Can You Identify All of These Amazing Female Athletes?

By: J.P. Naomi
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Can You Identify All of These Amazing Female Athletes?
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About This Quiz

Are you ready to get your girl power on? Make way for champs on the court, the track, the mountain and the field because these female athletes are coming in hot, and we want to know if you can name them all! Will you be motivated and win gold like these champions? Or will you head home pouting like a poor sport? It's time to find out!

From Billie Jean King to Joan Benoit Samuelson and Mia Hamm to Jackie Joyner Kersee, amazing female athletes have inspired young women from generation to generation. We've watched the past performances of Mary Lou Retton and Nastia Liukin inspire those of Aly Raisman and Simone Biles today. We've watched the incredible swimming records of Dana Torres be challenged by Katie Ledecky. And we've watched as the speed and grace of Picabo Street and Katerina Witt inspire Chloe Kim and Alex Morgan of today. You see, no matter the sport or the nationality, athletes across the globe continue to inspire and challenge each other to greater heights, to more amazing feats. So now we challenge you ... think you have what it takes to recognize them all?

We're ready to take this amazing female athletes quiz to the championship level. Will you take it to the top step of the podium? Good luck!

Serena Williams
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She holds the most Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles and mixed doubles, who is this amazing tennis player?
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Chloe Kim
Maria Sharapova
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Did you know that Serena Williams has won more than $88 million in prize money throughout her career? As the top earner among all female tennis players, she has a combined career record of 806 – 138.

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
YouTube
One of the greatest heptathletes and long-jumpers of all time, who is this track and field star?
Picabo Street
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Lolo Jones
Sheryl Swoopes
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A native of Illinois, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was born in 1962. Just 22 years later, she competed in her first of four consecutive Summer Olympics. By the time she retired in 1998, Joyner-Kersee had earned three gold, one silver and two bronze medals.

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Nadia Comaneci 1976
WikiCommons by Comitetul Olimpic si Sportiv Roman)
A Romanian gymnast who competed in the '70s and '80s, can you name her?
Dominique Moceanu
Mia Hamm
Nadia Comaneci
Gabby Douglas
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Nadia Comaneci is a five-time Olympic gold medalist and the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at an Olympic Games. During her career, she coined two maneuvers still used by gymnasts today: the Comaneci salto and the Comaneci dismount.

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Diana Taurasi
Youtube
The first pick of the 2004 WNBA draft, who is this amazing basketball star?
Rebeca Lobo
Simone Biles
Sheryl Swoopes
Diana Taurasi
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At six feet tall, Diana Taurasi is regarded as one of the greatest women to play basketball. She led the University of Connecticut to three consecutive NCAA championships from 2002 – 2004 and is now a three-time WNBA champion. She has played with the Phoenix Mercury since 2004.

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Mia Hamm
Mary Smith via Youtube
She played college soccer at the University of North Carolina before joining the Washington Freedom, can you name her?
Megan Rapinoe
Mia Hamm
Nancy Lopez
Dara Torres
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While at North Carolina, Mia Hamm helped lead her team to four consecutive NCAA Championship titles. She went on to play three seasons with the Washington Freedom. A member of the U.S. national team from 1987 – 2004, Hamm became the first woman inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame in 2013.

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Maria Sharapova
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Born in Russia, she became the world's number one tennis player at the age of 18, who is she?
Dara Torres
Anna Kournikova
Steffi Graf
Maria Sharapova
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Maria Sharapova turned pro on April 19, 2001. By 2005, she was ranked number one in singles. Did you know she is the only Russian to hold the career Grand Slam? She has a 643 –164 record and her current coach is Thomas Hogstedt.

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Billie Jean King
Wiki Commons
From 1959 – 1983, she won 39 Grand Slam titles, who is this amazing former tennis pro?
Hope Solo
Billie Jean King
Martina Navratilova
Monica Seles
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Standing just five feet five inches tall, Billie Jean King had a one-handed backhand that led her to 129 career titles and a record of 695 – 155. She is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.

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Lindsey Vonn
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Can you ski fast enough to keep up with this three-time Olympic medalist?
Lindsey Vonn
Picabo Street
Bonnie Blair
Katarina Witt
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After a 19-year career, Lindsey Vonn announced her retirement in 2019. With 82 World Cup victories, she was a great competitor on and off the slopes, Vonn was awarded the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award and United States Olympic Committee's Sportswoman of the Year award in 2010.

