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Total articles: 1,156/1,200

Association football (111/ 110 quota)

Africa (6 articles):

1. Samuel Eto'o
2. Rabah Madjer
3. Roger Milla
4. Abedi Pele
5. Yaya Touré
6. George Weah

Central and North America (8 articles):

1. Michelle Akers
2. Landon Donovan
3. Mágico González
4. Mia Hamm (Level 4)
5. Hugo Sánchez
6. Christine Sinclair
7. Hope Solo
8. Abby Wambach

South America (22 articles):

1. Gabriel Batistuta
2. Cafu
3. Roberto Carlos
4. José Luis Chilavert
5. Didi
6. Radamel Falcao
7. Elías Figueroa
8. Garrincha
9. Marta
10. Diego Maradona (Level 4)
11. Lionel Messi (Level 4)
12. Neymar
13. Pelé (Level 4)
14. Romário
15. Ronaldinho
16. Ronaldo (Level 4)
17. Nílton Santos
18. Juan Alberto Schiaffino
19. Sócrates
20. Carlos Alberto Torres
21. Javier Zanetti
22. Zico

Asia and Oceania (8 articles):

1. Majed Abdullah
2. Paulino Alcántara
3. Tim Cahill
4. Cha Bum-kun
5. Ali Daei
6. Hidetoshi Nakata
7. Homare Sawa
8. Sun Wen

Europe (64 articles):

1. Roberto Baggio
2. Gareth Bale
3. Gordon Banks
4. Franco Baresi
5. Franz Beckenbauer (Level 4)
6. David Beckham
7. George Best
8. Josef Bican
9. Oleh Blokhin
10. Zbigniew Boniek
11. Gianluigi Buffon
12. Eric Cantona
13. Iker Casillas
14. John Charles
15. Bobby Charlton
16. Johan Cruyff (Level 4)
17. Kenny Dalglish
18. Dixie Dean
19. Alfredo Di Stéfano (Level 4)
20. Dragan Džajić
21. Eusébio (Level 4)
22. Tom Finney
23. Just Fontaine
24. Paul Gascoigne
25. Francisco Gento
26. Ryan Giggs
27. Ruud Gullit
28. Gheorghe Hagi
29. Thierry Henry
30. Zlatan Ibrahimović
31. Roy Keane
32. Kevin Keegan
33. Michael Laudrup
34. Lucien Laurent
35. Robert Lewandowski
36. Paolo Maldini
37. Lothar Matthäus
38. Stanley Matthews
39. Giuseppe Meazza
40. Bobby Moore
41. Gerd Müller
42. Michael Owen
43. Michel Platini (Level 4)
44. Birgit Prinz
45. Ferenc Puskás (Level 4)
46. Cristiano Ronaldo (Level 4)
47. Paolo Rossi
48. Ian Rush
49. György Sárosi
50. Peter Schmeichel
51. Clarence Seedorf
52. Alan Shearer
53. Andriy Shevchenko
54. Allan Simonsen
55. Matthias Sindelar
56. Hristo Stoichkov
57. Davor Šuker
58. Marco van Basten
59. Fritz Walter
60. Ernst Wilimowski
61. Lev Yashin (Level 4)
62. Ricardo Zamora
63. Zinedine Zidane (Level 4)
64. Dino Zoff

Freestyle Footballers (1 article):

1. Séan Garnier

Beach Soccer players (1 article):

1. Madjer

Futsal players (1 article):

1. Falcão

Basketball (60/ 60 quota)

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

Baseball (56/55 quota)

1. Hank Aaron (Level 4)
2. Grover Cleveland Alexander
3. Cap Anson
4. Adrián Beltré
5. Yogi Berra
6. Barry Bonds
7. Roger Clemens
8. Roberto Clemente
9. Ty Cobb (Level 4)
10. Joe DiMaggio
11. Jean Faut
12. Jimmie Foxx
13. Lou Gehrig
14. Bob Gibson
15. Josh Gibson
16. Ken Griffey Jr.
17. Rickey Henderson
18. Rogers Hornsby
19. Shoeless Joe Jackson
20. Derek Jeter
21. Randy Johnson
22. Walter Johnson
23. Dorothy Kamenshek
24. Clayton Kershaw
25. Sandy Koufax
26. Sophie Kurys
27. Nap Lajoie
28. Greg Maddux
29. Mickey Mantle
30. Roger Maris
31. Pedro Martínez
32. Christy Mathewson
33. Willie Mays (Level 4)
34. Mark McGwire
35. Jackie Mitchell
36. Stan Musial
37. Hideo Nomo
38. Sadaharu Oh (Level 4)
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 (57/61 quota)

