Women's Achievements (sporting or otherwise)

[AndyRM]

Share them here folks!

I'll start.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckgl0klr7glo

 

[C R]

Katherine Johnson, developed the methods for calculating orbital parameters used by the US for their first manned space flights as well as for the Moon flights.

 

[C R]

Jocelyn Bell Brunel discovered the first radio pulsar.

 

[Beebo]

Sticking with sport.
Abby Dow retires at the pinnacle of sport.
An engineering degree from Imperial is no small achievement either.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c5yq48zq2q1o

 

[C R]

One last physicist. Lise Meitner, analysed the data from Otto Hahn's experiments on neutron bombardment of uranium, and showed that nuclear fission was taking place.

 

[AndyRM]

Sticking with sport.
Abby Dow retires at the pinnacle of sport.
An engineering degree from Imperial is no small achievement either.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c5yq48zq2q1o

She was the catalyst for this thread. Absolute legend.

 

[CXRAndy]

Modern day heroine

JK Rowling

So many others too numerous to mention in the same fight

 

[AndyRM]

This isn't a fight thread, it's a celebration.

The Harry Potter books are great! We've just finished watching Goblet of Fire, which goes full on dark after the hints from Azkaban.

 

[CXRAndy]

This isn't a fight thread, it's a celebration.

The Harry Potter books are great! We've just finished watching Goblet of Fire, which goes full on dark after the hints from Azkaban.

I wasn't making a fight out it.

The thread title literally says

I believe she has been fantastic in the stance she took in support of women's rights.

 

[AndyRM]

I wasn't making a fight out it.

The thread title literally says

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I believe she has been fantastic in the stance she took in support of women's rights.

You literally used the word "fight".

I believe her successes as an author are far greater than anything else.

 

[CXRAndy]

You literally used the word "fight".

I believe her successes as an author are far greater than anything else.

Ok the word fight was probably wrong, how about struggle.

Her books and films are amazing. But I rank her other achievements just as highly

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Beryl Burton of Morley, who for two years in the 1960s held the men's world 12-hour time trial record.

In 1967 she pedalled 277.25 miles in 12 hours, famously overtaking Mike McNamara, her male rival, and giving him a liquorice allsort as she passed. ❤️‍🔥

It wasn't until 1969 that a man went faster. No woman has ever bettered her time.

 

[Ian H]

Beryl Burton of Morley, who for two years in the 1960s held the men's world 12-hour time trial record.

In 1967 she pedalled 277.25 miles in 12 hours, famously overtaking Mike McNamara, her male rival, and giving him a liquorice allsort as she passed. ❤️‍🔥

It wasn't until 1969 that a man went faster. No woman has ever bettered her time.

Not forgetting 25 years BAR champ.

Also, to put Burton's record in perspective, McNamara broke the men's 12hr record with his ride that day.

 

[Psamathe]

Rosalind Franklin​

Her work was central to the discovery of the structure of DNA yet during her lifetime her rcrucial ole went largely unrecognised.

 

[AndyRM]

Dolores O'Riordan

Absolute monster of a vocalist.