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Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Babe Zaharias c. 1938
Personal information
Full name
Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias
Nickname
Babe
Born
(1911-06-26)June 26, 1911
Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.
Died
September 27, 1956(1956-09-27) (aged 45)
Galveston, Texas, U.S.[1]
Height
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[1]
Weight
126 lb (57 kg)[1]
Nationality
United States
Spouse
George Zaharias
Career
Turned professional
1947
Retired
1956 (her death)
Former tour(s)
LPGA Tour
(joined 1950, its founding)
Professional wins
48
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour
41
Other
7
Best results in LPGA major championships
(wins: 10)
Western Open
Won: 1940, 1944, 1945, 1950
Titleholders C'ship
Won: 1947, 1950, 1952
U.S. Women's Open
Won: 1948, 1950, 1954
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame
1951 (member page)
LPGA Tour
Money Winner
1950, 1951
LPGA Vare Trophy
1954
Associated Press
Female Athlete of the Year
1932, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1954
Bob Jones Award
1957
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Sport
Sport
Athletics
Event(s)
Sprint, 80 m hurdles, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, discus throw, shot put
Club
Employers' Casualty Co. Club
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
80 mH – 11.7 (1932)
100 m – 12.3 (1931)
200 m – 25.6 (1931)
HJ – 1.65 m (1932)
LJ – 5.70 m (1930)
JT – 43.69 m (1932)
DT – 42.06 m (1932)
SP – 12.04 m (1932)[1][2]
Medal record[hide]
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
1932 Los Angeles 80 m hurdles
1932 Los Angeles Javelin throw
1932 Los Angeles High jump
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (/zəˈhɑːriəs/; June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who achieved a great deal of success in golf, basketball, baseball and track and field. She won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics, before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest female athletes of all time.
Contents
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1 Biography
1.1 Athletic achievements
1.1.1 AAU champion
1.1.2 1932 Olympics
1.1.3 Post-Olympics
1.1.4 Golf
1.2 Golfing awards
1.3 Baseball
1.4 Last years and death
2 Legacy
2.1 Contemporary impressions
2.2 Modern-day
2.3 Babe Zaharias Golf Course
2.4 California course
2.5 In the media
3 Amateur wins
4 Professional wins
4.1 LPGA Tour wins (41)
4.2 Other wins
5 Major championships
5.1 Wins (10)
6 See also
7 References
8 Bibliography
9 External links
Biography[edit]
Mildred Ella Didrikson was born on June 26, 1911,[3] the sixth of seven children, in the coastal city of Port Arthur, Texas. Her mother, Hannah, and her father, Ole Didriksen, were immigrants from Norway. Although her three eldest siblings were born in Norway, Babe and her three other siblings were born in Port Arthur. She later changed the spelling of her surname from Didriksen to Didrikson.[4] She moved with her family to 850 Doucette in Beaumont, Texas, at age 4. She claimed to have acquired the nickname "Babe" (after Babe Ruth) upon hitting five home runs in a childhood baseball game, but her Norwegian mother had called her "Bebe" from the time she was a toddler.[5]
Though best known for her athletic gifts, Didrikson had many talents. She also competed in sewing. An excellent seamstress, she made many of her clothes, including her golfing outfits. She claimed to have won the sewing championship at the 1931 State Fair of Texas in Dallas; she did win the South Texas State Fair in Beaumont, embellishing the story many years later in 1953. She attended Beaumont High School. Never a strong student, she was forced to repeat the eighth grade and was a year older than her classmates. She eventually dropped out without graduating after she moved to Dallas to play basketball.[5] She was a singer and a harmonica player and recorded several songs on the Mercury Records label. Her biggest seller was "I Felt a Little Teardrop" with "Detour" on the flip side.[citation needed]
Already famous as Babe Didrikson, she married George Zaharias (1908–1984), a professional wrestler, in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 23, 1938. Thereafter, she was largely known as Babe Didrikson Zaharias or Babe Zaharias. The two met while playing golf. George Zaharias, a Greek American, was a native of Pueblo, Colorado. Called the "Crying Greek from Cripple Creek," Zaharias also did some part-time acting, appearing in the 1952 movie Pat and Mike. The Zahariases had no children. They were rebuffed by authorities when they sought to adopt.[citation needed]
Babe Zaharias Park is located in Beaumont adjacent to her museum.
Athletic achievements[edit]
Didrikson gained world fame in track and field and All-American status in basketball. She played organized baseball and softball and was an expert diver, roller-skater, and bowler.
AAU champion[edit]
Didrikson's first job after high school was as a secretary for the Employers' Casualty Insurance Company of Dallas, though she was employed only in order to play basketball as an amateur on the company's "industrial team", the Golden Cyclones.[6] As a side note, the competition was then governed by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). Despite leading the team to an AAU Basketball Championship in 1931,[7] Didrikson had first achieved wider attention as a track and field athlete.
Representing her company in the 1932 AAU Championships, she competed in eight out of ten events, winning five outright, and tying for first in a sixth. Didrikson's performances were enough to win the team championship, despite her being the sole member of her team.[4]
1932 Olympics[edit]
Didrikson won two gold medals and one silver medal for track and field in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.[8] In the 80-meter hurdles, she equaled the world record of 11.8 seconds in her opening heat. In the final, she broke her record with an 11.7 clocking, taking gold. In the javelin, she also won gold with an Olympic record throw of 43.69 meters. In the high jump, she took silver with a world record-tying leap of 1.657 metres (5.44 ft). Fellow American Jean Shiley also jumped 1.657 metres, and the pair tied in a jump-off when the bar was raised to 1.67 metres (5.5 ft). Shiley was awarded the gold after Didrikson was ruled to have used an improper technique.[1]
Post-Olympics[edit]
In the following years, she performed on the vaudeville circuit, traveled with teams like Babe Didrikson's All-Americans basketball team and the bearded House of David (commune) team. Didrikson was also a competitive pocket billiards (pool) player, though not a champion. She was noted in the January 1933 press for playing (and badly losing) a multi-day straight pool match in New York City against famed female cueist Ruth McGinnis.[9]
Golf[edit]
Lloyd Gullickson, Glenna Collett-Vare, Babe Ruth, and Zaharias in a charity golf event for All Children's Hospital, 1934.
