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Total articles: 1,209/1,200

Association football (109/110 articles)

Africa (7 articles)

1. Didier Drogba
2. Samuel Eto'o
3. Nwankwo Kanu
4. Roger Milla
5. Jay-Jay Okocha
6. Abedi Pele
7. George Weah

Central and North America (9 articles)

1. Michelle Akers
2. Landon Donovan
3. Mia Hamm (Level 4)
4. Alex Morgan
5. Megan Rapinoe
6. Hugo Sánchez
7. Christine Sinclair
8. Hope Solo
9. Abby Wambach

South America (24 articles)

1. José Leandro Andrade
2. Gabriel Batistuta
3. Cafu
4. Teófilo Cubillas
5. Roberto Carlos
6. José Luis Chilavert
7. Alfredo Di Stéfano (Level 4)
8. Didi (footballer, born 1928)
9. Elías Figueroa
10. Garrincha
11. Marta (footballer)
12. Diego Maradona (Level 4)
13. Lionel Messi (Level 4)
14. José Manuel Moreno
15. Neymar
16. Pelé (Level 4)
17. James Rodríguez
18. Romário
19. Ronaldinho
20. Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) (Level 4)
21. Juan Alberto Schiaffino
22. Alberto Spencer
23. Carlos Alberto Torres
24. Zico (footballer)

Asia and Oceania (6 articles)

1. Paulino Alcántara
2. Cha Bum-kun
3. Ali Daei
4. Hidetoshi Nakata
5. Homare Sawa
6. Sun Wen (footballer)

Europe (63 articles)

1. Roberto Baggio
2. Gareth Bale
3. Gordon Banks
4. Franco Baresi
5. Franz Beckenbauer (Level 4)
6. David Beckham
7. Dennis Bergkamp
8. George Best
9. Josef Bican
10. Oleg Blokhin
11. Kevin De Bruyne
12. Gianluigi Buffon
13. Eric Cantona
14. Iker Casillas
15. John Charles
16. Bobby Charlton
17. Johan Cruyff (Level 4)
18. Kenny Dalglish
19. Dixie Dean
20. Eusébio
21. Luís Figo
22. Just Fontaine
23. Ryan Giggs
24. Ruud Gullit
25. Gheorghe Hagi
26. Ada Hegerberg
27. Thierry Henry
28. Zlatan Ibrahimović
29. Roy Keane
30. Kevin Keegan
31. Sam Kerr
32. Michael Laudrup
33. Robert Lewandowski
34. Gary Lineker
35. Carli Lloyd
36. Paolo Maldini
37. Dzsenifer Marozsán
38. Lothar Matthäus
39. Stanley Matthews
40. Kylian Mbappé
41. Giuseppe Meazza
42. Bobby Moore
43. Gerd Müller
44. Michel Platini (Level 4)
45. Birgit Prinz
46. Ferenc Puskás
47. Cristiano Ronaldo (Level 4)
48. Wayne Rooney
49. Paolo Rossi
50. Ian Rush
51. György Sárosi
52. Peter Schmeichel
53. Clarence Seedorf
54. Alan Shearer
55. Andriy Shevchenko
56. Matthias Sindelar
57. Hristo Stoichkov
58. Davor Šuker
59. Marco van Basten
60. Fritz Walter
61. Lev Yashin (Level 4)
62. Zinedine Zidane (Level 4)
63. Dino Zoff

Basketball (59/60 articles)

1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Level 4)
2. Ray Allen
3. Giannis Antetokounmpo
4. Charles Barkley
5. Rick Barry
6. Elgin Baylor
7. Sergei Belov
8. Larry Bird
9. Kobe Bryant
10. Tamika Catchings
11. Wilt Chamberlain (Level 4)
12. Nat Clifton
13. Bob Cousy
14. Stephen Curry
15. Tim Duncan
16. Kevin Durant
17. Julius Erving
18. Ramon Fernandez
19. Kevin Garnett
20. Pau Gasol
21. Andrew Gaze
22. George Gervin
23. Manu Ginóbili
24. John Havlicek
25. Elvin Hayes
26. Allen Iverson
27. Lauren Jackson
28. LeBron James (Level 4)
29. Magic Johnson (Level 4)
30. Michael Jordan (Level 4)
31. Jason Kidd
32. Joe Lapchick
33. Lisa Leslie
34. Jerry Lucas
35. Karl Malone
36. Moses Malone
37. Pete Maravich
38. Ann Meyers
39. George Mikan
40. Wat Misaka
41. Steve Nash
42. Dirk Nowitzki
43. Hakeem Olajuwon
44. Shaquille O'Neal
45. Bob Pettit
46. Dražen Petrović
47. Oscar Robertson
48. David Robinson
49. Dennis Rodman
50. Bill Russell
51. Arvydas Sabonis
52. Oscar Schmidt
53. Uljana Semjonova
54. John Stockton
55. Sheryl Swoopes
56. Diana Taurasi
57. Isiah Thomas
58. Jerry West
59. Yao Ming

