Katie Gardiner
New Zealand mountaineer
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Freda White
A naturally talented horsewoman, Evelyn Freda White excelled first as a show-jumper and later as a racehorse trainer, but it was for her colourful personality that she was best known in the horse world.
Laurel Campbell
New Zealand racehorse trainer
Isabel Button
New Zealand horse driver, trainer and equestrian
Maria Atkinson
New Zealand pioneer, writer, and the first Pākehā woman to climb Mount Taranaki.
Wanda Rutkiewicz
Accomplished Polish mountaineer
Blanche Thompson
Early 1900s New Zealand sportswoman
Florence Nagle
British dog breeder, horse trainer, and pioneering advocate for the rights of women in the field of animal husbandry.
Mona May Karff
1900s chess champion
Nancy Roos
American chess player who made a significant mark in the chess community during the mid-20th century