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December 20, 2023
Formula 1 embraces gender equality with female drivers in F1 Academy
The pinnacle of motorsport, F1, has long been considered a male-dominated sport. However, in recent years, there has been a growing movement to increase female participation. The F1 Academy was created with the idea of providing a pathway for women to compete in a F1 race for the first time...
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December 20, 2023
Three women’s sports stories that helped shape 2023
2023 saw many records shattered in women’s sports, including a women’s NCAA volleyball game with over 25,000 more fans than attended the 2023 Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. Between Coco Gauff's record-breaking viewership at the US Open, global headlines made by the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and...
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December 1, 2023
Japan’s Miho Nakata Sets Women’s 24-Hour World Record
Japan’s Miho Nakata jumped into the spotlight in the ultrarunning world on Saturday, December 2, setting the women’s 24-hour world record of 167.996 miles (270.363 kilometers) at the 2023 IAU 24-Hour World Championships in Taipei. She beat the previous record set by Camille Herron of 167.842 miles (270.116k) at the...
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November 15, 2023
LPGA to award $4 million to season finale winner next year under extension with CME Group
Already offering the single-largest payday in women’s golf, the LPGA said Wednesday that next year’s winner of the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship will receive $4 million, equal to the PGA Tour’s new signature events. The big increase — double what the winner gets this year — comes from a...
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October 31, 2023
Women’s College Volleyball Notches Most-Watched Game Ever
On Sunday, Fox put two matchups in NFL-adjacent slots: Those receiving 1 p.m. ET Fox NFL games would get the Wisconsin-Minnesota match in the late window, while those receiving the 4 p.m. ET game — Cleveland Browns at Seattle Seahawks — would get Ohio State-Michigan in the early window. The...
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October 25, 2023
2024 Tour de France, Tour de France Femmes routes unveiled with historic firsts
The routes for the 2024 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes were unveiled Wednesday with historic firsts for both cycling races. Due to the Paris Olympics starting July 26, the men’s Tour starts one week earlier than usual (in Florence, Italy this year) and ends in Nice, as...
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October 20, 2023
Las Vegas Aces Clincher Produces Most-Watched WNBA Finals Game 4
Just like the champion Las Vegas Aces, the 2023 WNBA Finals finished strong with record viewership. Wednesday night’s Game 4 reportedly averaged 889,000 viewers for ESPN — the most-watched game of this year’s championship series and the most-watched WNBA Finals Game 4 of all time. The average represents a huge...
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October 17, 2023
Through Three Games, WNBA Finals Sets 20-Year Viewership High
The New York Liberty and WNBA Finals viewership both rebounded in Game 3. Sunday’s 87-73 win for New York over the Las Vegas Aces averaged 659,000 viewers — making it the most-watched Finals Game 3 in 18 years and a 14% increase over 2022’s comparable contest. The contest peaked with 945,000 viewers...
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October 10, 2023
WNBA Finals Posts Best Game 1 Viewership Since 2000
Despite stiff competition from the NFL on Sunday, the WNBA Finals managed to get off to its best viewership start in 23 years. The Las Vegas Aces’ 99-82 victory over the New York Liberty in Game 1 was seen by 729,000 average viewers on ABC — the most for an opening game...
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October 4, 2023
The Women’s Surf Film Festival Is Coming to California for the 1st Time
The Women’s Surf Film Festival, which highlights stories about women and most often told by women with a strong devotion to the ocean. will finally make its California debut in October 11-13, 2023 in Venice and Ventura. The Inertia
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October 3, 2023
90-year-old woman sets U.S. half-marathon age-group record
Just months after blazing to a new world age-group standard in the 1,500m, 90-year-old Dot Sowerby has broken the U.S. half-marathon age-group record, underscoring her message that age isn’t an obstacle to breaking down barriers. The grandmother and longtime runner from Greensboro, N.C., completed the 2023 Life Time Chicago Half...
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September 20, 2023
espnW Announces Full Agenda and Speakers for the 14th Annual espnW: Women + Sports Summit, presented by Toyota
espnW has announced the full agenda for the 2023 espnW: Women + Sports Summit, presented by Toyota, taking place October 23-25 at Ojai Valley Inn, Ojai, CA. Leaders across sports, business and entertainment will unite for a range of keynotes, breakout sessions, panels, and presentations, focusing on creating positive change...
