Olympic champion Charlotte Cooper Sterry (1870–1966)

Charlotte Cooper Sterry (1870–1966) won the women's singles tennis competition at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, the first time women were allowed to take part. Cooper Sterry had already made a name for herself as a multiple Wimbledon winner in the women's singles (1895, 1896, 1898). She went on to win Wimbledon two more times, her last victory coming in 1908.

Charlotte Cooper Sterry (1870–1966), English tennis player, Wimbledon champion 1895, 96, 98, 1901, 1908, Olympic champion in singles and mixed 1900, black-and-white photograph,
before 1903, unknown photographer; source: Arthur Wallis Myers, Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad, New York 1903, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charlotte_cooper_sterry_2.jpg?uselang=de, public domain.