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Camryn Rogers Camryn Rogers Athletes · Canada

Camryn Rogers (English: Camryn Rogers, June 7, 1999 -), Canadian women's track and field athlete, 2022 World Athletics Championships women's hammer throw silver medalist, 2022 Commonwealth Games women's hammer throw gold medalist, 2023 World Athletics Championships women's hammer throw gold medalist.

Carl Lewis Carl Lewis Athletes · United States

Carl Lewis (English: Carl Lewis, July 1, 1961 -) is an American track and field athlete. He has won 9 gold medals in 4 Olympic Games. He was the first person to run under the 10-second mark in the 100-meter track and field race at an altitude below 1,000 meters. In 2000, he was selected by the IAAF as the greatest track and field athlete of the 20th century.

Kadesha Buchanan Kadesha Buchanan Athletes · Canada

Kadeisha Buchanan (English: Kadeisha Buchanan, November 5, 1995 -) is a Canadian professional women's football player who plays as a defender. She currently plays for the Chelsea Women's Football Club and the Canadian women's national football team.

Cameron McEvoy Cameron McEvoy Athletes · Australia

Cameron McEvoy (English: Cameron McEvoy, May 13, 1994 -) is an Australian swimmer who participated in the 2012 London Olympics, the 2013 World Aquatics Championships and the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Won a bronze medal in the 4×100m medley relay at the 2013 World Championships, two silver medals in the 100m freestyle, 4×100m medley relay and a bronze medal in the 4×200m freestyle relay at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, as well as a bronze medal in the 4×100m freestyle relay and the 4×100m medley relay at the Rio Olympics. He won the gold medal in the 50m freestyle at the Paris Olympics and was the first Australian male athlete to win a gold medal in this event. In March 2026, McEvoy broke the men's 50-meter freestyle world record with a time of 20.88 seconds.

Carlos Delfino Carlos Delfino Athletes · Argentina

Carlos Francisco Delfino (Spanish: Carlos Francisco Delfino, August 29, 1982 -), born in Santa Fe, Santa Fe Province, Argentina, is an Argentine professional basketball player. He has dual nationality of Argentina and Italy. He serves as a shooting guard and small forward. Standing 1.98 meters (6 feet 6 inches) and 104 kilograms (230 pounds), he is better known for his defense and three-point shooting skills.

Carlos Tevez Carlos Tevez Athletes · Argentina

Carlos Alberto Martínez Tevez (Spanish: Carlos Alberto Martínez Tevez, February 5, 1984 -) was born in Buenos Aires. He is a retired professional football player from Argentina and one of the world's football superstars. He plays as a striker and is currently working as a team manager and coaching the Tennis Sports Club. Although Tevez is not a particularly prolific goalscorer, his work ethic and never-say-die attitude have long been recognized. He has played for Bulga Junior, Corrientes, West Ham and Manchester United. He moved to Manchester City in the 2009-10 summer transfer window and is the first player since 1999 to have played for two Manchester clubs. Transferred to Shanghai Shenhua for 11 million euros and reportedly received a weekly salary of up to 610,000 pounds.

Carlos Alcaraz Garfia Carlos Alcaraz Garfia Athletes · Spain

Carlos Alcaraz Garfia (Spanish: Carlos Alcaraz Garfia, May 5, 2003 -) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is ranked No. 1 in the world in singles and is a seven-time Grand Slam winner. So far, Alcaraz has won 26 ATP Tour-level singles championships, including 7 Grand Slam championships and 8 ATP 1000 championships, making him the youngest Grand Slam winner in history. The 2022 US Open men's singles competition was his first Grand Slam men's singles championship. He also became the youngest world number one (19 years and 4 months old) since the birth of the ATP ranking system in 1973. He is the youngest US Open champion after Pete Sampras in 1990 (19 years and 1 month old), the French Open champion in 1989 (17 years old) by Chang Depei, and the youngest Grand Slam men's singles champion after Rafael Nadal (19 years and 2 days old) at the 2005 French Open. In 2022, Carlos Alcaraz became the youngest year-end No. 1 in ATP history (19 years and 214 days old), also breaking the 18-year monopoly of the "Big Four" on this honor. In 2024, win the French Open and Wimbledon consecutively and complete the Channel Grand Slam. In 2025, he won the French Open and the US Open respectively. In 2026, he won his first Australian Open after defeating Djokovic in the Australian Open final, and achieved the youngest Grand Slam in men's history at the age of 22 years and 272 days. As a teenager, he peaked at No. 22 in the world and won two ITF Junior Tour titles. In 2018, he switched to professional tennis. Entering the men's singles final and winning the championship at the 2021 Umag Open in Croatia, he became the youngest player to win an ATP Tour title since Kei Nishikori in 2008. After the 2021 US Open, his world ranking rose to the top 50, and he won the ATP New Generation Finals championship at the end of the year. Winning the 2022 Brazilian Open, becoming the youngest ATP500 Tour champion and entering the top 20 in the world. In the same year, he won the Miami Open and became the third youngest ATP1000 Tour champion. Due to the age at which he won the Masters and Barcelona Tennis Championships for the first time, and the Spanish senior Rafael Nadal who also won the Masters and Barcelona Tennis Championships for the first time in 2005, he was both 18 years old. Alcaraz is generally considered by Spanish fans to be the successor player in Spanish men's tennis for the next generation of Nadal.

