"Gillian Gilks Gillian Gilks (formerly Gillian Perrin, and later Gillian Goodwin; born 20 June 1950) is a former badminton player from England who won numerous major titles in all three events (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s. Tall and slender in her badminton prime, with elegant, accurate strokes, Gilks is the most successful player ever in the European Badminton Championships with 12 titles, two of them in women's singles, four in women's doubles and six in mixed doubles. She is also one of the most successful players in the long history of the All"
"as scenes from the Tour de France. In 1955 she featured in an advertisement for Player's Players' cigarettes. Eileen is a Life Member and President of the Coventry Cycling Club, from which she has enjoyed great help and friendship over the years. Finally in 1955 at the end of her professional career, she had her daughter, Louise. The cycling historian Bernard Thompson wrote: Adolphe Abrahams, considered to be the founder of British sports medicine, described Sheridan as ""a human machine of the highest grade capable of superlative performance"". (N.B. Galway-Dublin, Sheridan broke the men's as well as the women's record)"
"his dream of returning to the Olympics came up short when he finished a disappointing seventh at the Olympic Trials in July. His best jump of 8.25m was well below his best jumps of the year, which would have been enough to qualify. Goodwin is married to former Longhorn hurdler champion Morgan Goodwin-Snow. On November 12, 2017, Morgan suffered a miscarriage just hours prior to the 49ers' game against the New York Giants. Goodwin is a cousin of fellow San Francisco 49ers teammate, Adrian Colbert. Marquise Goodwin Marquise Derell Goodwin (born November 19, 1990) is an American football wide receiver"
"University games, the 2011 IAAF World Championships, the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the 2015 Pan American Games, where he won silver. He has competed as a long jumper and sprinter, and has been a top competitor in the 60 meters and 100 meters dashes, and the triple jump. Goodwin was born in Lubbock, Texas. He attended Rowlett High School in Rowlett, Texas, and played high school football and competed in track and field for the Rowlett Eagles. He had the second fastest 100-meter time (10.24w) in the state, was the state champion in the triple jump and long jump, and"
"ERA in 162 games. Goodwin died in St. Louis, Missouri at the age of 81. <br> Jim Goodwin (baseball) James Patrick Goodwin (August 15, 1926 – April 12, 2008) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. Listed at , , he batted and threw left-handed. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Goodwin started his professional career with the New York Giants organization, playing for them in their Minor league system with the Springfield (1943) and Jersey City (1944) teams, by then the top farm system affiliates of the Giants. But his baseball career was interrupted after he entered service in"
"1882, when it folded due to poor attendance. Irwin next spent three seasons with the Providence Grays, and was captain and starting shortstop of the 1884 Providence team that became world champions. The 1884 Grays featured star pitchers Charles Radbourn and Charlie Sweeney; the two hurlers did not get along well, and Sweeney left the team in the middle of the season. The club folded after a fourth-place finish in 1885. Irwin moved on to the newly formed Philadelphia Quakers in 1886. Tragedy struck the Philadelphia squad in 1888 when pitcher Charlie Ferguson developed typhoid fever, dying at Irwin's home."
