Ancient Olympics
What categories of population were NOT able to participate in ancient Olympic Games in Greece?
No slaves or [married] women were allowed
Name a female skater who entered a 1902 Men's World Championships to win a silver medal there?
Madge Syers
Name the two participants (tennis players) who participated in the Battle of the Sexes?
Bobby Riggs, Billie Jean King
What were Pierre Coubertin's (the father of the Olympic movement) views on women's participation at the Olympic Games?
He was against it; his views were sexist
The first woman who attended ancient Olympic Games was Kallipateira from Rhodes. She was disguised as a ...
Trainer
Who was the winner of the first 100m at the Olympic in women's category?
Betty Robinson
Who won in the Battle of the Sexes?
Billie Jean King
Why was a high jumper Gretel Bergmann banned form competing at 1936 Olympics in Berlin
because of her Jewish heritage
Hera
Name the first woman to officially complete a marathon
Katherine Switzer
Which University attended Katie Hnida, the first woman to score in the division of I-A game?
CU Boulder
Name the first Olympics when an athlete who was male at birth competed in women's category?
1936 Berlin Olympics
No clothing, they were naked
Name the first woman to swim over the English Channel
Trudy Ederle
Renee Richards
1972
Why was Kallipateria from Rhodes spared from a death penalty even though she broke the rule and attended the Games?
She was from a noble family of athletes (her father was a boxing champion)
A marathon in which city saw the first woman competing as she used her initials to enter instead of her first name?
Boston marathon, Katherine Switzer
Which US President was an architect of Title IX, the law that forever changed women's sports in the US?
Nixon
Which historic even allowed American women to compete in baseball professionally for the first time?
WWII