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• n  someone who engages in sports

• A sportswoman who, not caring what other women do, does what she wants.
• Last week at the Interlachen Country Club near Minneapolis, sportswriters failed to get similarly excited about a sportswoman whose apparent immunity to the effects of time .
• She is not to be confused with Miss Eleanora Sears, famed Boston sportswoman, national women's doubles tennis champion in 1915-16-17, national mixed doubles champion in 1916.

• sport
• sportsman

News & Articles

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• Sportsman, Sportswoman of the Year to be announced
  The finish line for the 2013 Community Press & Recorder Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year contest is in sight as the winners will be announced next Wednesday, June 26.
  June 18, 2013 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

Quotes

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• Serena Williams in Reuters UK
  It will be great for the game to have such a great sportswoman back,world number one Williams told Reuters. "She is so nice, it will be good to have her around. She was so fit and she is young so I don't think she will have problems."
• Elena Vesnina in International Herald Tribune
  I'm very excited. This is my first final and I'm playing against Elena,Vesnina said. "We played against each other a few years ago. She's an amazing girl, a very good player and a real sportswoman."
• Yelena Isinbayeva in Toronto Star
  Being glamorous is important to mesaid Yelena Isinbayeva, the sexy Russian who broke her own pole vaulting world record Monday night. "I don't agree that you are either a sportswoman or a girl."