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Also Known As	Olympiad
Notable Honorees	Gong Lijiao • Candace Parker • Brittney Griner • Trinity Rodman • Alex Morgan • Quan Hongchan • Sha’Carri Richardson • Hamish Bond • Sally Pearson • Suni Lee • Megan Rapinoe • Julie Foudy • Ariarne Titmus • Lisa Fernandez • Liu Shiying • Yulimar Rojas • Jayson Tatum • Yuto Horigome • Anna Meares • Butch Reynolds • Emma Twigg • Neeraj Chopra • Caeleb Dressel • Grant Hill • Laurie Hernandez • Sophia Smith • Carissa Moore • Pablo Morales • Emma McKeon • Shi Tingmao • Arshad Nadeem • Diana Taurasi • Nathan Adrian • Lisa Carrington • Valerie Adams • Valerie Brisco-Hooks • Jessica Fox • Sabrina Ionescu • Jimmy Butler • Joan Benoit Samuelson • Muhammad Ali • Bill Russell • LeBron James • Lionel Messi • Michael Phelps • Rafael Nadal • Usain Bolt • Chris Paul • Hayley Wickenheiser • Dwyane Wade • Ryan Lochte • Kobe Bryant • Kevin Durant • Andre Agassi • Yelena Isinbayeva • Michael Jordan • Meseret Defar • Chris Hoy • Serena Williams • Jesse Owens • Shaquille O’Neal • Carmelo Anthony • Nastia Liukin • Stephen Curry • Charles Barkley • Scottie Pippen • Lennox Lewis • Kerri Walsh Jennings • Jim Thorpe • Katie Ledecky • Bradley Wiggins • Abby Wambach • Missy Franklin • Russell Coutts • Carolina Klüft • Nancy Lieberman • Ashton Eaton • Libby Trickett • Magic Johnson • Noureddine Morceli • Cheryl Miller • Anne Donovan • Pernell Whitaker • Simone Biles • Misty May-Treanor • Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce • Mo Farah • Guo Jingjing • Joe Frazier • Allyson Felix • Michael Johnson • Kōhei Uchimura • Carl Lewis • Donovan Bailey • Andy Murray • Wu Minxia • Inge de Bruijn • Tirunesh Dibaba • Ben Ainslie • Michelle Smith • Gabby Douglas • Hanyu Yuzuru • Sebastian Coe • Jackie Joyner-Kersee • Rafer Johnson • Věra Čáslavská • Fanny Blankers-Koen • Tommy Kono • Ian Thorpe • Nadia Comăneci • Ferenc Puskás • Karch Kiraly • Floyd Patterson • Halil Mutlu • George Foreman • Babe Didrikson Zaharias • Emil Zátopek • Vitaly Scherbo • Johnny Weissmuller • Peter Snell • Bill Bradley • Arne Borg • Paavo Nurmi • Steven Holcomb • Iolanda Balas • Paul Elvstrøm • Sergey Bubka • Helen Wills • Irena Szewińska • Karl Malone • Sheryl Swoopes • Suzanne Lenglen • Aileen Riggin • Oscar Robertson • Caitlyn Jenner • Cynthia Cooper-Dyke • Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev • Steven Redgrave • Liu Xiang • Naim Süleymanoğlu • Gertrude Ederle • Parry O’Brien • Harry Mallin • Dick Fosbury • Micheline Ostermeyer • Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin • Steve Ovett • Nino Benvenuti • John J. Flanagan • Evelyn Ashford • John Stockton • Tracy Caulkins • Florence Griffith Joyner • Eddie Eagan • Sugar Ray Leonard • Janet Evans • Jessica Ennis-Hill • Mijaín López • Bob Richards • Bob Mathias • Shirley Strickland de la Hunty • Greg Louganis • Al Oerter • Pete Desjardins • Aleksandr Karelin • Charley Paddock • Dot Richardson • Mia Hamm • Marie-José Pérec • Kip Keino • Marita Koch • Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky • Stanisława Walasiewicz • Ralph Metcalfe • Teresa Edwards • Bob Hayes • Adolph Rupp • Barney Ewell • Tatyana Kazankina • Wilma Rudolph • Michael Spinks • Adhemar Ferreira da Silva • Fu Mingxia • Mary Lou Retton • Felix Savón • Bobby Morrow • Olga Korbut • Alvin Kraenzlein • Lee Evans • Daley Thompson • Mac Wilkins • Bob Beamon • Teófilo Stevenson • Dawn Fraser • Billy Mills • Norman Ross • Martin Sheridan • Nikolai Andrianov • Kornelia Ender
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