List of sportswomen

This is a list of female athletes, alphabetical by the last name (originally or most commonly known). For specific groupings, see Category:Sportswomen.

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Sasha Cohen

• Estella Agsteribbe, Olympic gymnastics champion (team combined exercises)
• Michelle Akers soccer
• Amy Alcott, World Golf Hall of Fame
• Josée Auclair
• Mao Asada
• Yael Averbuch, soccer
• Angela Bailey
• Oksana Baiul, figure skater, Olympic champion and World Champion
• Ann Bancroft
• Valery Belenky, Olympic gymnastics champion (team combined exercises)
• Joan Benoit Samuelson
• Kajsa Bergqvist
• Sue Bird, US, WNBA 5' 9" point guard, 2x Olympic champion, 4x All-Star (Seattle Storm)
• Bonnie Kathleen Blair Speedskater
• Shannon Boxx
• Susan Butcher
• Ann Calvello
• Zefania Carmel, world champion yachtsman
• Brandi Chastain Soccer
• Jennifer Capriati
• Sasha Cohen, US, figure skater, reigning US Figure Skating Champion & Olympic silver
• Rebekah Colberg
• Nadia Comăneci Gymnastics
• Shay Doron, Israel & US, WNBA 5' 9" basketball guard (New York Liberty)

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Sarah Hughes

• Joy Fawcett
• Jennie Finch Softball
• Hagar Finer, WIBF bantamweight boxing champion
• Peggy Gale Fleming Figure Skating
• Vonetta Flowers
• Julie Foudy Soccer
• Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, France, slalom canoer, Olympic bronze (K-1 slalom), 5 golds at ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships (2x K-1, 3x K-1 team)
• Cathy Freeman
• Kim Gevaert
• Missy Giove
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, Olympic 2x gymnastics champion (all-around individual exercises, team combined exercises)
• Janet Guthrie, Race Car driver (first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500)
• Dorothy Stuart Hamill
• Mia Hamm Soccer
• Liz Heaston, first female athlete to play and score in a college football game
• Kelly Holmes
• Sarah Hughes, figure skater, Olympic champion
• Ana Ivanović
• Helen Jacobs, tennis, highest world singles ranking # 1
• Emily Jacobson, US saber fencer
• Sada Jacobson, US saber fencer, ranked # 1 in the world, Olympic silver
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• Shawn Johnson
• Malia Jones
• Marion Jones Track and Field

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Giselle Kañevsky

Helene Mayer

Morgan Pressel

• Giselle Kañevsky, Argentina, field hockey Olympic bronze
• Ágnes Keleti, 5x Olympic gymnastics champion (2-time floor exercises, asymmetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam, team exercise with portable apparatus)
• Kim Yu-Na, figure skater
• Billie Jean King Tennis
• Ilana Kloss, tennis doubles, highest world doubles ranking # 1
• Olga Korbut Gymnastics
• Lily Kronberger, figure skater, 4x World Champion, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame
• Daniela Krukower, World Judo Champion
• Michelle Kwan Ice Skating
• Debbie Lee
• Nancy Lieberman, Hall of Fame basketball
• Kristine Lilly Soccer
• Lisa Leslie Basketball
• Nancy Lieberman, US, WNBA player, general manager, & coach, Olympic silver, Hall of Fame
• Tatiana Lysenko, 2x Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises)
• Shannon MacMillan
• Kate Markgraf
• Ann Penelope Marston
• Helene Mayer, foil fencer, Olympic champion
• Maria Mazina, épée fencer, Olympic champion
• Tiffeny Milbrett
• Cheryl Miller Basketball
• Heather Mitts
• Shirley Muldowney Dragracing Driver
• Elena Myers Motorcycle racer
• Leah Neuberger, 29x US table tennis champion
• Heather O'Reilly
• Ellen Osiier, Denmark (foil), Olympic champion fencer
• Cindy Parlow
• Candace Parker Basketball
• Danica Patrick Race Car Driver
• Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion
• Ellen Preis, Austria (foil), 3x world champion fencer (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17x Austrian champion
• Irina Press, 2x Olympic champion (80-m hurdles & pentathlon)
• Tamara Press, 6 world records (shot put & discus); 3x Olympic champion (2x shot put & discus)
• Judit Polgár
• Ellen Preis, foil fencer, Olympic champion and 3-time world champion
• Morgan Pressel, US, LPGA Tour golfer
• Cat Reddick
• Mary Lou Retton Gymnastics
• Manon Rhéaume Hockey
• Stephanie Rice Swimming
• Libby Riddles
• Bobbie Rosenfeld, runner & long jumper, world record (100-yard dash); Olympic champion (4x100-m relay)
• Keena Rothhammer, Olympic swimming champion (800-m freestyle) and world champion (200-m freestyle); International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Emilia Rotter, pair skater, 4x World Champion
• Angelica Rozeanu, 17x table tennis world champion, Hall of Fame
• Wilma Glodean Rudolph
• Paula Radcliffe
• Angela Ruggiero Hockey

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Irina Slutskaya

Dara Torres, 4x Olympic champion swimmer

• Briana Scurry
• Monica Seles Tennis
• Maria Sharapova
• Yelena Shushunova, 2x Olympic gymnastics champion (all-around, team)
• Anna Sipos, 11x world table tennis champion, Hall of Fame
• Irina Slutskaya, figure skater, 2x World Champion
• Annika Sörenstam
• Sheryl Swoopes Basketball
• Helen Stephens
• Éva Székely, Olympic swimming champion (200-m breaststroke); International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Irena Szewińska, sprinter & long jumper, world records (100-m, 200-m, and 400-m); 3x Olympic champion (4x100-m, 200-m, 400-m)
• Dara Torres, 4x Olympic champion (400-m freestyle relay, 4x100-m freestyle relay twice, 4x100-m medley relay)
• Aly Wagner
• Grete Waitz
• Abby Wambach
• Joan Weston
• Fatima Whitbread
• Michelle Wie Golf
• Venus Williams Tennis
• Serena Williams Tennis
• Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi Figure Skating
• Joanna Zeiger, triathlete, Ironman 70.3 World champion; world record (half ironman)

See also

• Women's sports
• Women's National Team
• Women's professional sports
• Major women's sport leagues in North America
• International Women's Sports Hall of Fame
• Category:Women's association football
• Women's football around the world (lists FIFA women's national teams and others)
• Women's Soccer
• United States women's national soccer team
• Women's Australian rules football
• All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players
• Category:Women's National Basketball Association
• List of female American football players