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Bill Russell
American basketball center who won 11 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics, the most of any player in league history.
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List of 3-syllable Athletes that contain S
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Carl Lewis
American track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals across four Games in sprints and the long jump.
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Chris Evert
American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles and reached at least the semifinals of 52 consecutive majors.
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Joe Louis
American boxer who held the world heavyweight championship from 1937 to 1949, the longest unbroken reign in the division's history.
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LeBron James
American basketball forward, four-time NBA champion, and the league's all-time leading scorer.
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Michael Phelps
American swimmer who won 23 Olympic gold medals, the most by any Olympic athlete in history.
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Mike Tyson
American boxer who became the youngest undisputed heavyweight champion in history at age 20 in 1986.
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Pete Sampras
American tennis player who won 14 Grand Slam singles titles, including seven Wimbledon championships.
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Prithvi Shaw
Indian cricket batter who became the youngest Indian to score a Test century on debut and captained India's 2018 Under-19 World Cup-winning team.
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Roy Jones Jr.
American boxer who won world titles in four weight classes from middleweight to heavyweight.
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Steffi Graf
German tennis player who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles and the only Golden Slam (all four majors plus Olympic gold) in a single calendar year.
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Tiger Woods
American golfer with 15 major championships, second on the all-time list, and a record-tying 82 PGA Tour victories.
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Usain Bolt
Jamaican sprinter who set world records in the 100 metres and 200 metres and won eight Olympic gold medals.
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Willie Mays
American baseball center fielder, 24-time MLB All-Star and 1954 World Series winner, regarded as one of the greatest all-around players in baseball history.
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Yu Darvish
Japanese-Iranian pitcher who set Nippon Professional Baseball strikeout records before joining MLB, where he became a multi-time All-Star.
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