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History of Women in Sports Timeline - 2012

"I can't really take in what I've done."

- Laura Dekker, 16-year-old Dutch teen sailor who soloed around the world.

2012 - 14-year old Lydia Ko wins the New South Wales Open to become the youngest player to win a professional golf tour event. The glove she work in the final will be displayed in the World Golf Hall of Fame.
2012: 16-year-old Dutch teen sailor Laura Dekker beats Jessica Watson's record for youngest youngest solo world sailing tour at 16, completing her epic journey on Jan. 22 when she sailed into harbor on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten. She left the island January 20, 2011 - beating the previous record by some eight months; her 17th birthday is in September.
2012 - Felicity Aston reaches Hercules Inlet, completing her 1744 km, 59 day trek to become the first female to traverse Antarctica solo, transporting her own supplies by hand on two sleds, on Jan. 22.
2012 - TITLE IX Report: the 35th annual survey of the status of women in intercollegiate athletics finds record numbers of female athletes and teams, coaches and administrators in college programs.
2012 - USA Basketball names Breanna Stewart, a star basketball player at Cicero-North Syracuse and a member of two USA national teams last year, as the 2011 Female Athlete of the Year. She was a member of the gold-medal winning 2011 USA U19 World Championship Team that competed in Puerto Montt, Chile and the 2011 USA Pan American Games Team that competed in Guadalajara, Mexico.
2012 - Victoria Azarenka wins the Australian to capture a Grand Slam title and the No. 1 tennis ranking for the first time, defeating three-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, 6-3, 6-0.
2012 - The United Arab Emirates will host the first Arab Women's Sports Tournament at the Sharjah Ladies Club from Feb. 2-12. Clubs from 12 countries will compete in events including basketball, volleyball, shooting and table tennis.
2012 - 19-year-old Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino wins the Copa BBVA Colsanitas in Colombia. She and Eva Birnerova of the Czech Republic also won the doubles title.
2012 - Jessica Korda defeats five players in a two hole, sudden-death playoff to win the LPGA's Australia Open.
2012 Victoria Azarenka wins the Qatar Total Open for her third straight WTA title.
2012 - Taiwan's Yani Tseng, 23, defended her LPGA Thailand title for her 13th Tour victory.
2012 - The No. 10 St. Lawrence University women's hockey team defeated No. 3 Cornell in Ithaca, NY by 3-1 to win the program's first ECAC Hockey Championship.
2012 - Brittney Griner took the Baylor Lady Bears with 26 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks to lead Baylor to a dominating 80-61 victory over Notre Dame in the NCAA women's basketball championship, capping an unparalleled 40-0 season for the Lady Bears.
2012 - Pat Summitt, the University of Tennessee women's basketball coach, which starrted her career 38 years ago, when she agreed to coach the team for just $250 a month, retires as the person who won more games than any other collegiate coach in any sport. Summitt led the Lady Vols to eight national championships and 1,098 wins, the most in major-college basketball history, Tennessee has been the only school to appear in all 32 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournaments since the tournament's inception in 1982. The Lady Vols have earned a No. 1 seed in the tournament 21 times under her leadership. During the 2011-2012 season, Sports Illustrated named Summitt as Sportswoman of the Year, and the NCAA gave her the NCAA President's Gerald R. Ford Award for her leadership in intercollegiate athletics. President Barack Obama has announced that she will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award handed out by the government.
2012 - Flyweight Marlen Esparza is the first American female boxer to qualify for the London Olympics, beating Luu Thi Duyen of Vietnam in the second round of the Women’s World Championshipsin in a 28-13 decision in the three-round bout.
40 Women Who Have Made a Significant Impact on Society After Playing High School or College Sports - The Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF), in collaboration with espnW and Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT), releases its 40 FOR 40 list of forty women who made a significant impact on society after playing sports in high school or college during the forty years of the Title IX era. The honorees will be recognized as part of a 40 FOR 40 event on June 21 at the JW Marriott in Washington, DC.
2012 - Football's (soccer) world governing body FIFA elects a female member to the executive committee for the first time in it's history. Lydia Nsekera, the president of the Burundi Football Association, is already a member of several FIFA committies, including those for women's football, the women's World Cup and football at the Olympics.
