Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Other Selected Athletes
- Anquetil, Jacques, French bicycle racer
- Arcaro, Eddie, American jockey
- Armstrong, Lance, American bicycle racer
- Bannister, Sir Roger, British runner, physician
- Belmonte, Juan, Spanish matador
- Berenson, Senda, American athlete, developed the game of women's basketball
- Bradman, Sir Donald George, Australian cricketeer
- Camp, Walter Chauncey, American athlete
- Chadwick, Florence May, American distance swimmer
- Comaneci, Nadia, Romanian gymnast.
- Cordero, Angel Tomás, Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
- Ederle, Gertrude, American swimmer
- El Cordobés, Spanish bullfighter
- Fosbury, Dick, Amreican athlete
- Freshfield, Douglas William, English explorer and mountaineer
- Gretzky, Wayne, Canadian ice hockey player
- Hawk, Tony, American skateboarder
- Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival, New Zealand mountain climber and explorer
- Hinault, Bernard, French cyclist
- Hitchcock, Thomas, Jr., American polo player
- Hoppe, Willie, American billiards champion
- Howe, Gordie, Canadian hockey player
- Hull, Bobby, Canadian hockey player
- Induráin, Miguel, Spanish bicycle racer
- Joselito, Spanish matador
- Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, American track and field athlete
- Killy, Jean-Claude, French skier
- Lemieux, Mario, Canadian ice hockey player
- LeMond, Greg, American cyclist
- Lewis, Carl, American sprinter and jumper
- Louganis, Greg E., American diver
- Maier, Hermann, Austrian skier
- Mallory, George Herbert Leigh, English mountain climber
- Manolete, Spanish matador
- Merckx, Eddy, Belgian bicycle racer
- Mills, Billy, American Olympian
- Milo, athlete of ancient Greece
- Mosconi, Willie, American professional billiard player
- Nurmi, Paavo, Finnish track star
- Orr, Bobby, Canadian hockey player
- Owens, Jesse, U.S. runner, athlete
- Peck, Annie Smith, American mountain climber
- Phelps, Michael, American swimmer
- Piggott, Lester Keith, British jockey
- Pincay, Laffit Alejandro, Jr., Panamanian jockey
- Prefontaine, Steve, American distance runners
- Retton, Mary Lou, American gymnast
- Rheaume, Manon, Canadian hockey player
- Richard, Maurice, Canadian hockey player
- Richards, Gordon, British jockey
- Rodgers, Bill, American distance runner
- Rudolph, Wilma, African-American track star
- Sheckler, Ryan, skateboarder
- Shoemaker, Willie, American jockey
- Spitz, Mark Andrew, American swimmer
- Stenmark, Ingemar, Swedish skier
- Thorpe, Jim, American athlete
- Tomba, Alberto, Italian skier
- Walsh, Stella, Polish-American runner
- Wilkinson, Jonny, British rugby player
- Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, American athlete
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