George and Babe Zaharias ca. 1955
By 1935, Didrikson began to play golf, a latecomer to the sport in which she became best known. Shortly thereafter, she was denied amateur status, and so, in January 1938, she competed in the Los Angeles Open, a men's PGA (Professional Golfers' Association) tournament. No other woman competed against men in this tournament until Annika Sörenstam, Suzy Whaley and Michelle Wie almost six decades later. She shot 81 and 84, and missed the cut. In the tournament, she was teamed with George Zaharias. They were married eleven months later, and settled in Tampa, Florida, on the premises of a golf course that they purchased in 1951.
Didrikson became America's first female golf celebrity and the leading player of the 1940s and early 1950s. In order to regain amateur status in the sport, she could compete in no other sports for three years. After gaining back her amateur status in 1942, she won the 1946 U.S. Women's Amateur and the 1947 British Ladies Amateur – the first American to do so – and three Women's Western Opens. Having formally turned professional in 1947, Didrikson dominated the Women's Professional Golf Association and later the Ladies Professional Golf Association, of which she was a founding member. Serious illness ended her career in the mid-1950s.
Zaharias won a tournament named after her, the Babe Zaharias Open of her hometown of Beaumont, Texas. She won the 1947 Titleholders Championship and the 1948 U.S. Women's Open for her fourth and fifth major championships. She won 17 straight women's amateur victories, a feat never equaled by anyone. By 1950, she had won every golf title available. Totaling both her amateur and professional victories, Zaharias won a total of 82 golf tournaments.
Charles McGrath of The New York Times wrote of Zaharias, "Except perhaps for Arnold Palmer, no golfer has ever been more beloved by the gallery."[10]
Golfing awards[edit]
While Zaharias missed the cut in the 1938 PGA Tour event, later, as she became more experienced, she made the cut in every PGA Tour event she entered. In January 1945, Zaharias played in three PGA tournaments. She shot 76–76 to qualify for the Los Angeles Open.[11] She then shot 76–81 to make the two-day cut in the tournament itself, but missed the three-day cut after a 79, making her the first (and currently only) woman in history to make the cut in a regular PGA Tour event. She continued her cut streak at the Phoenix Open, where she shot 77–72–75–80, finishing in 33rd place.[11] At the Tucson Open, she qualified by shooting 74–81 and then shot a 307 in the tournament and finished tied for 42nd.[11] Unlike other female golfers competing in men's events, she got into the Los Angeles[12] and Tucson Opens through 36-hole qualifiers, as opposed to a sponsor's exemption.[13]
In 1948, she became the first woman to attempt to qualify for the U.S. Open, but her application was rejected by the USGA. They stated that the event was intended to be open to men only.[14]
Baseball[edit]
On March 20, 1934, Didrikson pitched one inning in a major league baseball spring training exhibition game for the Philadelphia Athletics against the Brooklyn Dodgers. She gave up a walk and no hits.[15]
Two days later, on March 22, 1934, Didrikson pitched the first inning of a major league baseball exhibition game for the St. Louis Cardinals against the Boston Red Sox. It was reported that "Under tutelage of Burleigh Grimes, Dizzy Dean and others she has learned to stand on the rubber, wind up like a big leaguer and throw a rather fair curve."[16] The Red Sox scored three runs against Didrikson in the inning before she got Boston third baseman Bucky Walters to fly out to future Hall of Famer Joe Medwick in left field to end the inning. Didrikson was relieved at the start of the second inning by Cardinal pitcher Bill Hallahan. 400 fans were in attendance.[17]
Three days later, on March 25, 1934, she played for the New Orleans Pelicans against the Cleveland Indians, pitching two scoreless innings and lining out in her only plate appearance.[15]
Didrikson is still recognized as the world record holder for the farthest baseball throw by a woman.[18]
Last years and death[edit]
Zaharias had her greatest year in 1950 when she completed the Grand Slam of the three women's majors of the day: the U.S. Open, the Titleholders Championship, and the Women's Western Open, a feat that made her the leader on the money list that year. Also that year, she reached 10 wins faster than any other LPGA golfer, doing so in one year and 20 days, a record that still stands. She was the leading money-winner again in 1951, and in 1952 took another major with a Titleholders victory, but illness prevented her from playing a full schedule in 1952–53. This did not stop her from becoming the fastest player to reach 20 wins (two years and four months).
She was a close friend of fellow golfer Betty Dodd. According to Susan Cayleff's biography Babe, Dodd was quoted as saying, "I had such admiration for this fabulous person [Zaharias]. I loved her. I would have done anything for her."[19] They met in a 1950 amateur golf tournament in Miami and became close almost immediately. Cayleff wrote, "As Didrikson's marriage grew increasingly troubled, she spent more time with Dodd. The women toured together on the golf circuit, and eventually Dodd moved in with Zaharias and Didrikson for the last six years of Didrikson's life.[20] Victims of the homophobia of the times, they never used the word "lesbian" to describe their relationship, but there is little doubt that Dodd and Didrikson were intimate and loving partners."[19][3]
In 1953 Zaharias was diagnosed with colon cancer. After undergoing surgery, she made a comeback in 1954. She took the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average, her only win of that trophy, and her 10th and final major with a U.S. Women's Open championship, one month after the surgery and while wearing a colostomy bag. With this win, she became the second-oldest woman to win a major LPGA championship tournament (behind Fay Crocker). Babe Zaharias now stands third to Crocker and Sherri Steinhauer. These wins made her the fastest player to reach 30 wins (five years and 22 days).[13] In addition to continuing tournament play, Zaharias also served as the president of the LPGA from August 1952 to July 1955.[21]
Her colon cancer recurred in 1955. Despite her limited schedule of eight golfing events that season, Zaharias won her last two tournaments in competitive golf. On September 27, 1956, Zaharias died of her illness at the age of forty-five at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas. At the time of her death, she was still a top-ranked female golfer. She and her husband had earlier established the Babe Zaharias Fund to support cancer clinics.[22] She is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in her hometown of Beaumont, Texas.[23]
During her final years, Didrikson became known not only for her athletic abilities but as a public advocate for cancer awareness, at a time when many Americans refused to seek diagnosis or treatment for suspected cancer.[24] She used her fame to raise funds for her cancer fund but also as a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. Her work in this arena was honored by US President Dwight Eisenhower on a visit to the White House.[20]
Legacy[edit]
She was named the 10th Greatest North American Athlete of the 20th Century by ESPN,[25] and the 9th Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century by the Associated Press.[citation needed]
The Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum in Beaumont is also one of the city's welcoming centers.
