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This is a list of female athletes by sport. Each section is ordered alphabetical by the last name (originally or most commonly known). For specific groupings, see Category:Sportswomen. Sasha Cohen Ellen van Dijk Hagar Finer Sarah Hughes Giselle Kañevsky Morgan Pressel Irina Slutskaya Dara Torres, 4x Olympic champion swimmer
The first player to reach 100 international goals was Italian Elisabetta Vignotto. Abby Wambach scored 100 goals in 9 years, while Christine Sinclair reached the milestone in just under 10 years while Mia Hamm is the youngest player to score 100 international goals at the age of 26 years 185 days. Most played exclusively in the forward position ...
Footnotes. ^ The overall scoring leader in women's college basketball is Pearl Moore, who scored 4,061 points from 1975–1979, mostly at Francis Marion (now an NCAA Division II program) after briefly playing at a junior college.[ 3] The NAIA leader is Grace Beyer, with 3,961 points at UHSP from 2019–2024.[ 4][ 5][ 6]
The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [250] [251] Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Coleman reportedly ran a 4.12 ...
Women's sports in the U.S. receive only 4 percent of sports media coverage, according to the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sports at the University of Minnesota. In a study of televised sports news, ongoing since 1989, three LA-based stations dedicated, on average, 3.2 percent of their sports coverage to women's sports ...
Serena Williams is the winner of 23 major singles titles, most in the Open Era. Steffi Graf – winner of 22 major singles titles, and the only person to win the Golden Slam (1988). Helen Wills Moody – winner of 19 major titles, the first woman to win more than 10 titles. Chris Evert has won 18 major titles, tied for the fifth most with ...
L. List of All England women's doubles champions. List of Denmark Open women's singles champions. List of Olympic medalists in softball. List of PSA women's number 1 ranked players. List of World Championships medalists in weightlifting (women)
Amateur Era. Lottie Dod was a five-time champion and is the youngest ever winner of the ladies' singles championships (15 years and 285 days). Charlotte Cooper Sterry was a five-time champion and is the oldest ladies' singles champion (37 year and 282 days). Dorothea Lambert Chambers was a seven-time champion between 1903 and 1914.