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

Ice hockey (43/ 45 quota)

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

American football (40/ 40 quota)

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

Tennis (41/50 quota)

1. Andre Agassi
2. Arthur Ashe
3. Björn Borg
4. Bryan brothers
5. Don Budge
6. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
7. Maureen Connolly
8. Jimmy Connors
9. Margaret Court (Level 4)
10. Novak Djokovic
11. Roy Emerson
12. Chris Evert
13. Roger Federer (Level 4)
14. Althea Gibson
15. Pancho Gonzales
16. Steffi Graf (Level 4)
17. Pierre Etchebaster
18. Billie Jean King
19. Jack Kramer
20. Shingo Kunieda
21. René Lacoste
22. Rod Laver (Level 4)
23. Ivan Lendl
24. Suzanne Lenglen (Level 4)
25. John McEnroe
26. Andy Murray
27. Rafael Nadal (Level 4)
28. Martina Navratilova (Level 4)
29. Fred Perry
30. William Renshaw
31. Ken Rosewall
32. Pete Sampras
33. Richard Sears
34. Monica Seles
35. Maria Sharapova
36. Ai Sugiyama
37. Bill Tilden (Level 4)
38. Esther Vergeer
39. Serena Williams (Level 4)
40. Venus Williams
41. Helen Wills

Golf (35/35 quota)

1. Seve Ballesteros
2. Patty Berg
3. James Braid
4. Ernie Els
5. Nick Faldo
6. Walter Hagen
7. Ben Hogan
8. Bobby Jones
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
32. Karrie Webb
33. Kathy Whitworth
34. Tiger Woods (Level 4)
35. Mickey Wright

Athletics (76/90 quota)

1. Valerie Adams
2. Robert Barclay Allardice
3. Almaz Ayana
4. Roger Bannister
5. Randy Barnes
6. Bob Beamon
7. Kenenisa Bekele
8. Abebe Bikila
9. Fanny Blankers-Koen (Level 4)
10. Usain Bolt (Level 4)
11. Alistair Brownlee
12. Sergey Bubka (Level 4)
13. Sebastian Coe
14. Steph Cook
15. Mary Decker
16. Genzebe Dibaba
17. Tirunesh Dibaba
18. Heike Drechsler
19. Ashton Eaton
20. Jonathan Edwards
21. Hicham El Guerrouj (Level 4)
22. Mo Farah
23. Dick Fosbury
24. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
25. Cathy Freeman
26. Rich Froning Jr.
27. Haile Gebrselassie (Level 4)
28. Yelena Isinbayeva
29. Caitlyn Jenner
30. Michael Johnson
31. Rafer Johnson
32. Florence Griffith Joyner (Level 4)
33. Dean Karnazes
34. Kipchoge Keino
35. Ezekiel Kemboi
36. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Level 4)
37. Robert Korzeniowski
38. Stefka Kostadinova
39. Jarmila Kratochvílová
40. Renaud Lavillenie
41. Carl Lewis (Level 4)
42. Liu Xiang
43. Bob Mathias
44. Andrey Moiseyev
45. Bobby Morrow
46. Edwin Moses (Level 4)
47. Wayde van Niekerk
48. Simone Niggli-Luder
49. Paavo Nurmi (Level 4)
50. Jesse Owens (Level 4)
51. Al Oerter
52. Sandra Perković
53. Oscar Pistorius
54. Marie-José Pérec
55. Mike Powell
56. Paula Radcliffe
57. Bobbie Rosenfeld
58. David Rudisha
59. Wilma Rudolph (Level 4)
60. Viktor Saneyev
61. Yuriy Sedykh
62. Jürgen Schult
63. Dave Scott
64. Saif Saaeed Shaheen
65. Javier Sotomayor
66. Emma Snowsill
67. Barbora Špotáková
68. Shirley Strickland
69. Yusuke Suzuki
70. Irena Szewińska
71. Daley Thompson
72. Anníe Mist Þórisdóttir
73. Lasse Virén
74. Anita Włodarczyk
75. Emil Zátopek (Level 4)
76. Jan Železný

Figure skating (26/30 quota)

1. Shizuka Arakawa
2. Brian Boitano
3. Dick Button
4. Cecilia Colledge
5. Robin Cousins
6. Peggy Fleming
7. Gillis Grafström
8. Jackson Haines
9. Dorothy Hamill
10. Scott Hamilton
11. Tonya Harding
12. Sonja Henie (Level 4)
13. Nancy Kerrigan
14. Ilia Kulik
15. Michelle Kwan
16. Tara Lipinski
17. Scott Moir
18. Axel Paulsen
19. Evgeni Plushenko
20. Irina Rodnina
21. Karl Schäfer
22. Irina Slutskaya
23. Madge Syers
24. Tessa Virtue
25. Katarina Witt
26. Kristi Yamaguchi

