The captain of Indian cricket team, Mithali is the highest scorer in women's international cricket and the only female cricketer to surpass the 6, run mark in ODIs. Mithali is also the only Indian cricket captain - male or female - to lead India to the World Cup final twice.
The first Indian badminton player to win an Olympic medal, Saina Nehwal can totally be credited for making the sport so popular in the country. She is the first female and the second Indian shuttler to be ranked first in the world and has been awarded with Arjuna Award , Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan for her achievements. Freestyle wrestler Geeta Phogat became a household name after she won a gold medal in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games , something that has not been done before by any wrestler, male or female.
She is also the first Indian female wrestler to have qualified for the Summer Olympics , where she lost out on a bronze. Sakshi's bronze in wrestling ended India's medal drought at the Rio Olympics, and that instantly made her an inspiration for billions of Indians. The Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro was quite nightmarish for the Indian contingent, only winning two medals. The silver lining? Both were won by women and Sakshi was one of them.
With this feat, she became the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics. Belonging to a family that consisted of wrestlers, Sakshi picked up the sport at the young age of PV Sindhu was 21 when she became the first and the only Indian to win a silver medal in Badminton, at Olympics.
The current world number 3, PV Sindhu, is the first woman from the country to win a silver medal at the Summer Olympics. The fact that she made the achievement at the age of 21, makes it even more remarkable as she is now the youngest athlete from the country to make a podium finish in an individual event. The unsung star of Indian sports, Deepika Kumari is a former world number one and it's time we recognize and laud her achievements.
Deepika is currently ranked fifth in the world and is a former world number one. Hers is not a name we hear very frequently despite archery being one of our country's strengths. Despite being born with a flat foot, Dipa did not give up on her dream of becoming a gymnast and we thank God for that.
Dipa became an overnight sensation for all the right reasons after her successful stint at the Summer Olympics, , where she lost out on a bronze by a whisker.
Coming from a humble background, the Tripura girl was born with a flat foot and fought against all physical and financial adversities to make India proud internationally. Not many people know but Tania is India's most prominent female player in the field of chess and has many titles to her name. Tania is the most prominent Indian name in the field of women's chess.
Now, as her driving career comes to an end -- she'll retire after her last Indy race this month -- Patrick is diving head-first into her lifestyle brand. Her new book, "Pretty Intense," which details her "day mind, body and food plan," dropped in December, and she told espnW she'd like to focus on her wine brand Somnium and clothing brand Warrior and start a cooking show in retirement. To anyone not yet familiar with Ding Ning, allow us to introduce you: She was a member of the gold medal-winning table tennis team from China at the London Olympics, where she also took home silver for the singles event.
She won the , and the World Table Tennis Championships in singles, as well as the and World Cup. Her medal count gets borderline unwieldy when you start counting her team accolades too. And according to ESPN's ranking, she's the most famous woman table-tennis player in China, with more than 2 million followers on Weibo, one of China's biggest social media platforms. With partner Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer Tessa Virtue became figure skating's most decorated Olympian by securing two more gold medals at the Pyeongchang Games.
Their steamy free dance to "Moulin Rouge" set the internet ablaze with fevered speculation about whether the two are a couple in real life, a question Ellen DeGeneres tackled head-on in an interview on her show. Sorry, world, they said no. Since the Olympics, Virtue and Moir have been enjoying a victory lap around Canada, touring with Stars on Ice, hanging out with Drake at a Raptors game and making plans for the future.
Let's all hope it's with each other! Simone Biles made her World Fame debut at No. She also helped Team USA take home gold. Though she's fallen from the Top in , she has partnered with Target and Always to become a spokesperson for Girls on the Run, a nonprofit that helps young girls gain confidence and life skills through running. She gave herself a year of rest after Rio "no less, no more," she told espnW's Alyssa Roenigk and hired a new coach "change is good".
Now her sights are set on the Games in Tokyo. In a country where Saina Nehwal is treated as the badminton queen, it's easy for a younger player to get lost in the shuffle. But World No. Sindhu, 22, is making sure that doesn't happen. Her medal tally does the talking: silver at the Rio Olympics, silver at the World Championship, and gold and silver at the Commonwealth Games.
