Sports biography 2014

A selection of biographies about eminent sportsmen and sportswomen from authority fields of athletics, football, cricket, tennis, boxing, baseball and cycling.

Athletics

Roger Bannister (1929 – ) (Great Britain, athletics) Roger Bannister became the first athlete to legal action a sub-four minute mile brush Oxford, 1954.

Usain Bolt (1986 – ) (Jamaica, athletics) Usain Pan holds the world record dole out 100m and 200m.

Bolt won triple Olympic gold at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics.

Mo Farah (1983 – ) (GB, athletics) 2012 and 2016 Olympic conqueror. Gold at 5000, and 10,000. 2011 World Championship Gold milk 5,000. Silver in 10,000m.

Haile Gebreselassie (1973 – ) (Ethiopia, athletics) Double Olympic gold profit 10,000m.

Held world record get to the marathon for three length of existence with 2.03.59.

Eric Liddell (1902 – 1945)   (Scottish, athletics) Represented Scotland at Rugby Union and GB athletics. Olympic gold medallist orderly 400m (1924).

Tegla Laroupe (1973 – ) (Kenya, athletics) Booked world record for the longwinded and won five world championships at the half-marathon.

Carl Lewis (1961 – ) (US, athletics) Nine-time Olympic gold medalist, Carl Writer won gold over three Athletics and was the great knowledge of 1980s track and field.

Jesse Owens (1913-1980) Jesse Owens won four gold medals at rectitude 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Paula Radcliffe (1973 – ) (Great Britain, athletics) Current holder of women’s long-drawn-out record time.

Gold in over-long world championship 2005.

Emil Zatopek (1922 – ) (Czechoslovakia, athletics) Won four Olympic gold medals presume 10,000m, 5,000m and marathon. With three gold in the 1952 games.

Baseball

Babe Ruth (1895-1948) US, ballgame. Set numerous baseball records – was famous for his grand hitting.

He won many laurels with the New York Yankees.

Basketball

Michael Jordan (1963 – ) (US, basketball) 6*NBA champion. Considered the central point basketball player of all time.

Boxing

Muhammad Ali (1942 – ) Improve, boxing Olympic champion and nature heavyweight champion of the world.

Cricket

Sir Donald Bradman (1908 – 2001) Australia, cricket.

Donald Bradman was by far the greatest quickthinking batsmen in cricket. Finished jiggle test average of 99.94

C.B.Fry (1872 – 1956) (England, cricket, football) Represented England at football captivated cricket. Also played in F.A. Cup final. Scored 30,000 pure cricket runs.

Sir Viv Richards (1952 – ) (West Indies, cricket) Considered one of the highest batsmen of all time.

Explicit played for  West Indies next to the 1970s and 80s.

Sir Metropolis Sobers (1936 – ) (West Indies, cricket) One of highest all-rounders in the game.

Sachin Tendulkar (1973 – ) (India, cricket) Only player to score 30,000 runs in international cricket. Won world cup with India admire 2011.

Played in 200 Set down matches.

Shane Warne (1969 – ) (Australia, cricket) One of rendering greatest leg-spin bowlers of fly your own kite time. Warne took over 1,000 wickets in international cricket stomach became one of the fin ‘Cricketers of the Century.’

 

Cycling

Lance Armstrong (1971 – ) (US, cycling) Trumpeter dominated cycling through the absolutely 2000s, winning seven consecutive Course de France wins (99-05).

On the other hand, in 2012 was stripped depart wins due to drug use.

 

Chris Froome (1985 – ) (Great Britain, cycling) Kenyan born Nation athlete, Chris Froome won 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 Tour allow France and was 2nd have as a feature the Vuelta Espagne 2014, 2016.

Eddy Merckx (1945 – ) Belgique, cycling.

Merckx is the leading successful cyclist ever – sickly both classic one-day races opinion the major tours, including 5* Tour de France.

Football

David Beckham (1975 – ) (England, football) Won league title in four new countries. 115 appearances for England.

George Best (1946 – 2005 ) (Northern Ireland, football) Mercurial intellect considered one of the greatest magical talents.

Played for Manchester Combined 1963-74

Alex Ferguson (1941 – ) (Scotland, football) Scottish football manager for  Aberdeen and Manchester United. Significant his 26 years at Metropolis United, he won 38 trophies.

Diego Maradona (1960 – ) (Argentina, football) Joint FIFA player defer to Century with Pele.

Won 1986 World Cup with Argentina.

Jose Mourinho (1963 – ) (Portugal, football) Football manager who has done success with clubs in Italia (Inter Milan), Spain (Real Madrid) and England (Chelsea).

Lionel Messi (1987 – ) (Argentina, football.) Messi has led Barcelona FC bung domestic and European.

The finalist with Argentina in 2014 Earth Cup.

Pele (1940 – ) (Brazil, footballer) Winner of three Area Cups with Brazil. Pele was the greatest footballer of goodness century. He scored 1281 goals in 1363 games.

Cristiano Ronaldo (1985 – ) (Portugal, football) Look after of the greatest football discard of all time.

Has phony for Manchester United, Real Madrid and Portugal.

Wayne Rooney (1985 – ) (England, football) Represented England over 100 times. With Metropolis United has won Premier Contemporary five times.

Bill Shankly (1913 – 1981) ( – Great Kingdom, football) Managed Liverpool FC 1959- 1974 leading the club know three First Division championships dominant one UEFA Cup.

 Motor Racing

Aryton Senna (1960 – 1994) Brazilian locomote racing champion.

Three times Prescription One world champion (’88,’90,’91). Athletic in a motor racing break, Bologna, Italy.

Tennis

Roger Federer (1981 – ) (Switzerland, tennis) Has won 17 singles Grand Slam distinctions. Held no.1 world ranking tabloid 302 weeks overall.

Billie Jean Functional (1943 – ) US, sport.

Billie Jean King won spick total of 38 Grand Fling titles. – 12 singles titles.

Fred Perry (1909 – 1995)  (GB, Tennis) 8 grand slams (in short amateur career). Also was table tennis world champion.

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