Herma Szabo
One of the most decorated figure skaters of all time, the 1924 Olympic champion and a five-time world champion (1922–1926).
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Mevia
Poet Juvenal recounts a tale of a venatrix (hunter) named Mevia who was known for killing Tuscan boars and holding spears “like a man” in her right hand with her breast uncovered.
Helene Hathaway Britton
Helene Hathaway Robison Britton was the first woman to own a Major League Baseball franchise.
Vera Menchik
Vera Menchik astounded the chess world by defeating high-level male opponents in the 1920s and ’30s.
Astrid Gøssel
Astrid Gøssel was a music educator who worked for many years as a movement educator.
Angela Madsen
Angela Madsen was an American Paralympian athlete in both rowing and track and field.
Libby Riddles
Libby Riddles is an American dog musher, who became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 20, 1985.
Alice Greenough Orr
Alice Greenough Orr went from being Montana rancher’s daughter to an internationally renowned rodeo performer and organizer.
“The Oriental Witches”
1960s Japanese national women’s volleyball team, who dominated the 1964 Olympics (the first time volleyball was an Olympic sport)