Zaharias broke the accepted models of femininity in her time, including the accepted models of female athleticism. Standing 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall and weighing 115 lb (52 kg),[26] Zaharias was physically strong and socially straightforward about her strength. Although a sports hero to many, she was also derided for her "manliness".[4]
Zaharias was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Women's Golf in 1951. In 1957, she posthumously received the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. It was accepted by her husband George, four months after her death.[27] She was one of six initial inductees into the LPGA Hall of Fame at its inception in 1977.
Zaharias has a museum dedicated to her in Beaumont, Texas, the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum. Several golf courses are named after her. A Tampa, Florida golf course that she and her husband owned, the Babe Zaharias Golf Course, was given landmark status.[28]
In 1981, the U.S. Postal Service issued an 18 cent stamp commemorating Zaharias.[29][30]
Contemporary impressions[edit]
It would be much better if she and her ilk stayed at home, got themselves prettied up and waited for the phone to ring.
—  sportswriter Joe Williams, New York World-Telegram[4]
Williams' remark typified the attitude of some toward women who did not fit the traditional ideals of femininity current in the first half of the 20th century. However, in the same time period, the Associated Press chose her as the "Female Athlete of the Year" six times for track & field and for golfing, and, in 1950, overwhelmingly voted for her as the "Greatest Female Athlete of the First Half of the Century".[4] Aside from her impact on the women and girls of her time, she impressed seasoned sportswriters also:
She is beyond all belief until you see her perform...Then you finally understand that you are looking at the most flawless section of muscle harmony, of complete mental and physical coordination, the world of sport has ever seen.
—  sportswriter Grantland Rice, quoted by ESPN[4]
Modern-day[edit]
The Associated Press followed up its 1950 declaration fifty years later by voting Zaharias the Woman Athlete of the 20th Century in 1999. In 2000, Sports Illustrated magazine also named her second on its list of the Greatest Female Athletes of All Time, behind the heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee. She is also in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Zaharias is the highest ranked woman, at #10, on ESPN's list of the 50 top athletes of the 20th century. In 2000, she was ranked as the 17th greatest golfer, and the second-greatest woman player (after Mickey Wright) by Golf Digest magazine.[31]
She broke the mold of what a lady golfer was supposed to be. The ideal in the 20s and 30s was Joyce Wethered, a willowy Englishwoman with a picture-book swing that produced elegant shots but not especially long ones. Zaharias developed a grooved athletic swing reminiscent of Lee Trevino's, and she was so strong off the tee that a fellow Texan, the great golfer Byron Nelson, once said that he knew of only eight men who could outdrive her. "It's not enough just to swing at the ball," Babe said. "You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it."
—  journalist Charles McGrath, New York Times[10]
Zaharias penned an autobiography This Life I've Led. It is no longer in print but is available in many libraries.[26]
In 1975, the film Babe, based on Zaharias' life, was released, with Susan Clark playing the lead role (for which Clark would win an Emmy Award). Alex Karras played George Zaharias. Clark and Karras met while making the picture and later married.[26]
In 2014, Zaharias was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people.[32][33]
She was Inducted into the Texas Track and Field Coaches Hall of Fame, Class of 2016.[34]
Babe Zaharias Golf Course[edit]
In 1949, Zaharias purchased a golf course in the Forest Hills area of Tampa and lived nearby. After her death, the golf course was sold. It lay dormant as developers attempted to acquire the land for residential housing.
In 1974, the City of Tampa took over the golf course, renovated it, and reopened it, naming it the Babe Zaharias Golf Course. At some point afterward, it was accorded historical-landmark status.[28]
California course[edit]
In 1980, the Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms Resort in City of Industry, California built two courses, The Ike and The Zaharias.[35] The courses were designed by William F. Bell (original design) and Casey O'Callaghan (renovation). In 2010, the courses together won the National Golf Course Owners Association's California Golf Course of the Year Award.[36]
This 18-hole course is named for Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of America 's most decorated all-around athletes... This par 71 features slope ratings ranging from 126 to 138, making the course worthy of the great athlete for which it is named.
—  Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms Resort Website[35]
In the media[edit]
Zaharias appeared as a guest on the ABC reality show, The Comeback Story (1953–1954), explaining her attempts to battle colon cancer, which thereafter still claimed her life.[37]
In 1952, she appeared in the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn film Pat and Mike.
In 1975, Susan Clark portrayed Zaharias in a biographic TV movie entitled "Babe".
In 2007, Carolyn Gage began work on Babe, a full-chorus, full-orchestra musical about Zaharias.[38]
In June 2011, Little, Brown published a major biography of Zaharias, Wonder Girl, by author Don Van Natta, Jr.[6][39]
Family Guy has made numerous references to Babe Zaharias being one of the greatest Americans to have lived.
In season 21 of The Simpsons, Marge dresses up as Zaharias for her Charity Chicks calendar with a history theme. Marge also refers to her as the female Tiger Woods of the 20th century.
On August 26, 2014, her story was portrayed in a "Sport Heroes" episode of the Comedy Central series Drunk History; Didrikson Zaharias was played by Emily Deschanel.
Amateur wins[edit]
Note: This list is incomplete.
1935 Texas Women’s Amateur
1946 U.S. Women's Amateur, Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur
1947 North and South Women's Amateur, British Ladies Amateur
Professional wins[edit]
LPGA Tour wins (41)[edit]
1940 (1) Women's Western Open (as an amateur)
1944 (1) Women's Western Open (as an amateur)
1945 (1) Women's Western Open (as an amateur)
1947 (2) Tampa Open, Titleholders Championship (as an amateur)
1948 (3) All American Open, World Championship, U.S. Women's Open
1949 (2) World Championship, Eastern Open
1950 (8) Titleholders Championship, Pebble Beach Weathervane, Cleveland Weathervane, 144 Hole Weathervane, Women's Western Open, All American Open, World Championship, U.S. Women's Open
1951 (9) Ponte Verde Beach Women's Open, Tampa Women's Open, Lakewood Weathervane, Richmond Women's Open, Valley Open, Meridian Hills Weathervane, All American Open, World Championship, Women's Texas Open
1952 (5) Miami Weathervane, Titleholders Championship, Bakersfield Open (tied with Marlene Hagge, Betty Jameson and Betsy Rawls), Fresno Open, Women's Texas Open
1953 (2) Sarasota Open, Babe Zaharias Open
1954 (5) Serbin Open, Sarasota Open, Damon Runyon Cancer Fund Tournament, U.S. Women's Open, All American Open
1955 (2) Tampa Open, Peach Blossom Open
LPGA Majors are shown in bold.
