Athletes

Michael Chang Te-pei (English: Michael Chang Te-pei, February 22, 1972 - ), born in New Jersey, United States, is a retired Chinese male tennis player, tennis coach, a Grand Slam winner, with a highest singles world ranking of No. 2, and won 34 ATP Tour championships. He is recognized as the best Asian male player in the history of tennis. Chang Depei won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17 years and 3 months. He is still the youngest Grand Slam men's singles champion in tennis history and the only Asian player to win a Grand Slam men's singles championship. He has reached the Grand Slam finals four times in his career and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2008.

Zhang Yining (October 5, 1981 -), born in Beijing, is a Chinese female table tennis player, one of the best athletes in the history of table tennis, and the first "Double Lap Grand Slam" winner in women's table tennis. In 2011, he was appointed as assistant to the dean of the Chinese Table Tennis Academy of Shanghai Institute of Sport, and in 2024, he was appointed as associate professor of the Chinese Table Tennis Academy of Shanghai Institute of Sport.

Zhang Jike (February 16, 1988 -), a native of Qingdao, Shandong Province, is a former Chinese table tennis player. Formerly ranked No. 1 in the world in men's singles (June to December 2012), he won a total of 4 Olympic medals (3 gold and 1 silver) and 11 World Championship medals (7 gold and 1 silver) in all events including team competition, doubles, singles, and mixed doubles. 3 bronze), 7 World Cup medals (6 gold and 1 silver), including the men's singles gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, the men's singles gold medal at the 2011 and 2013 World Championships, and the men's singles gold medal at the 2011 and 2014 World Cup. He is the fourth men's Grand Slam player in table tennis, and he has completed this feat in the shortest time (445 days) among all Grand Slam male and female players so far.

Peng Weiguo (October 3, 1971 -) is a Chinese football coach, commentator, and former professional football player. He was selected for the Chinese national team for a long time as a player. He became famous for the Guangzhou Sun Gods. He also played for Chongqing Avant-garde Huandao and Shenzhen Ping An Kejian. After retiring, he served as a coach for many teams.

Petra Kronberger (German: Petra Kronberger, born February 21, 1969), Austrian female alpine skier. She represented Austria in alpine skiing at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics, winning two gold medals.

Delfo Cabrera Gómez (Spanish: Delfo Cabrera Gómez, April 2, 1919 - August 2, 1981) was an Argentinian former male marathon runner. He won the men's marathon gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the men's marathon gold medal at the 1951 Pan American Games.

Derek Drouin Drouin, born March 6, 1990), is a Canadian high jumper. He is the bronze medalist at the 2012 London Olympics (2.29m), the bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships (2.38m), and the 2015 World Track and Field Championships. Winner of the gold medal in the men's high jump (2.34 meters) and the gold medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics (2.38 meters); among them, the former champion Russian athlete in the 2012 Olympics was disqualified because he failed to pass a drug test and was awarded a silver medal in 2021. He holds the Canadian high jump national record with 2.40 meters.

Drew Doughty (English: Drew Doughty, December 8, 1989 -) is a Canadian men's ice hockey player who serves as a defender. He represented the Canadian national team in ice hockey competitions at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics and won two gold medals.

Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari (Italian: Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari, February 18, 1898 - August 14, 1988), Italian racing driver, entrepreneur, and founder of Ferrari.

Sidney Patrick Crosby OC (English: Sidney Patrick Crosby, August 7, 1987 -), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who serves as the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the North American National Hockey League (NHL) and plays the position of center. Crosby was selected by the Penguins with the first overall pick in the 2005 NHL Draft. Crosby, who was born and raised in Halifax, is considered one of the most acclaimed prospects in hockey history and is widely regarded as one of the greatest hockey players of all time. In the international arena, Crosby has played for the Canadian team many times. He won a gold medal at the 2005 World Youth Championships and was subsequently selected for the Canadian team for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the final against the United States, he scored the winning goal in overtime. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Crosby served as captain of the Canadian team and won the Olympic gold medal. A year later, Crosby led the national team to win gold at the World Championships in Prague, thus becoming the "Triple Crown" and the only player to serve as captain for three championships. In 2016, Crosby led Canada to the Hockey World Cup gold medal and was unanimously elected MVP.

Erin McLeod (English: Erin McLeod; February 26, 1983 -) is a Canadian retired women's football goalkeeper. He participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics with the national team, and won a bronze medal in the 2012 Olympics.

Toğrul Asgarov (Azerbaijani: Toğrul Əsgərov, September 17, 1992 -) was born in Ganja, is an Azerbaijani male freestyle wrestler. At first he practiced judo, but later switched to wrestling at the suggestion of his coach. In 2012, he won the men's 60kg freestyle wrestling event at the London Olympics and became Azerbaijan's youngest Olympic gold medalist at the age of 19. Four years later, he competed in the men's 65kg freestyle wrestling event at the Rio Olympics, losing to Russia's Soslan Lamonov in the final and winning the silver medal. In May 2017, Asgarov was suspended for one year after testing positive for higenamine in a drug test. The Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation claimed that Asgarov failed the drug test because he had mistakenly eaten food containing banned substances during a previous competition in India.

Thomas Hitzlsperger (German: Thomas Hitzlsperger, April 5, 1982 -) is a retired German male professional football player who plays as a midfielder. He became famous at Aston Villa, and later returned to his country to play for Stuttgart, and then joined Serie A Lazio, Premier League Wesham and Bundesliga Wolfsburg.

Thomas Morgenstern (German: Thomas Morgenstern, born October 30, 1986) is an Austrian male ski jumping athlete. He represented Austria in ski jumping at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, winning three gold medals and one silver medal.

