when were women allowed to compete in the olympics?

Answer 1

1900 - The first 19 women to compete in the modern Olympics Games in Paris, France, play in just three sports: tennis, golf, and croquet. Margaret I. Abbott is the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal. An art student in Paris, she won the nine-hole golf tournament by shooting a 47.

Answer 2

In 1900

Answer 3

You don't know what you are talking about. Most Muslim countries that send a team at all also send women to the games. Some of the women have even won medals.

Answer 4

Women were first allowed to compete in the 1900 Olympics in Paris-19 women out of a total of 1,225 athletes.
The 1920 Games in Antwerp were a gloomy affair. The people most notably lacking were women. Coubertin had personally opposed the inclusion of females in the Olympics as "impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and incorrect." An early I.O.C. statement on the proper place of the sexes declared, "We feel that the Olympic Games must be reserved for the solemn and periodic exaltation of male athleticism with internationalism as a base, loyalty as a means, arts for its setting, and female applause as its reward."
Women were limited to applause at the first modern Games, but in Paris in 1900, 11 of them (compared with 1,319 men) competed in two suitably sedate games: lawn tennis and golf. In St. Louis in '04, eight lonely women competed at archery.
In London in '08 no fewer than 36 women (compared with 1,999 men) competed in tennis, archery and, oddly enough, figure skating.
Even among the male chauvinists, the all-male American Olympic Committee stood out. It had a rule that barred women from entering any events where long skirts weren't required. Naturally, no U.S. contestants were allowed into the women's swimming and diving events,
introduced to the Olympics for the first time at the Stockholm Games of '12. Women from Australia, Great Britain, Germany and Sweden won medals. Ironically, their participation was opposed by some ardent feminists who feared that curvaceous young women in swimsuits might attract more lip-smacking voyeurs than legitimate sports fans. Only 64 women appeared in '20 at Antwerp (compared with 2,543 men), among them the U.S.'s first official female team--mostly swimmers and divers.
in 1928. More than twice as many women entered the Amsterdam Olympics as ever before--still only 290, compared with 2,724 men. The better news was that women were allowed for the first time to compete in track and field, the centerpiece events in any Olympics. Only five female competitions were allowed (compared with 22 for men), but they featured some unforgettable performances.
The first women's athletics event in Olympic history, the discus throw, was won by the brawny Pole Halina Konopacka, who shattered her own world record by 45 cm and beat the runner-up by 2.53 m.
800-m run was the most controversial event at Amsterdam. Antifeminists claimed it was dangerous for women to run so far,

Answer 5

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