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The women's sports encyclopedia / [electronic resource] Robert Markel, executive editor ; Susan Waggoner, managing editor ; Marcella Smith, research and records editor ; foreword by Billie Jean King ; preface by Donna Lopiano.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : H. Holt, 1997.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0805044949 (alk. paper)
  • 9780805044942 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796/.082 21
LOC classification:
  • GV709 .W589 1997
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Contents:
Basketball -- Baseball and softball -- Soccer -- Volleyball -- Field hockey -- Team handball -- Tennis -- Badminton -- Table tennis -- Track and field -- Gymnastics -- Swimming -- Synchronized swimming -- Diving -- Golf -- Archery -- Bowling -- Billiards -- Shooting -- Cycling -- Canoe and kayak, sculls, yachting -- Equestrian -- Fencing -- Combat sports -- Triathlon -- Figure skating -- Speed skating -- Skiing -- Biathlon -- Luge -- Sled dog racing -- Appendix : Fantastic firsts.
Summary: Includes a history of women's participation in sports; biographies of past and present international athletes; annotated charts of world and Olympic records; and a chronological time line of women's sports from 500 B.C. to the present.
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Includes index.

Includes a history of women's participation in sports; biographies of past and present international athletes; annotated charts of world and Olympic records; and a chronological time line of women's sports from 500 B.C. to the present.

Basketball -- Baseball and softball -- Soccer -- Volleyball -- Field hockey -- Team handball -- Tennis -- Badminton -- Table tennis -- Track and field -- Gymnastics -- Swimming -- Synchronized swimming -- Diving -- Golf -- Archery -- Bowling -- Billiards -- Shooting -- Cycling -- Canoe and kayak, sculls, yachting -- Equestrian -- Fencing -- Combat sports -- Triathlon -- Figure skating -- Speed skating -- Skiing -- Biathlon -- Luge -- Sled dog racing -- Appendix : Fantastic firsts.

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