Roseanne Allen (1954 – 2009) was a Gwichʼin (First Nations Canadian / Alaska Native) Canadian cross-country skier who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics. In 1968, at age 13, she became the youngest Canadian ever to win a Gold medal at the Canadian Junior Nordic Ski Championships, winning the 5 km race with a time of 25 minutes and 33 seconds. She won gold at the Top of the World Ski Championship in 1971. Allen was amongst the first Canadian Aboriginal women to be selected to compete in the Olympics, and in the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, Allen competed in two cross-country skiing events. Roseanne Allen was posthumously inducted into the NWT Sport Hall of Fame in 2019.
Roseanne Diab is a South African scientific researcher. She is the Director of Gender in science, innovation, technology and engineering (SITE), a UNESCO's programme unit hosted by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and former CEO of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She is Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the same university.
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In 1968, at age 13, she became the youngest Canadian ever to win a Gold medal at the Canadian Junior Nordic Ski Championships, winning the 5 km race with a time of 25 minutes and 33 seconds.
She won gold at the Top of the World Ski Championship in 1971. Allen was amongst the first Canadian Aboriginal women to be selected to compete in the Olympics, and in the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, Allen competed in two cross-country skiing events.
Roseanne Allen was posthumously inducted into the NWT Sport Hall of Fame in 2019.