Women Athletes Posters “A...-B...-”
for social studies and physical education classrooms, home schoolers, fans.

Denise Austin, née Katnich
b. 3-13-1957; San Pedro, California

Denise Austin, best known as a fitness instructor, started gymnastics at the age of 12, which led to an athletic scholarship at the University of Arizona. She is the sister-in-law of tennis champion Tracy Austin.

Tracy Austin
b. 12-12-1962; Palos Verdes Peninsula, California

World No. 1 professional tennis player Tracy Austin won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1980, before a series of injuries cut her career short.

Oksana Baiul
b. 11-16-1977; Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Oksana is the 1994 Olympic Champion in Ladies' Singles and 1993 World Champion.

Pauline Betz / TIME Cover: September 02, 1946, Art Poster TIME Magazine

Pauline Betz
b. 8-6-1919; Dayton, Ohio
d. 5-31-2011; Potomac, Maryland

Professional tennis player Pauline Betz won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions.

Track Athlete Fanny Blankers Koen Taking Her Jump, Photographic Print

Fanny Blankers-Koen
b. 4-26-1918; Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands
d. 1-25-2004; Hoofddorp (Alzheimer's disease)

Fanny Blankers-Koen is best remembered or winning four gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics. She was voted the “Female Athlete of the Century” by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), in 1999.