Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 12, 2005

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Lottie Dod was a British athlete. She is best known as a tennis player, winning the Wimbledon championships five times. She won her first victory when she was only 15 years old, remaining the youngest player ever to win the tournament for over a century until Martina Hingis won the title in 1996 being three days younger than Dod. In addition to tennis, Dod competed in many other sports. Among others, she won the British amateur golf championships, played for the British national field hockey team, and won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in archery. The Guinness Book of Records has named her as the most versatile female athlete of all time, together with track and field athlete and fellow golf player Babe Zaharias.

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