2012 - Maria Sharapova, 25, defeats Sara Errani to win the French Open for the first time, completing a career grand slam. Sharapova became just the 10th female player to complete a career grand slam.
2012 - June 23rd - the 40th anniversary of Title IX. "Title IX was the second-most important piece of civil rights legislation passed in this country," said Debbie Yow, athletic director at North Carolina State. "Had it not passed, the options and opportunities for women in this country and the world would be vastly different."
2012 - In an exhibiton softball game to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the US national team defeats the Team Canada, 9-1.
2012 - 30-year old Serena Williams wins her 5th Wimbledon single title (14th Grand Slam tournament) in a 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 victory over Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska. She is the first woman in her 30s to capture a Grand Slam since Martina Navratilova won Wimbledon in 1990 at age 33. Later in the afternoon, she and sister Venus win the doubles championship, defeating Czechs Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka, 7-5, 6-4.
2012 - Breanna Stewart from Cicero–North Syracuse High School in North Syracuse, NY is the Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year.
2012 - Saudi Arabia's decision to send to women athletes makes the London Olympics the first ever to have women competitors from every country sending teams.
2012 - For the first time in our Olympic history, the US is sending more female than male athletes to the London Olympics.
2012 - With the addition of women's boxing, the London Olympics becomes the first ever to have women competing in all same sports as men for 302 total medal events.
2012 - One Day 1 of the London Summer Games in the Women's 10-Meter Air Rifle, the Gold goes to Yi Siling, China, the Silver to Sylwia Bogacka, Poland, and the Bronzeto Yu Dan, China.
2012 - In the medal round for Women's Judo (106-Pound Weight Class), Gold goes to Sara Menezes, Brazil; Silver to Alina Dumitru, Romania; and the Bronze is a tie between Charline van Snick, Belgium and Eva Csernoviczki, Hungary.
20120 - In Women's Weightlifting (132-Pound Weight Class), Wang Mingjuan of China takes the Gold, the Silver goes to Hiromi Miyake, Japan, and the Bronze to Ryang Chun Hwa, PKR.
2012 - Italy swept the medals round in Women's Individual Foil Fencing with Gold to Elisa Di Francisca, Silver to Arianna Errigo, and Bronze to Valentina Vezzali.
2012 - In Olympic women's swimming, the Gold goes to China's Ye Shiwen in the 400-Meter Individual Medley with a new world record; the Silver to Elizabeth Beisel, US, and the Bronze to Li Xuanxu, China. The 4X100-Meter Freestyle Relay Gold is won by Team Australia, who sets a new Olympic record; the Silver goes to the Netherlands and the Bronze to the US team.
2012 - American Kimberly Rhode wins the gold medal in women's skeet shooting, making her the first US athlete to take an individual-sport medal in five consecutive Olympics. She ties the world record and sets an Olympic record with 99 points. Wei Ning of China takes silver and Danka Bartekova of Slovakia the bronze. In qualifying, Rhode sets another Olympic record, missing only one of her 75 shots. Rhode won a gold medal in double trap at Atlanta as a teenager in 1996, took bronze in that event four years later at Sydney, re-claimed the gold at Athens in 2004 and won the silver in skeet at Beijing in 2008.
2012 - In the Women's Synchronised 3m Springboard diving event, China's Zi He and Minxia Wu take the Gold; the US team of Kelci Bryant and Abigail Johnston are the silver medalists; Canada's Jennifer Abeland Emilie Heymans take the Bronze.
2012 - In the women's 100m butterfly, Dana Vollmer of the US set a new World Record of 55.98 for the gold medal over China's Lu Ying and Australian Alicia Coutts, who finished in silver and bronze. France's Camille Muffat takes gold in the women's 400m freestyle ahead of Team USA's Allison Schmitt, who claims the silver. Bronze goes to Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington. In the women's 100 backstroke, U.S. swimmer Missy Franklin wins her first gold medal, narrowly beating Emily Seebohm of Australia for the silver, with Japan's Ayo Terakawa taking the bronze. In the women's 100 breastroke, the gold winner is Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte, the silver goes to American Rebecca Soni, and the bronze to Satomi Suziki ofJapan.
