The first transgender pro golfer
In 2004, Mianne Bagger became the first transgender professional golfer
- 9 mins
- 13 Apr 2024
BBC Sounds - Sporting Witness - Available Episodes
Sporting Witness
The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
Episodes (589 Available)
The man who swam the AmazonIn 2007, Martin Strel became the first person to swim the entire length of the Amazon
- 9 mins
- 06 Apr 2024
Bonus: The Black 14The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
- 32 mins
- 05 Apr 2024
The plasterer who fought a boxing legendTen thousand people watched the unlikely fight in 1997
- 9 mins
- 30 Mar 2024
First black cricketer to represent EnglandIn 1980, Roland Butcher became the first black cricketer to play for the England team
- 9 mins
- 23 Mar 2024
Rajeev Bagga: Deaflympic badminton championIn 2005, badminton champion Rajeev Bagga took his total of Deaflympic gold medals to 14
- 9 mins
- 16 Mar 2024
F1's only six-wheeled winnerIn 1976, the first person won a Formula One race in a six-wheeled car
- 9 mins
- 09 Mar 2024
Women's Marathon AgonyIn 1984, Gabriela Andersen-Scheiss completed the Olympic marathon in terrible pain
- 8 mins
- 02 Mar 2024
International football's biggest ever beatingHow American Samoa were beaten 31-0 by Australia in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers
- 9 mins
- 24 Feb 2024
Zamalek Stadium DisasterOne of Africa's worst sporting disasters happened in Cairo in 1974
- 10 mins
- 17 Feb 2024
Victory for South Africa: The Africa Cup of NationsHow a football victory in 1996 helped South Africa heal the wounds of apartheid
- 9 mins
- 10 Feb 2024
Lamine Gueye: Senegalese skiierThe story of the first black African to compete at the Winter Olympics
- 9 mins
- 03 Feb 2024
Lin Dan: Badminton's all time superstarHow badminton player Lin Dan won the Super Grand Slam - all 9 major titles in the sport
- 9 mins
- 27 Jan 2024
The ElfstedentochtHow only 69 of the 10,000 skaters finished in one of the world's toughest ice races
- 8 mins
- 20 Jan 2024
Sven-Goran Eriksson: England's first foreign managerIn 2000, Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson became manager of England’s men’s football team.
- 9 mins
- 13 Jan 2024
Vanderlei de Lima and the sabotaged Olympic marathonBrazilian Vanderlei de Lima on how his lead in the 2004 Olympic marathon was destroyed
- 9 mins
- 06 Jan 2024
The man who skied down EverestHow Japanese alpinist Yuichiro Miura became the first person to ski on Everest in 1970
- 9 mins
- 30 Dec 2023
Caster SemenyaIn 2009, world champion runner Caster Semenya faced questions about her gender
- 10 mins
- 23 Dec 2023
Roger Federer's first Men's Wimbledon winHow Roger Federer won the Wimbledon Men’s title for the first time in 2003
- 9 mins
- 16 Dec 2023
The birth of the Fifa computer gameJan Tian says his devotion to coding the first EA Sports Fifa game nearly broke him
- 10 mins
- 09 Dec 2023
