Wendy Toms which was then unique for a female. She was the first woman to be included on the list of Football League assistant referees when she was chosen for the 1994-95 season, and became a referee in the Football Conference two seasons later, creating another precedent when she took charge of the game between Kidderminster and Nuneaton Borough her first Conference match as referee. Almost a year after that, she operated as an assistant referee in the Premier League, again, the first female ever to do so. Two years after her debut in that league, and having 'run the line' for
Women's sport in Australia first female Winter Olympians. They competed at figure skating at 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway. In 1991, Helen Brownlee became the first woman elected to the Australian Olympic Committee's Executive Board. In 1988, at the Seoul Olympics, the Australian women's hockey team "Hockeyroos", became the first Australian women's team sport to win an Olympic gold medal. The Hockeyroos went on to win the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Games. In 2002, Alisa Camplin competing at the 2012 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City became Australia's first female Winter Olympics gold medalist. In 1960, Daphne Hilton was