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One of the first, if not the first was Babe Didrikson Zaharias. She won gold medals in the 80 meter dash and javelin in the 1932 Summer Olympics. She was the first women to play in a PGA event, the 1938 Los Angeles Open. She won the U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Championship and the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship. She is in the Women's Golf Hall of Fame. She played organized softball and Baseball and was a very good diver and bowler. The magazine Sports Illustrated named her Female Athlete of the 20th Century and the Associated Press named her Woman Athlete of the 20th Century.

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