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Women in Sports

By jlr2007

  • Just Keep Swimming

    Just Keep Swimming
    Sybil Bauer broke the world record for the backstroke. She also won the 1924 Olympic title and set 23 world records.

  • High Flying

    High Flying
    Amelia Earhart flies solo nonstop across the Atlantic. Earhart went on to set a slew of other aviation records, including the first solo flight by a woman across the U.S.

  • Babe

    Babe
    Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias won three medals in the 1932 Olympics. She was often criticized for having a look and the allusions of lesbianism, but became the face of womens athletics.

  • Match Point

    Match Point
    Tennis was a segregated sport however, after Alice Marble, a former number one tennis player, expressed her disagreements to the law and how great of a tennis player Althea Gibson was, Gibson was allowed intry into the 1950 US Championships.

  • Running

    Running
    Wilma Rudolph Wilma Rudolph became the first women to win three gold medals at the Rome Olympic games in track and field.

  • Master of Disguise

    Master of Disguise
    Katherine Switzer became the first woman to officially compete in the country's greatest road race, but she had to crash the all-male party through subterfuge -- she entered as "K.V. Switzer." She finished the race in 4:20.

  • Title IX

    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 subject to discrimination under any education program or activities receiving Federal financial assistance."

  • Battle of the Sexes

    Battle of the Sexes
    Billie Jean King wins the Battle of the Sexes. King defeated Bobby Riggs -- a former Wimbledon champ who is a 5-2 favorite.

  • Hoops

    Hoops
    Ann Meyers became the first women to be drafted for the new Women's Professional Basketball League and was the first women to be excepted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

  • Kicking it

    Kicking it
    The US Women's Soccer team won the 1999 World Cup which gained much respect from not only the USA, but from all around the world.

  • Go Huskies

    Go Huskies
    The University of Connecticut women defeat Oklahoma 82-70 in an NCAA tourney final seen by a record crowd of 29,619 in the Alamodome and 3.5 million fans on cable. They went undefeated their entire season.