Wendy Toms Wendy Toms Wendy Toms (born 16 October 1962) is an English former football referee from Broadstone, Dorset who has officiated in the Football League and then the Premier League, both as an assistant referee. She was the first female ever to fulfil such roles at those levels. She also served for FIFA on the women's international list. Her other occupation is as a parcel post manager. Toms took up refereeing in the late 1980s, and progressed to become a reserve (now "fourth") official in the Football League in 1991 for the Bournemouth versus Reading match in the old Third Division,
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