Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Margaret Abbott

Margaret Abbott

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 15, 2023 by Wehwalt (talk) 12:50, 29 April 2023 (UTC)



Margaret Ives Abbott (June 15, 1878 – June 10, 1955) was an American amateur golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Born in Calcutta in 1878, Abbott moved with her family to Chicago in 1884. She joined the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois, where she was coached by Charles B. Macdonald and H. J. Whigham. In 1899, she traveled with her mother to Paris to study art. In October 1900, along with her mother, she signed up for a women's golf tournament without realizing that it was the second modern Olympics. Abbott won the tournament with a score of 47 strokes; her mother tied for seventh place. Abbott received a porcelain bowl as a prize. In December 1902, she married the writer Finley Peter Dunne. They later moved to New York and had four children. Abbott died at the age of 76 in 1955, never realizing that she won an Olympic event. She was not well known until Paula Welch, a professor at the University of Florida, researched her life. In 2018, The New York Times published her belated obituary.
 * Most recent similar article(s): her story is so unusual that there's nothing similar
 * Main editors: User:Kavyansh.Singh
 * Promoted: July 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: I am aware that the idea was to run it on an Olympic day, but her birthday on 15 June is sooner, and she might be considered too unusual to be recognized as a sports woman, as the true amateur she was in the beginning of the games, not even realizing herself - as anybody else - that she was the first woman to win an Olympic competition.
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:23, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Support, as primary contributor and FAC nominator. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 10:07, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:32, 11 April 2023 (UTC)