Greatest sports persons

He led his team, Brazil, to three times football world cup wins

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Pelé began playing for Santos at age 15 and the Brazil national team at 16. During his international career, he won three FIFA World Cups: 1958, 1962 and 1970, the only player to do so and the youngest player to win a World Cup (17). He was nicknamed O Rei (The King) following the 1958 tournament.

He is the first man to win the four Olympic gold medals in track and field

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Jesse Owens was an American athlete. He is best remembered for his performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won gold medals in the long jump, the 100- and 200-metre dashes, and the 4 x 100-metre relay. He was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic.

He is one of the greatest chess champions ever

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Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013.

He was the great swimmer who won seven gold medals in a single Olympics.

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Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold medals, each in world-record time. This achievement lasted for 36 years, until it was surpassed by fellow American Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

He is one of the greatest basketball players ever.

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Micheal Jordan is an American former professional basketball player and businessman. Referred to as "the greatest basketball player of all time" by the official NBA website, he played fifteen seasons in the NBA, winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. He was integral in popularizing basketball and the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s,becoming a global cultural icon in the process.

She was a brilliant gymnast and the first to score a perfect ten .

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Naida Comancies is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. At the same Games (1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal) she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals.

The greatest batsman, the cricket world has ever known.

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Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 is considered by some to be the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport. Although Bradman's dislike of fame was well-known, his iconic status in Australian society arguably made him the country's "first celebrity".