Baseball (56/55 articles)

1. Hank Aaron (Level 4)
2. Grover Cleveland Alexander
3. Cap Anson
4. Yogi Berra
5. Barry Bonds
6. Roger Clemens
7. Roberto Clemente
8. Ty Cobb (Level 4)
9. Joe DiMaggio
10. Jean Faut
11. Jimmie Foxx
12. Lou Gehrig
13. Bob Gibson
14. Josh Gibson
15. Ken Griffey Jr.
16. Rickey Henderson
17. Rogers Hornsby
18. Shoeless Joe Jackson
19. Derek Jeter
20. Randy Johnson
21. Walter Johnson
22. Dorothy Kamenshek
23. Clayton Kershaw
24. Sandy Koufax
25. Sophie Kurys
26. Nap Lajoie
27. Greg Maddux
28. Mickey Mantle
29. Roger Maris
30. Pedro Martínez
31. Christy Mathewson
32. Willie Mays (Level 4)
33. Mark McGwire
34. Jackie Mitchell
35. Stan Musial
36. Hideo Nomo
37. Sadaharu Oh (Level 4)
38. Shohei Ohtani
39. Satchel Paige
40. Charles Radbourn
41. Cal Ripken Jr.
42. Mariano Rivera
43. Jackie Robinson (Level 4)
44. Alex Rodriguez
45. Pete Rose
46. Babe Ruth (Level 4)
47. Nolan Ryan
48. Tom Seaver
49. Warren Spahn
50. Tris Speaker
51. Ichiro Suzuki
52. Mike Trout
53. Honus Wagner
54. Ed Walsh
55. Ted Williams
56. Cy Young

Cricket (60/60 articles)

1. Wasim Akram
2. James Anderson (cricketer)
3. Sydney Barnes
4. Enid Bakewell
5. Jack Blackham
6. Allan Border
7. Ian Botham
8. Geoffrey Boycott
9. Don Bradman (Level 4)
10. Stuart Broad
11. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
12. Belinda Clark
13. Alastair Cook
14. Kapil Dev
15. MS Dhoni
16. Tillakaratne Dilshan
17. Rahul Dravid
18. Sourav Ganguly
19. Sunil Gavaskar
20. Chris Gayle
21. Adam Gilchrist
22. Graham Gooch
23. Jhulan Goswami
24. W. G. Grace (Level 4)
25. Clarrie Grimmett
26. Richard Hadlee
27. Jack Hobbs
28. Len Hutton
29. Inzamam-ul-Haq
30. Douglas Jardine
31. Sanath Jayasuriya
32. Mahela Jayawardene
33. Jacques Kallis
34. Imran Khan
35. Younis Khan
36. Bart King
37. Virat Kohli
38. Brian Lara
39. Dennis Lillee
40. Malcolm Marshall
41. Brendon McCullum
42. Glenn McGrath
43. Muttiah Muralitharan
44. Ellyse Perry
45. Graeme Pollock
46. Ricky Ponting
47. Mithali Raj
48. Ranjitsinhji
49. Viv Richards (Level 4)
50. Tom Richardson (cricketer)
51. Kumar Sangakkara
52. Shakib Al Hasan
53. Steve Smith (cricketer)
54. Garfield Sobers (Level 4)
55. Dale Steyn
56. Sachin Tendulkar (Level 4)
57. Victor Trumper
58. Clyde Walcott
59. Shane Warne (Level 4)
60. Steve Waugh

Ice hockey (45/45 articles)

1. Hobey Baker
2. Jean Béliveau
3. Mike Bossy
4. Ray Bourque
5. Martin Brodeur
6. Bobby Clarke
7. Sidney Crosby
8. Phil Esposito
9. Viacheslav Fetisov
10. Cammi Granato
11. Wayne Gretzky (Level 4)
12. Doug Harvey (ice hockey)
13. Dominik Hašek
14. Geraldine Heaney
15. Jayna Hefford
16. Tim Horton
17. Gordie Howe (Level 4)
18. Bobby Hull
19. Brett Hull
20. Jaromír Jágr
21. Angela James
22. Valeri Kharlamov
23. Hilary Knight (ice hockey)
24. Guy Lafleur
25. Mario Lemieux
26. Nicklas Lidström
27. Sergei Makarov
28. Mark Messier
29. Howie Morenz
30. Sergei Mozyakin
31. Bobby Orr
32. Caroline Ouellette
33. Alexander Ovechkin
34. Bernie Parent
35. Jacques Plante
36. Maurice Richard
37. Joe Sakic
38. Börje Salming
39. Terry Sawchuk
40. Eddie Shore
41. Peter Šťastný
42. Cyclone Taylor
43. Vladislav Tretiak
44. Hayley Wickenheiser
45. Steve Yzerman

American football (41/40 articles)

