In 2009, Kasim Reed, the city's African-American mayor, narrowly defeated a white woman Atlanta's first competitive white candidate in decades.

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In 1979, Jane Byrne became the first woman to be elected mayor of Chicago when she defeated Republican Wallace Johnson.

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Hunt succumbed to 21-year-old Erika Anschutz in the final, in the young American's first ever gold medal match, but defeated Canada's Ashley Williams along the way, the woman who pipped Hunt to first place in Croatia.

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