The world's first international female sports star was a Jewish mother from Boston? Well yes, Annie Londonderry!! Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870–1947), known as Annie Londonderry, was a Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world. She was a free-thinking woman, who reinvented herself under her pseudonym as an entrepreneur, athlete, and globetrotter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W42sY3Pakjc