Janet Thompson (basketball)
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Janet Thompson Milner (Elliott, Iowa, United States; 11 July 1933 – 9 July 2014) was an American women's basketball player, who played on the first United States women's national basketball team.[1] Thompson played college basketball at Iowa Wesleyan University and earned a gold medal as part of the 1953 team that won the first FIBA World Championship for Women.[2] [3]
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- ^ "Janet (Thompson) Milner Weston (1933 - 2014)". via Legacy.com. 15 July 2014.
- ^ "Janet Thompson's profile | 1953 World Championship for Women". Archive.Fiba.Com. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
- ^ "USA Basketball: FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FOR WOMEN- 1953". Archive.usab.com. 2014-06-15. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
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