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Floyd Mayweather Jr.
American boxer who finished his career undefeated at 50-0 across five weight classes.
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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 17-letter Athletes
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Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopian long-distance runner who won two Olympic gold medals in the 10,000m and set 27 world records.
3
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American basketball center who won six NBA championships and held the league's all-time scoring record for nearly four decades.
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Oksana Chusovitina
Uzbek gymnast and eight-time Olympian, the only gymnast to compete at eight Olympic Games across more than three decades.
5
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Russian tennis player and former world number one, winner of two Grand Slam singles titles and the 2000 Sydney Olympic gold medal.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Swedish football striker who won league titles in four different countries and is widely regarded as Sweden's greatest footballer.
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