In a highly anticipated TV interview last week, Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner told ABC’s Diane Sawyer that “for all intents and purposes, I am a woman.”

Jenner’s revelation he is transitioning from male to female stirs recollections of another sports-related, transgender shocker — the case of Dr. Richard Raskind becoming Renée Richards.

Jenner became an American hero in 1976 when he won the Olympic decathlon, in record-setting fashion, in Montreal. More recently, he has remained in the public eye for his role in his family’s reality show, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

Much less was known about Raskind when the New York City ophthalmologist underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1975.

As a male, the 6-foot-2, left-handed Raskind, known for his powerful tennis serve, captained the Yale University team, earned All-Navy honors and played in the U.S. Open five times between 1953 and 1960.

In 1976, as Renée Richards, she was denied entry into the U.S. Open as a woman.

The U.S. Tennis Association banned Richards because she declined to take the Barr Body Chromosome Test, also known as the “woman born woman test.”

Soon after, Richards challenged the ruling in New York State Court and Judge Alfred M. Ascione ruled in her favor.

So in 1977, at age 43, Richards entered the U.S. Open as a woman and lost to Virginia Wade in the first round of singles play.

However, she and doubles partner Betty Ann Stuart advanced to the doubles finals before bowing to Betty Stove and Martina Navratilova.

That same year, Richards won the Open’s 35-and-over division.

Richards, wearing her medium-length hair tucked behind her ears, went on to compete in the U.S. Open from 1977 through 1981, advancing to the third round in 1979.

She often entered mixed doubles with Romanian Ilie Nastase.

Following retirement, she returned to her profession at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Also she became Navratilova’s coach, helping guide the Czech to two Wimbledon titles.

As a male, Raskind married model Barbara Mole in 1970 and fathered a son, Nicholas. Raskind and Mole were divorced in 1975, with Richards moving from New York to California.

Today, at age 80, Richards resides in upstate New York with her companion, Arlene Larzelere, and frequently attends tennis events.

Following her transition to being a woman in the 1970s, Richards insisted she had no advantage over female competition.

However in 2007, here is what she said in a media session at the U.S. Open in Forest Hills, N.Y.

“After living for 30 years, I know if I’d had the surgery at 22, and then went on the tour at 24, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me. And so I’ve reconsidered my opinion.”

Jenner, 65, has been athletically inactive much of his adult life and has voiced no intentions of competing in any sport against women.

But should it ever happen, it could be the most-watched event of all time.