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Billy Jean King
She is an American tennis player. Considered like one of the best player of all time, Billy Jean King won 129 titles, which 12 from Grand Slam. She is also known for her commitments in favour of equality of sexes and of the recognition of female sport. She is the first woman to beat a men in a tennis match. From that day on, women started to be integrated in sports competitions. Thanks to this game, many years later, female tennis players became highly successful and recognised in the world. -
Kathrine Switzer
In April 1975, she become the first woman to run the Boston Marathon -
Nadia Comaneci
She is a Romanian gymnast, born the 12 November 1961 at Onesti. She has today the double nationality Romanian-American. During her sportive career, she won five Olympic gold medal and she is the first gymnast to have the perfect mark of ten. She is one of the most known gymnast in the world and with Olga Korbut, gave an other popular and mediatic dimension to this sport. -
Catherine Destivelle
She is a french alpinist and at the end of the 1980s one of the best climber of the world. She collect records, awards and honorary distinctions (knights of the legion of honour). In the 1990s. She is the fIrst woman to climb in winter and alone the three big north faces of Alps. -
Surya Bonaly
She is a french born skater and became American in 2004. She has been 9 times champion of France, she won 16 medals in Grand Prix ISU and 3 titles of champion of Europe. She is the creator of a movement on the ice and she is the first skater to have tried loads of jumping figures in competition, but also quadruple rotations -
Monica Seles
She is a Yugoslav tennis player, became American in 1994. Considered like the first hard-hitting of the history of tennis, she won Roland Garros at 16 years, an unequaled feat at this tournament. She become the first younger number one. Before her 20 years, she won 8 titles from the Grand Slam. But her career stops dead in April 1993 when in the middle of a match, a spectator stabs her in the back. She come back to the competition in 1995, and won her last trophy in the Grand Slam in 1996. -
Florence Arthaud
She is a french sailor and the first woman to win the Road of Rhum in 1990. She has also the records of the fastest crossing of the North Atlantic by sail. She is the only athlete to won twice consecutively the Monique Berlioux price. -
Merlene Ottey
She is a Jamaican athlete became Slovenian in 2002, specialist of sprint, she holds many records. The oldest medalist athlete (40 years), the world records of the fastest 200m indoors and to have the biggest number of gold medals in the World Cup. She is nicknamed “the queen of the track” for her longevity and her results. -
Marie-José Pérec
She is a french athlete and she is the first french athlete to be triple Olympic champion. She is also the first athlete, men and women combined, during two Olympic Games consécutive to won the gold medal at the 400m. She is the most brillant french athlete of after war. From the end of her sportive career, she commits on different activities in the world of sports. -
Laure Manaudou
She is a french swimmer. At the age of 17, she won the 400m freestyle in Olympic Games at Athens in 2004. She won two others medals in this Game. This is a totally new feat for a french swimmer in the Olympic Games and became immediately a national icon. In all she won 3 Olympic medals, 6 in the world and 13 in the European. -
Serena Williams
She is an American tennis player, considered like one of the best player of all times. At this day, she won 39 titles from Grand Slam and three Olympic medals. She beat loads of records and inspire during many years the American and the world. She received the price of best athlete of the year for times. -
Laura Flessel
She is a french fencer and a political woman. She is a quintuple Olympic medal, sixtuple world champion and once European champion. She has been the flag bearer of the France team at the Olympic Games in 2012. In 2017 she named at the french minister of sport but leave her functions in 2018. She is one of the best french athlete and an icon for the french. -
Simone Biles
She is an American gymnast, 19 times world champion in different categories. She become quadruple Olympic champion at the Olympic Games in 2016. After that she become a star in the USA and an exemple for women because Simone Biles has been abused by the old doctor of the American Team and succeeded to accuse him for what he did. -
Naomi Osaka
She is an American tennis player. Considered like one of the best player of all time, Billy Jean King won 129 titles, which 12 from Grand Slam. She is also known for her commitments in favour of equality of sexes and of the recognition of female sport. She is the first woman to beat a men in a tennis match. From that day on, women started to be integrated in sports competitions. Thanks to this game, many years later, female tennis players became highly successful and recognised in the world. -
Clarisse Agbegnenou
She is a french judokate and possesses the most beautiful awards of the french female judo with 4 world and European titles and had a Olympic silver medal in 2016. She is designated in 2018 the champion of champion by the magazine L’Equipe. -
Megan Rapinoe
The American of 34 years has been sacred best players and best striker of the feminine World Cup by FIFA in 2019. The captain of the world champion did the show on the field this summer. She is a star as much for her play as her commitments . She inspires a lot of girl and is an feminist icon. -
Amandine Henry
On June 29 2019 the international french player of 30 years and captain of the french women football team brought her team in quarterfinal. And made thousands of little girls dream.
