In which sport or game is Judit Polgar the highest ranked female although she has never taken part in the Women's World Championship?
"was held as a knock-out-tournament. As with all chess competitions, the ""men's"" section is in fact an open tournament in which female players may participate, but not vice versa. In 2002, Judit Polgár narrowly missed the bronze medal in the men's competition by losing a play-off match against Zurab Azmaiparashvili. In 2011, Polgar won the bronze medal in the men's competition at Aix-les-Bains, France. Apart from the first edition in 2000, where in case of a tie the Buchholz-Rating was used as a tie-breaker, rapid-play play-off matches were used to determine the medal winners as well as the world championship"
"represented the US in a side event to the Football World Cup in Dresden, Germany. She easily won the event by defeating International Master Elisabeth Pähtz in the final. In 2007, Susan Polgar signed on as the head coach for the Texas Tech Knight Raiders chess team. In 2010, she became the first woman to lead a men's Division I team to the Final Four. In April 2011 and again in 2012, the Texas Tech Knight Raiders became the best college chess team in the nation by winning the President's Cup: The Final Four in College Chess. As the Knight"
"Rugby Europe Conference. 2018 - The first all-female group crossed Antarctica using muscle power alone; they were all British. 2018 - Katie Sarah, from Australia, became the first woman to summit the highest mountain on every continent and the seven highest volcanic peaks, an accomplishment known as the ‘Seven-Seven’. 2018 - Terra Roam of Australia became the first woman to walk solo and unsupported around Australia. 2018 - Wendy Tuck of Australia became the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race (or any Round the World yacht race). Timeline of women's sports This is a"
"to study painting and interior design and to focus on being a housewife and mother. Judit has been described as ""without a doubt, the best woman chess player the world has ever seen."" As of 2008, she had been ""the world’s highest ranked female chess player for nearly 20 years."" Susan, who became second-best woman chess player in the world, was, at age 17, the first woman ever to qualify for what was then called the 'Men's World Championship', but the world chess federation, FIDE, would not allow her to participate. Polgár said in 1992 that he now wanted ""to"
"top players according to the FIDE rating list published in September 2018 with the highest rated female player Hou Yifan and the former Women's World Champion Tan Zhongyi not playing for China. Former Women's World Champions Alexandra Kosteniuk, Anna Ushenina and Mariya Muzychuk were part of their national teams, while Antoaneta Stefanova did not play because of the controversy with the Bulgarian Chess Federation. Sweden's Pia Cramling, who first played at the Chess Olympiads, was also not playing because of a row about captaincy. The team with highest average pre-tournament rating of 2523 was Russia, who were playing with the"
"points to all active female players except Polgar, which knocked her from the top spot in the January 1987 FIDE ratings list. The rationale was that the FIDE ratings of women were not commensurate with the ratings of the men because the women tended to play in women-only tournaments, Polgar being an exception because up to that point she had played mainly against men. In January 1991, Polgar became the third woman to earn the Grandmaster title, after Nona Gaprindashvili and Maia Chiburdanidze. In 1992, Polgar won both the Women's World Blitz and the Women's World Rapid Championship. Prior to"
"in the World Chess Championship 2014, was the only player from the top ten who missed the Olympiad. The highest rated female chess player, Judit Polgár, represented Hungary in the open section. However, not all of the teams submitted their strongest line-ups for the Olympiad. China, who were expected to be one of the strongest teams in the tournament, were represented by only two players rated above 2700. Russia were the strongest team in the open section with an average rating of 2777 points, followed by Ukraine with 2722 and France, led by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, with 2718. Other teams with"
