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Notable Sports Figures<br />
track and field athletes to set five<br />
world records and tie one in a<br />
single day, 3:1185<br />
two-way Hall of Fame marriage,<br />
3:1061<br />
Ukrainian multiple Olympic<br />
medallist, 3:1255<br />
under four minute mile, 1:86<br />
weightlifter to win gold medals at<br />
three different Olympics,<br />
3:1562<br />
Winter Olympian to win a medal<br />
in five consecutive Olympic<br />
Games, 2:613<br />
Winter Olympian to win three<br />
successive gold medals in the<br />
Nordic Combined, 4:1735<br />
woman boxer on Don King’s<br />
client roster, 3:1021<br />
woman collegiate coach to win<br />
700 games, 1:328<br />
woman elected to Basketball Hall<br />
of Fame, 1:139<br />
woman four time Olympic gold<br />
medal track and field winner,<br />
1:68<br />
woman pitcher in men’s minor<br />
leagues, 1:173<br />
woman player for the Harlem<br />
Globetrotters, 4:1795<br />
woman to be nominated for<br />
induction into the Basketball<br />
Hall of Fame, 3:1061<br />
woman to capture both<br />
Wimbledon and U.S. Open<br />
singles, doubles, and mixed<br />
doubles titles in the same year,<br />
2:542<br />
woman to coach 1,000 games in<br />
the NCAA Division One,<br />
1:328<br />
woman to compete in NASCAR,<br />
2:606<br />
woman to compete in the<br />
Celebrity Golf Association<br />
Championship, 3:1061<br />
woman to complete a grade 5.14<br />
climb, 2:682<br />
woman to hit two home runs in a<br />
season, 1:312<br />
woman to hold four major<br />
American golf titles, 4:1810<br />
woman to pitch on an affiliated<br />
men’s professional baseball<br />
team, 1:313<br />
woman to play in a men’s<br />
professional basketball league,<br />
2:938<br />
woman to play in a regular season<br />
men’s professional hockey<br />
game, 3:1280<br />
woman to receive full basketball<br />
scholarship to UCLA, 3:1059<br />
woman to receive license to drive<br />
dragsters, 3:1111<br />
woman to receive the National<br />
Collegiate Athletic<br />
Association’s Silver<br />
Anniversary Award, 3:1365<br />
woman to ride a U.S. pari-mutuel<br />
race on a major track, 3:1360<br />
woman to ride in the Belmont<br />
Stakes, 2:875<br />
woman to run and finish the<br />
Boston Marathon, 2:537–538<br />
woman to sail around the world<br />
alone, 1:76<br />
woman to scale Phir Broke in<br />
Telluride, Colorado, 2:682<br />
woman to score a 59 on a single<br />
round of golf on the LPGA<br />
Tour, 3:1502<br />
woman to sign as a free agent<br />
with the National Basketball<br />
Association (NBA), 3:1060<br />
woman to sign with men’s Class<br />
A and AA Winter Baseball<br />
League in Hawaii, 1:312–313<br />
woman to ski to the geographic<br />
South Pole, 3:1113<br />
woman to win a GATR major<br />
super speedway points race,<br />
3:1328<br />
woman to win a Pro class at an<br />
NHRA hot rodding event,<br />
3:1112<br />
woman to win a Triple Crown<br />
horse race, 2:875<br />
woman to win four gold medals<br />
in a single Olympics, 3:1489<br />
woman to win four Olympic gold<br />
medals in track and field,<br />
1:68–69, 1:70<br />
woman to win gold at three<br />
consecutive Olympic games,<br />
3:1082<br />
woman to win the Iditarod,<br />
3:1295<br />
woman to win the pole position in<br />
the Busch Series, 3:1328<br />
Cumulative Subject Index<br />
woman to win three Olympic gold<br />
medals in figure skating, 2:671<br />
women’s biathlon Olympic event,<br />
1:116<br />
World Cup (soccer) winner to win<br />
as team captain and as coach,<br />
1:108<br />
Fischer, Peter, 3:1397<br />
Fisher, Sarah, 3:1544<br />
Fisk, Carlton, 2:486, 2:486–489<br />
Fitness industry, 2:760–761<br />
Fittipaldi, Emerson, 2:489,<br />
2:489–490<br />
Fitzsimmons, Bob, 1:334<br />
Five Lessons: The Modern<br />
Fundamentals of Golf (Hogan),<br />
2:693<br />
FIVP (Federation Internationale de<br />
Volleyball), 2:844<br />
Fixing, game<br />
1919 World Series, 1:284–289,<br />
2:743–746<br />
Cobb, Ty, 1:307<br />
Fleming, Peggy, 2:490–495, 2:491,<br />
2:493<br />
Florida Atlantic University, 2:796<br />
Florida Marlins, 3:1470–1471<br />
Florida State University, 3:1406<br />
Flowers, Vonetta, 2:495, 2:495–496<br />
Floyd, Raymond, 4:1638<br />
Flutie, Doug, 2:496–499, 2:497<br />
Follow the Sun (movie), 2:693<br />
Fontes, Wayne, 3:1404<br />
Football, college<br />
Big Ten, 3:1206<br />
Cotton Bowl, 1:99, 3:1089–1090<br />
forward pass, legalization of,<br />
2:666<br />
Heisman Trophy, creation of the,<br />
2:668<br />
innovations, 3:1339<br />
1869<br />
Cumulative Subject Index
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