Sports > Running Archives - Infinite Women

Cathy Freeman

At her home Olympics in 2000, Cathy Freeman was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an individual Olympic gold medal.

Wyomia Tyus

The first person to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100-meter dash.

Rosalie Fish

Rosalie Fish is a Native American woman who fights for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Marla Runyan

Legally blind since childhood, Olympic track and field athlete and marathon runner Marla Runyan never let her vision loss stand in the way of her athletic dreams.

Betty Robinson

American athlete who won the first Olympic 100 meters event for women.

Joan O’Reilly

Irish hockey player, athlete and sports administrator

Bernice Lumley

Identical twins Bernice and Doreen Lumley were well-known athletes from New Zealand.

Doreen Lumley

Identical twins Bernice and Doreen Lumley were well-known athletes from New Zealand.

Japanese track and field athlete Kinue Hitomi held world records in several events in the 1920s and ’30s and was the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic medal, as well as the first woman to represent Japan at the Olympics.

Alice Coachman

Alice Coachman was the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal. Growing up in the segregated South, she overcame discrimination and unequal access to inspire generations of other black athletes to reach for their athletic goals.