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Ronda Rousey
ESPN
Judo was her discipline before mixed martial arts, can you name this amazing fighter?
Katarina Witt
Laila Ali
Ronda Rousey
Liz Carmouche
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Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche were headliners on the ticket for the first women's fight in UFC history in 2013. Rousey defeated Carmouche and went on to win a total of 12 mixed martial arts fights in her career. In 2018, she became the first female to be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame.

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Florence Griffith Joyner
Olympic via YouTube
To this day she is considered the fastest woman of all time, can you name this
Gabby Douglas
Missy Franklin
Michelle Kwan
Florence Griffith Joyner
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Florence Griffith Joyner is the world record holder for the 100 and 200 meters races. She set both records at the 1988 Olympics where she also won a gold medal with her teammates in the 4x100 meter relay. Griffith Joyner died suddenly at the age of 38 from suffocation due to an epileptic seizure.

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Sheryl Swoopes
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Can you name this amazing athlete who was the first woman signed into the WNBA?
Sheryl Swoopes
Michelle Kwan
Candace Parker
Serena Williams
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Sheryl Swoopes was drafted to the Houston Comets for the inaugural season of the WNBA. During her time with the Comets, she scored more than 2,000 points with 500 rebounds, 300 assists and 200 steals. She is a four-time WNBA champion and even has a Nike show named after her: "Air Swoopes."

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Dana Vollmer
Youtube
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she set the world record for the 100-meter butterfly, can you name this amazing swimmer?
Simone Manuel
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Dana Vollmer
Picabo Street
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Dana Vollmer was born ready to jump in the water. At just 12 years old, she became the youngest swimmer to compete, though unsuccessfully, in the U.S. Olympic Trials. By 2004, however, she was winning gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Athens. She now has 32 medals.

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Steffi Graf
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Born in Mannheim, West Germany, this incredible tennis athlete played professionally from 1982 - 1999, do you recognize her?
Picabo Street
Steffi Graf
Anna Kournikova
Kerri Strug
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While playing professionally, Stefanie Maria Graf did something that no other tennis player had done before. Still to this day, she is the only player to have been ranked number one in the world for a total of 377 weeks. That's more than seven years' worth! Her career record was 900 - 115.

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Katie Ledecky
Youtube
Only 22 years old, she has won the most gold medals of any female swimmer in history, can you name her?
Katie Ledecky
Lolo Jones
Leah Smith
Alex Morgan
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Katie Ledecky was born on March 17, 1997 in Washington, D.C. As of 2019, she has won a total of 31 medals, including 27 gold, in major swimming competitions across the world. A swimmer at Stanford University, Ledecky has been named "Swimming World's" Female World Swimmer of the Year five times.

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Kerri Walsh Jennings
BlueDiamondGrowers via Youtube
They call her Six Feet of Sunshine, can you name this amazing beach volleyball athlete?
Kerri Walsh Jennings
April Ross
Katie Ledecky
Dorothy Hamill
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Standing six feet, three inches tall, Kerri Walsh Jennings and her teammate Misty May-Treanor took home the gold in three consecutive Summer Olympics - 2004, 2008 and 2012. Did you know that Walsh Jennings has earned more than $2.5 million in prize money from her 133 career victories?

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Dorothy Hamill
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She won the gold medal for her short and long programs at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, who is this amazing figure skater?
Mia Hamm
Dorothy Hamill
Nancy Kerrigan
Kristi Yamaguchi
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Dorothy Hamill won her first skating competition at the age of 12. Soon thereafter she was on the international stage as the figure skater to beat. Creator of the "Hamill camel" skating move, Hamill was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2000.

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Jenny Thompson
Youtube
Decorated Olympic swimmer turned anesthesiologist, can you name this incredible athlete?
Kristi Yamaguchi
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Jenny Thompson
Dara Torres
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Following her incredible swimming career in which she won twelve Olympic medals, Jenny Thompson received a medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The 1998 "Female World Swimmer of the Year," Thompson now works as an anesthesiologist in Maine.

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Lolo Jones
Skillshare
Only amazing women hurdle in the Summer Olympics and bobsled in the Winter Olympics, can you name this athlete?
Kendra Harrison
Venus Williams
Lolo Jones
Danica Patrick
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Did you know that Lolo Jones' real name is Lori? She is one of only a few athletes to have competed in both the Winter and Summer Olympics. She has served as a brakewoman for the U.S. bobsled team and competed in the 60- and 100-meter hurdles.

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Danica Patrick
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You either recognize her from the racetrack or GoDaddy commercials, who is she?
Danica Patrick
Alex Morgan
Simona de Silvestro
Nadia Comaneci
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Danica Patrick is the only woman in history to win an IndyCar Series race. She did so in 2008 at the Indy Japan 300. In addition to her racing skills, she is also quite popular. Patrick was named IndyCar Series Most Popular Driver from 2005 - 2010.

