Sports Archives - Page 12 of 16

Ina Mabel Lamason

Ina Lamason was a sporting phenomenon. She represented New Zealand at cricket and hockey, was an international hockey umpire and served both sports as an administrator.

Hedwick Wilhelmina McDonald’s greatest achievement as a racehorse trainer does not appear in record books; nor does her real name. She trained the winner of the 1938 Melbourne Cup, but because women were not permitted to be professional trainers in Australia at the time, her husband temporarily took over the role. As for her name, most of her life she was known simply as ‘Granny’.

Dot Simons

In an era when the achievements of women in sport received scant regard from New Zealand newspapers and radio, Dot Simons made the field her own.

Freda Du Faur

Du Faur is significant as the best amateur climber of her day and as the first woman to take up high climbing in New Zealand

Maggie Briggs

New Zealand show-jumper

Beverly Knight

Elected to the board of the Essendon Football Club in 1993, she was the first woman to hold that position at an Australian Football League (AFL) club. Knight is also well know for the leading role she has taken in bringing the work of Aboriginal artists to public notice. She is a former president of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association and helped develop a code of conduct to protect Aboriginal artists from exploitative dealers.

Esther Marion Pretoria James

Esther Marion Pretoria James was remarkable for the diversity of her achievements, and in the 1930s became a national celebrity during a sponsored walk of the length of New Zealand.

Annie Smith Peck

American mountain climber and suffragist

Eve Marion Rimmer

Eve Rimmer was one of New Zealand’s greatest paraplegic athletes, winning 32 medals – including 22 gold medals – for athletics and swimming at international sporting events. A household name during the late 1960s and 1970s, she was also an outspoken advocate for the rights of the disabled in sport and society.

Dora d’Istria

Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer