| RETTON | First American woman to win all-around gymnastics gold at the Olympics |
| NEMOV | Alexei ____ won all-around gymnastics gold at the Sydney Super Dome in 2000 |
| ZVEREV | Alexander ___ won the men's singles lawn tennis event at Tokyo, becoming the first German since Steffi Graf in 1988 to win a tennis gold at the Olympics |
| THORPE | Jim who was the first Native American to win gold at the Olympics |
| WIN | Take gold at the Olympics |
| SUNILEE | All-around gymnastics gold medalist at the 2020 Olympics |
| NADIA | She won the All-Around gymnastics gold eight years before Mary Lou |
| MARYLOURETTON | 1984 women's all-around gymnastics gold medalist who competed on Season 27 of Dancing with the Stars: 3 wds. |
| NASTIALIUKIN | 2008 women's all-around gymnastics gold medalist who competed on Season 20 of Dancing with the Stars: 2 wds. |
| VERA | and 5dn, 1964 and 1968 Olympic women's individual all-around gymnastics gold medallist (4,9) |
| CASLAVSKA | 1964 and 1968 Olympic women's individual all-around gymnastics gold medallist (9) |
| SUNISALEE | 2020 Olympic all-around gymnastics gold medalist whose mother was born in Laos: 2 wds. |
| MARYLOU | The first American woman to win the all-around gold medal in Olympic gymnastics (4,3,6) |
| OHIO | Home of the first man to walk on the moon, the first American to orbit Earth and the first American woman to walk in space |
| LITTLEMO | Nickname of the tennis player who at the age of 18 became first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments during the same year (6,2) |
| MAUREENCONNOLLY | American tennis player who was the first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments during the same calendar year |
| JANEADDAMS | Social worker who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize |
| LINDSEY | ___ Vonn former alpine ski racer who was the first American woman to win an Olympic gold in downhill skiing |
| LINDSAY | She became the first American woman to win the US Open since Chris Evert in 1982, ... Davenport |
| PEARLSBUCK | First American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938: 3 wds. |