2012 - In the women's 57-kilogram Judo division, Kaori Matsumoto defeated Romanian Caprioriu for the gold and silver medals respectively. The 57K bronze medals were won by American Marti Malloy and Automne Pavia of France.
2012 - The American women's gymnastics team wins its second gold medal ever, with Gabby Douglas leading the U.S. to a 183.596 score; Russia finishes second with 178.503 for the silver; Romania wins the bronze with 176.414.
2012 - In Olympic swimming, American Allison Schmitt wins the women's 200-meter freestyle in Olympic record time of 1:53:61; France's Camille Muffat takes the silver and Austraila's Bronte Barratt wins bronze. China's Shiwen Ye wins her second gold medal, taking the women's 200 individual medley with another Olympic record time; the silver goes to Alicia Coutts from Austraila and the bronze to America's Caitlin Leverenz. In the women's 200 Butterfly, China's Jian Liuyana takes the gold; Mireia Belmonta Garcia of Spain the silver; and Japan's Natsumi Hosji the bronze. In the 4x200 Freestyle Relay, the US takes the gold, Austaila the silver and France the bronze.
2012 - in Olympic cylcing, American Kristin Armstrong repeats her Beijing gold performace with another win; Germany's Judith Arndt with the silver and Russia's Olga Zebelinskaya takes the bronze.
2012 - In Olympic Judo, America's Kayla Harrison takes the gold in the women's 78-kg class, defeating Britian's Gemma Gibbons, who took the silver.
2012 - Gabby Douglas becomes the first African-American to win Olympic gold in the women's all-around Gymnastics finals, with Russia's Victoria Kmova and Aliya Mustafina taking the silver and bronze medals.
2012 - The US takes their second Olympic gold in the women's 8 rowing with Canada taking the silver.
2012 - In swimming, the 100 meter freestyle is won by Ranomi Kromowidjoji of the Netherlands taking the gold; Belarus' Aliaksandra Herasimenia with the silver and Tanh Yi of China with bronze. In the 200 meter breastsroke, America's Rebecca Soni is the gold winner, Japan's Satomi Suzuki the silver and Russia's Iulila Efimova the bronze.
2012 - In women's sprint track cycling, the German team of Miriam Welte and Kristina Vogel take the gold.
2012 - In Olympic swimming, the US teenager Missy Franklin takes gold in the women's 200 backstroke, followed by Russia's Anastasia Zueva's silver and American teammate Elizabeth Beisel's bronze. Inthe 800 frestyle, America's Katie Ledecky takes the gold, the silver goes to Spain's Mireia Belmonta Garcia and the bronze to Britain's Rebecca Adlington.
2012 - The U.S. women's swim team caps their most successful swimming Olympics since the 1984 Games with a world record time of 3:52.05 in 4x100 medley relay for the gold won by Dana Vollmer, Rebecca Soni, Allison Schmitt, and Missy Franklin. The US women's team wins 14 swimming medals - eight of them gold.
2012 - American Serena Williams takes the gold in Olympic singles tennis and she and her sister team up for the gold in doubles, just the way they did in 2000, when it was Venus taking the gold in singles.
2012 - In the women's gymnastic vault finals, Romanian Sandra Raluca Izbsas take the gold, with America's McKayla Maronev taking silver and Russia's Maria Paseka the bronze. In the uneven bars, the gold goes to Russia's Aliya Mustafina; the silver to He Kexin of China, and the bronze to Britain's Elizabeth Tweddle.
2012 - In track and field, American Sanya Richards-Ross wins the women's 400 with Britain's Christine Ohuruogu the silver and the bronze goes to DeeDee Trotter, USA. In the women's Marathon, the gold goes to Ethiopian Tiki Gelana, the silver to Kenyan Priscag Jeptoo, and the bronze to Russia's Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova.
2012 - Fredonia, NY's Jenn Suhr takes gold for the first time in the women's pole vault, with silver going to Cuba's Yarislev Silva and the bronze to the defending Olympic champion, Russia's Elena Isinbayeva. In the shot put, the gold goes to New Zealand's Valerie Adams, the silver to Evengila Kolodko, Russia, and the bronze to Lijiao Gong of China. In the women's 3,000 meter steeplechase, the gold medal goes to Russia's Yuliya Zaripova, the silver to Habiba Ghribi of Tunisia, and the bronze to Ethiopia's Sofia Assefa.