1. Sammy Baugh
2. George Blanda
3. Terry Bradshaw
4. Tom Brady (Level 4)
5. Jim Brown (Level 4)
6. Dick Butkus
7. John Elway
8. Brett Favre
9. Otto Graham
10. Red Grange
11. Joe Greene
12. John Hannah (American football)
13. Pudge Heffelfinger
14. Don Hutson
15. Night Train Lane
16. Deacon Jones
17. Jack Lambert (American football)
18. Ray Lewis
19. Bob Lilly
20. Ronnie Lott
21. Peyton Manning
22. Gino Marchetti
23. Dan Marino
24. Joe Montana
25. Anthony Muñoz
26. Bronko Nagurski
27. Merlin Olsen
28. Walter Payton
29. Ed Reed
30. Jerry Rice (Level 4)
31. Barry Sanders
32. Deion Sanders
33. Gale Sayers
34. O. J. Simpson
35. Emmitt Smith
36. Bart Starr
37. Lawrence Taylor
38. Johnny Unitas
39. Kurt Warner
40. Reggie White
41. Steve Young

Tennis (51/50 articles)

1. Andre Agassi
2. Arthur Ashe
3. Boris Becker
4. Björn Borg
5. Bryan brothers
6. Don Budge
7. Maria Bueno
8. Kim Clijsters
9. Maureen Connolly
10. Jimmy Connors
11. Margaret Court (Level 4)
12. Novak Djokovic
13. Stefan Edberg
14. Roy Emerson
15. Chris Evert
16. Roger Federer (Level 4)
17. Althea Gibson
18. Pancho Gonzales
19. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
20. Steffi Graf (Level 4)
21. Justine Henin
22. Martina Hingis
23. Billie Jean King
24. Jack Kramer
25. Shingo Kunieda
26. René Lacoste
27. Rod Laver (Level 4)
28. Ivan Lendl
29. Suzanne Lenglen (Level 4)
30. Li Na
31. John McEnroe
32. Andy Murray
33. Rafael Nadal (Level 4)
34. Martina Navratilova (Level 4)
35. John Newcombe
36. Fred Perry
37. William Renshaw
38. Renée Richards
39. Ken Rosewall
40. Pete Sampras
41. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
42. Richard Sears (tennis)
43. Monica Seles
44. Maria Sharapova
45. Bill Tilden
46. Esther Vergeer
47. Guillermo Vilas
48. Mats Wilander
49. Serena Williams (Level 4)
50. Venus Williams
51. Helen Wills

Golf (35/35 articles)

1. Seve Ballesteros
2. Patty Berg
3. James Braid (golfer)
4. Ernie Els
5. Nick Faldo
6. Walter Hagen
7. Ben Hogan
8. Bobby Jones (golfer)
9. Rory McIlroy
10. Phil Mickelson
11. Old Tom Morris
12. Young Tom Morris
13. Jack Nicklaus (Level 4)
14. Byron Nelson
15. Greg Norman
16. Lorena Ochoa
17. Pak Se-ri
18. Arnold Palmer
19. Inbee Park
20. Willie Park Sr.
21. Gary Player
22. Gene Sarazen
23. Patty Sheehan
24. Sam Snead
25. Annika Sörenstam (Level 4)
26. Payne Stewart
27. Louise Suggs
28. John Henry Taylor
29. Lee Trevino
30. Harry Vardon
31. Tom Watson (golfer)
32. Karrie Webb
33. Kathy Whitworth
34. Tiger Woods (Level 4)
35. Mickey Wright

Athletics (91/90 articles)