Martial arts (85/85 quota)

Boxing (30/30 articles)

1. Laila Ali
2. Muhammad Ali (Level 4)
3. Henry Armstrong
4. Cecilia Brækhus
5. Tommy Burns
6. James J. Corbett
7. Jack Dempsey
8. Roberto Durán
9. Bob Fitzsimmons
10. Joe Frazier
11. Marvelous Marvin Hagler
12. Holly Holm
13. Jack Johnson
14. Vitali Klitschko
15. Wladimir Klitschko
16. Sugar Ray Leonard
17. Joe Louis (Level 4)
18. Rocky Marciano
19. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
20. Daniel Mendoza
21. Carlos Monzón
22. Archie Moore
23. Manny Pacquiao
24. László Papp
25. Sugar Ray Robinson (Level 4)
26. Félix Savón
27. Teófilo Stevenson
28. John L. Sullivan
29. Gene Tunney
30. Mike Tyson

Wrestling (26/25 articles)

1. André the Giant
2. Stone Cold Steve Austin
3. Chris Benoit
4. John Brzenk
5. John Cena
6. Ric Flair
7. Dan Gable
8. Gorgeous George
9. Frank Gotch
10. Bret Hart
11. Stu Hart
12. Hulk Hogan
13. Antonio Inoki
14. Dwayne Johnson
15. Aleksandr Karelin (Level 4)
16. Mijaín López
17. Aleksandr Medved
18. The Fabulous Moolah
19. Rikidōzan
20. Buvaisar Saitiev
21. Bruno Sammartino
22. El Santo
23. Saori Yoshida
24. Randy Savage
25. Lou Thesz
26. The Undertaker

Martial arts (15/15 articles)

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

Mixed martial arts (10/10 articles)

1. Randy Couture
2. Fedor Emelianenko
3. Royce Gracie
4. Demetrious Johnson
5. Jon Jones
6. Chuck Liddell
7. Conor McGregor
8. Ronda Rousey
9. Anderson Silva
10. Georges St-Pierre

Sumo (5/5 articles)

1. Asashōryū Akinori
2. Tanikaze Kajinosuke
3. Taihō Kōki
4. Akashi Shiganosuke
5. Hakuhō Shō

Cycling (20/20 quota)

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 (Level 4)
11. Chris Hoy
12. Miguel Induráin (Level 4)
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 quota)

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

Auto racing (41/40 quota)

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. Dan Gurney
13. Juan Manuel Fangio (Level 4)
14. John Force
15. A. J. Foyt (Level 4)
16. Jeff Gordon
17. Lewis Hamilton
18. Masami Hirosaka
19. James Hunt
20. Jimmie Johnson
21. Eliška Junková
22. Niki Lauda
23. Sébastien Loeb
24. Craig Lowndes
25. Colin McRae
26. Stirling Moss
27. Sébastien Ogier
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. Mark Skaife
36. Jackie Stewart
37. Keiichi Tsuchiya
38. Sebastian Vettel
39. Darrell Waltrip
40. Jamie Whincup
41. Cale Yarborough

Swimming (24/20 quota)

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. Shane Gould
10. Grant Hackett
11. Pieter van den Hoogenband
12. Benoît Lecomte
13. Katie Ledecky
14. Ryan Lochte
15. Roland Matthes
16. Michael Phelps (Level 4)
17. Lewis Pugh
18. Mark Spitz (Level 4)
19. Martin Strel
20. Jenny Thompson
21. Ian Thorpe
22. Dara Torres
23. Matthew Webb
24. Johnny Weissmuller (Level 4)
25. Esther Williams

Rugby (30/30 quota)

Rugby league (15/15 articles)

1. Arthur Beetson
2. David Brown
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. Billy Slater
15. Johnathan Thurston

Rugby union (15/15 articles)

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

Tabletop games (46/46 articles)

Card games (6/6 articles)

1. Ely Culbertson
2. Jon Finkel

Poker (5/5 articles)

1. Doyle Brunson
2. Phil Hellmuth
3. Phil Ivey
4. Johnny Moss
5. 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 (10/10 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. Earl Strickland
10. Rudolf Wanderone

Table tennis (5/5 articles)