And she's making heads turn off the court, too. As of , she's ranked No. It was a rough for the then-world No. But after last season, she hired a new coach, Belgian Wim Fissette, and is turning a corner. She reached the semifinal of the Australian Open, playing her way back toward the top Talk about an Olympic moment. Sixteen-year-old Russian Alina Zagitova became the youngest figure skater since Tara Lipinski to win when she pipped training partner Evgenia Medvedeva for the gold in Pyeongchang.
Her parents had her future in mind when they named her after Alina Kabaeva, the Russian rhythmic gymnast who won gold in Athens. Side note: Kabaeva is also rumored to be Vladimir Putin's girlfriend. Zagitova has since met Putin, who awarded her with the Order of Friendship for her accomplishments in Korea. The year-old Agnieszka Radwanska did not have her best season on the court in , suffering from foot injuries for a large part of the year.
With a record, she finished the season at No. Despite her lukewarm performance on court she's had a slow start to after sustaining a back injury ahead of the French Open , she's been busy off the court. She married her long-term partner and tennis player Dawid Celt in a Polish church last year, with close friends Caroline Wozniacki and Angelique Kerber in attendance.
Expectations were so high for the year-old Russian that a silver medal at Pyeongchang could only be seen as a disappointment. Evgenia Medvedeva had been undefeated in international competition for more than two years until she suffered a foot injury just two months before the Olympics. When she lost the gold medal to younger training partner Alina Zagitova, then 15, Medvedeva put on a brave face. But in May, she announced she was splitting with her longtime coach, who also trains Zagitova.
Off the ice, Medvedeva is a self-proclaimed anime and K-pop fan: She's skated in a Sailor Moon outfit, tweets about her favorite shows -- including figure skating anime series Yuri on Ice -- and, most important for her, met K-pop band EXO at the closing ceremonies. Aly Raisman is no longer just a six-time Olympic gold medalist and captain of the and U.
Olympic gymnastics teams. Since November, when she appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes" to reveal that she was a victim of convicted sexual predator Larry Nassar, Raisman has become the face and voice of gymnasts who suffered abuse at his hands. She didn't stop there. In March, Raisman sued the U. Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics, claiming both organizations "knew or should have known" about abusive patterns by the disgraced former national team doctor, who's now in prison. At just 17, Missy Franklin became the first American female athlete to win four gold medals at the London Olympics of , blowing everyone out of the water as she made a clean sweep of every event she participated in.
She went on to win another six gold medals the following year during the world aquatics championships. But to dominate the world of tennis for a whole year, winning every Grand Slam singles title, and then adding an Olympic Gold medal in a single year takes you to a whole new level. These two ladies are called the greatest beach volleyball team the planet has ever seen, and for agood reason.
They smashed every single team who was unlucky enough to face them, losing just one set in 21 matches across three consecutive games, winning gold medals in , , and Olympic games.
Their partnership ended when May-Treanor announced her retirement after winning her third gold medal, and they were both inducted into the volleyball hall of fame. Larisa Latynina won a record 18 Olympic medals, which stood until MichaelPhelps broke in !
MondayMotivation pic. Latynina is no doubt the greatest gymnast of all time, holding the record for the most Olympic Gold medals to be won by a gymnast male or female. She won nine gold medals for the Soviet Union. A record which stood for 48 years, she also has five silver medals and four bronze medals to make a total of 18 Olympic medals.
A post shared by LisaLeslie lisaleslie. After her retirement in , she served as a sports commentator for several networks before joining Fox Sports as an analyst in Florida. Nastia Liukin was pivotal to the success of the US Gymnastics team, winning three world championships and the Beijing Olympics. She won the gold medal for the all-around events and 4 other Olympic medals tying for the record of the most medals won in a single Olympic game. They have become role models and idols for the younger generations of athletes and the entire world.
Their names will forever be etched in history. Who are the most famous female athletes ever? View this post on Instagram.
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