Only american woman to win 1500 speedskating olympic gold?
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Dianne Holum in the 1972 winter games
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Are you referring to Michelle Kwan?\n\nShe won a silver at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and a bronze in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake.\n\nShe was named to the US figure skating team after an injury made it impossible for her to qualify at the US nationals tournament.  During her first day of practice in Torino, she re-injured herself and subsequently withdrew from competition.  The team's first alternate, Emily Hughes--younger sister of 2002 gold medal winner Sarah Hughes--took Kwan's place.
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With only the snowboard slalom events still to be completed, you have to admit that if it's riding on a snowboard the chances are that it's an American.\n\nThe USA won both halfpipe events (and also took the silver medal as well) and would have also had a clean sweep in the new snowboard cross event if the women's leader in the final hadn't attempted a trick over the last ramp and crashed. Still generally speaking it's been the US's Olympics on snowboards.\n\nMedal Table (Snowboarding)\nUnited States: 3 golds, 3 silvers, 0 bronze\nSwitzerland: 1 gold\nSlovakia: 1 silver\nFinland: 1 bronze\nFrance: 1 bronze\nNorway: 1 bronze\nCanada: 1 bronze
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Ali Daei, the Iranian, with 109 assuming you refer to male players.\n\nAlternatively, Mia Hamm, the American has scored 158.
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The first Women's Two "man" bobsleigh competition was held in Salt Lake City in 2002. The gold medal went to USA II, Silver to Germany I and bronze to Germany II
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Germany, with 18 medals  (7 gold, 7 silver, 4 bronze)\nNorway, with 16 medals   (2 gold, 7 silver, 7 bronze)\nUnited States, with 14 medals  (7 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze)\n\nThis is as of Monday 2-20-06 at approximately 3:30pm Eastern Time.
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Five in all. She has won wimbledon thrice and US Open twice.
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MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES:\n\nOfficialy, it was only at Paris 1900 that women were allowed to participate. The first female winner was Charlotte Cooper (Great Britain). She won in singles tennis. The first women competitors in the Modern Olympic Games of 1900 in chronological order were: Helen de Pourtales (first female gold medalist with Charlotte Cooper), Switzerland (Yachting), Elvira Guerra, France (Equestrianism), Mme Ohnier and Madame Depres, France (Croquet), Charlotte Cooper, Great Britain (Tennis), Margaret Abbott, USA (Golf), Madame Maison, France (Ballooning).\n\nBut, in the first modern Olympics of 1896, there was an unofficial competitor in the marathon, a poor Greek woman who became known as 'Melpomene'. Melpomene’s real name was Stamati Revithi. She was not allowed to compete in the mens race, but ran by herself the next day. The final lap was completed outside the stadium as she was refused entry to the stadium. After her marathon run, athletics officials couldn’t remember her name so they labelled her 'Melpomene', who is the Greek muse of Tragedy. Ballooning, croquet and golf (1900) were once Olympic events in which women competed.\n\n\nANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES:\n\nMarried women were barred, but prostitutes or virgins were allowed to spectate. Kallipateria was the first female Olympic boxing coach in 440 BC. The first female Olympic champion was a Spartan princess called Kynisca, in 392 BC. She was also the first woman to become a champion horse trainer when her horses and chariot competed and won in the Ancient Olympic Games. Women were originally the prizes in mens Ancient Olympic chariot races.
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I think the new points system put Sasha Cohen as the silver medalist.  Any other Olympics she probably would have brought home Bronze with 2 falls, and Irina Slutskaya would have grabbed Silver.  I think Sasha is a great skater and I am proud of her. ... of them all!
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The ESPY did not begin until 1993.  Here's the list for Female Athlete of the Year:\n2004: Diana Taurasi, Basketball Player \n2003: Serena Williams, Tennis Player \n2002: Venus Williams, Tennis Player \n2001: Marion Jones, Track and Field \n2000: Mia Hamm, Soccer \n1999: Chamique Holdsclaw, Tennessee basketball \n1998: Mia Hamm, Soccer \n1997: Amy Van Dyken, Olympic swimmer \n1996: Rebecca Lobo, women's basketball \n1995: Bonnie Blair, speed skater \n1994: Julie Krone, jockey \n1993: Monica Seles, Tennis
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Russian women gymnast\nAnna pavola\nkhorkina\nOlga\nvitaly schebo male gymnastic
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the us came in second with 25 medals. 9 gold 9 silver and 7 bronze medals. \n\nthe meadilists are... \n\ngold medals... alpine skiing- ted ligity, julia mancusco\nshort track- apolo anton ohno snowboarding-shaun white, hannah teter  speedskating- joey cheek, shani davis,chad hedrick\n\nsilver medals... bobsled- fleming/rohbock figure skating- belbin/agosto, sasha cohen snowboarding- danny cass, gretchen bleiler, lindsay jacobellis speed skating- joey cheek, shani davis, chad hedrick \n\nbronze medals... curling- team usa freestyle skiing- toby dawson ice hockey- women ice hockey team usa short track- kepka, smith, izykowski, ohno snowboarding-rosey fletcher speedskating-chad hedrick. \n\nhope you like it!
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Here is the US list..\nFebruary 2006 Top Women\n1 Polgar, Zsuzsa NY 2557 \n2 Zatonskih, Anna NY 2469 \n3 Krush, Irina NY 2445 \n4 Goletiani, Rusudan NY 2393 \n5 Baginskaite, Camilla CA 2331 \n6 Abrahamyan, Tatev CA 2325 \n7 Shahade, Jennifer NY 2318 \n8 Tuvshintugs, Batchimeg CA 2271 \n9 Hahn, Anna NJ 2270 \n10 Battsetseg, Tsagaan MD 2242 \n11 Ross, Laura R NY 2238 \n12 Marinello, Beatriz NY 2201 \n13 Epstein, Esther MA 2172 \n14 Tsai, Cindy J FL 2171 \n15 Airapetian, Chouchanik WA 2162 \n16 Itkis, Hana NJ 2149 \n\nlooks like her sister Judit was number one in 2005\n\nOn the April 2005 FIDE list, Polgar had an Elo rating of 2577, which made her the number two female player in the world behind her sister Judit. She was the #1 female player in the world at age 15 and has remained in the top 3 for the past 20 consecutive years
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Vonetta Flowers was the First African American to have won the Gold Medal at the Olympic Winter Games. (in bobsleigh)
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the US has some very young, but very strong swimmers surfacing.   three notable ones are kate ziegler, katie hoff, jessica hardy.  natalie coughlin, amanda beard, libby lenton, and inge bruijn are among the best also.  there is no clear top female right now.
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Babe Didrikson, Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Summer Sanders, Mia Hamm, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Martina Navratilova, Venus and Serena Williams.  Oops, that's 11.
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australia's women won many golds in the swimming - its not jsut one race you know!\nIn fact, this morning they took over a second off the world record for the 4 x 100m team medley relay.