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Mariana Pajón

10th October  1991

Colombia

24 years old

Colombian

1,58m / 55kg

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Cycling

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Wendy Macpherson

28th January 1968

Walnut Creek, California

48 years old

American

1,60m / 68kg

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Bowling

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Women in sport

Title of the film: “Bend it like Beckam”

Film director: Gurinder Chadha

Film genre/type of film: sport, love

Main actors/cast: -Keira Knightley (Jules), Parminder Mayra (Jess), Jonathan Rys-Meyers (Joe)

Music/soundtrack: Classic, hip-hop

Film length: About 108 min.                                                                                    

Places/setting: England

Time/period: 2002

Topics: Sport, love, personal ambitions, gender and British and Asian cultures.

Plot

Jess is an Indian teenager .She lives in Hounslow. She loves playing football but her parents want her to be a lawyer. Jess joins a girls ‘football team and knows Jules and they become friends. Jess has to play an important match the same day as the wedding of her sister. She leaves the wedding for a moment and goes to play the football match

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Jess: She is an Indian girl; she is about 16 years old. She is medium height and she is slim. She has got long, straight and dark hair. She has got big black eyes. She is funny, friendly and athletic.

After watching this film in class, our students have looked for information about some of the most important women in sport

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Venus Williams

17th July 1980

USA

36 years old

American

1,75m / 72,5kg

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Tennis

Brief description: She is a Silver Certified Coach and four times player and bowler of the year. She was member of 6 Hall of fames. She has 31 professional titles. Macpherson started competing in the Japan Professional Bowling Association (JPBA) in 2004, winning the 2004 JLBC Prince Cup

Brief description: She won her first national title at age of 5 and her first world title at 9. She is the winner of 14 world championships, 2 national championships in the United States, 9 Latin American Championships and 10 Pan American championships. She also won Gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, on 10 August.

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Lindsey Vonn

18th October 1984

Saint Paul. USA

32 years old

American

1,78m / 72kg

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Mountain Ski

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Holly Holm

17th October 1981

Alburquerque

 34 years old

American

1,73m / 61kg

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Martial Arts

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Erin Di Meglio

22nd October 1994

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American

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American football

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Lydia Ko

24th April 1997

New Zealand

19 years old

New Zealander

1,65m / ---

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Golf

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Gertrude Bell

14th July 1868

Durham, UK

Dead (1926)

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Adventure

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LYN HILL

first of March 1961

USA

48 years old

American

1,57m / ---

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Climbing

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BILLIE JEAN KING

November 22 the 1943

Long beach, Ca. USA

72 years old

American

1,64m / ---

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Tennis

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ANKY VAN GRUNSVEN

Second  January  1968

Erp , Netherlands ,.

48 years old

Dutch

1,70m / ---

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Pat Summit

14TH June 1952

USA

63 years old

American

1,57m / 46kg

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Danica Patrick

25th  March 1982

USA. Beloit, Wisconsin

34 years old

American

1,57m / 46kg

Divorced

Car pilot

Brief description: Lindsey Vonn is a professional skier and she is the number one in the history of ski. She has got one gold Olympic medal, two championships with six medals and sixteen world cups and seventy six wins in the ski world cup

Brief description: Holm is the first person to win championships in both boxing and mixed martial arts. Holm played soccer and participated in gymnastics, swimming and diving. She is the greatest female athlete in the history of combat sports. She appears in the 2016 film Fight Valley.

Brief description: She plays golf, she won seventeen trophies. Some of these are from the Seul `s competition. Some records and now she lives in north Harbour, New Zealand.

Brief description: Erin is a football and basket player, Erin graduated from south plantation high school. She is the first female quarterback in Florida high school football history. In 2012, she received a Scholarship from Foot locker`s scholar athlete program.

Brief description: She graduated at the Lady Margaret Hall University. She travelled everywhere in the Middle East. She wrote a report about Mesopotamia at the end of the First World War In 1921 she helped Sharif of Mecca to be King. She helped to create the Iraq museum too. She loved all the adventure sports.

Brief description: Venus Williams was the first black woman who was the number 1 in 2002. She has got a sister. Her sister plays tennis too. She won 48 forty eight championships and four medals in Olympic Games

Brief description: At first she was the coach of the women’s college basketball team.She was also the head coach emeritus of the University of Tenesse Lady Vols basketballs team.From 1974 to 2012 winning eight NCAA champions hips

Brief description: In April 2008 she became the first woman to win and Indy car race The pilot managed a total of eight podium finishes, including a third place in the 2009 edition of the 500 miles.

Brief description: Hill started to participate in climbing competitions in the mid-1980s, but one of her first significant accomplishments was in 1979. She became the first person to free climb Ophir Broke in Ophir, Colorado, which has a difficulty rating of 5.12d and was the hardest route ever climbed by a woman at that time.[6] It was the hardest crack climb in Colorado at the time and there were only one or two harder ones in Yosemite

Brief description: Equestrian is one of only two Olympic sports wherein men and women compete against each other on equal terms. Quite impressively, one individual — a woman from the Netherlands named Anky van Grunsven — has managed to dominate the individual dressage field by winning gold in three successive Olympic Games (2000, 2004, 2008).

Brief description: Billie jean king defeated Bubby Riggs at the 1973 battle of the sexes

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