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

Althea Gibson
b. 8-25-1927; Silver, SC
d. 9-28-2003; East Orange, NJ

Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is sometimes referred to as “the Jackie Robinson of tennis” for breaking the color barrier.

FYI ~ Tennis champion Alice Marble supported Althea Gibson's entry into professional tennis.

TIME Cover Story “That Gibson Girl”

Evonne Goolagong

Evonne Goolagong
b. 7-31-1951; Griffith, New South Wales, Australia

Evonne Goolagong, the third of eight children of an Australian Aboriginal family, was one of the world's leading tennis players in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Steffi Graf
b. 6-14-1969; Mannheim, West Germany

Steffi Graf, a former World No. 1 German tennis player won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24.

In 1988, she became the first, and so far only, tennis player (male or female) to achieve the Calendar Year Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year.

Florence Griffith Joyner
b. 12-21-1959; Los Angeles, CA
d. 9-21-1998; Mission Viejo, CA

Track and field athlete Florence Griffith Joyner, best known as Flo-Jo, is considered the “fastest woman of all time” based on the fact that she still holds the world record for both the 100 metres and 200 metres, both set in 1988 and never seriously challenged.

Flo-Jo died of epilepsy in 1998 at the age of 38.