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

Carrom 1/1

1. A. Maria Irudayam

Scrabble 1/1

1. Nigel Richards

Go 7/7

1. Lee Chang-ho
2. Cho Hun-hyun
3. Minoru Kitani
4. Oskar Korschelt
5. Go Seigen
6. Hon'inbō Sansa
7. Hon'inbō Shūsaku

Shogi 2/2

1. Yoshiharu Habu
2. Karolina Styczyńska

Xiangqi 2/2

1. Hu Ronghua
2. Tang Dan

Checkers 1/1

1. Marion Tinsley

Other individual sports (164/168 quota)

Archery (5/5 articles)

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

Badminton (5/5 articles)

1. Lin Dan
2. Peter Gade
3. Gao Ling
4. Rudy Hartono
5. 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

Bobsleigh (2/2 articles)

1. Kevin Kuske
2. Eugenio Monti

Bodybuilding (5/5 articles)

1. Ronnie Coleman
2. Lee Haney
3. Phil Heath
4. Iris Kyle
5. Eugen Sandow

Climbing and moutaineering (14/14 articles)

1. Richard Bass
2. Steph Davis
3. Edmund Hillary (Level 4)
4. Andrew Irvine
5. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
6. George Mallory
7. Reinhold Messner
8. Tenzing Norgay (Level 4)
9. Adam Ondra
10. Dan Osman
11. Dean Potter
12. Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
13. Chris Sharma
14. Junko Tabei

Diving (3/3 articles)

1. Greg Louganis
2. Wu Minxia
3. 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
10. Hans Günter Winkler

Fencing (4/4 articles)

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

Luge (2/2 articles)

1. Georg Hackl
2. Felix Loch

Parkour (1/1 article)

1. David Belle

Racquetball (3/3 articles)

1. Rocky Carson
2. Paola Longoria
3. Kane Waselenchuk

Rodeo (8/8 articles)

1. Trevor Brazile
2. Lane Frost
3. Charmayne James
4. Larry Mahan
5. J. B. Mauney
6. Ty Murray
7. Bill Pickett
8. Jim Shoulders

Rowing and kayaking (3/3 articles)

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

Sailing (2/2 articles)

1. Ben Ainslie
2. Paul Elvstrøm

Shooting sports (6/6 articles)

1. Maria Grozdeva
2. Willis Augustus Lee
3. Ole Lilloe-Olsen
4. Carl Osburn
5. Kim Rhode
6. Ralf Schumann

Skateboarding (5/5 articles)

1. Tony Hawk
2. Nyjah Huston
3. Bam Margera
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 (5/5 articles)

1. Bonnie Blair (Level 4)
2. Steven Bradbury
3. Eric Heiden (Level 4)
4. Johann Olav Koss
5. Apolo Ohno

Squash (3/3 articles)

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

Surfing (3/3 articles)

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

Water sports (5/5 articles)

1. Björn Dunkerbeck
2. Aaron Hadlow
3. Bob LaPoint
4. Shaun Murray
5. Dick Pope Jr.

Weightlifting (7/7 articles)

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

Multiple sports (6/6 articles)

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

Niche sports (41/40 quota)

Bowling (6/6 articles)

1. Tony Allcock
2. Earl Anthony
3. Don Carter
4. Dick Weber
5. Pete Weber
6. Walter Ray Williams Jr.

Bullfighting (6/6 articles)

1. Juan Belmonte
2. Luis Miguel Dominguín
3. Manolete
4. Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
5. Antonio Ordóñez
6. Pedro Romero

Competitive eating (2/2 articles)

1. Joey Chestnut
2. Takeru Kobayashi

Croquet (1/1 article)

1. Robert Fulford

Darts (3/3 articles)

1. Eric Bristow
2. Trina Gulliver
3. Phil Taylor

eSports (7/6 articles)

1. Faker
2. Dennis Fong
3. Ken Hoang
4. Billy Mitchell
5. Nadeshot
6. Johnathan Wendel
7. Lim Yo-hwan

Fishing (1/1 article)

1. Kevin VanDam

Frisbee sports (4/4 articles)

1. Ken Climo
2. Beau Kittredge
3. Brodie Smith
4. Ken Westerfield

Hunting (3/3 articles)

1. Fred Bear
2. Frank Buck
3. Jim Corbett

Memory sports (1/1 article)

1. Dominic O'Brien

Motocross (2/2 articles)

1. Ricky Carmichael
2. Jeremy McGrath

Pétanque (1/1 article)

1. Philippe Quintais

Roller skating sports (3/3 articles)

