Career profiles
71 icons · 40 sports
Basketball · United States
The record stood for 34 years. Six rings. Six MVPs. One unblockable shot.
Tennis · Spain
World No. 1 at nineteen. The youngest man ever to get there.
Badminton · Denmark
The first player ever to win all seven BWF Super 1000 titles. He collected the full set.
Artistic Gymnastics · United States
Five skills in the Code of Points carry her name. Each one nobody had landed before her.
Biathlon · Norway
Four biathlon events at one Olympics. He won all four. Nobody has done it before or since.
Triathlon · Norway
Olympic champion. World champion. Ironman World Champion. The only triathlete ever to hold all three at once.
Track Sprints/Hurdles/Relays · Netherlands
Two world titles, one Olympic gold. Then she walked away from the event that made her famous.
Track Sprints · Jamaica
9.58 over 100m. 19.19 over 200m. Set in 2009. Still standing.
Baseball/Softball · United States
73 in a season. 762 for a career. No one has hit more home runs than Barry Bonds — records Major League Baseball has never taken off the books.
American Football · United States
Pick 199 in the draft. Seven Super Bowl rings — more than any NFL franchise has won alone.
Marathon · Kenya
No woman had run a marathon under 2:10. She ran 2:09:56.
Tennis · Serbia
24 Grand Slam titles. More weeks at world No.1 than anyone in tennis history.
Athletics — Pole Vault · SWE
Fifteen world records. He doesn't chase the bar — he keeps moving it himself.
Tennis · Switzerland
237 consecutive weeks as world No.1 — the longest unbroken reign tennis has ever seen.
Sport Climbing · Slovenia
Six bouldering World Cups in one season. She won all six. Nobody had done that before.
Snowboard · Austria
She did not follow the progression. She set it.
Athletics · Australia
Seventeen years old, already faster than Usain Bolt was at his age. He's just getting started.
Middle/Long Distance · Morocco
No man had done the Olympic 1500m/5000m double since 1924. El Guerrouj did it in Athens. Eighty years later, alone in that company.
Formula 1 · United Kingdom
Seven world titles. 106 wins. 104 poles. And still the only Black driver Formula One has ever had.
Skateboarding · United States
Twelve attempts. The clock had already run out. He landed the 900 anyway.
Alpine Skiing · Netherlands
Eight overall titles. The greatest of all time came back for one more chapter - this time in orange.
Middle/Long Distance · United Kingdom
Olympic silver at nineteen. Gold five years later, in the race that finally went her way.
Climbing · United States
Nine hundred metres of granite. No rope. Three hours, fifty-six minutes.
Fifteen X Games golds. Still chasing the one medal he hasn't won.
Athletics — Middle/Long Distance · Norway
Two world records in a single indoor race. The first man under 3:30 for 1500m indoors.
The NBA's all-time leading scorer — 40,000 career points, a mark no one else has touched.
Basketball · Serbia
Three MVPs. One title. The center who rewrote what a big man could do.
Six trips to the NBA Finals. Six championships. Six Finals MVPs. He never lost the one that mattered.
Marathon / Long Distance · ETH
Only one man had ever broken two hours in a marathon. He was the second — in his very first attempt.
Athletics · Great Britain
Nobody had ever run a mile in under 3:43. Josh Kerr did it in 3:42.66.
1:59:40 in Vienna. The first human under two hours — in a run the record books could never count.
Middle/Long Distance · Kenya
No woman had ever run the 1500m under 3:50. She ran 3:49.11. Then broke her own record twice more.
Cross-Country Skiing · Norway
Six cross-country events at one Winter Games. He won all six. No Winter Olympian had ever done that.
Snowboard / Alpine Skiing · Czech Republic
She borrowed the skis. Then won Olympic super-G by one hundredth of a second.
Swimming · United States
Nine Olympic golds, 21 world titles, two standing world records. most decorated Katie Ledecky is the most decorated female swimmer in history — and still setting world records in her thirties.
