Women and Sports

What are the most popular sports for women in your country? How are they different from men? How has this changed over the last several generations?

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is really only one sport women were traditionally associated with - horse racing. Female jockies were and remain extremely rare - but actually did exist as far back as the early 1900s.

Modern sports that have attracted large groups of female participants and followers include football/soccer, basketball, volleyball, golf, figure skating, gymnastics, weight lifting (Bosnia actually has one world title female competitor, I forget her name), and extreme sports - such as river rafting, hand gliding, and parachuting.

All of these sports are much newer to women than to men but they're all fairly new in Bosnia and Herzegovina, having been introduced within the last 5-6 generations.

Women's sports teams in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not receive nearly as much attention as men's sports teams but they are generally respected by their male peers. There's not so much of the 'teasing' and other things you see in movies and so on.