Suzanne Lenglen leaves her corset in Nice and makes her Wimbledon debut 1922

The F�d�ration sportive f�minine internationale organizes the first Women's Olympic Games in Paris; in one day alone, 20,000 spectators watch 18 world records broken in track and field.

Florence Bell, Myrtle Cook, Fanny (Bobbie) Rosenfeld and Ethel Smith win the 400 yd relay at the Amsterdam Olympic Games; Ethel Catherwood takes gold in the high jump;

Several women collapse at the end of the 800 and the event is declared dangerous to women and banned until 1960;

Dorothy Prior is the first Canadian woman to compete in Olympic swimming events;

Staging the only feminist boycott in Olympic history, the British women stay away from the Games to protest the lack of women's Olympic events.

Enriqueta Basilio becomes the first woman to light the Olympic flame; sex testing of women is introduced at the Mexico Games;

Sandra Post is the first Canadian woman golf professional to win an American tournament.

The first Female Athlete Conference is held at Simon Fraser University and becomes the catalyst for the founding of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS);

Fitness and Amateur Sport establishes the Women's Program.

Abby Hoffman is the first woman to be elected to the executive of the Canadian Olympic Association (COA); later that year she becomes the first woman to be appointed director of Sport Canada.

Formation of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Education (CAAWS)

Justine Blainey wins the right to play in the all-male Ontario Hockey Association; the Ontario Human Rights Commission rules that girls and women cannot be barred from competing in male sports and on male teams;

tennis returns to the Olympic Games although fewer women than men will be allowed to compete;

Carol Ann Letheren is the first woman to be chef de mission of a Canadian Olympic team.

Judy Kent is the first woman to be selected as chef de mission by the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada.

Carol Anne Letheren is the first woman to be elected president of the COA; later that year she becomes the sixth woman named to the International Olympic Committee.

Equity and accessibility for girls and women in sport are targeted in the Minister's Task Force Report;

Judo becomes an Olympic event for women; Canadian women rowers win three gold medals and one bronze at the Barcelona Olympics;

The Canada Games Council adopts wide-ranging gender equity principles.

Canada's women's wheelchair basketball team capture the gold medal at the Stoke Mandeville Games and at the Paralympic Games in Barcelona.

Gender balance is incorporated into the guiding principles of the Canadian Sport Council, the new collective voice of Canada's sport community;

The International Olympic Committee adds women's soccer and women's triple jump to the Olympic calendar.

Wheelchair track star Christine Harder is the world champion and world record holder in 400m and 800m.

3626 women compete at the Olympic Games in Atlanta — 32 per cent more than in Barcelona — in part due to the recognition of women’s soccer, softball, and triple jump as Olympic events;

The athletes on Canada’s Olympic team number 154 women and 153 men; Molly Killingbeck is the first woman to coach Canada’s 4 x100m men’s relay team at an Olympic Games;

Alex Greaves establishes a milestone in British horse racing history becoming the first women to ride in the English Derby;

The IOC holds its first World Conference on Women and Sport;

Canada’s women’s wheelchair basketball team repeats as Paralympic champions — the team has recorded 25 consecutive wins since 1990;

Egyptian handball player Hanan Eid is forced to take a sex test at the All-African Games to prove she is not a man;

Women’s pole vault is on the program of the European Indoor Track Championship, the first time the event has been held a a major international championship

The Central Board of Basketball’s international body agrees to propose that at least five women join its 20-member board;

The IOC extends the women’s field hockey tournament at the 2000 Games from 8 to 10 teams, moving closer to the men’s total of 12 teams; the IOC approves new women’s events for Sydney but does not raise the limit on the numbers of athletes competing; when women first played at the Games in 1980, six teams were in the tournament;

For the first time, 50 per cent of the chef de missions at the Canada Games are women;

Kayaker Caroline Brunet becomes the first woman to win three gold medals at the world championships