"Lucy Shuker Lucy Shuker (born 28 May 1980) is a British wheelchair tennis player who is currently the highest ranked woman in the sport in Britain. A previous singles & doubles National Champion, Lucy has represented Great Britain at three successive Paralympic Games, twice winning a Bronze Medal in the women's doubles and is former World Doubles Champion and World Team Cup Silver Medallist amongst a number of other National and International successes. In 2008, she competed in the singles and doubles events for the first time in Wheelchair tennis at the Beijing Paralympics. Lucy made history at the London"
"FIDE World Rankings, while Judit Polgár generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. Some of the world's best sabre athletes have historically also hailed from Hungary, and in 2009, the Hungarian national ice hockey team qualified for their first IIHF World Championship, in 2015, they qualified for their second World Championship in the top division. Hungary has won three Olympic football titles, finished runners-up in the 1938 and 1954 FIFA World Cups, and third in the 1964 UEFA European Football Championship. Hungary revolutionized the sport in the 1950s, laying the tactical fundamentals of total football and dominating"
"Games; chess does have its own Olympiad, held every two years as a team event. The current World Chess Champion is Magnus Carlsen of Norway. The reigning Women's World Champion is Hou Yifan from China. The world's highest rated female player, Judit Polgár, has never participated in the Women's World Chess Championship, instead preferring to compete with the leading men and maintaining a ranking among the top male players. Other competitions for individuals include the World Junior Chess Championship, the European Individual Chess Championship, and the National Chess Championships. Invitation-only tournaments regularly attract the world's strongest players. Examples include Spain's"
"highest female on the list. Pamela Fitzgerald (camogie) Pamela Fitzgerald (born 1984 in Cork, Ireland) is a camogie player from Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, Ireland. She has played for her county at a number of levels, including senior camogie on three occasions. She also represents her hometown over the summer months, and captains the Trinity College camogie team during term time. She is the Honorary Secretary of the Dublin University Central Athletic Club (DUCAC) Executive Committee, which oversees the 50 sporting clubs in Trinity. In a March 2006 article by ""Trinity News"", Fitzgerald was declared to be the 9th most"
"best female high jumper, still holding the world record from 1987, one of the oldest unbroken world records for all kind of athletics. Ivet Lalova along with Irina Privalova is currently the fastest white woman at 100 metres. Kaloyan Mahlyanov has been the first European sumo wrestler to win the Emperor's Cup in Japan. Veselin Topalov won the 2005 World Chess Championship. He was ranked No. 1 in the world from April 2006 to January 2007, and had the second highest Elo rating of all time (2813). He regained the world No. 1 ranking again in October 2008. The national"
"one of only 10 women to receive a Gold Medal in the Olympics, an NCAA championship, and a WNBA Championship. The others are Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Tamika Catchings, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Maya Moore, Candace Parker, Ruth Riley, Sheryl Swoopes, and Diana Taurasi. Kara Wolters Kara Wolters Drinan (born August 15, 1975) is a retired American collegiate and professional basketball player. Standing at , she was nicknamed ""Big Girl"". She is the tallest player in University of Connecticut women's basketball history and one of the tallest women to ever play in the WNBA. Wolters was born the youngest child of Liz"
"in keeping with her policy of playing only open competitions, never took a women's title. Woman Grandmaster (achieved at some time a rating of 2300) is the highest-ranking chess title restricted to women aside from Women's World Champion. FIDE introduced the WGM title in 1976, joining the previously introduced lower-ranking title, Woman International Master. The WGM title represents a level of chess skill lower than that of the unrestricted Grandmaster (GM) (2500) title, and WGM requirements are also lower than the requirements for the unrestricted International Master (IM) (2400) title. The winner of the World Girls Junior Championship is automatically"
"civilian. Members of Polgár's family perished in the Holocaust and her grandmother was a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp. In August 2000, Polgár married Hungarian veterinary surgeon Gusztáv Font. They have two children, a boy named Olivér and a girl named Hanna. While Judit remained in Hungary, the rest of her family eventually emigrated: Sofia and her parents to Israel and later to Canada, and Susan to the United States. Judit Polgár Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the"
