Updated: Mar. 22, 2024 at 4:31 PM CDT
|By Zoë Shriner, Jillian Carroll and Beth Peak
In 2004, Ann Gaffigan won the Olympic trial for an event that women weren’t yet able to compete in. Men had been racing the 3000m steeplechase since 1920, but it wasn’t until 88 years later that women earned the same opportunity.