The 10 Great sportspersons i admire

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[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"]Pelé in 2008
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[TD]Edson Arantes do Nascimento[SUP][1][/SUP]
23 October 1940 (age 74)[SUP][1][/SUP]
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Pelé began playing for Santos at 15 and the Brazil national football team at 16. He won three FIFA World Cups: 1958, 1962 and 1970, the only player ever to do so; and is the all-time leading goalscorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games.[SUP][23][/SUP] At club level he is also the record goalscorer for Santos, and led them to the 1962 and 1963 Copa Libertadores.[SUP][24][/SUP] Pelé’s electrifying play and penchant for spectacular goals made him a star around the world, and his club team Santos toured internationally in order to take full advantage of his popularity.[SUP][25][/SUP]

 

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Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chessGrandmaster and former World Chess Champion.
He held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, at a time when the world title was split. He became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. He then defended his title in the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in the World Chess Championship 2012[SUP][3][/SUP] against Boris Gelfand. In the World Chess Championship 2013 he lost to challenger Magnus Carlsenand he lost again to Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2014.[SUP][4][/SUP]
Anand is one of eight players in history to pass 2800 Elo on the FIDE ratinglist. He occupied the number one position for 21 months, the 6th longest on record.[SUP][5][/SUP]
Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988.[SUP][6][/SUP] He was also the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1991–92, India's highest sporting honour. In 2007, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, making him the first sports person to receive the award.
In March 2015, a minor planet was named (4538) Vishyanand after him

 

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A cricketing genius, Garry Sobers excelled at all aspects of the game, and few would argue his claim as the finest allround player in modern cricket. His exceptional Test batting average tells little about the manner in which he made the runs, his elegant yet powerful style marked by all the shots, but memorably his off-side play. As a batsman he was great, as a bowler, merely superb, but would have made the West Indies side as a bowler alone. He was remarkably versatile with the ball, bowling two styles of spin - left-arm orthodox and wrist spin, but was also a fine fast-medium opening bowler. His catching close to the wicket may have been equalled but never surpassed, and he was a brilliant fielder anywhere. He was an enterprising captain - at times maybe too enterprising, as when a generous declaration allowed England to win a decisive match at Port-of-Spain. Born with an extra finger on each hand (removed at birth), Sobers excelled at
athletic activities, playing golf, soccer and bastketball for Barbados, and made his first class debut at the age of 16, appearing in Tests a year later. He was played initially mostly as a bowler, but four years later set the Test record for an individual batsman with a mammoth 365 against Pakistan. His achievments are numerous - including the six consecutive sixes hit off an over from the unfortunate Malcolm Nash, a superb innings of 254 for the Rest of the World against Australia in 1971 that earned the praise of Don Bradman, and much more. Like many West Indians, he plied his trade abroad, playing for Nottinghamshire, and South Australia. He was knighted for his services to cricket in 1975.

 

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Carl Lewis at the Save The World Awards in July 2009​

Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American formertrack and field athlete, who won 10 Olympic medals, including nine gold, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired.
Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper who topped the world rankings in the 100 m, 200 m and long jump events frequently from 1981 to the early 1990s. He set world records in the 100 m, 4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m relays, while his world record in the indoor long jump has stood since 1984. His 65 consecutive victories in the long jump achieved over a span of 10 years is one of the sport's longest undefeated streaks. Over the course of his athletics career, Lewis broke ten seconds for the 100 metres 15 times and 20 seconds for the 200 metres 10 times.
His accomplishments have led to numerous accolades, including being voted "World Athlete of the Century" by the International Association of Athletics Federations and "Sportsman of the Century" by the International Olympic Committee., "Olympian of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Athlete of the Year" by Track & Field News in 1982, 1983, and 1984.

 

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Saina Nehwal ( pronunciation (help·info); born 17 March 1990) is an Indianbadminton player who is currently ranked No. 1 in the world by Badminton World Federation.[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] She is the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics.[SUP][5][/SUP] She achieved this feat by winning the Bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012 on 4 August 2012.[SUP][6][/SUP] She is also the first Indian after Prakash

Padukone and the first Indian woman to become world number 1.[SUP][3][/SUP] Besides these, she is the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championshipsand was also the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open on 21 June 2009. Saina is supported by the Olympic Gold Quest.[SUP][7][/SUP]

 

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Muhammad Ali (/ɑːˈliː/;[SUP][2][/SUP] born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history. A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career, Ali is today widely regarded for the skills he displayed in the ring
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[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"]Ali in 1967
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plus the values he exemplified outside of it: religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience.[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned"Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.

 

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Nadia Comaneci
Nadia is another greatest gymnast in the history of gymnastics. She is famous for her perfect score of 10 in an Olympic event in 1976 for the first time in the world when she was just 14. This Romanian gymnast won 9 Olympic medals in which 5 were gold participating in two Olympics Games. After taking retirement, she devoted her life to spread out gymnastics throughout the world especially in USA she tried to make this sports event popular participating in some Gymnastics exhibition tours. She is a member of International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.Image Link: Wikimedia

 

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Dhyan Chand ( 29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Indian field hockey player, who is widely considered as the greatest field hockey player of all time.[SUP][1][/SUP] Chand is most remembered for his extraordinary goal-scoring feats, in addition to earning three Olympic gold medals (1928, 1932, and1936) in field hockey, during an era where India was the most dominant team in Hockey.
Known as “The Wizard” for his superb ball control, Chand played his final international match in 1948, having scored more than 400 goals during his international career

 

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Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess prodigy, grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP]
At age 13 Fischer won a "brilliancy" that became known as The Game of the Century.[SUP][4][/SUP] Starting at age
14, Fischer played in eight United States Championships, winning each one by at least a one-point margin. At age 15, Fischer became both the youngest grandmaster up to that time and the youngest candidate for the World Championship. At age 20, Fischer won the 1963–64 U.S. Championship with 11/11, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games (1969) remains a revered work in chess literature.[SUP][5][/SUP]

 

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Mansoor Ali Khan or Mansur Ali Khan sometimes M. A. K. Pataudi(5 January 1941, Bhopal[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] – 22 September 2011, New Delhi[SUP][3][/SUP]), nicknamed Tiger Pataudi, was an Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team. He was the titular Nawab of Pataudi from 1952 until 1971, when by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India the privy purses of the princes were abolished and official recognition of their titles came to an end.[SUP][4][/SUP] He has been described as "India’s greatest cricket captain".[SUP][5][/SUP]