1. Abebe Bikila
2. Harold Abrahams
3. Valerie Adams
4. Chioma Ajunwa
5. Almaz Ayana
6. Roger Bannister
7. Robert Barclay Allardice
8. Randy Barnes
9. Bob Beamon
10. Fanny Blankers-Koen (Level 4)
11. Usain Bolt (Level 4)
12. Alistair Brownlee
13. Sergey Bubka (Level 4)
14. Thomas Burke (athlete)
15. Galina Chistyakova
16. Sebastian Coe
17. Mary Decker
18. Heike Drechsler
19. Ashton Eaton
20. Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper)
21. Hicham El Guerrouj (Level 4)
22. Jessica Ennis-Hill
23. Mo Farah
24. Allyson Felix
25. Dick Fosbury
26. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
27. Cathy Freeman
28. Genzebe Dibaba
29. Florence Griffith Joyner (Level 4)
30. Haile Gebrselassie (Level 4)
31. Armin Hary
32. Yelena Isinbayeva
33. Caitlyn Jenner
34. Michael Johnson (sprinter)
35. Rafer Johnson
36. Marion Jones
37. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Level 4)
38. Dean Karnazes
39. Kipchoge Keino
40. Mary Jepkosgei Keitany
41. Ezekiel Kemboi
42. Kenenisa Bekele
43. Eliud Kipchoge
44. Robert Korzeniowski
45. Stefka Kostadinova
46. Jarmila Kratochvílová
47. Inessa Kravets
48. Renaud Lavillenie
49. Carl Lewis (Level 4)
50. Natalya Lisovskaya
51. Liu Xiang (hurdler)
52. Bob Mathias
53. Bobby Morrow
54. Edwin Moses (Level 4)
55. Wayde van Niekerk
56. Simone Niggli-Luder
57. Paavo Nurmi (Level 4)
58. Al Oerter
59. Merlene Ottey
60. Jesse Owens (Level 4)
61. Sally Pearson
62. Marie-José Pérec
63. Sandra Perković
64. Oscar Pistorius
65. Mike Powell (long jumper)
66. Paula Radcliffe
67. Betty Robinson
68. Bobbie Rosenfeld
69. David Rudisha
70. Wilma Rudolph (Level 4)
71. Viktor Saneyev
72. Jürgen Schult
73. Dave Scott (triathlete)
74. Yuriy Sedykh
75. Caster Semenya
76. Saif Saaeed Shaheen
77. Javier Sotomayor
78. Emma Snowsill
79. Barbora Špotáková
80. Shirley Strickland
81. Yusuke Suzuki (racewalker)
82. Irena Szewińska
83. Daley Thompson
84. Tirunesh Dibaba
85. Wyomia Tyus
86. Lasse Virén
87. Samuel Wanjiru
88. Anita Włodarczyk
89. Kevin Young (hurdler)
90. Emil Zátopek (Level 4)
91. Jan Železný

Figure skating (31/30 articles)

1. Shizuka Arakawa
2. Dick Button
3. Cecilia Colledge
4. Robin Cousins
5. Peggy Fleming
6. Gillis Grafström
7. Jackson Haines
8. Dorothy Hamill
9. Scott Hamilton (figure skater)
10. Yuzuru Hanyu (Level 4)
11. Tonya Harding
12. Sonja Henie (Level 4)
13. Nancy Kerrigan
14. Yuna Kim
15. Ilia Kulik
16. Michelle Kwan
17. Tara Lipinski
18. Scott Moir
19. Axel Paulsen
20. Evgeni Plushenko
21. Irina Rodnina
22. Ulrich Salchow
23. Karl Schäfer (figure skater)
24. Barbara Ann Scott
25. Irina Slutskaya
26. Madge Syers
27. Tessa Virtue
28. Katarina Witt
29. Alexei Yagudin
30. Kristi Yamaguchi
31. Alexander Zaitsev (pair skater)

Martial arts (86/85 articles)

Boxing (40/40 articles)

1. Laila Ali
2. Muhammad Ali (Level 4)
3. Henry Armstrong
4. Cecilia Brækhus
5. Tommy Burns (Canadian boxer)
6. Julio César Chávez
7. James J. Corbett
8. Oscar De La Hoya
9. Jack Dempsey
10. Roberto Durán
11. Bob Fitzsimmons
12. George Foreman
13. Joe Frazier
14. Harry Greb
15. Marvelous Marvin Hagler
16. Thomas Hearns
17. Holly Holm
18. Evander Holyfield
19. Bernard Hopkins
20. Jack Johnson (boxer)
21. Vitali Klitschko
22. Wladimir Klitschko
23. Sugar Ray Leonard
24. Joe Louis (Level 4)
25. Jem Mace
26. Rocky Marciano
27. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
28. Daniel Mendoza
29. Carlos Monzón
30. Archie Moore
31. Manny Pacquiao
32. László Papp
33. Willie Pep
34. Sugar Ray Robinson (Level 4)
35. Félix Savón
36. Max Schmeling
37. Teófilo Stevenson
38. John L. Sullivan
39. Gene Tunney
40. Mike Tyson

Wrestling (9/8 articles)

1. Kurt Angle
2. Dan Gable
3. Kaori Icho
4. Aleksandr Karelin (Level 4)
5. Aleksandr Medved
6. Kristjan Palusalu
7. Buvaisar Saitiev
8. Saori Yoshida
9. Ivan Yarygin

Martial arts (17/16 articles)

1. Gichin Funakoshi
2. Hélio Gracie
3. Andy Hug
4. Kanō Jigorō (Level 4)
5. Masahiko Kimura
6. Gene LeBell
7. Bruce Lee (Level 4)
8. Joe Lewis (martial artist)
9. Manuel dos Reis Machado
10. Ip Man
11. Mas Oyama
12. Chōjun Miyagi
13. Samart Payakaroon
14. Hadi Saei
15. Ryoko Tani
16. Morihei Ueshiba
17. Wong Fei-hung

Mixed martial arts (15/16 articles)

1. Randy Couture
2. Fedor Emelianenko
3. Royce Gracie
4. Demetrious Johnson
5. Jon Jones
6. Chuck Liddell
7. Islam Makhachev
8. Conor McGregor
9. Amanda Nunes
10. Khabib Nurmagomedov
11. Tito Ortiz
12. B.J. Penn
13. Ronda Rousey
14. Anderson Silva
15. Georges St-Pierre

