When the Olympics were reborn in 1896, after 15 centuries, none of the 176 participants were women. The 1900 Paris Games included the first female competitors. There were croquet players and ...

There have been countless American women who have dominated at the Olympics over the years, but did you know the first American woman to win a gold medal at the Games was a golfer? Her name was ...

Who was Margaret Abbott? Margaret Abbott wasn't a professional athlete. She was born in Calcutta, India, in 1878 to American parents and raised in Boston. Her mother, Mary Abbott, was a well-known ...

The first American woman to win an Olympic championship died without ever knowing what she had achieved. “We didn’t have the coverage that we have today,” said Paula D. Welch, a historian of women in ...

USGA historian Mike Trostel joins Rich Lerner on Live From the Olympics to discuss the life of Margaret Abbott, the first women to win a gold medal in golf in 1900.