Women's Soccer
• Women's United Soccer Association
  Women's United Soccer Association
  The Women's United Soccer Association, often abbreviated to the WUSA, was the world's first women's soccer league in which all the players were paid as professionals. Founded in February 2000, the league began its first season in April 2001 with eight teams in the United States...
  
  
• United States women's national soccer team
  United States women's national soccer team
  The United States women's national soccer team represents the United States in international soccer competition and is controlled by U.S. Soccer. The U.S. team won the first ever Women's World Cup in 1991, and has since been a superpower in women's soccer. It is currently ranked first in the world...
  
  
• Women's Australian rules football
  Women's Australian rules football
  Women's Australian rules football is a fast growing sport played at senior level in Australia, United States, England, New Zealand, Canada and Japan. At junior level, it is also played in Papua New Guinea, Argentina and South Africa...
  
  
• All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players
• WNBA
• :Category:Women's National Basketball Association
• :Category:Basketball organizations
• Sports
• Professional sports
  Professional sports
  Professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, are sports in which athletes receive payment for their performance. Professional athleticism has come to the fore through a combination of developments. Mass media and increased leisure have brought larger audiences, so that sports organizations...
  
  
• Women's sports
  Women's sports
  Women's sports include amateur and professional competitions in virtually all sports. Female participation in sports rose dramatically in the twentieth century, especially in the last quarter, reflecting changes in modern societies that emphasized gender parity...
  
  
• Women's National Team
  Women's National Team
  WNT, the acronym for "Women's National Team," applies to all sports and is used by a number of English speaking countries . The term is used within a sport's community when there is only reference to that specific sport...
  
  
• Women's professional sports
  Women's professional sports
  Professional athletes are distinguished from amateur athletes by virtue of being paid. Throughout the world, most top female athletes are not paid, and work full-time or part-time jobs in addition to their training, practice and competition schedules. Women's professional sports organizations defy...
  
  
• :Category:Sportspeople