2012 - In non-Olympic news, the NFL's first-ever woman official, Shannon Eastin, makes her line judge debut in a pre-season game between the Packers and the Chargers in San Diego.
2012 - In Gymnastics, the women's beam gold goes to China's Deng Linlin; the silver to her teammate, Sui Lu, and the bronze to America's Alexandra Raisman. Raisman goes on to win the gold in the floor exercise final, with Catalina Ponor of Romania getting silver and the bronze to Russia's Aliya Mustafina.
2012 - In the women's track cycling sprint, Australia's Anna Meares took gold with the silver going to Britain's Victoria Pendleton, who wins gold in the women's keirin. Team Great Britain's Laura Trott won the women's omnium, a cycling contest made up of six events.
2012 - Britain's riders Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin took the home nation's first dressage gold, with Germany taking the silver and the Netherlands the bronze in the team grand prix special.
2012 - In the women's 100 hurdles, the gold goes to Australia's Sally Pearson and American teammates Dawn Harper and Kellie Willis take silver and bronze.
2012 - In an all-American final, the world's dynamic women's beach volleyball duo - Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings - win their third Olympic gold medal in the last game of their 11-year team career, beating US teammates Jennifer Kessy and April Ross in straight sets in front of a sell-out crowd. Brazil wins the bronze.
2012 - In track and field competition, American Allyson Felix finally wins gold in the women's 200 meter, after taking silver in two previous Olympics. She defeats Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price who takes the silver and American teammate Carmelita Jeter who wins bronze. In women's long jump, Brittney Reece captures her gold for the US, becomning only the second American woman to win in that event after Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988. The silver goes to Elenea Sokolova of Russia and Reece's American teammate Janey Deloach takes the bronze. In the 400 hurdles, the gold winner is Natalya Antyukh of Russioa followed by silver to America's Lashinda Demus and the bronze to Czech Zuzana Heinova.
2012 - In women's 500 kayak fours, the winning team is Hungary with gold, followed by the silver to Germany with Belarus taking the bronze.
2012 - In women's taekwondo in the 49 Kg weight class, China's Wu Jingyu defeats Spain's Brigitte Yague Enriche for the gold and silver with two bronze medals are awarded to Croatia's Lucija Zaninovic and Thailand's Chanatip Sonkham.
2012 - In women's freestyle wrestling in the 48Kg class, the gold goes to Japan's Hitomi Obara, the silver to Mariya Stadnyk of Azerbaijan, and the bronzes are awarded to Canada's Carol Huynh and to American Clarissa Kyoto Mei Ling Chun. In the 63Kg class, Japan's Kaori Ichi gets the gold, Jing Ruixee of China the silver, and the bronze goes to Mongolia's Battsetseg Soronzonbold.
2012 - Canada's women's soccer team brings home the Olympic bronze medal in a hard-fought game won in the last minute of stopage time with a 1-0 victory over France.
2012 - In the first-ever women's Olympic boxing matches at the London Games, the first gold medal is awarded to Great Britain's Nicola Adams, 29, in the flyweight division in a 16-7 decision over her Chinese opponent, Ren Cancan. American Marlen Esparza wins one of two bronzes. In the bantam divison, Ireland's left-hander Katie Taylor takes gold in a 10-8 decision over Russia's Sofia Ochigava. The pride of Flint, MI, Claressa Sheilds, 17, takes the gold in the women's middleweight over world champion Nadezda Tarlopova, 19-12.
2012 - In the 6.2 mile women's marathon swim, the gold goes to Hungary's Eva Risztov and Hayley Anderson of the US wins the silver medal.
2012 - The US women finally achieve a win in the gold medal water polo match with Spain, winning 8-5, after 12 long years. The Australian team takes the bronze in London against the Hungarian women in double overtime.