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September 13, 2023
Coco Gauff’s US Open victory draws record 3.4M viewers, 1.1M more than Novak Djokovic’s win
Gauff's first Grand Slam title at the US Open last weekend powered ESPN to record-breaking viewership numbers. On Saturday, 3.4 million people watched Gauff defeat current world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in three sets, a 92% increase over the 2022 final between Iga Swiatek and Ons Jabeur, making it the most-viewed women's...
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September 13, 2023
WNBA Enters Playoffs With Wave Of Continued Growth
The WNBA enters its 2023 playoffs on Wednesday with the momentum of another season that has dynamically boosted its own growth trajectory and that of women’s sports. Extending a trend over the past several years, the league ended the regular season up 16% in attendance with a per-game average of...
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September 11, 2023
Kenyan runner breaks women’s 5K and 10K world records in same race
The 22-year-old Kenyan phenomenon, Agnes Ngetich, left the athletics world in awe over the weekend at the Transylvania 10K in Brasov, Romania, where she broke both the women-only 5K and 10K world records in a single race. Ngetich took victory in the 10K with a sensational time of 29 minutes...
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September 2, 2023
Women’s gymnastics is changing in more ways than one
It's clear that elite women's gymnastics is changing in some big ways — in terms of race, age and collegiate competition — and moving the sport forward. The top six women at the meet were Black or Asian American. On the men's side, too, the top three were Black or...
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August 30, 2023
Nebraska volleyball stadium event draws 92,003 to set women’s world attendance record
The Cornhuskers laid claim to the world record for largest attendance at a women’s sporting event with 92,003 filling Memorial Stadium for their volleyball match against Omaha. APN
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August 23, 2023
New York City Marathon changes pregnancy deferral policy – but it requires athletes to pay to defer
New York Road Runners (NYRR) – organisers of the New York City Marathon – updated the organisation’s pregnancy and postpartum cancellation policy in an attempt to become a ‘more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and socially responsible organisation’. It means that the New York City Marathon is now the fifth World Marathon Major to allow women...
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August 21, 2023
Women’s World Cup Final Draws Historic U.K. Viewership Numbers
While England wasn’t able to win the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the country’s 1-0 loss to Spain in Sunday’s final still broke a domestic viewership record. The match drew 12 million viewers on BBC One — making it the most-watched women’s soccer match in U.K. history and the second-most watched event...
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August 15, 2023
Caitlin Clark’s Iowa WCBB Sells out Season Tickets for 1st Time in Program History
The University of Iowa women's basketball slate doesn't start until Nov. 6, but season tickets for the 2023-24 campaign are already sold out at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Iowa is coming off its first-ever national championship game appearance after reigning consensus player of the year Caitlin Clark guided the Hawkeyes through an...
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August 14, 2023
FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 Viewership To Cross 2 Billion
The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is expected to shatter viewership records for women's football, with expectations of attracting 2 billion viewers worldwide. The tournament is being co-hosted for the first time by Australia and New Zealand, with 32 teams taking part. USA are the defending champions and will be...
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August 4, 2023
How Much Did Tour de France Femmes Riders Earn?
The second edition of the Tour de France Femmes wrapped up on Sunday—closing out tje secodn edition of the eight stage race. The most popular and highest-paid women’s cycling event on the WorldTour calendar captivated fans; however the women’s TDFF winner did not earn nearly as much as the men’s...
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August 1, 2023
5 Takeaways from the Tour de France Femmes
The biggest stage race in women’s pro cycling wrapped up over the weekend. Here’s what you need to know. Outside
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July 28, 2023
Women’s World Cup Attendance Is Outperforming FIFA’s Expectations
The 2023 Women’s World Cup hasn’t even progressed through group play, but FIFA is already projecting higher attendance numbers than expected for the tournament. Ticket sales are now close to 1.6 million, according to soccer’s governing body, which would easily surpass the record 1.35 million fans who attended the 2015...
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July 27, 2023
Women will make history at Paris 2024
In 1924, women made up only 5 per cent of the competitors. In Los Angeles, we made up 23 per cent of the athletes. But thanks to the growing commitment of the IOC, these numbers have continued to increase, and women represented almost 49 per cent of the nearly 11,000 athletes at...
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