Sports Archives - Infinite Women

Kathy Whitworth

At nineteen she joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour. Over the next fifteen years, she received the LPGA Player of the Year Award seven times.

Painter Gertrude Fiske was a co-founder of the Guild of Boston Artists in 1914 and the Boston Society of Etchers in 1917. She was also the first woman named to the Massachusetts Art Commission, as well as a successful golfer.

Cleone de Hevengham Benest

British motorist, engineer and metallurgist

Camille du Gast

Daredevil sportswoman, animal rights activist and feminist in Belle Epoque Paris

Winnie Drinkwater

Scotswoman Winnie Drinkwater was a very well-known pilot and engineer in the 1930s.

Lettice Curtis

Pioneering British commercial pilot and aeronautical engineer.

Sabiha Gürayman

Turkey’s first woman engineer

Kittie Knox

A biracial woman and a bicyclist, Kittie Knox (1874-1900) braved barely-paved Boston streets as well as discrimination by the all-white (and predominantly male) bicycle clubs. As a competitive cyclist, she designed a bicycle-riding outfit for women that included knickerbockers pants.

Helen Johns

Helen Johns won a gold medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics at just 17.

Eleanor Prentiss Creesy

With her husband, she sailed around the world. In 1851, they decided to race several other ships sailing from New York to San Francisco aboard the clipper Flying Cloud. They broke the previous record by eleven days.