"on the American presidency. During this period, she also assisted Johnson in drafting his memoirs. Her first book ""Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream"", which drew upon her conversations with the late president, was published in 1977, becoming a ""New York Times"" bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career. A sports journalist as well, Goodwin was the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room in 1979. She consulted on and appeared in Ken Burns's 1994 documentary ""Baseball"". Goodwin won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History for ""No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt:"
"primarily features athletes from various American sports. Goodwin & Company Goodwin & Company was an American tobacco manufacturer from New York City. Initially E. Goodwin and Brother, the company was founded before the American Civil War. It was known for its cigarette brands ""Gypsy Queen"" and ""Old Judge"". In 1890, the company was merged, along with four others, into James Buchanan Duke's American Tobacco Company to create an American monopoly on tobacco product manufacturing and retail. Charles Goodwin Emery, who had the principal interest in Goodwin & Company, became Treasurer of the American Tobacco Company. Emery built a showplace ""castle"","
"of the undefeated Merrimac team that won the Gold Coast Premier League. Goodwin grew up competing in athletics events on the Gold Coast and set several city records in the process. He quit athletics in 2005 to focus on his university studies and began playing soccer. In 2014, at 27 years of age, Goodwin returned to athletics to have one last shot at a career in the sport. He began training with Currumbin Vikings beach sprint coach Brett Robinson who led fellow Gold Coaster Mitchell Williams to a 2011 Stawell Gift victory. In April 2015 Goodwin won the Stawell Gift,"
"Marquise Goodwin Marquise Derell Goodwin (born November 19, 1990) is an American football wide receiver and kick returner for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) and a former Olympian who competed in the long jump in track and field. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas. In track and field, his specialty is the long jump, an event in which he won two national college championships. Goodwin represented the United States at the 2008 IAAF World junior championships, the 2011 World"
"Fittler and won the competition Matt Goodwin Matthew Goodwin (born 1960) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s. From 1983 until 1989 Goodwin played a total of 108 games for the Penrith Panthers, in the process scoring a total of 10 tries for the club. A tough forward who was a Penrith crowd favourite, Goodwin was voted as Penrith Panthers 'player of the year' in 1987. In 1990, Goodwin was cut by the Panthers coach Ron Willey and later that year Goodwin signed for the Parramatta Eels. Unfortunately for Goodwin, he was injured while playing"
"Leo Goodwin (swimmer) Leo Joseph Goodwin (November 13, 1883 – May 25, 1957) was an American swimmer, diver, and water polo player. He competed in the 1904 and 1908 Summer Olympics and won medals in all three disciplines. Goodwin nearly lost his arm after blood poisoning in 1906. Dr. Dave Hennen, a swimmer from his club and a famous surgeon, dissected his entire forearm while cleaning it from poison, then re-assembled the veins, muscles and ligaments. Goodwin quickly recovered, but was unfit for the 1906 Olympics. At the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition Goodwin set an outdoor record by swimming 3.5"
"Sox fan while attending Harvard, and is now a season ticket holder. Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, and political commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including ""Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream""; ""The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga""; ""Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln""; and ""The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism"". Goodwin's book ""No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II"" won the Pulitzer Prize for History"
"Birmingham, he was also known for introducing yoga, psychological testing and other new training techniques. Goodwin also made 11 first-class appearances for Lancashire County Cricket Club (1955–1956) as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. Goodwin later moved to the United States to coach and serve as president of the Minnesota Kicks; he also coached Tacoma Stars. He lived Washington state where he also had a travel agency. He died of cancer at Gig Harbor, Washington, on 19 February 2016 at the age of 82. Freddie Goodwin Freddie Goodwin (28 June 1933 – 19 February 2016) was an English professional football player and"
"that were marginalize started to explore the possibility of competing on the world stage. There were many women who contributed to the advancement of the sport. These women were unlike the American female sport stars were welcomed by their male counterparts in the area of sports. This lead to the rapid growth of the sport. At that time there were no other sport that women competed in with the exception of lawn tennis. Women like Lystra Lewis, Eugenia Theodosia Pierre, Antionette Gaskins, Ingrid Blackman and Club players like Jean Best and Phyllis Best. Made major contribution to the sport of"
"the 1988 Summer Olympics and of the bronze-medal winning team at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Another OG, Gawain Briars, was the British number one squash player and now heads the world Professional Squash Association. Brother and sister Ralph and Natasha Firman are both racing drivers, and Natasha was the winner of the inaugural Formula Woman championship in 2004. Giles Baring and Andrew Corran were first-class cricketers, while international rugby footballers include Andy Mulligan (Ireland and the British and Irish Lions, Nick Youngs (England and his sons Ben and Tom (England) both also playing for the British and Irish Lions winning"
"life in behalf of his country. No person can do more."" Goodwin is buried in Maplewood Cemetery in his hometown of Gordonsville. , or Retrosheet Marv Goodwin Marvin Mardo Goodwin (January 16, 1891 – October 21, 1925), was a professional baseball player who was a pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1916 to 1925. He would play for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds. Goodwin was known for throwing the spitball, and he was one of the 17 pitchers allowed to continue throwing the pitch after it was outlawed in 1920. Goodwin was a pilot in World"
"subsequently released from his contract with the Eels in 1991. He made 24 appearances for the club in two years. After being released by the Eels in the 1991 season, Goodwin was signed by the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1992. But once again he was injured but this time, it was more serious, a chronic shoulder injury which effectively ended his career. He made only six appearances for the Souths before he ended his 10-year first-grade career. In May to August 2016, his son Lou Goodwin featured on the 9Go! sport and reality program The NRL Rookie, hosted by Brad"
"the governing bodies ruled that having ridden as a professional he was barred from amateur status. Godwin became trainer and mentor to the Stone Wheelers. Godwin died aged 63, returning from a ride to Tutbury Castle with friends. Godwin is commemorated by a plaque at Fenton Manor Sports Centre in Stoke on Trent that was unveiled on March 2005 by Edie Hemmings, the culmination of a 30-year campaign by her late husband, George. Godwin entered the Golden Book of Cycling on 31 December 1939. This recognised his record breaking exploits for averaging over 200 miles a day for a year."