C Carlos Alberto Barbosa Athletes · Brazil

Carlos Alberto Rodrigues Barbosa (Portuguese: Carlos Alberto Rodrigues Barbosa, February 15, 1954 - March 7, 1982) was a Brazilian football player. He died after suffering a heart attack during a match against XV de Jaú.

Caroline Seger Caroline Seger Athletes · Sweden

Caroline Seger (Swedish: Caroline Seger, March 19, 1985 -), Swedish female football player. She has represented Sweden in football competitions at the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, winning two silver medals.

Carl Schaffe Carl Schaffe Athletes · Austria

Karl Schäfer (May 17, 1909 - April 23, 1976) was an Austrian figure skater and swimmer. He was a two-time Olympic champion (1932, 1936), seven-time World Championship champion (1930-1936) and eight-time European Championship champion (1929-1936) in figure skating. In 1976, Schaffe was elected to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. The Karl Schaffe Memorial Tournament, an international figure skating competition held in Vienna from 1974 to 2008, is also named after him.

Cayo Canedo Correa Cayo Canedo Correa Athletes · Brazil

Caio Canedo Corrêa (Portuguese: Caio Canedo Corrêa, Arabic: كايو كانيدو كوريا, August 9, 1990 -) is a Brazilian-born United Arab Emirates naturalized football player who serves as a forward. He currently plays for Al Ain in the UAE's Arabian Gulf League and also represents the United Arab Emirates.

Luka Doncic Luka Doncic Athletes · slovenia

Luka Doncic (Slovenian: Luka Dončić, pronunciation: [ˈlùːka ˈdòːntʃitʃ], February 28, 1999 -) is a Slovenian professional basketball player who plays as a point guard on the court and currently plays for the NBA Los Angeles Lakers. On September 18, 2017, Doncic won the first European Basketball Championship in team history with the Slovenian national team and was selected to the best team of the European Cup. On June 25, 2019, Doncic won the NBA Rookie of the Year award. So far, Doncic has been selected to the NBA All-NBA First Team six times.

Luka Modric Luka Modric Athletes · Croatia

Luka Modric (Croatian: Luka Modrić, September 9, 1985 -) is a Croatian men's professional football player who plays as a midfielder and plays for the Croatian national football team. Modric became the only "Mr. Grand Slam" in the football world in 2018, winning the World Cup Golden Ball, Ballon d'Or, World Player of the Year and three consecutive UEFA Champions League titles. In the same year, he successfully broke the World Footballer and Ballon d'Or honors that had been monopolized by Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi for ten years.

Lucas Pinheiro Broten Lucas Pinheiro Broten Athletes · Norway

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (Brazilian Portuguese: Lucas Pinheiro Braathen; Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [piˈɲejɾu]; born April 19, 2000) is a Brazilian-Norwegian alpine skier who specializes in slalom and giant slalom. He participated in the men's giant slalom competition in alpine skiing at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics and won the gold medal, becoming the first Winter Olympic gold medalist in Brazil and even South America. Before retiring from the World Cup in October 2023, Pinheiro represented Norway. Come back on behalf of Brazil in 2024.

Lucas Mendez Lucas Mendez Athletes · Brazil

Lucas Mendes (Portuguese: Lucas Mendes, born July 3, 1990) is a Brazilian-Qatar football player who currently plays for the Qatar Stars Football League team Aihua Kara and is a member of the Qatar national football team.

L Lu Huiguang Athletes · People's Republic of China

Kenneth Low Wai Kwong (English: Kenneth Low Wai Kwong, March 17, 1959 -), nicknamed Uncle Guang, is a Hong Kong martial arts actor. He was born in Laos and grew up in Laos and Thailand. He was a Chinese with a Thai passport. He is the apprentice of Hong Kong's famous Muay Thai coach Su Shilong. After graduating from high school, he stayed in Thailand for a while to work. Later, by chance, he met Li Xiuxian in Hong Kong and entered the Hong Kong entertainment industry until now. In addition, Lu Huiguang and Shan Liwen were born in the same year, the same month and the same day.

Teach Sternly Teach Sternly Athletes · People's Republic of China

Li Shengjiao (January 7, 1935 - August 6, 2017) was born in Qiantang, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou City). He was born in Nanjing and grew up in Shanghai. Senior diplomat of the People's Republic of China, international jurist, expert on Sino-US issues, and bilingual writer. He is recognized as an authoritative expert on international maritime law and China's boundary and maritime affairs. He drafted United Nations conventions and was recognized by Zhou Enlai and received twice.