Sumo (5/5 articles)

1. Asashōryū Akinori
2. Futabayama Sadaji
3. Hakuhō Shō
4. Taihō Kōki
5. Tanikaze Kajinosuke

Cycling (20/20 articles)

1. Jacques Anquetil
2. Lance Armstrong
3. Rachel Atherton
4. Gino Bartali
5. Alfredo Binda
6. Anne-Caroline Chausson
7. Fausto Coppi
8. Chris Froome
9. Maurice Garin
10. Bernard Hinault
11. Chris Hoy
12. Miguel Induráin
13. Laura Kenny
14. Greg LeMond
15. Eddy Merckx (Level 4)
16. Leontien van Moorsel
17. Lucien Petit-Breton
18. Bernard Thévenet
19. Nicolas Vouilloz
20. Bradley Wiggins

Gymnastics (25/25 articles)

1. Nikolai Andrianov
2. Simone Biles
3. Věra Čáslavská
4. Nadia Comăneci (Level 4)
5. Gabby Douglas
6. Paul Hamm
7. He Kexin
8. Olga Korbut
9. Larisa Latynina (Level 4)
10. Li Ning
11. Nastia Liukin
12. Shannon Miller
13. Aliya Mustafina
14. Alexei Nemov
15. Carly Patterson
16. Lilia Podkopayeva
17. Aly Raisman
18. Mary Lou Retton
19. Sawao Katō
20. Vitaly Scherbo
21. Boris Shakhlin
22. Yelena Shushunova
23. Takashi Ono (gymnast)
24. Ludmilla Tourischeva
25. Elena Zamolodchikova

Auto racing (40/40 articles)

1. Giacomo Agostini
2. Mario Andretti
3. Michael Andretti
4. Alberto Ascari
5. Jack Brabham
6. Peter Brock
7. Donald Campbell
8. Guido Cappellini
9. Jim Clark
10. Joey Dunlop
11. Dale Earnhardt
12. Juan Manuel Fangio (Level 4)
13. John Force
14. A. J. Foyt
15. Jeff Gordon
16. Dan Gurney
17. Lewis Hamilton
18. Masami Hirosaka
19. James Hunt
20. Junior Johnson
21. Jimmie Johnson
22. Eliška Junková
23. Niki Lauda
24. Sébastien Loeb
25. Bruce McLaren
26. Colin McRae
27. Stirling Moss
28. Barney Oldfield
29. Danica Patrick
30. Richard Petty
31. Alain Prost
32. Valentino Rossi
33. Michael Schumacher (Level 4)
34. Ayrton Senna (Level 4)
35. Jackie Stewart
36. Keiichi Tsuchiya
37. Sebastian Vettel
38. Darrell Waltrip
39. Jamie Whincup
40. Cale Yarborough

Swimming (20/20 articles)

1. Abdellatief Abouheif
2. Olga Brusnikina
3. Florence Chadwick
4. Natalie Coughlin
5. Anastasia Davydova
6. Gertrude Ederle
7. Krisztina Egerszegi
8. Dawn Fraser
9. Grant Hackett
10. Katie Ledecky
11. Ryan Lochte
12. Roland Matthes
13. Michael Phelps (Level 4)
14. Lewis Pugh
15. Mark Spitz (Level 4)
16. Jenny Thompson
17. Ian Thorpe
18. Matthew Webb
19. Johnny Weissmuller (Level 4)
20. Esther Williams

Rugby (30/30 articles)

Rugby league (15/15 articles)

1. Arthur Beetson
2. Dave Brown (rugby league, born 1913)
3. Clive Churchill
4. Bob Fulton
5. Reg Gasnier
6. Andrew Johns
7. Graeme Langlands
8. Wally Lewis
9. Darren Lockyer
10. Mal Meninga
11. Dally Messenger
12. Johnny Raper
13. Kevin Sinfield
14. Cameron Smith (rugby league, born 1983)
15. Johnathan Thurston

Rugby union (15/15 articles)

1. Serge Blanco
2. David Campese
3. Dan Carter
4. Sébastien Chabal
5. Danie Craven
6. Daisuke Ohata
7. Gareth Edwards (Level 4)
8. Martin Johnson (rugby union)
9. Jonah Lomu (Level 4)
10. Richie McCaw
11. Colin Meads
12. Brian O'Driscoll
13. Francois Pienaar
14. Waisale Serevi
15. Jonny Wilkinson

Tabletop games (45/45 articles)

Card games (8/8 articles)

1. Ely Culbertson
2. Jon Finkel

Poker (6/6 articles)

1. Doyle Brunson
2. Phil Hellmuth
3. Phil Ivey
4. Chris Moneymaker
5. Johnny Moss
6. Stu Ungar

Chess (12/12 articles)