Jan-Ove Waldner, in Sweden commonly J-O Waldner or simply mononymously as J-O, is a Swedish former professional table tennis player. He is often referred to as "the Mozart of table tennis." A sporting legend in his native Sweden as well as in China, he is known in China as old tile Lǎo Wǎ 'Old Wa' or evergreen tree Cháng Qīng Shù 'Evergreen Tree', because of his extraordinary longevity and competitiveness.

Giannis Sina Ougko Antetokounmpo (December 6, 1994 -), a Greek male basketball player, is a power forward and currently plays for the NBA Miami Heat, nicknamed "Greek Freak". Because he has the most letters among current NBA players, he is also known as "The Alphabet". He has one brother, Thanasis, and two brothers, Alex and Costas. Antetokounmpo was selected as the 75 NBA Stars in 2021. Antetokounmpo is the 13th highest-paid athlete in the world in 2024 ($97,800,000).

Rafael Nadal Parera (Catalan: Rafael Nadal i Parera; Spanish: Rafael Nadal Parera, pronounced: [rafaˈel naˈðal paˈɾeɾa]; June 3, 1986 -), nicknamed Rafa, is a former Spanish professional tennis player and the first Marquis of Levante of Mallorca. He is the first Spanish year-end champion, the seventh men's career singles Grand Slam and the second men's career singles Golden Slam winner in history. Nadal has won 92 ATP singles titles in his career, including 22 Grand Slam titles, including 14 French Open singles titles, an Olympic gold medal, and 36 Masters titles. Nadal is recognized as the best clay court player in history: he won the French Open for the first time in 2005, with a career record of 112 wins and 4 losses in the French Open (the first male player with 100 wins in the French Open), and set an unprecedented record of 14 championships in a single Grand Slam. Since April 2005, his 81-game winning streak on clay courts has set a record for the longest winning streak on a single court in men's tennis in the era of openness. In 2010, he won four major clay court events, creating the first "Clay Court Grand Slam". In his career, he won 12 titles at the Barcelona Open, 11 titles at the Monte Carlo Masters, and 10 titles at the Rome Masters. He demonstrated his dominance on clay courts, and is therefore known as the "King of Clay". After winning the Wimbledon championship in 2008, he began to gain competitiveness outside of clay courts, and successively won the Australian Open and US Open championships. In his career, he accumulated two grass-court and six hard-court Grand Slam championships, 2 slow and 4 fast. Because he looked like a pirate in the early days of his career, he was nicknamed "Pirate" and "Captain" by fans; and because of the similar Chinese pronunciation of his name, he was nicknamed "Natto" or "Douzi" by Chinese fans. Because of his abundant physical strength and speed, he also counts every point as his own. His "extraordinarily admirable fighting spirit" to make break or hold points was nicknamed "The Bull" by the media and fans. In addition, due to his amazing achievements on clay courts, he was also nicknamed "King of Clay", "God of Clay" and "Lord of Clay" by fans. Nadal and two other players of his generation, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, are called the "GOATs of tennis" by modern mass media. The competition between the three players is hailed as the golden age of tennis history, setting many classic battles and setting many tennis records. The competition between him and Federer was promised

Rafael Alcántara do Nascimento (Portuguese: Rafael Alcántara do Nascimento, commonly known as Rafinha (Portuguese: Rafinha, born February 12, 1993)) is a Brazilian football player who plays as an offensive midfielder and currently plays for Qatar Stars Football League club Doha Al Arabi. He once played for the Brazilian national football team.

Rafaela Lopes Silva (Portuguese: Rafaela Lopes Silva, April 24, 1992 -) was born in Rio de Janeiro. She is a Brazilian female judo athlete who specializes in the 57 kg category. Silva's first contact with sports was football. Later, due to frequent violence in the streets near her home, her parents sent her to judo training classes at the age of 7. Silva won the first gold medal for the Brazilian delegation at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She announced in an interview two days after winning the gold medal that she came out as gay. Her girlfriend is Thamara Cezar, and they both belong to the Institute Reaction club. In March 2017, she won the 2016 Brazilian Female Athlete of the Year award.

Raphael Dwamena (English: Raphael Dwamena, September 12, 1995 - November 11, 2023) was a former Ghanaian professional football player who served as a forward.

Larry Joe Bird (English: Larry Joe Bird, December 7, 1956 -) was born in Spring Valley, West Bayton, Indiana. Nicknamed "Big Bird", "Larry Legend", "The Hick from French Lick", etc., he is a former American professional basketball player and served as the head coach and general manager of the Indiana Pacers. He is recognized as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Bird Bird and Magic Johnson were the leaders of the NBA in the 1980s. They were known as the Black and White Twins and the West Devil and the East Bird. They were also one of the best players in NBA history and were known as "the people with the highest basketball IQ in history." He spent all 12 years of his professional playing career with the Boston Celtics, where he was either a small forward or a power forward.

Stuart O'Grady (August 6, 1973 -), born in Adelaide, Australia, is an Australian male cyclist. Participated in six Olympic Games in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.

Stefan Kraft (German: Stefan Kraft, May 13, 1993 -), Austrian men's ski jumping athlete, the 2022 Winter Olympics men's team big platform gold medalist, the 2025 World Nordic Ski Championships men's team big platform silver medalist and the mixed team standard platform bronze medalist.

Stephan Eberhart (German: Stephan Eberharter, born March 24, 1969), Austrian male alpine skier. He represented Austria in alpine skiing at the 1992, 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics, winning one gold medal, two silver medals and one bronze medal.