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.. — 1st ed.. — New York : : H. Holt,, 1997.. — x, 340 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

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.



Анотація:
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.

0805044949 (alk. paper) 9780805044942 (alk. paper)

97008850


Sports for women--History.
Sports for women--Records.
Women athletes--Biography.
Sportlerin
Biographie
Frauensport
Rekord
Datensammlung

GV709 / .W589 1997

796/.082