1. Alexander Alekhine
2. Mikhail Botvinnik
3. José Raúl Capablanca
4. Magnus Carlsen
5. Bobby Fischer (Level 4)
6. Anatoly Karpov
7. Garry Kasparov (Level 4)
8. Emanuel Lasker
9. Paul Morphy
10. Judit Polgár
11. Mikhail Tal
12. Wilhelm Steinitz

Cue sports (9/9 articles)

1. Raymond Ceulemans
2. Joe Davis
3. Ralph Greenleaf
4. Stephen Hendry
5. Walter Lindrum
6. Willie Mosconi
7. Efren Reyes
8. Ronnie O'Sullivan
9. Rudolf Wanderone

Table tennis (5/5 articles)

1. Deng Yaping
2. Ma Lin (table tennis)
3. Ma Long
4. Jan-Ove Waldner
5. Wang Nan (table tennis)

Carrom (1/1 article)

1. A. Maria Irudayam

Scrabble (1/1 article)

1. Nigel Richards (Scrabble player)

Go (5/5 article)

1. Lee Chang-ho
2. Cho Hun-hyun
3. Go Seigen
4. Hon'inbō Sansa
5. Hon'inbō Shūsaku

Shogi (2/2 article)

1. Yoshiharu Habu
2. Yasuharu Ōyama

Xiangqi (1/1 article)

1. Hu Ronghua

Checkers (1/1 article)

1. Marion Tinsley

Other individual sports (153/150 articles)

Archery (5/5 articles)

1. Howard Hill
2. Hubert Van Innis
3. Kim Soo-nyung
4. Darrell Pace
5. Park Sung-hyun (archer)

Badminton (6/6 articles)

1. Lin Dan
2. Ratchanok Intanon
3. Gao Ling
4. Saina Nehwal
5. Rudy Hartono
6. Lee Chong Wei

Biathlon (2/2 articles)

1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (Level 4)
2. Darya Domracheva

BMX (4/4 articles)

1. Mat Hoffman
2. Dave Mirra
3. Mariana Pajón
4. Māris Štrombergs

Bodybuilding (3/3 articles)

1. Ronnie Coleman
2. Iris Kyle
3. Eugen Sandow

Climbing and mountaineering (16/14 articles)

1. Josune Bereziartu
2. Walter Bonatti
3. Catherine Destivelle
4. Wolfgang Güllich
5. Lynn Hill
6. Edmund Hillary (Level 4)
7. Alex Honnold
8. Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)
9. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
10. George Mallory
11. Reinhold Messner
12. Tenzing Norgay (Level 4)
13. Adam Ondra
14. Edurne Pasaban
15. Chris Sharma
16. Junko Tabei (Level 4)

Diving (4/4 articles)

1. Klaus Dibiasi
2. Greg Louganis
3. Wu Minxia
4. Natalia Molchanova

Equestrianism (10/10 articles)

1. Eddie Arcaro
2. Steve Cauthen
3. Charlotte Dujardin
4. Reiner Klimke
5. Julie Krone
6. Tony McCoy
7. Lester Piggott
8. Bill Shoemaker
9. Mark Todd (equestrian)
10. Hans Günter Winkler

Fencing (4/4 articles)

1. Pavel Kolobkov
2. Edoardo Mangiarotti
3. Aldo Nadi
4. Valentina Vezzali

Luge (1/1 article)

1. Georg Hackl

Modern pentathlon (1/1 article)

1. Lars Hall

Parkour (1/1 article)

1. David Belle

Racquetball (2/2 articles)

1. Paola Longoria
2. Kane Waselenchuk

Rodeo (6/6 articles)

1. Trevor Brazile
2. Charmayne James
3. Larry Mahan
4. J.B. Mauney
5. Ty Murray
6. Jim Shoulders

Rowing and kayaking (4/4 articles)

1. Birgit Fischer
2. Elisabeta Lipă
3. Michal Martikán
4. Steve Redgrave (Level 4)

Sailing (2/2 articles)

1. Ben Ainslie
2. Paul Elvstrøm

Shooting sports (5/5 articles)

1. Maria Grozdeva
2. Jin Jong-oh
3. Carl Osburn
4. Kim Rhode
5. Ralf Schumann

Skateboarding (5/5 articles)

1. Steve Caballero
2. Tony Hawk
3. Nyjah Huston
4. Rodney Mullen
5. Elissa Steamer

Skeleton (1/1 article)

1. Lizzy Yarnold

International Ski Federation sports (10/10 articles)

1. Marit Bjørgen (Level 4)
2. Bjørn Dæhlie
3. Jean-Claude Killy
4. Mikaël Kingsbury
5. Hermann Maier
6. Annemarie Moser-Pröll
7. Matti Nykänen
8. Ingemar Stenmark (Level 4)
9. Lindsey Vonn
10. Terje Håkonsen

Skydiving and BASE jumping (1/1 article)

1. Felix Baumgartner

Speed skating (8/8 articles)

