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Your Top Five......Sports stars of all time ( non football )

Bedsaddick
Bedsaddick Posts: 24,736
edited May 2014 in Other Football and Sports
Top five time again. This time give your top five favourite sports stars of all time. Not necessarily who you think were the best but your favourite. I have excluded football as we have done that many times .
( feel free to edit your list if you change your mind )


I will compile the Charlton Life top ten list next week from the results .

My top five are.

Steve Davis

Muhammad Ali

Mike Tyson

Ayrton Senna

Ian Botham
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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    Ian Botham
    Kris Akabusi
    Jonny Wilkinson
    Laura Davis
    Daley Thompson
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    Lennox Lewis

    Chris Eubank

    Lawrence Taylor

    Jimmy White

    Seve
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,529
    Steve Redgrave
    Andrew Flintoff
    Alec Stewart
    Jimmy White
    Graham Thorpe
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Lennox Lewis
    David Masters (unlikely to be anyone else's, but hey ho)
    Brian Lara
    Johnny Wilkinson
    Curtly Ambrose
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,811
    Nigel Benn
    Jimmy White
    Seve Ballesteros
    John McEnroe
    Ian Botham
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    ian botham

    nick faldo

    rafa nadal

    graham hill

    phil taylor
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    Jonny Wilkinson
    Ronnie O Sullivan
    Michael Jordan
    Usain Bolt
    Floyd Mayweather
  • HarryHutchens
    HarryHutchens Posts: 541

    Chris Hoy
    Muhammad Ali
    Mike Tully
    Harry Hutchens
    Lasse Viren





  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    Mark Selby (Favourite non football player ATM)
    Paul Hunter (Died far to young, could easily of been world number 1)
    Chris Gayle( watching him play T20 is incredible)
    Novak Djokovic (Great player to watch)
    Jonny Wilkinson( Won the world cup what else needs to be said)
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772

    Sonny Bill Williams - Rugby Union World Cup Winner
    - Rugby League World Cup Finalist
    - Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World

    James Hunt - proper FI driver

    Neil Fox - Rugby League legend (brother of 'that poor lad')

    John McEnroe

    Bradley Wiggins
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  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Barry Sheene
    Carl Fogarty
    Joey Dunlop
    Muhammad Ali
    Nigel Benn
  • Brighton Addick
    Brighton Addick Posts: 207
    Jimmy White
    Sandy Lyle
    Andrew Flintoff
    Shane Warne
    Ronnie O'Sullivan
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    Michael Johnson
    Ronnie O'Sullivan
    Phil Taylor
    Richie McCaw
    Ian Botham
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    SheffieldRed said:


    Sonny Bill Williams - Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World

    A great sportsman no doubt....but you may be overstating a bit here? :)
  • All_Thaid_Up
    All_Thaid_Up Posts: 2,293
    edited May 2014
    Michael Jordan
    Lawrence Taylor
    Miguel Indurain
    Ayrton Senna
    Seve Ballesteros
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
    Wayne Daniel
    Roland Butcher
    Graham Barlow
    Stan Smith
    Trey Waltke (Last man to wear flannels at Wimbledon. Got knocked out by Ivan Lendl in 1983).

  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    I'll choose people form my lifetime. There's no point me picking someone like Ali when I never watched him box live.

    1. Roger Federer
    2. Michael Johnson (not the ex-City player!)
    3. Shane Warne
    4.Floyd Mayweather Junior
    5.Michael Jordan


    Just missing out…

    6. Kobe Bryant.
    7. LeBron James
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,085
    1. Daily Thompson
    2. Mohammed Ali
    3. Shane Warne
    4. Usain bolt
    5. Phil "The Power" Taylor

    Sadly Lance Armstrong drops off the top 5!
  • Stevelamb
    Stevelamb Posts: 271
    Ali
    Red Rum
    Borg
    Sobers
    fangio
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    edited May 2014
    Shane Warne
    Andrew Flintoff
    Wayne Gretzky
    Johnny Wilkinson
    Mats Sundin

    As I failed at reading first time round.
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  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    edited May 2014
    RedArmySE7 said:

    David Beckham
    Andrew Flintoff
    Wayne Gretzky
    Johnny Wilkinson
    Zenedine Zidane

    Those famous non-footballers ;-)
  • Busterblitz
    Busterblitz Posts: 212
    Merely an observation, but I think we've only had 1 female thus far. Again, only doing ones from my lifetime

    1. Ronnie O'Sullivan
    2. Sabine Lisicki
    3. Ricky Hatton
    4. Steve Backley
    5. Tanni Grey-Thompson
  • cafcrocky87
    cafcrocky87 Posts: 421
    Andy Thomson
    Ronnie O'Sullivan
    Mo Farah
    Jess Ennis
    Laura Robson
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    Ali

    Barry Sheene

    Alex Higgins

    Meadowlark Lemon

    Kathy Cook
  • boogica
    boogica Posts: 2,321
    Seve
    Ian Botham
    Bjorn Borg
    Daley thompson
    Roberto Duran
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,736
    boogica said:

    Seve
    Ian Botham
    Bjorn Borg
    Daley thompson
    Roberto Duran

    I wondered when Bjorn Borg would get a vote. He just missed out in my list .
  • Senpai
    Senpai Posts: 901
    Lyoto Machida - UFC middle weight contender and former light heavy weight world champion.
    Steve Cram - former 1500m world champion and record holder.
    Joe Calzaghe - undefeated super middle and light heavy weight world champion.
    Jonny Wilkinson - 2003 world cup winning hero.
    Tom Brady - New England Patriots quarter back.
  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,467
    Jens Voigt

    Bradley Wiggins

    Michael Schumacher

    Muhammad Ali

    Eddy Merckx

    Yeah I like cycling alot......
  • Man_About_Town
    Man_About_Town Posts: 997
    Michael Jordan
    Borg
    Botham
    Carl Lewis
    Henry Cooper
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,852
    Roger Federer - backhand is a one handed shot.

    Peyton Manning

    Seb Coe

    Jason Leonard

    Nigel Mansell

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