"Marit Bjørgen Marit Bjørgen (born 21 March 1980) is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. She is ranked first in the all-time Cross-Country World Cup rankings with 114 individual victories. Bjørgen is also the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country World Cup history, with twenty-nine victories. She headed the medal table at the 2010 Winter Olympics by winning five medals, including three gold. A five-time Olympian, her five Olympic medals at the 2018 Pyeongchang games brought her total number of medals up to fifteen, the most by any athlete (female or male) in Winter Olympics history. On 6 April 2018, she announced"
"Marit Bjørgen Marit Bjørgen (born 21 March 1980) is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. She is ranked first in the all-time Cross-Country World Cup rankings with 114 individual victories. Bjørgen is also the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country World Cup history, with twenty-nine victories. She headed the medal table at the 2010 Winter Olympics by winning five medals, including three gold. A five-time Olympian, her five Olympic medals at the 2018 Pyeongchang games brought her total number of medals up to fifteen, the most by any athlete (female or male) in Winter Olympics history. On 6 April 2018, she announced"
"and so far only female to be inducted. Ten-time World Champion Trina Gulliver revealed she has twice missed her last dart to record a nine-dart finish. One was a double 18 for $100,000 at an event in Canada and another missed double was for a car at an event in Ireland. Nine-dart finish A nine-dart finish is a perfect leg in the sport of darts, using only nine darts, the fewest possible, to check out from 501. It is notoriously difficult to achieve, even by the game's top professionals. It is considered to be the highest single-game achievement in the"
"Jennifer Jones (curler) Jennifer Judith Jones (born 7 July 1974) is a Canadian curler. She was the Olympic champion in curling as skip of the Canadian team at the 2014 Sochi Games. Jones is the first female skip to go through the Games undefeated. The only male skip to achieve this was fellow Canadian Kevin Martin in 2010. Jones and her squad were the first Manitoba based curling team to win an Olympic gold medal. They won the 2008 World Women's Curling Championship, and were the last Canadian women's team to do so until Rachel Homan in 2017. She won"
"Gerina Piller (6,8), Morgan Pressel (6,8) 6. Professionals ranked No. 1–30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of May 17, 2016 Charley Hull (8), Alison Lee (8) ""Lee Bo-mee, Teresa Lu, and Park Sung-hyun did not play."" 7. The top eight finishers at the 2015 LPGA T&CP National Championship Jean Bartholomew, Jennifer Bermingham, Jessica Carafiello, Elizabeth Caron, Lisa Grimes, Karen Paolozzi, Laurie Rinker, Hillery Wilson 8. Members of the European and United States Solheim Cup teams in 2015 Carlota Ciganda, Sandra Gal, Caroline Hedwall, Karine Icher, Brittany Lang, Caroline Masson, Catriona Matthew, Azahara Muñoz, Gwladys Nocera, Melissa Reid, Angela"
"Recari (8,10), Lizette Salas (8,10), Amy Yang (6,10) ""Teresa Lu (6) did not play"" 5. Professionals who finished top-10 and ties at the previous year's LPGA Championship Julieta Granada (10), Azahara Muñoz (6,8,10) 6. Professionals ranked in the top 30 of the Women's World Golf Rankings as of May 12, 2015 Chella Choi (10), Jang Ha-na (10), Pornanong Phatlum (10), Morgan Pressel (8,10), Angela Stanford (8,10) ""Ahn Sun-ju, Chun In-gee, Ko Jin-young, and Lee Bo-Mee did not play"" 7. The top eight finishers at the 2014 LPGA T&CP National Championship Jean Bartholomew, Elizabeth Caron, Alison Curdt, Lisa Grimes, Amanda Moore,"
"are going to know if the Hungarian sisters are geniuses or just women!"" However, Hungary's women's team won the championship, which marked the first time it was not won by the Soviet Union. Judit played board 2 and finished the tournament with the highest score of 12½–½ to win the individual gold medal. She also won the brilliancy prize for her game against Pavlina Angelova. In the January 1989 Elo rating list, at the age of 12, she was rated 2555, which was number 55 in the world and 35 rating points ahead of the Women's World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze."