Other wins[edit]
1940 Women's Texas Open
1945 Women's Texas Open
1946 All American Open, Women's Texas Open
1947 Hardscrabble Open
1951 Orlando Florida 2-Ball (with George Bolesta)
1952 Orlando Mixed (with Al Besselink)
Major championships[edit]
Wins (10)[edit]
Year
Championship
Winning score
Margin
Runner-up
1940 Women's Western Open 5 & 4 Mrs. Russell Mann
1944 Women's Western Open 7 & 5 Dorothy Germain (a)
1945 Women's Western Open 4 & 2 Dorothy Germain (a)
1947 Titleholders Championship +4 (78–81–71–74=304) 5 strokes Dorothy Kirby (a)
1948 U.S. Women's Open E (75–72–75–78=300) 8 strokes Betty Hicks
1950 Titleholders Championship +10 (72–78–73–75=298) 8 strokes Claire Doran (a)
1950 Women's Western Open 5 & 3 Peggy Kirk
1950 U.S. Women's Open −9 (75–76–70–70=291) 9 strokes Betsy Rawls (a)
1952 Titleholders Championship +11 (74–73–73–79=299) 7 strokes Betsy Rawls
1954 U.S. Women's Open +3 (72–71–73–75=291) 12 strokes Betty Hicks
See also[edit]
List of golfers with most LPGA Tour wins
List of golfers with most LPGA major championship wins
Female golfers who have competed in men's PGA tournaments:
Annika Sorenstam
Suzy Whaley
Michelle Wie
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Cayleff, Susan E. (1996). Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06593-4.
Klawans, Harold L. (1996). 'Why Michael Couldn't Hit and Other Tales of the Neurology of Sports. W.H. Freeman & Company. ISBN 978-0-7167-3001-9.
Van Natta Jr., Don (2011). Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-05699-1.
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson (1955). This Life I've Led: My Autobiography. New York A.S Barns & Co. ASIN B0018EAHXW.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
Babe, a 1975 TV movie biography, at The Internet Movie Database
Babe Didrikson Zaharias Photos held by the Library of Congress.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias at the LPGA Tour official site
Babe Didrikson Zaharias biography at Golf.about.com
"Babe Didrikson Zaharias's Legacy Fades," The New York Times, June 25, 2011
Babe Didrikson Zaharias – Note: Although this is the official site of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation, this site once contained a number of notable factual errors that have since been corrected. For example, it stated that she won all of the events she entered at the 1932 Olympic games when in fact she won two of the three. It stated that she graduated from high school; she did not. And it stated that she did not smoke, which is also not true.
Michals, Debra. "Mildred Ella 'Babe' Didrikson Zaharias". National Women's History Museum. 2015.
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Babe Zaharias in the Olympic Games
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Olympic champions in women's sprint hurdles
80 m hurdles
1932 Babe Didrikson (USA)
1936 Ondina Valla (ITA)
1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)
1952 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty (AUS)
1956 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty (AUS)
1960 Irina Press (URS)
1964 Karin Balzer (EUA)
1968 Maureen Caird (AUS)
100 m hurdles
1972 Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)
1976 Johanna Schaller (GDR)
1980 Vera Komisova (URS)
1984 Benita Fitzgerald-Brown (USA)
1988 Yordanka Donkova (BUL)
1992 Voula Patoulidou (GRE)
1996 Ludmila Engquist (SWE)
2000 Olga Shishigina (KAZ)
2004 Joanna Hayes (USA)
2008 Dawn Harper (USA)
2012 Sally Pearson (AUS)
2016 Brianna Rollins (USA)
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Olympic champions in women's javelin throw
1932 Babe Didrikson (USA)
1936 Tilly Fleischer (GER)
1948 Herma Bauma (AUT)
1952 Dana Zátopková (TCH)
1956 Inese Jaunzeme (URS)
1960 Elvīra Ozoliņa (URS)
1964 Mihaela Peneș (ROU)
1968 Angéla Németh (HUN)
1972 Ruth Fuchs (GDR)
1976 Ruth Fuchs (GDR)
1980 María Caridad Colón (CUB)
1984 Tessa Sanderson (GBR)
1988 Petra Felke (GDR)
1992 Silke Renk (GER)
1996 Heli Rantanen (FIN)
2000 Trine Hattestad (NOR)
2004 Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)
2008 Barbora Špotáková (CZE)
2012 Barbora Špotáková (CZE)
2016 Sara Kolak (CRO)
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US National Championship winners in women's high jump
1923–1979
Amateur Athletic Union
1923: Catherine Wright
1924: Not held
1925: Elizabeth Stine
1926–27: Catherine McGuire
1928: Mildred Wiley
1929–31: Jean Shiley
1932: Jean Shiley & Babe Didrikson
1933: Alice Arden
1934: Not held
1935: Barbara Howe
1936: Annette Rogers
1937–38: Margaret Bergmann
1939–48: Alice Coachman
1949: Gertrude Orr
1950: Dorothy Chisholm
1951–52: Marion Boos
1953: Mildred McDaniel
1954: Jeanette Cantrell
1955–56: Mildred McDaniel
1957: Verneda Thomas & Hazel Ulmer
1958: Rose Robinson & Barbara Brown
1959–61: Lis Josefson
1962: Kinuko Tsutsumi (JPN)
1963–67: Eleanor Montgomery
1968: Theresa Thresher
1969: Eleanor Montgomery
1970: Sally Plihal
1971: Linda Iddings
1972: Audrey Reid
1973: DeAnne Wilson
1974–77: Joni Huntley
1978: Louise Ritter
1979: Debbie Brill (CAN)
1980–1992
The Athletics Congress
1980: Coleen Sommer
1981: Pam Spencer
1982: Debbie Brill (CAN)
1983: Louise Ritter
1984: Pam Spencer
1985–86: Louise Ritter
1987: Coleen Sommer
1988–89: Jan Wohlschlag
1990–91: Yolanda Henry
1992: Tanya Hughes
1993–present
USA Track & Field
1993: Tanya Hughes
1994: Angie Bradburn
1995: Amy Acuff
1996: Tisha Waller
1997: Amy Acuff
1998–99: Tisha Waller
2000: Karol Damon
2001: Amy Acuff
2002: Tisha Waller
2003: Amy Acuff
2004: Tisha Waller
2005: Amy Acuff
2006: Chaunté Howard
2007: Amy Acuff
2008–09: Chaunté Howard
2010: Chaunté Lowe
2011: Brigetta Barrett
2012: Chaunté Lowe
2013: Brigetta Barrett
2014–16: Chaunté Lowe
2017: Vashti Cunningham
Notes
OT: Since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event.
