GoGirl of the Day...
Our GoGirl of the day award is voted by @wsff_uk’s twitter followers and goes to the woman (or women) who have best captured the spirit of Gogirl and has ensured that women's sport excites, inspires and unites women and girls.
There are so many inspirational women performing miracles every hour at the Games and we can’t capture them all but our Gogirl of the day will capture the very best!
So far we have the following winners...
#1 Steph Houghton for scoring an incredible free kick for Team GB against New Zealand and ensuring the women's football team opened the Games with a win.
#2 Steph Houghton again - not for THAT free kick but for being on the front of most papers and ensuring women's football got more coverage in a day than it usually does in a month.
#3 The first women from Qatar, Brunei and Saudi Arabia to ever march at the opening ceremony as they ensured that every nation is represented by a woman at the Games for the very first time.
#4 Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the Women's Pair for an incredible record beating performance in their heat as they start their attempt to be the first women ever to win rowing gold for Team GB
#5 Lizzie Armitstead for winning silver in the rain in the Women's Road Race. Team GB's first medal at the London Olympics ensuring she is the answer to a pub quiz question as well as an inspiration to thousands of girls.
#6 Ruta Meilutyte - the 15 year old Plymouth schoolgirl who won Lithuania's first ever swimming medal by capturing gold in the 100-meter breaststroke. She then captured our hearts with her astonished reaction which epitomised the phrase "speechless".
#7 After 4 days of gruelling Eventing Mary King, Tina Cook, Nicola Wilson & Zara Phillips were 4/5ths of the team which won silver after pushing the Germans so close. Oh and some guy called William Fox-Pit helped a bit too ;o).
#8 British women's first ever rowing gold! The Women's Pair of Helen Glover and Heather Stanning backed up Saturday's qualifying performance with an equally impressive win. GBs first gold of London 2012.
#9 An astonishing series of fights from Gemma Gibbons to win silver (GBs first judo medal for 12 years). It included last second victories, golden point ippons and all against higher ranked opponents.
#10 Kath Grainger & Anna Watkins win gold comfortably in the double sculls, finally ending the run of three consecutive silvers for Kath and cementing her place as the most successful female British rower ever.
#11 Jess Ennis. Enough said!
#12 Chrissie Ohuruogu for so very nearly repeating the Beijing performance where she came from miles back to win gold, this time the line came a bit too soon and she had to settle for silver. But still an astonishing performance in a very tough event...
#12 Beth Tweddle a brilliant performance and a fine bronze to cap a magnificent career. Just reward for the Queen of British Gymnastics.
#13 Laura Trott ...With such a bright future ahead we couldn't resist awarding Laura as Gogirl of the day (With stiff competition from Victoria Pendleton) a stunning set of rides that ensured a record number of golds for GB women...More to come from Laura we're sure.
#14 Nicola Adams ...A strong contender for Gogirl of the Day, she won her semi final with style and grace and she's blazing a trail for women's boxing in the UK.Could also be a gold medalist a little later today? (crossing fingers). Goodluck Nicola.
#14 Nicola Adams, Charlotte Dujardin and Jade Jones ...So, Nicola Adams did win us a gold! History has been made...However, we also had amazing performances from Charlotte and Jade. Three gold medals in one day takes us over our record number of women's medals at the Olympics for Team GB! 10 golds and more to come...Well done ladies #gogirl
#15 Women's Team GB Hockey Squad - A very popular choice from our Twitter supporters! They had a brilliant competition, showed courage and determination and won a very worthy bronze.
#16 Clare Balding...Not an athlete in the games, but played such an important role in ensuring that London 2012 was the best games for women ever. A very worthy winner and champion for women in sport.
#17 JESSICA ENNIS...What can we say? THE Face of the Games delivered in a spectacular way & has inspired multiple generations. Keep it up Jess and thank you for everything you have done so far #gogirl
#18 Our first GoGirl of the Paralympics is Martine Wright, whose story and interviews during the opening ceremony will have touched so many...Go Martine!
#19 Sarah Storey opens the games with an electrifying performance on the track, first gold medalist in the Paralympics for Paralympics GB! #gogirl
#20 Hannah Cockroft - 111 tweets per minutes about her performance, a track superstar, a fantastic performance and a winning attitude.
#21 Ellie Simmonds MBE A cool performance under pressure and a show stopping finish. Absoloutley smashed it.
#22 Sophie Christiansen 2 dressage gold medals in one day! A really impressive performance.
#23 Ellie SimmondsGo Girl of the day for 2nd time after her 2nd gold! Jess Ennis isnt the only 1 that can cope with being the face of the Games!
#24 Heather Frederiksen - Retaining her title as 100m backstroke champ, a determined performance wins Heather GoGirl of the day!
#25 Bethany Woodward - There was a serious amount of competition today, but Bethany gets it - silver in the 100m the day after her bronze medal. What an achievement.
#26 Sarah Storey and Hannah Cockroft - We had an overwhelming amount of love for these guys and we just couldn't pick between the two. Fantastic sportswomen and great personalities.
#27 Josie Pearson - Fantastic gold in the discus, 4 years after representing GB in murderball in Beijing. A brilliant career so far.
#28 Harriet Lee - An absoloutley fantastic swim to grab bronze & banish memories of intensive care just 4 months ago.
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