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  • Thumbnail for Manon Brunet
    individual event in 2024 at her home Olympics in Paris by beating her fellow countrywoman, Sara Balzer in the all-French gold medal bout. Brunet was born in Lyon...
    19 KB (992 words) - 04:53, 1 August 2024
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    the Thracesian Theme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in the struggle she seized his sword and killed him; instead of...
    132 KB (11,625 words) - 16:36, 5 August 2024
  • Crouse, Karen (10 August 2012). "Kenyan Reclaims 5,000-Meter Title From Countrywoman and Rival". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 August 2012. "Kenya's Rudisha...
    130 KB (556 words) - 07:03, 15 July 2024
  • Rutto won a silver medal in the 2000 metres steeplechase, losing only to countrywoman Daisy Jepkemei who had beat her in 2012 as well. Two years later, Rutto...
    8 KB (430 words) - 06:47, 5 August 2024
  • tournaments: firstly in April, at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (beating countrywoman Zheng Jie in the semifinal and Korean Jeon Mi-ra in the final); and then...
    23 KB (918 words) - 13:57, 2 August 2024
  • charging a 0.07-second edge ahead of China's Shen Duo and McKeon's countrywoman Bronte Barratt, bronze medalist from London 2012, both of whom shared...
    15 KB (586 words) - 10:32, 18 December 2023
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    hour non-story film called "Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman" with narration by Lynn Redgrave. In 2006, Chris Noonan directed Miss...
    75 KB (8,438 words) - 12:19, 13 July 2024
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    which evoked the joy of returning to the countryside for her, a devoted countrywoman. On 29 April 2002 she dined with the Queen at Downing Street as part...
    16 KB (1,254 words) - 21:22, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peng Shuai
    won her first singles title at Baotou, a $10k tournament, defeating countrywoman Sun Tiantian in the semifinal. In October, she debuted on the WTA Tour...
    77 KB (5,965 words) - 03:04, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Isner
    the third round. Isner started his season at the 2014 Hopman Cup with countrywoman Sloane Stephens, beginning strong with a win over Spain. However, the...
    94 KB (10,058 words) - 00:06, 28 July 2024
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    due to an injury. This left a relatively open field, with Ivanovic's countrywoman Jelena Janković, the Williams sisters, and the four Russian players (Kuznetsova...
    30 KB (671 words) - 10:28, 5 June 2023
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    titles (shared in 1995 with Yekaterina Serebrianskaya), tying her with countrywoman Maria Gigova for the most wins in the latter category. Competing in her...
    11 KB (502 words) - 08:09, 26 April 2024
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    She was often billed under her surname only, similar to her fellow countrywoman Nazimova. She emigrated to the United States in 1925, and started appearing...
    14 KB (1,264 words) - 06:11, 11 July 2024
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    Kong 9-11, 11-6, 11-7 to advance to the semifinals. There, she defeated countrywoman Zhou Mi 11-6, 11-4. Zhang defeated Netherlands's Mia Audina 8-11, 11-6...
    48 KB (1,349 words) - 14:41, 21 June 2024
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    win, she reached her maiden WTA 1000 fourth round, before losing to countrywoman and 22nd seed Zheng Qinwen. Wang won her maiden WTA Tour title in Guangzhou...
    35 KB (1,523 words) - 14:33, 5 August 2024
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    tournament was the Australian Open, where she beat Petra Martić and fellow countrywoman Alexandra Panova (despite having two match points against her) in the...
    216 KB (21,710 words) - 06:47, 5 August 2024
  • competition in archery. Luann Ryon of the United States broke both of her countrywoman Doreen Wilber's Olympic records in the event (FITA round and double FITA...
    6 KB (162 words) - 21:12, 12 October 2021
  • second woman to repeat as champion, following in the footsteps of her countrywoman, 2011 and 2012 CrossFit Games champion Annie Thorisdottir. Katrin has...
    19 KB (1,297 words) - 18:39, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cesilie Carlton
    competition at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships. She defeated her fellow countrywoman Ginger Huber and German Anna Bader to win the gold medal. In 2015, she...
    2 KB (68 words) - 17:52, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Veronica Campbell Brown
    after Bärbel Wöckel of Germany at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics and fellow countrywoman Elaine Thompson-Herah at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. Campbell-Brown is...
    38 KB (2,460 words) - 01:36, 6 August 2024
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