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US National Championship winners in women's long jump
1923–1979
Amateur Athletic Union
1923: Helen Dinnehey
1924: Dorothy Walsh
1925: Helen Filkey
1926: Nellie Todd
1927: Eleanor Egg
1928: Elta Cartwright
1929: Nellie Todd
1930: Stella Walsh
1931: Babe Didrikson
1932: Nellie Todd
1933: Genevieve Valvoda
1934: Not held
1935: Etta Tate
1936: Mable Smith
1937–8: Lula Hymes
1939: Stella Walsh (POL) * Lula Mae Hymes
1940–41: Stella Walsh (POL) * Lucy Newell
1942–45: Stella Walsh (POL) * Rowena Harrison
1946: Stella Walsh (POL) * Lillian Young
1947: Lillie Purifoy
1948: Stella Walsh (POL) * Lillian Young
1949–50: Mabel Landry
1951: Stella Walsh (POL) * Nancy Phillips
1952–3: Mabel Landry
1954–5: Nancy Phillips
1956–9: Margaret Mathews
1960–2: Willye White
1963: Edith McGuire
1964–6: Willye White
1967: Pat Connolly
1968–70: Willye White
1971: Kim Attlesey
1972: Willye White
1973–75: Martha Watson
1976: Kathy McMillan
1977–8: Jodi Anderson
1979: Kathy McMillan
1980–1992
The Athletics Congress
1980–1: Jodi Anderson
1982–3: Carol Lewis
1984: Shonel Ferguson (BAH)
1985–6: Carol Lewis
1987: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1988: Sheila Echols
1989: Claire Connor
1990–2: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1993–present
USA Track & Field
1993–6OT: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1997–8: Marion Jones
1999: Dawn Burrell
2000OT: Marion Jones
2001: Jenny Adams
2002: Brianna Glenn
2003: Grace Upshaw
2004OT: Marion Jones
2005: Grace Upshaw
2006: Rose Richmond
2007: Grace Upshaw
2008OT–12OT: Brittney Reese
2013: Janay DeLoach Soukup
2014: Brittney Reese
2015: Tianna Bartoletta
2016OT: Brittney Reese
2017: Tianna Bartoletta
Notes
OT: Since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event.
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US National Championship winners in women's javelin throw
1923–1979
Amateur Athletic Union
1923: Roberta Ranck
1924: Esther Spargo
1925: Aloa Silva
1926: Lillian Copeland
1927–8: Margaret Jenkins
1929: Estelle Hill
1930: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1931: Lillian Copeland
1932: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1933: Nan Gindele
1934: Not held
1935: Sylvia Broman
1936: Martha Worst
1937–8: Rose Auerbach
1939–49: Dorothy Dodson
1950: Amelia Wood
1951: Frances Licata
1952: Marjorie Larney
1953: Amelia Wood
1954–6: Karen Anderson
1957–60: Marjorie Larney
1961: Frances Davenport
1962: Karen Mendyka
1963: Frances Davenport
1964–7: RaNae Bair
1968: Barbara Friedrich
1969: Kate Schmidt
1970–2: Sherry Calvert
1973–7: Kate Schmidt
1978: Sherry Calvert
1979: Kate Schmidt
1980–1992
The Athletics Congress
1980–1: Karin Smith
1982: Lynda Hughes
1983–4: Karin Smith
1985: Cathy Sulinski
1986: Helena Uusitalo (FIN) * Donna Mayhew
1987: Karin Smith
1988: Donna Mayhew
1989: Laverne Eve (BAH) * Donna Mayhew
1990–1: Karin Smith
1992: Donna Mayhew
1993–onwards
USA Track & Field
1993–5: Donna Mayhew
1996: Nicole Carroll
1997: Lynda Lipson
1998: Nicole Carroll
1999–2000: Lynda Blutreich
2001: Kim Kreiner
2002: Serene Ross
2003: Erica Wheeler
2004–6: Kim Kreiner
2007: Dana Pounds
2008–11: Kara Patterson
2012–3: Brittany Borman
2014–5: Kara Winger
2016: Maggie Malone
2017: Kara Winger
Olympic Trials
The 1920, 1928 and 1932 championships, and championships in Olympic years since 1992 have incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held separately.
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US National Championship winners in women's 100-meter hurdles
1923–1979
Amateur Athletic Union
1923–4: Hazel Kirk
1925–9: Helen Filkey
1930: Evelyne Hall
1931–2: Babe Didrikson
1933: Simone Schaller
1934: Not held
1935: Jean Hiller
1936: Anne O'Brien
1937: Cora Gaines
1938–9: Marie Cortell
1940: Sybil Cooper
1941: Lelia Perry
1942: Lillie Purifoy
1943: Nancy Cowperthwaite
1944–5: Lillie Purifoy
1946–7: Nancy Cowperthwaite
1948–9: Bernice Robinson
1950: Evelyn Lawler
1951: Nancy C. Phillips
1952: Constance Darnowski
1953: Nancy Phillips
1954: Constance Darnowski
1955 Bertha Diaz (CUB) * Barbara Mueller
1956 Bertha Diaz (CUB) * Shirley Eckel
1957: Shirley Crowder
1958: Not held
1959: Shirley Crowder
1960: JoAnn Grissom
1961–2: Cherrie Parrish
1963–4: Rosie Bonds
1965–6: Cherrie Sherrard
1967–8: Mamie Rallins
1969: Chi Cheng (TPE) * Mamie Rallins
1970: Mamie Rallins
1971: Patty Johnson
1972: Mamie Rallins
1973–4: Patty Johnson
1975–6: Jane Frederick
1977: Patty Van Wolvelaere
1978–9: Deby LaPlante
1980–1992
The Athletics Congress
1980–2: Stephanie Hightower
1983: Benita Fitzgerald
1984: Stephanie Hightower
1985: Rhonda Blanford
1986: Benita Fitzgerald-Brown
1987: LaVonna Martin
1988: Kim McKenzie
1989: Lynda Tolbert
1990: LaVonna Martin
1991–2: Gail Devers
1993–present
USA Track & Field
1993: Lynda Tolbert
1994: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1995–6: Gail Devers
1997: Melissa Morrison
1998: Cheryl Dickey
1999–2004: Gail Devers
2005: Michelle Perry
2006–7: Virginia Powell
2008: Lolo Jones
2009: Dawn Harper
2010: Lolo Jones
2011: Kellie Wells
2012: Dawn Harper
2013: Brianna Rollins
2014–5: Dawn Harper Nelson
2016: Brianna Rollins
2017: Kendra Harrison
Notes
OT: 1932, and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event.
