Female Athletes

Alexandra Rose "Aly" Raisman (born May 25, 1994) is anAmerican artistic gymnast who was captain of the gold medal-winning US Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics and individually won a gold medal on the floor and a bronze medal on the balance beam. She was also on the US team that won the 2011 World Championship.

Denise Lewis OBE is a retired English track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

McKayla Rose Maroney (born December 9, 1995) is an American artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal-winning US Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is also the 2011 world vault champion and 2012 Olympic vault silver medalist. Olympics Promo Pics

Keri-Anne Payne (born 9 December 1987) is a British swimmer, specialising in marathon open water swimming, and long-distance freestyle swimming in the pool. She is a two-time World 10 km Open Water champion, and an Olympic silver medallist. Payne was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to British parents, who registered her birth at the British Consulate. She started swimming aged four, and was noticed aged eight by British Swimming's national performance director Bill Sweetenham at a training camp in South Africa. As a result, the family returned to the UK to live in Heywood, Greater Manchester, when she was 13. Joining Stockport Metro, she has been coached since by Sea…

Laura Trott (born 24 April 1992) is an English track cyclist who specialises in team pursuit and omnium disciplines. As of 2012, she is the reigning double European, World and Olympic champion, holding all three titles in both events. Samsung VIP Party,London - August 15,2012

Name: Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas Born: December 31, 1995 (age 16) Height: 4 feet 11 inches Level: Senior International Elite Gym: Chow's Gymnastics and Dance Institute – West Des Moines Olympics 2012: 2 Gold- Team & All Around World Championships 2011: Gold- Team Pacific Rim Championships 2012: 2 Gold- Team & Uneven Bars Visa Championships: 2012- gold, silver & bronze 2011- bronze

A brief history about me DOB: 24th September 1980 Height: 165cm Weight: 62kg I started cycling about the same time as I started to walk, as a result of my Father being a keen cyclist. I used to go on youth hostelling trips with my family from the age of six onwards. I started grass track racing with my twin brother Alex at the age of nine, as a hobby in the summer months. I apparently started to show potential at thirteen years old. Grass track cycling is a fading tradition, however it does help to develop bike handling skills and stamina. I was talent spotted at the age of sixteen, by the assistant national track team coach at the time, Marshall Thomas. However desp…

Michelle (b.1993) is a hurdler who represented Australia at the 2012 World Junior Championships. From Huffington Post:

Jessica Ennis, MBE (born 28 January 1986 in Sheffield) is a British track and field athlete specialising in multi-eventing disciplines and 100m hurdles. A member of the City of Sheffield Athletic Club, she is the former European and world heptathlon champion and the former world indoor pentathlon champion. She is the current British national record holder for both the heptathlon and the indoor pentathlon. Background One of two daughters born to Vinnie Ennis and Alison Powell, Jessica Ennis has a younger sister called Carmel. Her father, originally from Jamaica, is a self-employed painter and decorator; her mother, a social worker, was born in Derbyshire. Neither of her …

Arantxa Rus tennis player Country : Netherlands Born: 13 December 1990 Height: 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Weight: 65 kg (140 lb) Turned pro: 2008

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Laila Ali (born December 30, 1977 in Miami Beach, Florida) is the daughter of Muhammad Ali and his third wife Veronica Porsche Ali. She was their second child and is the most famous of the nine children born to Muhammad Ali. She is a professional boxer. Ali has a degree in business from Santa Monica College and previously owned a nail salon in California before becoming a boxer. In 2002 Ali wrote (with co-author David Ritz) the book Reach! Finding Strength, Spirit, and Personal Power, meant to motivate and inspire young people. On July 23, 2007, Ali married former NFL player Curtis Conway in Los Angeles and the couple has two children together. From Lailaali.org...

Natalie Anne Coughlin (born August 23, 1982) is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics.[1] Coughlin's success has earned her the World Swimmer of the Year Award one time and American Swimmer of the Year Award three times. She has won a total of forty-eight medals in major international competition, twenty-one gold, seventeen silver, and ten bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Coughlin currently liv…

Iveta Benešová * 1 February 1983 in Most, Czechoslovakia Czech professional tennis player

Olivia “Liv” Boeree (born July 18, 1984) is a poker player, TV presenter and model from England who won the 2010 European Poker Tour in San Remo for €1,250,000. Born in Kent, Boeree studied in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Manchester where she gained a 1st Class Honours Degree before moving to London at age 21.

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Ronda Jean Rousey Born: February 1, 1987 Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight: 145 lb (66 kg; 10.4 st) Style: Judo Fighting out of Santa Monica, California Team Hayastan Olympian and 4th dan black belt in Judo

Maryeve Dufault Birthday: February 16, 1982 Hometown: Sorel, Quebec Born in a suburb of the City of Sorel, Quebec, Maryeve soon discovered she had a knack for extreme sports. Her dad and brother were talented motorcycle racers. For that reason, she was no stranger to racetracks. At the tender age of two, she had witnessed her dad leading and winning most of the races he competed in. In her teenage years she competed in motocross, following that with go-kart and open-wheel racing. Maryeve loves to push herself to the limits and thrives on defying the odds. ''Even at a young age I needed powerful rushes of adrenaline, speed and even danger,'' Maryeve says. ''I loved mo…

Kyra Gracie Guimaraes (Rio de Janeiro, May 29, 1985) is a fighter 4x world champion of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a member of the renowned Gracie family. family that popularized the sport in Brazil and the world and became a world reference with your own style of Brazilian martial art, which were crowned champions in many different tournaments.

Bethany Meilani Hamilton (born February 8, 1990), daughter of Thomas and Cherilyn Hamilton, is an American professional surfer. She is known for surviving a shark attack in which she lost her left arm, and for overcoming the serious and debilitating injury to ultimately return to professional surfing. She wrote about her experience in the 2004 autobiography Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board. In April 2011, the feature film Soul Surfer was released, based on the book and additional interviews Shark attack and recovery On October 31, 2003, Hamilton went for a morning surf along Tunnels Beach, Kauai with one of her friends, A…

Alexandra Patricia "Alex" Morgan (born July 2, 1989) is an American soccer player from Diamond Bar, California. She is a forward for the Western New York Flash of Women's Professional Soccer and member of the US Women's National Team. Morgan was the youngest player on the USA's roster at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.