Charlotte Cooper

Charlotte Cooper was a tennis player and the first woman to receive a gold medal on a summer Olympic games. In 1900 Olympic games she won not one, but two golden medals in two different tennis categories. Despite being deaf since the age of 26 she had a long and successful career, competitively playing tennis till her fifties. Her record of consecutive semi-finals in Wimbledon lasted long and was only surpassed by another great tennis woman named Martina Navratilova. Let's dig into Ms. Cooper life and accomplishments to learn about her and let us be inspired by her fierceness.