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Cristiano Ronaldo
Portuguese football forward and five-time Ballon d'Or winner known for prolific goalscoring across top European leagues and international football.
Looking for 16-letter athletes? Here are 7 athletes that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
List of 16-letter Athletes
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Evander Holyfield
American boxer and four-time world heavyweight champion, the only boxer to win the undisputed heavyweight title four times.
3
Franz Beckenbauer
German defender who won the 1974 FIFA World Cup as captain and the 1990 edition as manager, pioneering the modern attacking sweeper role.
4
Sugar Ray Robinson
American boxer who held the welterweight world title and five middleweight world titles, often called the greatest boxer pound-for-pound.
5
Xander Schauffele
American golfer and two-time major champion, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in men's individual golf.
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Yelena Isinbayeva
Russian pole vaulter, two-time Olympic gold medalist and the first woman to clear 5 metres in pole vault.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya
Russian figure skater who won team gold at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics at age 15, the youngest Russian to win Winter Olympic gold.
About 16-letter athletes
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