2012 - This marks the third straight Olympic gold for the American women soccer team as they defeat Japan 2-1 to win the game. Midfielder Carli Lloyd scored both goals for the U.S. women, avenging the loss to Japan in last year's World Cup final. The crowd of 80,203 at Wembley Stadium was the largest ever for a women's soccer match at the Olympics. The game was seen by an average of 4.35 million views, the most in NBC Sports Newtork history. The 1.5 million live steams on the internet also made Olympic history.
2012 - Danuta Kozak takes gold for Hungary in the women's kayak single (K1) 500-meter final. Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze takes the gold in women's kayak double (K2), with Hungary with silver and Poland taking bronze.
2012 - In the women's javelin final, Barbara Spotakova of the Czeck Republic takes the gold; German teammates Christina Obergfoll and Linda Stahl win silver and bronze.
2012 - In women's wrestling, the 55Kg gold goes to Saori Yoshida of Japan; the silver to Canada's Tonya Lynn Verbeek, and the bronzes go to Jackeline Renterio Castillo of Columbia and Yuliya Ratkevitch of Azerbaijan. In the 72KG class, the gold is won by Natalia Vorobeiva of Russia, the silver by Stanka Ziateva Hristova of Bulgaria, and bronze medals go to Guzel Manyurova of Kazakhstan and Maider Unda of Spain.
2012 - The US women's 4 X 100-meter team of Allyson Felix, Carmelita Jeter, Tianna Madison and Bianca Knight take gold in the relay with a new world record of 40.82; the Jamaican team earns silver at 41.41 time; the Ukraine captures the bronze. In distance running, Ethiopia's Meseret Defar took gold in the women's 5,000-meter race, besting Kenya's Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot by less than half a second. Turkey's Asli Cakir Alptekin beat fellow countrywoman Gamze Bulut and Bahrain's Maryam Yusuf Jamal to earn gold in the women's 1,500-meter final. The women's hammer throw gold goes to Russia's Tatyana Lysenko, silver to Poland's Anita Alodarczyk and bronze to Germany's Betty Heidier.
2012 - Russian women win the gold in the team synchronized swimming final, China takes silver and Spain the bronze.
2012 - Colombian Mariana Pajon wins gold in women's BMX cycling, with Sarah Walker of New Zealand getting the silver and Laura Smulders of the Netherlands the bronze.
2012 - In women's 10m Platform Diving, the gold medallist is Chen Ruolin of China, this silver medallist is Brittany Broben of Australia and bronze medallist Pandelela Pamg of Malaysia.
2012 - New Zealand claims the gold medal in women's 470 sailing race, Great Britain the silver and the Dutch take the bronze.
2012 - The Netherlands defeated world champion Argentina 2-0 to earn gold in women's field hockey final; Great Britain earns bronze in a 3-1 games with New Zealand.
2012 - In women's cross country mountain bike, the gold goes to France's Julie Bresset who defeats the German Olympic champ from Beijing, Sabine Spitz; the bronze goes to American Georgia Gould, who is the first American woman to medal since 1996 in Atlanta.
2012 - In women's team handball, the bronze goes to France in an overtime game with Korea, 31-29.
2012 - Defending champion Evgeniya Kanaeva claims gold for Russia in individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics with fellow Russian Daria Dmitrieva taking silver and Liubou Charkashyna of Belarus the bronze.
2012 - Brazil defeats Team United States to win the women's Volleyball gold medal match. Japan takes the bronze.
2012 - In women's basketball, the US team beats France 86-50 to win the USA's fifth straight gold medal and 41st straight Olympic game. No other Olympic team of any sport has ever won 5 straight golds. The Australian team defeats Ruissia for the bronze medal.
2012 - The US women's 4x400 meter relay team (Dee Dee Trotter, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory and 400 gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross) blow the field away with a gold medal run; Russia brings in the silver and Jaimaca has the brinze. The US women had a 49.2 second average per leg. The last American woman to win three golds at the Games was Florence Griffith Joyner in 1988. Allyson Felix also won an Olympic gold medal four years ago on the 4x400 relay and has two individual silvers in the 200, along with 10 world championship medals (eight of them gold).
2012 - Russia's Mariya Savinova wins the gold in the women's 800-meter final, followd by South Africa's Caster Semenya with the silver and Russian Ekaterina Poistogova with the bronze.