Distance:The event was over 60 yards until 1928, 80 meters 1929-1968
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1932 USA Olympic Track & Field Team
Qualification
1932 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
Men's track & road athletes
Edgar Ablowich (r)
Percy Beard
Bill Carr
Bill Chisholm
Ernest Crosbie
Frank Crowley
Glenn Cunningham
Glen Dawson
Dan Dean
Hector Dyer (r)
Ben Eastman
Ivan Fuqua (r)
Eddie Genung
James Gordon
Lou Gregory
Norwood Hallowell
Glenn Hardin
Joe Healey
James Henigan
Ralph Hill
Harry Hinkel
Chuck Hornbostel
Jack Keller
Bob Kiesel (r)
Joe McCluskey
Ralph Metcalfe
Albert Michelsen
Hans Oldag
Tom Ottey
Eino Pentti
Walter Pritchard
Paul Rekers
George Saling
George Simpson
Morgan Taylor
Eddie Tolan
Emmett Toppino (r)
Edwin Turner
Karl Warner (r)
Frank Wykoff (r)
Men's field athletes
John Anderson
Dick Barber
Lee Bartlett
Jim Bausch
Sidney Bowman
Wilson Charles
Ken Churchill
Clyde Coffman
Frank Connor
Sol Furth
Ed Gordon
Bill Graber
Nelson Gray
George Jefferson
Paul Jessup
Cornelius Johnson
Henri LaBorde
Grant MacDougall
Malcolm Metcalf
Bill Miller
Lambert Redd
Rolland Romero
Harlow Rothert
Leo Sexton
George Spitz
Bob Van Osdel
Pete Zaremba
Women's track athletes
Mary Carew (r)
Babe Didrikson
Evelyn Furtsch (r)
Evelyne Hall
Ethel Harrington
Annette Rogers (r)
Simone Schaller
Wilhelmina von Bremen
Elizabeth Wilde
Women's field athletes
Lillian Copeland
Babe Didrikson
Nan Gindele
Margaret Jenkins
Ruth Osburn
Annette Rogers
Gloria Russell
Jean Shiley
Non-competing relay pool members
Arnold Adams
Tidye Pickett
Louise Stokes
Coaches
Lawson Robertson (men's head coach)
Eddie Farrell (men's assistant coach)
Harry Hillman (men's assistant coach)
Jack Magee (men's assistant coach)
George Vreeland (women's coach)
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Babe Zaharias in the major championships
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U.S. Women's Open champions
1946 Patty Berg∞
1947 Betty Jameson
1948 Babe Zaharias
1949 Louise Suggs
1950 Babe Zaharias
1951 Betsy Rawls
1952 Louise Suggs
1953 Betsy Rawls†
1954 Babe Zaharias‡
1955 Fay Crocker‡
1956 Kathy Cornelius†
1957 Betsy Rawls
1958 Mickey Wright‡
1959 Mickey Wright
1960 Betsy Rawls
1961 Mickey Wright
1962 Murle Lindstrom
1963 Mary Mills‡
1964 Mickey Wright†
1965 Carol Mann
1966 Sandra Spuzich
1967 Catherine LaCoste‡#
1968 Susie Berning‡
1969 Donna Caponi
1970 Donna Caponi‡
1971 JoAnne Carner‡
1972 Susie Berning
1973 Susie Berning
1974 Sandra Haynie
1975 Sandra Palmer
1976 JoAnne Carner†
1977 Hollis Stacy
1978 Hollis Stacy
1979 Jerilyn Britz
1980 Amy Alcott
1981 Pat Bradley
1982 Janet Alex
1983 Jan Stephenson
1984 Hollis Stacy
1985 Kathy Baker
1986 Jane Geddes†
1987 Laura Davies†
1988 Liselotte Neumann
1989 Betsy King
1990 Betsy King
1991 Meg Mallon
1992 Patty Sheehan†
1993 Lauri Merten
1994 Patty Sheehan
1995 Annika Sörenstam
1996 Annika Sörenstam
1997 Alison Nicholas
1998 Pak Se-ri†
1999 Juli Inkster
2000 Karrie Webb
2001 Karrie Webb
2002 Juli Inkster
2003 Hilary Lunke†
2004 Meg Mallon
2005 Birdie Kim
2006 Annika Sörenstam†
2007 Cristie Kerr
2008 Inbee Park
2009 Ji Eun-hee
2010 Paula Creamer
2011 Ryu So-yeon†
2012 Choi Na-yeon
2013 Inbee Park
2014 Michelle Wie
2015 Chun In-gee
2016 Brittany Lang†
2017 Park Sung-hyun
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Titleholders Championship champions
1937 Patty Berg
1938 Patty Berg
1939 Patty Berg
1940 Helen Hicks
1941 Dorothy Kirby
1942 Dorothy Kirby
1943-45 No Tournament
1946 Louise Suggs
1947 Babe Zaharias
1948 Patty Berg
1949 Peggy Kirk#
1950 Babe Zaharias
1951 Pat O'Sullivan#
1952 Babe Zaharias
1953 Patty Berg
1954 Louise Suggs
1955 Patty Berg
1956 Louise Suggs
1957 Patty Berg
1958 Beverly Hanson
1959 Louise Suggs
1960 Fay Crocker
1961 Mickey Wright
1962 Mickey Wright†
1963 Marilynn Smith†
1964 Marilynn Smith
1965 Kathy Whitworth
1966 Kathy Whitworth
1967-71 No Tournament
1972 Sandra Palmer
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Women's Western Open champions
Match play
era
1930 Mrs. Lee Mida
1931 June Beebe
1932 Jane Weiller
1933 June Beebe
1934 Marian McDougall
1935 Opal Hill
1936 Opal Hill
1937 Helen Hicks
1938 Bea Barrett
1939 Helen Dettweiler
1940 Babe Zaharias
1941 Patty Berg
1942 Betty Jameson
1943 Patty Berg
1944 Babe Zaharias
1945 Babe Zaharias
1946 Louise Suggs
1947 Louise Suggs
1948 Patty Berg
1949 Louise Suggs
1950 Babe Zaharias
1951 Patty Berg
1952 Betsy Rawls
1953 Louise Suggs
1954 Betty Jameson
Stroke play
era
1955 Patty Berg
1956 Beverly Hanson
1957 Patty Berg
1958 Patty Berg
1959 Betsy Rawls
1960 Joyce Ziske†
1961 Mary Lena Faulk
1962 Mickey Wright†
1963 Mickey Wright
1964 Carol Mann
