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ESPN World Fame 100 is an annual list compiled and published by ESPN magazine since 2016. The rankings were made based on salary and endorsements with their social media following Facebook , Twitter and Instagram along with Google search popularity to create a comparative ranking system.
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
He is the most successful male athlete of the World Championships. Bolt is the first athlete to win four World Championship titles in the 200 m and is one of the most successful in the 100 m with three titles, being the first person to run sub-9.7s and sub-9.6s races.
Jack London (athlete) Great Britain: Georg Lammers Germany: 1932 Los Angeles details: Eddie Tolan United States: Ralph Metcalfe United States: Arthur Jonath Germany: 1936 Berlin details: Jesse Owens United States: Ralph Metcalfe United States: Tinus Osendarp Netherlands: 1948 London details: Harrison Dillard United States: Barney Ewell United ...
Note * Indicates athletes who ran only in the preliminary round and also received medals. 4x100m dq1 The Nigerian team of Innocent Asonze, Francis Obikwelu, Daniel Effiong and Deji Aliu originally finished third in the 1999 World Championship, but were disqualified after Asonze was found to have used performance-enhancing drugs.
The list of the most famous athletes in the world is dominated by footballers, and no athlete is more famous than Cristiano Ronaldo. In the most recent issue of ESPN the Magazine, Ben Alamar, ESPN ...
Athlete(s) with the most medals (gold–silver–bronze) Athlete(s) with the most gold medals Olympics (up to conclusion of 2024) Medal events (in 2024) Total Archery: 1900–1908; 1920; since 1972 18 5 76 74 66 216 Hubert van Innis (6–3–0) Hubert van Innis (6–3–0) Artistic swimming: Since 1984 11 2 22 20 21 63
Canadian Ian Millar in a 2007 picture. At London 2012 he participated in a record 10th Olympics. Only a small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smaller fraction competes in multiple Games. 949 athletes [1] (648 men [2] and 301 women [3]) have participated in at least five Olympics from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024, but excluding the 1906 Intercalated ...