"Sid Goodwin Sid Goodwin (1914–1980) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 1940s. He played on the for the Balmain and Newtown clubs in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership and also represented New South Wales and Australia. Goodwin played 11 seasons for the Balmain Tigers between 1933-1942 then moved to the Newtown Jets for 3 seasons between 1943-1945. He was selected to play for New South Wales in 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1944. In 1935, Goodwin took Balmain's club record for most tries in a match with 5 against University on 4 April. Also"
"William Goldwin William Goldwin (c.1682 – 1747 at Bristol) was an English schoolteacher and vicar who left his mark on cricket by creating the sport's earliest known work of literature. Goldwin, whose name is sometimes spelt ""Goldwyn"", wrote a poem of 95 competent and sometimes graceful lines of Latin hexameters on a rural cricket match. It was called ""In Certamen Pilae"" (On a Ball Game) and it was published in his ""Musae Juveniles"" in March 1706. Little is known of Goldwin himself. He attended Eton and then graduated to King's College, Cambridge in 1700. He subsequently became a Master of"
"believed to have been the first professional athlete killed as a result of a plane crash. Goodwin was born and raised in Gordonsville, Virginia, and graduated from high school there. He attended college for two years in New London, Connecticut, and later took a position as a telegraph operator with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Goodwin became an established baseball star with the semipro team in his hometown, and the railroad agreed to give him time off when he was offered a contract by the Washington Senators in 1916. In , Goodwin pitched for the Martinsburg Blue Sox of the"
"Gladys Heldman Gladys Medalie Heldman (May 13, 1922 – June 22, 2003) was an American tennis player and magazine publisher. She was the founder of ""World Tennis"" magazine; she supported Billie Jean King and eight other female tennis players: Rosie Casals, Judy Dalton, Julie Heldman, Kerry Melville, Peaches Bartkowicz, Kristy Pigeon, Nancy Richey, and Valerie Ziegenfuss. They were called the Houston Nine and formed the Virginia Slims Tour in the early 1970s (the precursor of today's WTA Tour). She is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Heldman, the daughter"
"a full academic scholarship to the School of Foreign Service there, she competed against able-bodied athletes in NCAA Division I track and field events, and is one of the first female amputees in history to compete in the NCAA. She was the first amputee in history (male or female) to compete in Division I NCAA track and field. She was elected to represent all American female athletes from 2007-2009 as President of the Women's Sports Foundation, founded by fellow sports pioneer Billie Jean King. ""Sports Illustrated"" magazine named her one of the ""Coolest Girls in Sports"". Mullins competed in the"
"the 100 metres at the 1980 Olympics. Footballer Matt Jarvis grew up in Guildford, and the town is also home to Olympic kayakers Rachel Cawthorn and Liam Heath. Robert Hayward, the former UK № 4 Thai Boxer, is a resident. Cartoonist Piers Baker, who created ""Ollie and Quentin""; the model Jodie Kidd, and news journalist Cathy Newman were all born in the town. Holly Samos – radio researcher and presenter lives here. Many of mathematician, logician and cryptographer, Alan Turing's earliest years were in this town where his family lived; Michael Buerk, BBC newsreader; Roger Fry, the English artist, critic"
"cricket, football and also gambling. Swami Vivekananda had joked about him that he was wrongly named as Goodwin and should have been named as Bad Win, alluding to his love of gambling. After his influential speech at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions, Swami Vivekananda travelled around America on a lecture tour. During the tour, Vivekananda's admirers wished to record his lectures and an advertisement was published in December 1895 in two New York newspapers, the ""Herald"" and the ""World"". In response to the advertisement, twenty-five-year-old Goodwin applied for the job. He became one of Vivekananda's staunchest followers and"