1965 Susie Maxwell
1966 Mickey Wright
1967 Kathy Whitworth
† indicates the event was won in a playoff
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IAAF Hall of Fame
Jesse Owens
Abebe Bikila
Paavo Nurmi
Sergey Bubka
Sebastian Coe
Carl Lewis
Emil Zátopek
Al Oerter
Adhemar da Silva
Edwin Moses
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Betty Cuthbert
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Wang Junxia
Irena Szewińska1
Michael Johnson2
Dan O'Brien2
Babe Zaharias2
Alberto Juantorena3
Kip Keino4
Peter Snell5
Vladimir Golubnichiy6
Iolanda Balaș7
Stefka Kostadinova7
Harrison Dillard8
Marjorie Jackson8
Hannes Kolehmainen8
Natalya Lisovskaya8
Svetlana Masterkova8
Noureddine Morceli8
Parry O'Brien8
Marie-José Pérec8
Viktor Saneyev8
Yuriy Sedykh8
Daley Thompson8
Grete Waitz8
Valeriy Brumel9
Glenn Davis9
Heike Drechsler9
Hicham El Guerrouj9
Marita Koch9
Robert Korzeniowski9
Jānis Lūsis9
Bob Mathias9
Wilma Rudolph9
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty9
Lasse Virén9
Cornelius Warmerdam9
New entry
1May 17, 2012
2June 6, 2012
3June 11, 2012
4July 2, 2012
5August 4, 2012
6September 15, 2012
7October 13, 2012
8November 16, 2013
9November 21, 2014
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Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
[show]
1980–1989
1985
Archuleta, LenaLena Archuleta
Bird, IsabellaIsabella Bird
Bonfils, HelenHelen Bonfils
Brown, MollyMolly Brown
Chipeta
Chase, Mary CoyleMary Coyle Chase
Eisenhower, MamieMamie Eisenhower
Ford, JustinaJustina Ford
Griffith, EmilyEmily Griffith
Jackson, Helen HuntHelen Hunt Jackson
Lamm, DottieDottie Lamm
Maxwell, MarthaMartha Maxwell
Meir, GoldaGolda Meir
Owl Woman
Rippon, MaryMary Rippon
Sabin, FlorenceFlorence Sabin
Schmoll, HazelHazel Schmoll
Schroeder, PatPat Schroeder
Stanton, May BonfilsMay Bonfils Stanton
Steinbeck, AnneAnne Steinbeck
Stockton, RuthRuth Stockton
Tabor, Baby DoeBaby Doe Tabor
Wormington-Volk, MarieMarie Wormington-Volk
Yancey, JeanJean Yancey
1986
Brico, AntoniaAntonia Brico
Peterson, Helen WhiteHelen White Peterson
Roche, JosephineJosephine Roche
Smith, Eudochia BellEudochia Bell Smith
1987
Goldberg, MiriamMiriam Goldberg
Jacobs, Frances WisebartFrances Wisebart Jacobs
Lathrop, Mary FlorenceMary Florence Lathrop
Walker, Lenore E.Lenore E. Walker
1988
Churchill, CarolineCaroline Churchill
Crain, OletaOleta Crain
Orullian, LaRaeLaRae Orullian
Stone, Elizabeth Hickok RobbinsElizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone
1989
Brown, ClaraClara Brown
Fallis, Edwina HumeEdwina Hume Fallis
Hennessy, SumikoSumiko Hennessy
Robinson, Cleo ParkerCleo Parker Robinson
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1990–1999
1990
Bancroft, CarolineCaroline Bancroft
Cantwell, Hendrika B.Hendrika B. Cantwell
Platt-Decker, SarahSarah Platt-Decker
Ries, Jane SilversteinJane Silverstein Ries
1991
Black, Helen MarieHelen Marie Black
Fiore, GenevieveGenevieve Fiore
Tabor, AugustaAugusta Tabor
Webb, WilmaWilma Webb
1996
Van Derbur, MarilynMarilyn Van Derbur
Birkland, JoanJoan Birkland
Boulding, Elise M.Elise M. Boulding
Crawford, Dana HudkinsDana Hudkins Crawford
Curry, Margaret L.Margaret L. Curry
Finkel, Terri H.Terri H. Finkel
Gilfoyle, Elnora M.Elnora M. Gilfoyle
Long, Mary Hauck ElitchMary Hauck Elitch Long
McConnell-Mills, FrancesFrances McConnell-Mills
Noel, Rachel BassetteRachel Bassette Noel
Walter, Mildred PittsMildred Pitts Walter
1997
Anderson, SusanSusan Anderson
Archuleta, EppieEppie Archuleta
Barry, CealCeal Barry
Bourdas, JuanaJuana Bourdas
Hunt, SwaneeSwanee Hunt
Muse, ReyneldaReynelda Muse
Tobin, Mary LukeMary Luke Tobin
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2000–2009
2000
Baca, PollyPolly Baca
Burns, JoyJoy Burns
Heath, JosieJosie Heath
Lincoln, J. VirginiaJ. Virginia Lincoln
Robinson, Pauline ShortPauline Short Robinson
Urioste, Martha M.Martha M. Urioste
Weinshienk, ZitaZita Weinshienk
Alvarado, LindaLinda Alvarado
Fraser, VirginiaVirginia Fraser
2002
Gaskill, GudyGudy Gaskill
Joselyn, Jo Ann CramJo Ann Cram Joselyn
Miller, MaryMary Miller
Miller, SueSue Miller
Tanner, GloriaGloria Tanner
Warner, Emily HowellEmily Howell Warner
2004
Anna Lee AldredAnna Lee Aldred
Boyd, Louie CroftLouie Croft Boyd
Chambers, MerleMerle Chambers
Gabow, PatriciaPatricia Gabow
LaNier, CarlottaCarlotta LaNier
Perry, AntoinetteAntoinette Perry
Perry, CharlotteCharlotte Perry and Mansfield, PortiaPortia Mansfield
Taylor, Arie ParksArie Parks Taylor
2006
Allen, StephanieStephanie Allen
Collins, JudyJudy Collins
Downs, MarionMarion Downs
Estés, Clarissa PinkolaClarissa Pinkola Estés
Hirschfeld, ArleneArlene Hirschfeld
Jones, JeanJean Jones