1. Arlo Eisenberg
2. Taïg Khris
3. Joan Weston

Speedcubing (1/1 article)

1. Feliks Zemdegs

Other team sports (48/55 quota)

Australian rules football (5 articles)

1. Ron Barassi
2. Wayne Carey
3. Ivo Crapp
4. Tony Lockett
5. Leigh Matthews

Bandy (1 article)

1. Sergey Ivanovich Lomanov

Basque pelota (2 articles)

1. Mariano Juaristi
2. Julián Retegi

Curling (3 articles)

1. Glenn Howard
2. Kevin Martin
3. Sandra Schmirler

Field hockey (5 articles)

1. Luciana Aymar (Level 4)
2. Dhyan Chand (Level 4)
3. Jamie Dwyer
4. Rechelle Hawkes
5. Dhanraj Pillay

Floorball (1 article)

1. Mika Kohonen

Gaelic sports (4 articles)

1. Billy Morgan
2. Christy Ring
3. Henry Shefflin
4. Pat Spillane

Handball (3 articles)

1. Anja Andersen
2. Ivano Balić
3. Nikola Karabatić

Kabaddi (1 article)

1. Rakesh Kumar

Lacrosse (3 articles)

1. Gary Gait
2. Paul Gait
3. Casey Powell

Netball (2 articles)

1. Irene van Dyk
2. Liz Ellis

Paintball (1/1 article)

1. Oliver Lang

Polo (4 articles)

1. Adolfo Cambiaso
2. Carlos Gracida
3. Tommy Hitchcock Jr.
4. Cecil Smith

Softball (3 articles)

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

Tug of war (1 article)

1. Frederick Humphreys

Water polo (3 articles)

1. Dezső Gyarmati
2. Paul Radmilovic
3. Aleksandar Šapić

Volleyball (6 articles)

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

Ancient sports (5/ 5 quota)

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

Sports business-people, coaches, and referees (134/150 quota)

American football (20/15 articles)

1. Bill Belichick
2. Bobby Bowden
3. Paul Brown
4. Bear Bryant
5. Walter Camp
6. Al Davis
7. Mike Ditka
8. Roger Goodell
9. George Halas
10. Curly Lambeau
11. Tom Landry
12. Vince Lombardi (Level 4)
13. Bill Parcells
14. Joe Paterno
15. Eddie Robinson
16. Knute Rockne
17. Pete Rozelle
18. Amos Alonzo Stagg
19. Jim Tunney
20. Pop Warner

Association football (32/30 articles)

1. Malcolm Allison
2. Ken Aston
3. Sepp Blatter
4. Vicente del Bosque
5. Matt Busby
6. Brian Clough
7. Ebenezer Cobb Morley
8. Pierluigi Collina
9. Didier Deschamps
10. Arthur Drewry
11. Alex Ferguson
12. Robert Guérin
13. João Havelange
14. Helenio Herrera
15. Guus Hiddink
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. Jock Stein
30. Howard Webb
31. Arsène Wenger
32. Mário Zagallo

Australian rules football (2 articles)

1. Jock McHale
2. Tom Wills

Baseball (17/15 articles)

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

Basketball (20/25 articles)

1. Red Auerbach
2. Jerry Buss
3. Jack Kent Cooke
4. Alexander Gomelsky
5. Phil Jackson
6. J. Walter Kennedy
7. Bob Knight
8. Mike Krzyzewski
9. John Kundla
10. James Naismith (Level 4)
11. Larry O'Brien
12. Maurice Podoloff
13. Gregg Popovich
14. Fred Schaus
15. Dean Smith
16. Harry Statham
17. David Stern
18. Earl Strom
19. Pat Summitt
20. 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

Equestrianism (0/5 articles)

1. Reserved
2. Reserved
3. Reserved
4. Reserved
5. Reserved

Golf (3 articles)

1. Deane Beman
2. Joseph Dey
3. Manuel de la Torre

Gymnastics (3 articles)

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

Ice hockey (11/13 articles)

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

Lacrosse (1 article)

1. William George Beers

Mixed martial arts (1 article)

1. Dana White

Olympics (3 articles)

1. Avery Brundage
2. Pierre de Coubertin (Level 4)
3. Juan Antonio Samaranch

Professional wrestling (3 articles)

1. Verne Gagne
2. Vince McMahon
3. Toots Mondt

Racing (2 articles)

1. Bernie Ecclestone
2. Bill France Sr.

Rugby league (2 articles)

1. Wayne Bennett
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

Tennis (1 article)

1. Nick Bollettieri

Volleyball (1 article)

1. William G. Morgan