Culture in play: elevating women's sport - in pictures
A new membership platform called Glorious brings together celebrated writers, photographers, illustrators and filmmakers to focus on diverse stories in women’s sport through an art and culture lens, in partnership with the Women’s Sport Trust. Subjects range from the cholita climbers of Bolivia, via parkour and longboard dancing, to the women of London’s MMA Fighting Arts Academy
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Climbing cholitas: Aymara indigenous women from Bolivia scale mountains in the name of progress
Photograph: Todd Antony
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Longboarder Giulia Alfeo in Berlin, from the film Longboard Dancing (director of photography Axel Massin)
Photograph: Giulia Alfeo
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Synchronisation, Red Pool – 2017
Photograph: Maria Svarbova
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Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor
Photograph: Jeff Johnson
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Sabina Chaus of the Batley Ninjas rounders team in West Yorkshire
Photograph: Heiko Prigge
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Trials, 2020: pastel-hued paintings of young black gymnasts
Photograph: Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
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Surfers Becki Brown and Sam Moon in Newquay, Cornwall, 2020
Photograph: Megan Hemsworth
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Aimie Herbert of the London-based Whippets football club
Photograph: Vic Lentaigne
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Millie Hughes, Polo Like a Lady: at Black Bears polo club in Henley-on-Thames, 2020
Photograph: Coco Capitan
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Ice swimmer Jaimie Monahan at Aoraki (Mount Cook) in New Zealand, May 2017
Photograph: Arik Thormahlen
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Motherhood and Motorbikes: Steph and Lola Bolam
Photograph: Claudia Agati
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Amy Harrity is an LA photographer who addresses the aesthetic of female strength
Photograph: Amy Harrity
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Ayesha Sattar at the Fighting Arts Academy London
Photograph: Ossi Piispanen
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Athena Skates: Athens-based rollerskaters
Photograph: Mark Leaver
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Ayesha McGowan is first professional African-American in women’s pro cycling
Photograph: Jesse Lash
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Scottish woman Rose Reilly, who won the Women’s World Cup with Italy in 1985, holds the trophy aloft
Photograph: Glorious Sport 2021
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An image of a basketball court by Lois O’Hara, an artist who sees colour as power
Photograph: Colourbloc
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Sista Skaters
Photograph: Naohmi Monroe
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The Czech professional tennis player Petra Kvitová
Photograph: Radka Leitmeritz
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South London WFT v Goal Diggers FC: from a series on the non-ability woman and non-binary football club in London
Photograph: Karen Yeomans
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