Lorber, FannieFannie Lorber
Solomon, SusanSusan Solomon
Spencer, CarolineCaroline Spencer
Spitz, VivienVivien Spitz
2008
Anschutz-Rodgers, SueSue Anschutz-Rodgers
Alicia Cuarón, AliciaAlicia Alicia Cuarón
Dennis, EvieEvie Dennis
Dubofsky, JeanJean Dubofsky
Makepeace, Mary LouMary Lou Makepeace
Nie, LilyLily Nie
Petteys, AnnaAnna Petteys
Routt, ElizaEliza Routt
Woltman, RheaRhea Woltman
Zaharias, Mildred DidriksonMildred Didrikson Zaharias
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2010–2019
2010
Albright, MadeleineMadeleine Albright
Greenberg, ElinorElinor Greenberg
Guajardo, MariaMaria Guajardo
Marrack, PhilippaPhilippa Marrack
Martinez, RamonaRamona Martinez
McDaniel, HattieHattie McDaniel
O'Brien, SusanSusan O'Brien
Scott, Bartley MarieBartley Marie Scott
Taylor, Alice BemisAlice Bemis Taylor
Tietjen, JillJill Tietjen
2012
Anseth, Kristi S.Kristi S. Anseth
Bonnema, JanetJanet Bonnema
Duncan, Fannie MaeFannie Mae Duncan
Ford, Loretta C.Loretta C. Ford
Gallegos, Erinea GarciaErinea Garcia Gallegos
Gilpin, LauraLaura Gilpin
Grandin, TempleTemple Grandin
Hsu, Ding-WenDing-Wen Hsu
Kerwin, Mary AnnMary Ann Kerwin
Mullarkey, Mary J.Mary J. Mullarkey
2014
Julia Archibald Holmes
Elizabeth Wright Ingraham
Christine Arguello
Lauren Young Casteel
Penny Hamilton
Kristina Johnson
Diana Wall
Joanne M. Maguire
Morley Cowles Ballantine
Helen Ring Robinson
2015
Anne Evans
Minnie Harding
Laura Ann Hershey
Elizabeth Pellet
2016
Anna Jo Haynes
Arlene Vigil Kramer
Lydia Peña
Sandra I. Rothenberg
Shari Shink
Judith B. Wagner
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Inductees to the National Women's Hall of Fame
[show]
1970–1979
1973
Jane Addams
Marian Anderson
Susan B. Anthony
Clara Barton
Mary McLeod Bethune
Elizabeth Blackwell
Pearl S. Buck
Rachel Carson
Mary Cassatt
Emily Dickinson
Amelia Earhart
Alice Hamilton
Helen Hayes
Helen Keller
Eleanor Roosevelt
Florence Sabin
Margaret Chase Smith
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Helen Brooke Taussig
Harriet Tubman
1976
Abigail Adams
Margaret Mead
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
1979
Dorothea Dix
Juliette Gordon Low
Alice Paul
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
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1980–1989
1981
Margaret Sanger
Sojourner Truth
1982
Carrie Chapman Catt
Frances Perkins
1983
Belva Lockwood
Lucretia Mott
1984
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Bessie Smith
1986
Barbara McClintock
Lucy Stone
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1988
Gwendolyn Brooks
Willa Cather
Sally Ride
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
[show]
1990–1999
1990
Margaret Bourke-White
Barbara Jordan
Billie Jean King
Florence B. Seibert
1991
Gertrude Belle Elion
1993
Ethel Percy Andrus
Antoinette Blackwell
Emily Blackwell
Shirley Chisholm
Jacqueline Cochran
Ruth Colvin
Marian Wright Edelman
Alice Evans
Betty Friedan
Ella Grasso
Martha Wright Griffiths
Fannie Lou Hamer
Dorothy Height
Dolores Huerta
Mary Jacobi
Mae Jemison
Mary Lyon
Mary Mahoney
Wilma Mankiller
Constance Baker Motley
Georgia O'Keeffe
Annie Oakley
Rosa Parks
Esther Peterson
Jeannette Rankin
Ellen Swallow Richards
Elaine Roulet
Katherine Siva Saubel
Gloria Steinem
Helen Stephens
Lillian Wald
Madam C. J. Walker
Faye Wattleton
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Gloria Yerkovich
1994
Bella Abzug
Ella Baker
Myra Bradwell
Annie Jump Cannon
Jane Cunningham Croly
Catherine East
Geraldine Ferraro
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Grace Hopper
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Zora Neale Hurston
Anne Hutchinson
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Susette La Flesche
Louise McManus
Maria Mitchell
Antonia Novello
Linda Richards
Wilma Rudolph
Betty Bone Schiess
Muriel Siebert
Nettie Stevens
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Winnemucca
Fanny Wright
1995
Virginia Apgar
Ann Bancroft
Amelia Bloomer
Mary Breckinridge
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values: בייב דידריקסון – Hebrew

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values: Бэйб Захариас – Mongolian

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values: ベーブ・ディドリクソン＝ザハリアス – Japanese

values: Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias – Norwegian

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values: Захариас, Бейб – Russian

values: Babe Didrikson Zaharias – Simple English

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values: Бейб Захаріас – Ukrainian

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values: 蓓比·札哈里亞斯 – Chinese

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