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Picabo Street
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Winner of the 1998 Winter Olympics super G event, can you named this Hall of Fame skier?
Picabo Street
Deborah Compagnoni
Diana Taurasi
Ronda Rousey
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Picabo Street made her professional debut in 1992 at the age of 21. She retired ten years later with two Olympic medals and three World Championship medals. She was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.

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Kerri Strug
NBC
She landed a vault performance on an injured ankle in the 1996 Olympic Games, who is this American gymnast?
Ronda Rousey
Kerri Strug
McKayla Maroney
Sheryl Swoopes
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If you watched the Olympic Games in 1996, you undoubtedly remember the image of Strug's coach, Béla Károlyi, carrying her to the awards podium. The U.S. team earned the gold medal that year for the all-around team competition.

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Gabby Douglas
Elle via Youtube
A member of the "Fierce Five" and the "Final Five," who is this all-around champion?
Gabby Douglas
Shannon Miller
Florence Griffith Joyner
Kerri Strug
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Gabrielle Douglas was an integral part of the U.S. women's gymnastics team that won gold at the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016. Douglas was also the all-around champion in 2012 as well as the Associated Press' Female Athlete of the Year.

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Nastia Liukin
Youtube
She is a four-time all-around U.S. national champion, can you name this amazing gymnast?
Carly Patterson
Mia Hamm
Nastia Liukin
Dominique Moceanu
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Nastia Liukin was born in Russia but moved to the United States at the age of two following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Did you know she was coached by her mother, Anna Kotchneva-Liukin? Both Anna and Nastia's father, Valeri, were former Olympic gymnasts.

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Alex Morgan
Lifetime
An Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion, do you recognize this incredible American soccer player?
Maria Sharapova
Michelle Akers
Alex Morgan
Venus Williams
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Alex Morgan played soccer at the University of California, Berkeley and following her graduation was drafted first overall in the 2011 Women's Professional Soccer draft. She has been a member of the U.S. national team since 2010 and has scored 101 goals in just 160 game appearances.

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Katarina Witt
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Coached by Jutta Müller, this German figure skater won gold in 1984 and 1988, who is she?
Tonya Harding
Chloe Kim
Missy Franklin
Katarina Witt
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Katarina Witt not only won two Olympic gold medals in her career, but she was also named World Champion four times in six years. Following her 1988 retirement, she attempted a comeback in 1994. Though she fell short of a win, her performance had an emotional effect on fans throughout the world.

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Missy Franklin
SwimSwam via Youtube
She is the current world recorder holder for the 200-meter backstroke, can you name this competitive swimmer?
Missy Franklin
Pernille Blume
Rebecca Lobo
Michelle Kwan
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Missy Franklin was born on May 10, 1995 in Pasadena, California. In her first Olympic appearance at the age of 17, Franklin brought home five gold and one bronze medal from London. She was subsequently named Swimming World's World Swimmer of the Year in 2012.

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Chloe Kim
The Late Late Show with James Corden
At just 17 years old, she won gold in the women's halfpipe in South Korea, can you name this American snowboarder?
Chloe Kim
Michelle Kwan
Mary Lou Retton
Jenny Jones
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Chloe Kim started snowboarding at the age of four and began competing at just six years old. She trained in Valais, Switzerland and by 2013 had became a member of the U.S. Snowboarding Team. She is the only athlete to have won at the World, Olympic and X Games Championships.

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Lisa Leslie
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A two-time WNBA champion and three-time WBNA MVP, can you name this amazing basketball star?
Maya Moore
Simone Biles
Lisa Leslie
Mary Lou Retton
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Lisa Leslie was selected to the Los Angeles Sparks in the 1997 WNBA draft. She played with the team as a center until 2009 and is the current all-time playoffs blocks leader. She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.

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Aly Raisman
Youtube
An American gymnast and two-time Olympian, do you recognize this female athlete from Needham, Massachusetts?
Mary Lou Retton
Marion Jones
Anna Pavlova
Aly Raisman
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Aly Raisman was the captain of the U.S. women's gymnastics team that won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. She earned individual medals at both Games as well, including gold in the floor and bronze on the balance beam in 2012, and silver in the all-around and floor in 2016.

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Babe Zaharias
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She turned pro in 1947 and her real name was Mildred, can you identify this amazing golfer?
Michelle Wie
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Billie Jean King
Nadia Comaneci
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Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was not just a professional golfer, she was also a track and field Olympian. During her career, she won 41 LPGA Tours as well as two gold medals at the 1932 Olympic Games for the 80 meter hurdles and javelin throw events.

