Women Sport Memoir

This book takes you from after Deborah completes her Ironman triathlon and the coming years through global pandemics, injury and illness.

For celebrated journalist Tracey Lee Holmes, sport has been both a way of life and a lens through which to look at life itself. In this completely candid, wide-ranging and passionate book – part memoir, part manifesto – she shares both her stories and her views on sport’s most dramatic...

Zwei der vier bedeutensten Tennisturniere der Welt habe ich im Doppel gewonnen. Im Einzel bin ich länger in den Top Ten gewesen als Mike Tyson Weltmeister im Boxen war. Ich war Manschaftsweltmeisterin und gewann eine olympische Medaille. Nach meiner Karriere wurde ich auf das Gerichtsverfahren gegen meinen Vater, meiner Insolvenz und die Teilnahme an Promi Big Brother reduziert. Ich bin Claudia Kohde-Kilsch und in "Regenpause" erzähle ich zum ersten Mal meine ganze Geschichte.

From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous Black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first African American to win titles at the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. In this first full-scale biography, Ashley Brown narrates the public career and private struggles of Althea Gibson (1927–2003).

In 2021, Emma Raducanu shocked and charmed the tennis world as she raced to the US Open title with a smile on her face. But how did a little-known 18-year-old from Kent become the first ever qualifier to win a Major? Now Mike Dickson, who as tennis correspondent of the Daily Mail was one of the few journalists present in New York to see her lift the trophy, reveals what it took to become Britain's first woman Grand Slam champion since Virginia Wade in 1977.

Making My Pitch tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who, despite formidable obstacles, became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men’s collegiate game.

In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt. She was a glamorous worldwide celebrity, having that year won singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles tennis titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open, then an unprecedented feat. Yet today one of America's greatest female athletes and most charismatic characters is largely forgotten. Queen of the Court places her back on center stage.

"The Road Taken" is a coming-of-age memoir in which a woman discovers her independence on the wheels of a motorcycle traveling the world and competing in the Peking to Paris Car Rally. She also draws upon her training as an artist to create an Australian homestead for herself in Sonoma, California.

My Hidden Race is the story of Olympic medalist Anyika Onuora, who stood on the podium at every major championship in athletics. This book won't go into detail about the technicalities of her sport or the beauty of the Olympic spirit however. In the era of the Black Lives Matter and Me Too, this is an unflinching testimony of what it takes to pursue your dreams as a Black British woman against all odds. This three-time Olympian will lift the lid on the reality of life as a black female athlete in Britain in a way that nobody else has done before her.

All In is Laura Massaro's honest, raw, and personal story of how she became one of the greatest squash players the UK has ever produced. From a shy, young athlete sometimes crippled by nerves and self-doubt, to a World No.1 and World Champion in an intense, gruelling sport, All In takes you on a deeply personal and inspiring journey.

In 1930, at the age of twenty-seven, Liesl Herbst was the Austrian National Tennis Champion, a celebrity in Vienna. Liesl, her husband David and their daughter Dorli came to Britain after escaping the Nazis. In London, though initially stripped of their Austrian passports and rendered stateless aliens, both Liesl and her daughter Dorli competed at Wimbledon. They remain the only mother and daughter ever to have played doubles together at Wimbledon.

It’s the sixties. Everything’s groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the author’s young life. She doesn’t swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesn’t protest the Vietnam War or fight for women’s rights. Instead, from age seven to sixteen, she accompanies her father to a dilapidated barn on the edge of a dusty little town located on the outskirts of San Francisco, where she works after school building a ship that is supposed to set her free.

Este audiolibro es la crónica de primera mano del intento de Serena Williams de regresar a la primera línea del tenis tras dar a luz a su hija, y también un análisis cultural de la atleta femenina más importante de su tiempo. Su biografía examina quién es ella tanto dentro como fuera de la cancha, y para ello el autor se convierte en su sombra a lo largo de toda la temporada 2019, desde Melbourne y el Open de Australia hasta Roland-Garros, Wimbledon y US Open.

Andrea Petković ist einem breiten Publikum nicht nur als Weltklasse-Tennisspielerin bekannt, mit ihrem Debüt "Zwischen Ruhm und Ehre liegt die Nacht" hat sie sich auch als neue Stimme in der Literaturszene etabliert. In ihrem aktuellen Buch verarbeitet sie den großen Bruch in ihrem Leben: den Ausstieg aus dem Profisport. Und geht dabei existenziellen Fragen auf den Grund, die sich uns allen angesichts großer Veränderungen im Leben stellen.

Faszination Hochsee-Segeln: Sanni Beucke nimmt uns in ihrer Biografie mit auf die Weltmeere. In ihrer abenteuerlichen Autobiografie erzählt Susann »Sanni« Beucke, wie sie seit ihrer Kindheit ihren großen Traum verfolgt: als Seglerin an den Olympischen Spielen teilzunehmen. Dabei helfen ihr vor allem ihr Durchhaltevermögen, die Beharrlichkeit und ihr Glaube an sich selbst. Als Profisportlerin war die Teilnahme an den Olympischen Spielen ihr Lebensinhalt, aber der Weg dorthin war alles andere als einfach. 15 Jahre lang setzt die gebürtige Kielerin alles daran, das Ziel »Olympia« zu erreichen.

18 luglio 1976, Olimpiadi di Montréal: una giovane ginnasta rumena esegue l’esercizio alle parallele asimmetriche. La votazione tarda ad arrivare, poi sullo schermo appare un misterioso 1.00, che lascia tutti confusi e interdetti; infine giunge la rivelazione: i computer sono programmati per segnalare un massimo di 9.99 punti. A soli quattordici anni, Nadia Comaneci entra nella storia dello sport con un esercizio da 10, una perfezione che il tabellone non è neanche in grado di registrare, diventando istantaneamente un modello per generazioni intere di ginnaste e atlete.

El día que ellas pisaron la cancha hicieron historia. Descubre el legado histórico que las futbolistas mexicanas han forjado desde hace más de 50 años. En 1971, ellas alcanzaron la gloria. Ante un Estadio Azteca repleto, fueron las finalistas de la Copa Mundial Femenina de Futbol. Esta hazaña sin precedentes no la ha logrado ninguna selección nacional de su categoría, ni la varonil. El equipo hizo historia, aunque la memoria no les haya hecho justicia. La creación de la Liga MX Femenil reavivó la llama que parecía apagada.

At the age of 50, Eddie Brocklesby decided to run her first half marathon. Until that point, she'd done little running, and her exercise regime consisted of little more than chauffeuring her children to their own sports clubs. In common with so many people, any interest she'd shown in sport in her childhood had diminished as her adult life progressed, with spare time becoming ever more limited in the face of work and family commitments. But the half marathon was the first of what was to become a hugely impressive trajectory of sporting accolades and successes.

These days, swimming may seem like the most egalitarian of pastimes, open to anyone with a swimsuit - but this wasn't always the case. In the 19th century, swimming was exclusively the domain of men, and access to pools was a luxury limited by class. Women were (barely) allowed to swim in the sea, as long as no men were around, but even into the 20th century they could be arrested and fined if they dared dive into a lake. It wasn't until the 1930s that women were finally granted equal access.

With self-deprecation and surprising wit, Marla reveals what it's like to see the world through her eyes, how it feels to grow up "disabled" in a society where expectations are often based on perceived abilities, and what it means to compete at the world-class level despite the fact that - quite literally, for her - there is no finish line.