Jason Kenny is Olympic men's sprint champion, and Victoria Pendleton is women's sprint world champion-a title she has won a record six times.

On February 22, 2006, Canmore local Chandra Crawford won the gold medal in the women's cross-country 1. 1-kilometre sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

It should not be possible in the women's hurdles that the winner is an athlete whose performance in the flat sprint is demonstrably excellent but whose technique of hurdling is only moderate and whose anthropometric characteristics are not optimal.

* Another Polish athlete Ewa Kłobukowska, who won the gold medal in women's 4x100 m relay and the bronze medal in women's 100 m sprint at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, is the first athlete to fail a gender test in 1967.

Somalia's two athletes were Fartun Abukar Omar, who finished last in her qualifying heat in the women's 100 meter sprint and Abdulla Mohamed Hussein who finished with the slowest time of all runners in the qualifying for the men's 400 meters.

Despite its name, it is not a conventional cycling sprint event-it is, in the men's event, a three-man team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome, and, in the women's event, a two-woman event held over two laps.

It also made history as being the first venue where both indoor and nighttime skiing events took place for the first time on a world championship or Winter Olympic Games level with competitions in the cross country skiing sprints ( men's and women's individual, and men's and women's team ) and the cross country portion of the 7. 5 km sprint event in the nordic combined.

Ivet Lalova of Bulgaria did the sprint double in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres, while Sophie Krauel showed her versatility by taking golds in the 100 metres hurdles and the long jump.

In 2003, she won all four women's competitions of the world championships held at Rapperswil in Switzerland ( sprint, middle, and long distance, and — together with Lea Müller and Vroni König-Salmi — the relay ).

The women's race was won by Great Britain's Mandy Jones, while the men's professional race was taken out by Giuseppe Saronni, who launched a devastating sprint in the final 300 metres to overtake the USA's Greg Lemond ( who would win the title the following year ) and local favourite, Sean Kelly from Ireland.

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

The discus, the object to be thrown, is a heavy lenticular disc with a weight of and diameter of for the men's event, and a weight of and diameter of for the women's event.

A women's tournament was added in 1996 ; in contrast to the men's event, full international sides without age restrictions play the women's Olympic tournament.

The EuroFloorball Cup ( formerly European Cup ) is an IFF-organised club event for both men's and women's teams.

Men's floor routines usually have four passes that will total between 60 – 70 seconds and are performed without music, unlike the women's event.

Stefka Kostadinova ( Bulgaria ) has held the women's world record at 2. 09 metres since 1987, also the longest-held record in the event.

Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon.

Though during her years in the Governor's Mansion, she did not hold a single formal event, Laura worked for women's and children's causes including health, education, and literacy.

Nawal El Moutawakel () ( born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca ) is a Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first female Muslim born on the continent of Africa to become an Olympic champion.

Henley Royal Regatta first included a women's singles event over the full course in 1993, followed in 2000 by eights ( now Remenham Challenge Cup ) and 2001 by quadruple sculls ( now Princess Grace Challenge Cup ).

Although women's races had been held in North America for some time and at the 1932 Winter Olympics in a demonstration event, the ISU did not organize official competitions until 1936.

The new women's event is competed over a distance of 12 laps, 3 km, by a team of three riders.

In the women's event, teams of two compete over a two-lap distance.

Keirin has been a UCI men's World Championship event since 1980 and a UCI women's World Championship event since 2002.

On 28 November 2006, the proposal for a women's ski jumping event was rejected by the Executive Board of the IOC.

Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee stated that women's ski jumping will not be an Olympic event because " we do not want the medals to be diluted and watered down ," referring to the relatively small number of potential competitors in women's ski jumping.

A group of 15 competitive female ski jumpers filed a suit against the Vancouver Organizing Committee ( VANOC ) claiming that conducting a men's ski jumping event without a women's event in the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 would be in direct violation of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Gale also won a bronze medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2003 FIBT World Championships in Nagano.

Ko remains the second youngest individual gold medalist after Tara Lipinski in the history of the Olympic Winter Games, winning gold in women's 1500 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt lake city, United States, at 15 years and 277 days old.

The men's 20 kilometres race walk was added to the Olympic athletics schedule in 1956 and the women's event was first held in 1992.

In addition to the Stag / Athenas and the Sagehens, there are several prominent 5C club sports teams, including roller hockey, men's and women's rugby union, both of whom attended Division II Nationals in 2004 and 2006, with women's team winning the Division II national championship in 2010, men's lacrosse, field hockey, crew, cycling, women's ultimate, who attended Nationals in 2004 and 2011, and men's ultimate frisbee, 2008 Southern California Sectional champions and 2011 Division III National champions.

University Recreation also supports 26 club sports, including bowling, men's crew, cricket, cycling, equestrian show team, men's and women's flag football, fencing, polo, men's and women's ice hockey, judo, men's lacrosse, logger sports, rodeo, men's rugby union, women's rugby, sailing, ski team, men's soccer, women's fast-pitch softball, taekwondo, triathlon, Ultimate, men's and women's volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

Club sports include Ultimate ( men's and women's ), equestrian team ( competes in IHSA ), polo team ( USPA ), cycling team ( competes in ECCC ), Quidditch, and co-ed USFSA synchronized skating team.

In 1897 and 1898 she won the women's speed track cycling world championship in Ostend, Belgium, and earned the nickname " La Flèche Humaine " (" The Human Arrow ").

* Kathy Watt-Australia's first cycling gold medalist at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics in the women's road race.

Sporting Life carries footwear, children's apparel, women's, men's and equipment for sports including skiing, running, and cycling.

** Grande Boucle ( 1984-present ), an elite women's cycling competition also known as Tour Cycliste Feminin

Lithuania's women's track cycling team regularly wins medals at the world and European championships.

Other divisions include the women's football, women's handball, men's futsal, men's ice hockey, men's handball, men's water polo, cycling, gymnastics, athletics, wrestling, curling and swimming teams, some of which are highly successful.

Although a sprinkling of silver and bronze medals — including a pair in men's and women's k1 kayak slalom — enlivened the mid-week, Britain's first gold did not come until Friday the 20th ( won by Chris Hoy in the 1 km track cycling time-trial ).

* Red Sun Cycling Team-a Dutch women's elite cycling team

Within the set of normally cycling women, individual women's preference for the scent of men with high facial symmetry correlated with their probability of conception.

Plouay hosts the GP Ouest-France and the GP de Plouay, an annual cycling race ( a men's and women's race, respectively ).

Woman cyclists, such as members of the Lady Cyclists ' Association, were keen advocates of women's right to dress appropriately for the activity, as part of a belief that cycling offered women an opportunity to escape overly restrictive societal norms.

The success of the men's ice hockey tournament has spawned " Beanpot " tournaments in other sports, including women's ice hockey, baseball ( with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst replacing Boston University, which does not offer varsity baseball ), softball, men's and women's soccer, women's rowing ( which also features MIT ) and cycling.

For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program, with a single event, the individual road race.