"has 197 member federations. The sport is most popular in the countries of continental Europe, which have won all medals but one in the men's world championships since 1938. In the women's world championships, only two non-European countries have won the title: South Korea and Brazil. The game also enjoys popularity in the Far East, North Africa and parts of South America. There is evidence of ancient Roman women playing a version of handball called ""expulsim ludere"". There are records of handball-like games in medieval France, and among the Inuit in Greenland, in the Middle Ages. By the 19th century,"
"for second in a double round-robin tournament of four grandmasters in the VAM International Tournament in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands. ""There has long been a lively debate about who is the strongest player of all"", wrote GM Robert Byrne in his ""New York Times"" column of Aug. 26, 1997. ""Prominent candidates are Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Jose Raul Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine or Emanuel Lasker. But there is no argument about the greatest female player: she is 21-year-old Judit Polgár."" In January 1998, she played in the category XVII event, the Hoogovens in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, in which 14 of the"
"each provided one team. Among the players who played in the women's section were the reigning Women's World Champion Hou Yifan, seven of the top ten players from the FIDE rating list published in July 2014 (excluding Polgar who plays in the open section), and three former Women's World Champions. Koneru Humpy of India and Viktorija Čmilytė of Lithuania were the only two from the top ten female chess players to miss the Olympiad. China were the strongest team in the women's section, having brought all their strongest players, with an average rating of 2544. Russia were the second highest"
"for that year's Players' slam. Notes In 2014, she was made a member of the Order of Manitoba. Jennifer Jones (curler) Jennifer Judith Jones (born 7 July 1974) is a Canadian curler. She was the Olympic champion in curling as skip of the Canadian team at the 2014 Sochi Games. Jones is the first female skip to go through the Games undefeated. The only male skip to achieve this was fellow Canadian Kevin Martin in 2010. Jones and her squad were the first Manitoba based curling team to win an Olympic gold medal. They won the 2008 World Women's Curling"
"27 to February 4. Seeded 13th by rating, she placed joint 3rd-11th, 3rd by performance with a 7.5/10 score (+5 =5, TPR 2772) pushing her FIDE rating to 2686. She also won the 1st place prize for being the highest scoring female player. Her excellent performance in this event resulted in her rating surpassing Judit Polgár's classic rating for the first time in the March 2015 FIDE rating list, ending Polgár's 26 consecutive years reign as the top rated female player in the world. For the first time since Maia Chiburdanidze in January 1989 a single individual was both the"
"time. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, women's ski jumping made its first appearance. Carina Vogt of Germany won the first gold medal for women in the sport. The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro saw the first rugby sevens competition. The tournament was won by the Australian team. Golf was also re-added to the programme for the first time for women since 1900. Inbee Park of South Korea won the tournament. The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang saw the addition of big air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling, mass start speed skating, and mixed team alpine skiing. Women"
"at the 2016 LPGA T&CP National Championship Jean Bartholomew, Jessica Carafiello, Wendy Doolan, Lisa Grimes, Amanda McCurdy, Karen Paolozzi, Hillery Sence, Kristin Walla 9. The top finisher (not otherwise qualified via the 2016 LPGA T&CP National Championship) at the 2017 PGA Women's Stroke Play Championship Alison Curdt 10. Members of the European and United States Solheim Cup teams in 2015 Paula Creamer (12), Sandra Gal (12), Caroline Hedwall (12), Karine Icher (12), Alison Lee (12), Catriona Matthew (12), Azahara Muñoz (12), Gwladys Nocera, Morgan Pressel (12), Melissa Reid (12), Lizette Salas (12), Angela Stanford (12) 11. Maximum of two sponsor"
"before 2018."" ^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013. DNP = did not play<br> CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> T = tied<br> WD = withdrew<br> Yellow background for top-10 <nowiki>*</nowiki> Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year. Amateur Professional Jessica Korda Jessica Korda () (born February 27, 1993) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. Korda was a member of the 2009 U.S. Junior Solheim Cup and the 2010 U.S. Curtis Cup teams. As an amateur, she won the 2010 South Atlantic Amateur and made"
"the increase or decrease in ranking since the last tournament. A dash in a tournament column indicates that the country did not participate. Source: IIHF The Women's 2018 ranking is based on the performance at the World Championships of 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014, and at the 2018 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament in Pyeongchang, South Korea. For the 2018 Winter Olympics, Russia's Olympic Committee and many of its athletes were banned due to systemic illegal doping. The IIHF opposed an outright ban on all Russian players and the ice hockey team from the Russian hockey federation played under the banner"
"10:00 AZST (UTC+5) on 2 September. Eight of the top ten players from the FIDE women's rating list published in August 2016 were playing in the women's event with only India's Humpy Koneru and Russia's Kateryna Lagno not playing. The current Women's World Champion and highest rated woman Hou Yifan was playing on board one for China, while former Women's World Champions Antoaneta Stefanova, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Anna Ushenina and Mariya Muzychuk were also part of their national teams. The top seed in the women's event were China with an average rating of 2528. They were led by the Women's World"
"first Winter Olympian of any country or gender to enter four or more career events and win gold in each. Oullette had previously won gold in ice hockey in 2002, 2006, and 2010. Jennifer Jones skipped the Canadian women's team at the 2014 Winter Olympics to a Gold medal. She is the first ever female skip in Olympic history to be undefeated throughout the tournament. Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen and spare Kirsten Wall went unbeaten with an 11-0 record defeating China, Sweden (round-robin and finals), Great Britain (round-robin and semi-finals), Denmark, Switzerland, Japan, Russia, the United States,"