"an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2009 to 2012, and also competed for the Texas Longhorns track and field team from 2010 to 2012. Goodwin was a two-time NCAA champion in the long jump (2010, 2012) and a four-time All-American in track and field. He won five Big 12 Conference championships and made the All-Big 12 team seven times. He is the Longhorns' indoor record holder in the long jump and was the runner-up"
"performance in Toronto made her the most successful Australian athlete at the 1976 games. Freeman's incredible effort earned her the Queensland Sportswomen of the Year Award, the first time it has been given to a disabled athlete, and marked the end of her international career. Her career only spanned two Paralympics, as the injuries from a car accident thwarted her efforts to qualify for the 1980 Paralympics, but she won 10 medals, six of which were gold. Gail Nicholson was the golden girl of the pool winning 2 gold medals in swimming events. Nicholson won the 100 metres freestyle event"
"Giffen. Two years later he married Florence Gwatkin, before later emigrating to the United States. His marriage to Florence must have ended in divorce, because 5 years later he married a woman called Dorethy in the United States. They had one son, Richard V. C. Cornish. While in America, he played cricket for Belmont Cricket Club, and in 1909 he played for the United States cricket team against Canada. He died in Bala, Pennsylvania on 24 October 1918. Harry Cornish Harry Hemming Cornish (19 February 1871 – 24 October 1918) was an English cricketer. Cornish's batting and bowling styles are"
"Australia’s most prestigious foot race. His preferred event is the 400m sprint. Murray Goodwin (athlete) Murray Goodwin is an Australian athlete. Goodwin was born on the Gold Coast in Queensland. His father was a national level 800m runner. Goodwin completed a teaching degree at university and became a physical education teacher at Varsity College. Goodwin began playing soccer at the local level for Burleigh Heads in 2005 and regularly switched clubs, including stints with and Merrimac, Mudgeeraba and Surfers Paradise. At his highest level, Goodwin played semi-professional soccer in 2010 for the Gold Coast Stars in the Queensland State League,"
"Phyllis Covell Phyllis Lindrea Covell (née Howkins) (22 May 1895 – 28 October 1982) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her silver medal at the Paris Olympics of 1924 in the women's doubles event partnering with Kitty McKane. In 1923 she won the women's doubles title at the U.S. National Championships with McKane defeating the American pairing of Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Eleanor Goss in three sets. She was also a runner-up in the mixed doubles event at Wimbledon in 1921, partnering Maxwell Woosnam. In 1924 she was part of the British Wightman"
"George Mann. There he became a national hero, by running the leg bye that won the Durban Test for England, to achieve the only last-ball victory in the history of Test matches. By the 1949 season, Gladwin had developed so much as a batsman that he made 124 against Nottinghamshire and scored over 900 runs. However, he did not maintain this standard and only made one score over fifty in his last six seasons. However, as a bowler, Gladwin was always near the top of the averages until he retired in 1958 – though the return of England's pace bowling"
"After moving to Newtown in 1943, Goodwin enjoyed further premiership success in NSWRFL season 1943, scoring a double in that year's Grand Final. He was again the League's top try-scorer in 1943 and 1944. In 1944 he again played for Newtown Jets in the Grand Final, but failed to win against his old club, Balmain. Goodwin lived for most of his life in Marrickville, New South Wales, but moved to Windang, New South Wales in his retirement. He died there on 24 March 1980, age 65. He was cremated at Wollongong Crematorium on the 26 March 1980. Sid Goodwin Sid"