1. Bonnie Blair (Level 4)
2. Steven Bradbury
3. Eric Heiden (Level 4)
4. Johann Olav Koss
5. Sven Kramer
6. Apolo Ohno
7. Claudia Pechstein
8. Ireen Wüst

Squash (3/3 articles)

1. Nicol David
2. Jahangir Khan
3. Heather McKay

Strength based sports (7/7 articles)

1. Vasily Alekseyev
2. Ed Coan
3. Louis Cyr
4. Pyrros Dimas
5. Bill Kazmaier
6. Hossein Rezazadeh
7. Naim Süleymanoğlu

Surfing (3/3 articles)

1. Kelly Slater
2. Layne Beachley
3. Duke Kahanamoku

Water sports (3/3 articles)

1. Björn Dunkerbeck
2. Shaun Murray
3. Dick Pope Jr.

Multiple sports (6/6 articles)

1. Eddie Eagan
2. Bo Jackson
3. Anthony Mundine
4. Jim Thorpe (Level 4)
5. Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Level 4)
6. Shaun White

Niche sports (30/30 articles)

Bowling (4/4 articles)

1. Tony Allcock
2. Earl Anthony
3. Don Carter (bowler)
4. Walter Ray Williams Jr.

Bullfighting (3/3 articles)

1. Juan Belmonte
2. Manolete
3. Pedro Romero

Competitive eating (1/1 article)

1. Takeru Kobayashi

Croquet (1/1 article)

1. Robert Fulford (croquet player)

Darts (2/2 articles)

1. Trina Gulliver
2. Phil Taylor (darts player)

eSports (5/5 articles)

1. Faker (gamer)
2. Billy Mitchell (gamer)
3. Daigo Umehara
4. Johnathan Wendel
5. Lim Yo-hwan

Fishing (1/1 article)

1. Kevin VanDam

Frisbee sports (3/3 articles)

1. Ken Climo
2. Beau Kittredge
3. Ken Westerfield

Hunting (3/3 articles)

1. Fred Bear
2. Frank Buck (animal collector)
3. Jim Corbett

Memory sports (1/1 article)

1. Dominic O'Brien

Motocross (3/3 articles)

1. Ricky Carmichael
2. Jeremy McGrath
3. Travis Pastrana

Pétanque (1/1 article)

1. Philippe Quintais

Roller skating sports (1/1 article)

1. Arlo Eisenberg

Speedcubing (1/1 article)

1. Feliks Zemdegs

Other team sports (59/55 articles)

Australian rules football (6 articles)

1. Gary Ablett Sr.
2. Ron Barassi
3. Haydn Bunton Sr.
4. Wayne Carey
5. Gordon Coventry
6. Leigh Matthews

Bandy (1 article)

1. Sergey Ivanovich Lomanov

Basque pelota (2 articles)

1. Mariano Juaristi
2. Julián Retegi

Bobsleigh (2 articles)

1. Kevin Kuske
2. Eugenio Monti

Curling (3 articles)

1. Glenn Howard
2. Kevin Martin (curler)
3. Sandra Schmirler

Field hockey (7 articles)

1. Luciana Aymar (Level 4)
2. Dhyan Chand (Level 4)
3. Jamie Dwyer
4. Rechelle Hawkes
5. Teun de Nooijer
6. Dhanraj Pillay
7. Balbir Singh Sr.

Floorball (1 article)

1. Mika Kohonen

Beach soccer (1 article)

1. Madjer

Futsal (1 article)

1. Falcão (futsal player)

Gaelic sports (5 articles)

1. Angela Downey
2. Billy Morgan (Gaelic footballer)
3. Christy Ring
4. Henry Shefflin
5. Pat Spillane

Handball (5 articles)

1. Anja Andersen
2. Ivano Balić
3. Nikola Karabatić
4. Andrey Lavrov
5. Thierry Omeyer

Kabaddi (1 article)

1. Rakesh Kumar (kabaddi)

Lacrosse (2 articles)

1. Gary Gait
2. Casey Powell

Netball (2 articles)

1. Irene van Dyk
2. Liz Ellis

Paintball (1/1 article)

1. Oliver Lang

Polo (3 articles)

1. Adolfo Cambiaso
2. Carlos Gracida
3. Cecil Smith (polo)

Softball (3 articles)

1. Eddie Feigner
2. Lisa Fernandez
3. Jennie Finch

Tug of war (1 article)

1. Frederick Humphreys (athlete)

Volleyball (6 articles)

1. Giba
2. Kerri Walsh Jennings
3. Karch Kiraly
4. Lang Ping
5. Misty May-Treanor
6. Regla Torres

Water polo (6 articles)

1. Manuel Estiarte
2. Filip Filipović (water polo)
3. Dezső Gyarmati
4. Paul Radmilovic
5. Brenda Villa
6. Debbie Watson (water polo)

Ancient sports (5/5 articles)