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Michelle Kwan
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Having competed from 1991 - 2006, she is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history, can you name this athlete?
Michelle Kwan
Tara Lipinski
Lindsey Vonn
Peggy Fleming
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With two Olympic medals, five World championships and nine U.S. championships, Michelle Kwan is considered one of the greatest figure skaters of all time. Not only is she the most decorated, but between prize money and endorsements, she was the top-paid skater from 1997 - 2005. She retired in 2006.

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Rebecca Lobo basketball
YouTube
Standing 6'4" tall, this UConn graduate played in the WNBA from 1997 - 2003, can you name this Hall of Famer?
Sheryl Swoopes
Rebecca Lobo
Katie Ledecky
Lauren Jackson
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In 1995, Rebecca Lobo helped lead the University of Connecticut to an undefeated 35-0 season. Upon formation of the WNBA in 1997, she became an inaugural member of the New York Liberty and later played with the Comets and Sun. Lobo was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.

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Hope Solo
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A professional goalkeeper and member of the U.S. national team from 1996 - 2016, who is this amazing athlete?
Abby Wambach
Jenny Thompson
Hope Solo
Kerri Walsh Jennings
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Hope Solo is considered one of the best female goalkeepers in the world. After playing at the University of Washington, she played in various clubs around the United States and Europe. As a member of the U.S. national team, Solo helped lead the team to victory in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

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Venus Williams
Wiki Commons
The older of the sibling duo, she is one of the greatest tennis players of all time, who is she?
Venus Williams
Kerri Walsh Jennings
Picabo Street
Caroline Wozniacki
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As of 2019, Venus Williams has won more than $41 million in prize money with a record of 800-236. She was the first African American female to be ranked number one in 2002 and is one of only three players to reach the finals of all four Grand Slams.

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Simone Biles
Good Morning America
With 25 Olympic and World Championship medals, she is the most decorated American gymnast in history, can you name her?
Dominique Dawes
Kerri Strug
Simone Biles
Jenny Thompson
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As a member of the "Final Five," Simone Biles wowed us at the 2016 Summer Olympics where she won four gold and one bronze medal. Most recently, she became the World all-around champion (for the fourth time!) in 2018 and fans look forward to the prospect of Tokyo 2020.

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Nancy Lopez
Ted Van Pelt via Wiki Commons
From 1978 - 2003, she won 48 LPGA tour events including three majors, who is this amazing golfer?
Nancy Lopez
Jenny Thompson
Karrie Webb
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Nancy Lopez played golf at the University of Tulsa but left after her sophomore year and turned pro. Later that year she was on the cover of Sports Illustrated as the winner of the LPGA Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year. She is considered on of the greatest female golfers of all time.

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Kristi Yamaguchi
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Not only a figure skater, she won Dancing with the Stars in 2008, who is this female athlete?
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Kristi Yamaguchi
Billie Jean King
Tara Lipinski
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Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi was born on July 12, 1971 in Hayward, California. By 1992, she was a national, world and Olympic champion. Kristi played the role of Jasmine in Aladdin on Ice in 1995 and by 2005 had been inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.

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Mary Lou Retton An American 10- Los Angeles 1984 Olympics
Olympic
She was the first American woman to win the all-around gold medal in 1984, who is this famous gymnast?
Samantha Peszek
Serena Williams
Mia Hamm
Mary Lou Retton
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Standing just four feet nine inches tall, Mary Lou Retton was coached by Béla and Márta Károlyi throughout her career. Nicknamed America's Sweetheart, her legacy remains in the sport of gymnastics with a move known as "The Retton Flip."

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Dara Torres
Youtube
One of the most decorated female swimmers, she has earned medals at five different Olympic Games, do you know her?
Dara Torres
Mia Hamm
Sarah Sjostrom
Maria Sharapova
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Dara Torres began swimming at the age of seven and won her first national championship at 14. She represented the United States at the Olympics in 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008 winning at least one medal at each. Her career twelve medals include four gold, four silver and four bronze.

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Joan Benoit Samuelson
CBS Boston via YouTube
Coached by Bob Sevene in the '70s and '80s, who is this amazing marathoner?
Shalane Flanagan
Kerri Walsh Jennings
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Katie Ledecky
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Joan Benoit Samuelson, now 61 years old, is an accomplished marathoner. Throughout her career, she competed in 12 notable marathons, placing first in six of them. She won the first Olympic marathon in 1984 as well as the Boston, Chicago and Auckland Marathons. Her personal best time was 2:21:21.

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