Steve Hook Steve Hook Athletes · Australia

Steve Hooker (English: Steve Hooker, July 16, 1982 -), Australian male track and field athlete. He represented Australia in track and field competitions at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics.

Steve McQueen Steve McQueen Athletes · United States

Steve McQueen, a famous Hollywood action movie star and double award-winning racer (car and motorcycle), was active in the film industry for 20 years from the 1960s to the 1970s. He later died of lung cancer.

Stephen Hendry Stephen Hendry Athletes · U.K.

Stephen Gordon Hendry, MBE (English: Stephen Gordon Hendry, January 13, 1969 -), former professional snooker legend. He is deeply loved by snooker fans around the world. After his retirement, he actively participated in the commentary of major tournaments with Steve Davis, another top and great snooker legend, and created "cue tips" on his personal Instagram to provide batting and positioning instruction. Even after retiring, he still spared no effort in the snooker field. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won the Snooker World Championship 7 times, the British Snooker Championship 5 times, and the Snooker Wembley Masters 6 times, winning a total of 5 Snooker Grand Slam records. His seven World Championship wins are the most in the world since there are official video records (in the 1960s). He is recognized as the greatest player in the history of billiards and is known as the "Snooker Emperor". The creation of his "offensive style of play" had a profound impact on the football world. At his peak, he had excellent ball control and defensive abilities, as well as strong psychological quality and error correction ability. His tough style and steady style are deeply loved by fans, and he also has extremely accurate middle pocket/side pocket scoring ability, which helped him almost dominate the entire snooker world in the 1990s. In his career, he has broken 100 strokes in 776 strokes (as of the 2021 Snooker World Championship), including 11 single strokes with a perfect score of 147.

Yernur Mamadli Yernur Mamadli Athletes · Azerbaijan

Elnur Mammadli (Elnur Mammadli, June 29, 1988 -) is an Azerbaijani male judoka. He has participated in two Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012, including winning the men's 73kg gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and serving as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the Azerbaijan delegation at the 2012 London Olympics.

Yevgeny Plushenko Yevgeny Plushenko Athletes · Russia

Yevgeniy Viktorovich Plushchenko (Russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Плю́щенко, Romanized: Yevgeniy Viktorovich Plushchenko; born November 3, 1982) is a Russian men's singles figure skater. Plushenko has won many awards, including the gold medalist at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, the silver medalist at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, and the three-time World Figure Skating Championships men's single skating champion (2001 2003, 2004), 7 European Figure Skating Championships (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012); 4 International Skating Union Figure Skating Champions Ice Grand Prix Finals Champion (2000, 2001, 2003, 2004), 10 Russian Figure Skating Championships Champion (1999-2002, 2004-2006, 2009, 201 1 year, 2013), 18-time International Skating Union Figure Skating Grand Prix champion, World Figure Skating Youth Championship champion (1997), European Youth Olympic champion (1997), Goodwill Games champion (2001).

Ye Shiwen Ye Shiwen Athletes · People's Republic of China

Ye Shiwen (March 1, 1996 -), a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, native of Jinhua, is a Chinese swimmer. In the 2012 London Olympics, she won the gold medal in the 400-meter medley with a world record-breaking result, and then won the gold medal again in the 200-meter medley, breaking the Olympic record again and becoming the first Chinese swimmer to win two gold medals in one Olympic Games. After winning the gold medal in the women's 200-meter medley at the 2012 World Short Course Swimming Championships, she became the first Chinese swimming team athlete to collect gold medals in the Olympics, World Championships, Short Course World Championships and Asian Games.

Jill Ellis Jill Ellis Athletes · United States

Jillian Anne Ellis (English: Jillian Anne Ellis, September 6, 1966 -) is an English-American women's football player and coach. She has served as the head coach of the United States Women's National Football Team and the president of the San Diego Waves Football Club in California. In 1988, Elise started her coaching career after graduating from the College of William and Mary. She has coached football teams and national youth teams at many universities in the United States. From 2014 to 2019, Elis was promoted from acting coach to head coach of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, and led the team to win two consecutive FIFA Women's World Cup championships in 2015 and 2019, becoming the second head coach in history to win the World Cup twice (the first was Vittorio Pozzo, the head coach of the Italian men's World Cup team). In October 2019, just three months after the conclusion of the World Cup that year, Elis resigned as the head coach of the US team, ending a 30-year coaching career. After retiring, she focused on promoting the development of women's football. In addition to serving as an ambassador for the United States Soccer Federation, traveling and speaking on behalf of the association, and helping to recruit more female coaches, she took over the position of president of the San Diego Waves, a new professional women's team in California, in 2021. In May 2023, Elis will be inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame.