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First womens singles match played in Wimbledon
Women's singles (originally planned by the London Athletic Club) were added to the Wimbledon championships, but these were not started until after the men's singles had been completed. The first prize for the women was valued at twenty guineas, and the second prize was valued at ten guineas There were thirteen female competitors. Maud Wtson became the first Champion. -
Women compete in paris Olypics
Women took part in the games for the first time and Charlotte Cooper became the first female Olympic champion. They competed in Tennis, Golf and Croquet -
Mdge Syers competes in male figure skating and places secon
She became the first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1902 by entering what was previously an all-male event and won the silver medal, which prompted the International Skating Union (ISU) to create a separate ladies' championship. Syers was the winner of the first two ladies' events in 1906 and 1907, and went on to become the Olympic champion at the 1908 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic Games to include figure skating. -
Women allowed to compete in Swimming
The American Athletic Union Allows women to register to compete in swimming championship. -
Lucy Diggs Slowe
Slowe was also a tennis champion, winning the national title of the American Tennis Association's first tournament in 1917, the first African-American woman to win a major sports title. -
AAU opens track and field to women
AAU was known for being a leader in international sports. It represented the United States during the international sports federations. The AAU worked closely to prepare young athletes for the Olympic Games. The AAU was criticized a lot for women’s sport. People did not agree that women should be able to participate in events involving endurance or speed like running. In 1922, the AAU opens track and field events to women. This makes people outraged. -
Gertrude Ederle
On August 6, 1926, Ederle entered the water at Cape Gris-Nez in France at 7:08 a.m. to make her second attempt at the Channel. The water was predictably cold as she started out that morning, but unusually calm. Twice that day, however--at noon and 6 p.m.--Ederle encountered squalls along her route and Burgess urged her to end the swim. Ederle’s father and sister, though, who were riding in the boat along with Burgess, agreed with Ederle that she should stay the course. Ederle’s father had promis -
All American Girls Baseball
Girls participate in baseball to fill the stands at ballparks. With the war going on at the time women formed their own baseball league that only officially lasted two seasons. -
Alice Coachman
First African Amertican woman to win a gold medal in the olympics. She won the medal in the high jump. Coachman leaped 1.68 m (5 ft 6⅛ in) on her first try. Her nearest rival, Great Britain's Dorothy Tyler, matched Coachman's jump, but only on her second try. Coachman was the only American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics in 1948 -
Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is sometimes referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis" for breaking the color barrier. -
Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph is the first woman to win three Olympic gold medals in track and field at one Olympic Games. -
Title IX
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance... This gave women a better opprotunity to play college sports. -
Billie Jean King
Short Biography on Billie Jean KingIn front of the largest television audience ever to watch a tennis match, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in a contest billed as the "Battle of the Sexes." King's win was a hallmark victory not only for women's athletics but for the equal treatment of women everywhere. -
Nancy Lieberman
Nanancy was a standout babkstball player at Old Dominion University she eventually dropped out of school to persue a basket ball carrer which led her to a men's league called the United States Basketball League (USBL),and also with the Washington Generals,who served as the regular opponent of the Harlem Globetrotters. One of her teammates with the Generals was Tim Cline, whom she married in 1988.
