World Sports Roll of Honour

SOCCER: Pele, Brazil. The winner of three World Championship medals with the Brazilian team, he was voted the Best Footballer of the Worl...

SOCCER: Pele, Brazil. The winner of three World Championship medals with the Brazilian team, he was voted the Best Footballer of the World in 1958.

MOTOR SPORTS: Alain Prost, France. The Formula One racer won 51 Grand Prix titles and 33 pole positions.

BALL GAMES (Men): Michael Jordan, US. The two-time Olympic basketball champion and ten-time top scorer of the NBA, Jordan played in the NBA for 13 seasons with the Chicago Bulls. He averaged 31.5 points per game, the highest in league history. He led the league a record scoring 10 times.
(Women): Steffi Graf, Germany. The winner of 22 Grand Slam titles and 107 tennis tournaments. In 1988, she was the Olympic winner and won all four Grand Slam tournaments.

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ATHLETICS (Men): Carl Lewis, US. The winner of nine Olympic gold medals, five in the long jump, and eight World Championship titles, Lewis set a World record in the 100m dash in 9:86 in 1991.
(Women): Nadia Comaneci, Romania. The five-time Olympic championin gymnastics and winner of eight world titles, she was the first gymnast in history to receive a mark of 10.0.

WATER SPORTS (Men): Mark Spitz, US. The winner of nine Olympic gold medals, he established 28 World records in swimming, seven of them at the Summer Olympics in Munich 1972.
(Women): Dawn Fraser, Australia. The winner of the Olympic 100m freestyle in 1956, 1960 and 1964. On October 22, 1962, Fraser became the first woman to win the 100m freestyle in under one minute: 59.9 seconds. She remained unbeaten for eight years in freestyle and set 20 World records.

WINTER SPORTS (Men): Jean-Claude Killy, France. The gold medal winner in the downhill, slalom and giant slalom at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics. He also was the World Cup winner in 1967 and 1968 and World champion in the downhill and combined in 1966.
(Women): Annemarie Moser-Proell, Austria. The Olympic downhill gold medalist in 1980, she won five World Championship titles, 62 World Cup victories,including 36 downhill wins and six overall World Cup titles.

CONTACT SPORTS: Muhammed Ali, US. The three-time World heavyweight champion, he was stripped of his title in 1967 because he refused to serve in the Vietnam War. He had a career record of 56 wins, including 37 knockouts and 17 title defenses. In 1960, he was an Olympic champion.