2012 - In women's high jump, Anna Chicherova of Russia wins gold; American Bridgette Barrett wins silver, and Russia's Svetlana Shkolina take the bronze. In the 20Km road walk, the gold and silver go to Russia's Elena Ladshmanova and Olga Kaniskina and the bronze to China's Qeiyang Shenjie.
2012 - In women's kayak singles 200, the gold goes to New Zealand's Lisa Carrington, the silver to Inna Osypenko-Radommska of the Ukraine, and the bronze to Natasha Douchev-Janics of Hungary. In women's sail match racing, the gold went to Spain and the silver to Australia.
2012 - In the 2012 London Games, women outmedaled men for the United States, China, and Russia. The leading medal winners for the three traditional Olympic powerhouses were women — despite the fact that there were 30 fewer medals available to be won.
2012 - China's Li Na wins her first tennis title of the season at the Westerm & Southern Open, beating Germany's Angelique Kerber.
2012 - Jessica Parratto, 18, wins the US national 10-meter platform championship. She and Anna James, 17, win the women's synchronized 10-meter platform championship. Gracia Leydon-Mahoney, 16, wins the women's 3-meter springboard.
2012 - For the first time in its 80-year history, Augusta National Golf Club, open since 1932, invites former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become the first women in green jackets when the club opens for a new season in October. The home of the Masters, the club has been under increasing criticism the last decade because of its all-male membership
2012 - For the first time, a girl - Bryaunna Murphy, of Massena, NY - takes home the grand prize of $1,500 in the 10th annual International Junior Carp Fishing Tournament.
2012 - Annaleise Carr, a Canadian 14-year-old, becomes the youngest person ever to complete a nearly 27-hour, 31.6-mile solo swim across Lake Ontario, starting from Niagara-on-the-Lake and ending at Toronto's Marilyn Bell Park. The teenager did her swim for charity - Camp Trillium, a childhood cancer center.
2012 - 15-year old Lydia Ko wins the Canadian Women's Open to become the youngest winner in LPGA history and the first amateur winner since JoAnne Carner in the 1969 Burdine Invitational.
2012 - A baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves breaks media ground as Michele Smith joins two men on TBS to provide commentary.
2012 - South Plantation, FL's backup quarterback, Erin DiMeglio, becomes the first girl in state history to play quarterback in a varsity high school football game near the end of the game. 500 girls have played for Florida football teams, but none have ever entered the game as a quarterback.
2012 - Serena Williams pulls out a 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 victory over top-ranked Victoria Azarenka, collecting her fourth U.S. Open championship and 15th Grand Slam title. She is the first woman in her 30s to win the U.S. Open since Martina Navratilova in 1987. She won her first major title age 17 at the 1999 U.S. Open. Winning titles 13 years apart at the same Grand Slam tournament represents the longest span of success in the professional era, which began in 1968. In addition, she is the first woman to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same season since 2002, when she last did it.
2012 - Italians Sera Errani and Roberta Vinci take the U.S. Open women's doubles title, besting Andrea Hlavockova and Lucie Hradecka from the Czech Republic.
2012 - Caroline Wozniacki wins her 20th WTA career title at the Kremlin Cup, defeating Samantha Stosur 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.
2012 - Venus Willaims, 32, wins her 44th single title at the Luxembourg Open, defeating Monica Niculescu 6-2, 6-3, for her first win in over two years.
2012 - Serena Williams wins the WTA Champinship with a victory over Maria Sharapova, 6-4, 6-3 in the final tournmanet of the season, for a 59-4 record in 2012.
2012 - Cristie Keer wins the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.
2012 - Stacy Lewis is the LPGA Player of the Year.
2012 - The US Women's Open champion Na Yeon Choi, 25, wins the final LPGA tour event, the Titleholders, to earn a career-best $1.9 million in prize money.
2012 - Rosie Napravnik, 24, rides Shanghai Bobby to a win in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile, joining Julie Krone in the small club of female jockeys who have won a Breeders' Cup race.
2012 - Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas is named the AP female Athlete of the Year.
2012 - Pia Sundhage is named the 2012 FIFA Women's Coach of the Year for her work on the US Women's Team bench.

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