1. Cynisca
2. Gaius Appuleius Diocles
3. Leonidas of Rhodes
4. Milo of Croton
5. Pheidippides

Sports business-people, coaches, and referees (150/150 articles)

American football (15/15 articles)

1. Bill Belichick
2. Paul Brown
3. Bear Bryant
4. Walter Camp
5. Al Davis
6. John Heisman
7. Curly Lambeau
8. Tom Landry
9. Vince Lombardi (Level 4)
10. Joe Paterno
11. Knute Rockne
12. Pete Rozelle
13. Nick Saban
14. Amos Alonzo Stagg
15. Pop Warner

Association football (31/30 articles)

1. Malcolm Allison
2. Ken Aston
3. Béla Guttmann
4. Sepp Blatter
5. Vicente del Bosque
6. Matt Busby
7. Brian Clough
8. Ebenezer Cobb Morley
9. Pierluigi Collina
10. Didier Deschamps
11. Arthur Drewry
12. Alex Ferguson
13. Robert Guérin
14. João Havelange
15. Helenio Herrera
16. Udo Lattek
17. Valeriy Lobanovskyi
18. Mircea Lucescu
19. Rinus Michels
20. José Mourinho
21. Silvia Neid
22. Bob Paisley
23. Alf Ramsey
24. Jules Rimet
25. Stanley Rous
26. Vittorio Pozzo
27. Arrigo Sacchi
28. Rodolphe Seeldrayers
29. Howard Webb
30. Arsène Wenger
31. Mário Zagallo

Australian rules football (3 articles)

1. Ivo Crapp
2. Jock McHale
3. Tom Wills

Baseball (15/15 articles)

1. Alexander Cartwright
2. Henry Chadwick (writer)
3. Charles Comiskey
4. Abner Doubleday
5. Bill Klem
6. Kenesaw Mountain Landis
7. Connie Mack
8. Marvin Miller
9. John Montgomery Ward
10. Buck O'Neil
11. Branch Rickey
12. Bud Selig
13. Albert Spalding
14. George Steinbrenner
15. Harry Wright

Basketball (22 articles)

1. Red Auerbach
2. Geno Auriemma
3. Sue Bird
4. Jerry Buss
5. Alexander Gomelsky
6. Henry Iba
7. Phil Jackson
8. Bob Knight
9. Mike Krzyzewski
10. John Kundla
11. James Naismith (Level 4)
12. Mirko Novosel
13. Larry O'Brien
14. Gregg Popovich
15. Pat Riley
16. Mendy Rudolph
17. Abe Saperstein
18. Dean Smith
19. Harry Statham
20. David Stern
21. Pat Summitt
22. John Wooden

Bodybuilding (1 article)

1. Joe Weider

Boxing (4 articles)

1. Jack Broughton
2. Angelo Dundee
3. Don King
4. Tex Rickard

Cricket (1 article)

1. Bob Simpson (cricketer)

Cycling (1 article)

1. Henri Desgrange

Equestrianism (7/7 articles)

1. Bob Baffert
2. Federico Caprilli
3. James E. Fitzsimmons
4. Kikkuli
5. Vincent O'Brien
6. François Robichon de La Guérinière
7. Federico Tesio

Golf (1 article)

1. Deane Beman

Gymnastics (3 articles)

1. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
2. Béla Károlyi
3. Márta Károlyi

Ice hockey (12/12 articles)

1. Al Arbour
2. Mike Babcock
3. Gary Bettman
4. Toe Blake
5. Scotty Bowman
6. Herb Brooks
7. Walter A. Brown
8. Frank Calder
9. Clarence Campbell
10. Ken Hitchcock
11. Joel Quenneville
12. James T. Sutherland

Lacrosse (1 article)

1. William George Beers

Mixed martial arts (1 article)

1. Dana White

Olympics (12 articles)

1. Thomas Bach
2. Henri de Baillet-Latour
3. Godefroy de Blonay
4. Avery Brundage
5. Pierre de Coubertin (Level 4)
6. Carl Diem
7. Sigfrid Edström
8. Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
9. Dick Pound
10. Jacques Rogge
11. Juan Antonio Samaranch
12. Demetrios Vikelas

Racing (3 articles)

1. Bernie Ecclestone
2. Bill France Sr.
3. Gordon Murray

Rugby league (2 articles)

1. Wayne Bennett (rugby league)
2. Jack Gibson (rugby league)

Rugby union (4 articles)

1. Kitch Christie
2. William Webb Ellis
3. Ned Haig
4. Graham Henry

Snooker (1 article)

1. Barry Hearn

Softball (1 article)

1. Phil McSpadden

Swimming (1 article)

1. Bob Bowman (coach)

Tennis (2 articles)

1. Nick Bollettieri
2. Harry Hopman

Track and Field (1 article)

1. Bill Bowerman

Volleyball (2 articles)

1. William G. Morgan
2. Bernardo Rezende

Water polo (3 articles)

1. Adam Krikorian
2. Ratko Rudić
3. William Wilson (aquatics)