Abby Johnston, one half of the silver medal winning women's pair, embraced her partner Kelci Bryant twice.
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Another U.S. Olympian, Alysia Montano, also broke an American indoor record, winning the women's 600 in 1:23.59.
Suhr's pole-vaulting win was the second gold medal the U.S. track-and-field team has secured during three full days of athletics competitions, following Sanya Richards-Ross winning the women's 400-meter race on Sunday night.
The England Women's rugby captain decided the summer months would be best spent dedicating herself to her sport and so, sacrificing the security of a monthly wage, she resigned from her job as an office manager to pursue her ultimate goal of winning the Women's World Cup.
Mr. BROWN: I'll tell you, what happened over the weekend with Usain Bolt winning the men's 100 and Shelley Ann Fraser winning the women's 100 and having the first three ladies across the line, and having first, second and second - it has been celebrated a whole lot here in Jamaica.
Mussolini was notorious for his winning ways with women, though, as a mistress of his lamented, he never wasted time taking his pants off.
"Obama is winning men and women in Virginia, and is doing well across the state east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, " CNN polling director Keating Holland said.
Glenda Jackson, who gave an Oscar-winning performance in Women In Love and starred in a number of Russell's other films including Music Lovers, told the BBC it was "just wonderful to work with him and to work with him as often as I did".
In doing so, her career became emblematic of the unprecedented opportunities that women were winning across American society.
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The same can be said of brands: Those winning among Millennials and Hispanics, as well as women and African-Americans, are winning overall in their categories against their biggest competitors.
Women are also winning the most important of all gender wars the war for educational qualifications.
Shooting is one of the few collegiate sports where men and women regularly compete against one another and women are often winning.
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So she charts the tradition not only of African-American women writers, from Phillis Wheatley, an 18th-century poet, to the Nobel-prize-winning Toni Morrison, but also of white women who wrote on slavery.
From Kathryn Bigelow's record-breaking "The Hurt Locker" to Lone Sherfig's BAFTA-winning "An Education, " women seem to be thriving behind the camera.
The U.S. men's beach volleyball team defended the honor of their gender by winning gold to match the American women, but the U.S. baseball team was trounced by Cuba in the semifinal.
Jamaican women dominated in 2008, winning five of the six medals in the 100 and 200 meter races.
On April 27th she was re-elected as the president of the African National Congress Women's League, winning a thumping 85% of the votes.
It made me squirm then to hear in the midst of all this talk about winning people over that young, single women can be dismissed as a demographic.
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The club qualified for the competition after winning the Isle of Man's Women's Premier League and will be looking to improve on last year's campaign when they reached the semi-finals.
Thursday's success for Scottish Olympians followed Lossiemouth rower Heather Stanning winning gold alongside Helen Glover in the women's pairs on Wednesday, the same day as Glasgow-born Michael Jamieson won silver in swimming's 200m breaststroke final.
Kuznetsova has been a fixture in the upper reaches of the women's game since winning the US Open aged 19 but had struggled to live up to that early achievement, having been comfortably beaten by Justine Henin in the 2006 final in Paris.
But this year she burst back, winning re-election as head of the Women's League.
Cathy Schulman is a producer of the Oscar-winning film "Crash" and president of Women In Film, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing sexual equality in filmmaking.
In an instantly famous study, published in Science in 2004, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman asked nine hundred working women to assess their experiences during the preceding day.
Mohammed Ali described it as "the single most courageous act of this century, " while Wyomia Tyus, anchor of the U.S. women's gold-medal winning 4x100 meter relay team, dedicated the team's victory to the two ostracized sprinters.
She Should Run, a part of her Off The Sidelines campaign, a new initiative launched in early 2011 to solve the fiscal crisis by getting more women involved in business and politics, Gillibrand hopes to drastically increase the number of women running for and winning public offices.
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The onus, as award-winning science writer Maria Hvistendahl says, is on women to control their fertility.
Clinton has stressed her Midwestern roots in an effort to repeat her winning mix of working-class white voters, women and seniors.
Despite winning just two LPGA tournaments since joining the elite women's tour fulltime in 2009 the 2009 Lorena Ochoa Invitational and the 2010 Canadian Women's Open Wie still has her sights set on one day taking on the men in the U.S. Masters.
With her team-mate Helen Glover, from Cornwall they have also made history by winning Britain's first-ever gold medal in women's rowing.
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