Big Wave Surfing / Waterman · United States of America
He never picked one board. He redrew what is rideable on all of them — Jaws and Nazaré, on a hydrofoil.
Table Tennis · China
Six Olympic golds. Fourteen world titles. The first man ever to defend the Olympic singles crown.
Alpine Skiing · Austria
He crashed through two safety nets at Nagano - three days later he was Olympic champion The Herminator never stayed down.
Figure Skating · United States
The quad Axel was considered impossible. He landed it at seventeen.
Swimming · France
Four individual Olympic golds, on home soil, in front of his own nation. most successful athlete Léon Marchand was the most successful athlete of the Paris 2024 Olympics — in his home country, in his home pool.
MotoGP · Spain
Four operations. Over a hundred crashes. 2,184 days later, he was world champion again.
Golf · Northern Ireland
Eleven years between his fourth major and his fifth. The fifth completed the career Grand Slam.
Swimming · Canada
Three Olympic golds at 17, then four individual world titles in a single championship. never been done At 18, Summer McIntosh has already done what no Canadian swimmer — and almost no woman in history — has ever done.
Football · Argentina
Thirty-five years old, in his fifth World Cup. He finally won it.
Fourteen French Open titles on the same court. A reign, not a streak.
Snooker · England
A maximum break in five minutes, eight seconds. Nobody has come close in thirty years.
Alpine Skiing · Switzerland
Five consecutive overall World Cup titles — second only to Marcel Hirscher on the all-time list.
Baseball/Softball · Japan
50 home runs. 50 stolen bases. One player, one season, one MLB first — and back-to-back World Series titles to go with it.
Eight golds at a single Games. Twenty-three across his career — more than any Olympian in any sport.
Mountain Bike XCO / Road Cycling · Great Britain
Cyclo-cross world champion. Mountain bike world champion. Twice Olympic champion off-road.
Road Cycling · Slovenia
Five Tours de France by twenty-seven. Only four men have ever won as many.
Golf · Spain
Three straight seasons. Three straight LIV Golf titles. He doesn't have off years.
Snowboarding · United States
He didn't just ride the backcountry. He turned it into cinema — the highest-budget snowboard film ever made.
Athletics · United States
Fifth in the final. Anchor leg gold four days later.
Football · Portugal
Six World Cups. No trophy. But he scored in every one of them — the first player ever to do that.
60 in a season. 714 for a career. Records that stood for decades — set by the man who turned baseball into a power game.
Ultramarathon · Belgium
3,034 km across France in 33 days — eight days faster than anyone before him. He's a dentist by profession.
Figure Skating · Japan
Four world titles, three of them in a row. And not one Olympic gold.
Marathon · KEN
No one had ever legally run a marathon in under two hours. He ran 1:59:30.
Golf · United States
Six PGA Tour wins before July — nobody had done that since Arnold Palmer in 1962.
Alpine Skiing · United States
The first alpine skier in history — man or woman — to reach 100 World Cup wins. She's since made it 110.
Tennis (ATP) · Italy
A junior ski racer until he was thirteen. The first Italian ever to reach world No. 1.
Surfing · United States
World champion at 20. World champion again at 39 — an all-time record.
Golf · Sweden
13-under. One round. The first woman to ever shoot a 59.
Ultra-Cycling · Austria
One thousand and twenty-six kilometres. In a single day, on an ordinary road bike.
Ultra-Cycling / Adventure Endurance · Austria
Seven Alpine peaks, seven countries — 1,400 km and seven days, entirely self-supported.
Formula 1 · Netherlands
Four world titles before he turned twenty-eight. Then a season with no wins at all.
Retired at thirty-four on ruined knees. Won a World Cup downhill at forty-one.
Three Olympic halfpipe golds. The most decorated athlete in X Games history.
Tennis · United States
Won the Australian Open eight weeks pregnant. Her 23rd Grand Slam title — an Open-era record.
Won the Masters by twelve strokes at 21 — still the largest margin of victory in the tournament's history.
