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Dick Fosbury
American high jumper who won the 1968 Olympic gold and pioneered the back-first jumping technique now used by virtually all elite jumpers.
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List of 4-syllable Athletes that contain U
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Eusebio
Mozambican-born Portuguese forward who won the 1965 Ballon d'Or and finished as top scorer at the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
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Hugo Sanchez
Mexican football striker and Real Madrid club legend who won five consecutive Pichichi awards as La Liga's top scorer in the late 1980s.
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Jonah Lomu
New Zealand rugby winger whose breakthrough at the 1995 Rugby World Cup transformed the international profile of rugby union.
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Kostya Tszyu
Russian-Australian boxer and former undisputed light welterweight world champion known for accurate, heavy punching across a 14-year professional career.
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Luis Suarez
Uruguayan football striker and three-time league top scorer in three different countries, with international honours including Copa America 2011.
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Luka Modric
Croatian football midfielder, 2018 Ballon d'Or winner, and the first non-Argentine or Portuguese to win the award in over a decade.
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Misbah-ul-Haq
Pakistani cricket batter and former Test captain who led Pakistan to the number-one Test ranking in 2016 and shared the record for the fastest Test fifty.
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Quincy Promes
Dutch football winger and attacking forward known for his time at Ajax, Sevilla, and Spartak Moscow, and over 50 caps for the Netherlands.
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Quinton de Kock
South African wicket-keeper batter known for explosive top-order white-ball batting and over 6000 ODI runs across his career.
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Quinton Jackson
American mixed martial artist known as "Rampage," former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and Pride Fighting Championships fixture.
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Saqlain Mushtaq
Pakistani off-spin bowler credited with developing the modern "doosra" delivery, with over 200 Test wickets in his international career.
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Sergey Bubka
Ukrainian pole vaulter who won six consecutive World Championships and set 35 world records.
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Shaquille O'Neal
American basketball center who won four NBA championships and was one of the most dominant low-post players in league history.
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Stephen Curry
American basketball point guard who has won four NBA championships with the Golden State Warriors and is the league's all-time three-point leader.
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Ugo Humbert
French tennis player who reached the world top 15 in singles and won multiple ATP titles in the early 2020s.
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Ulrich Salchow
Swedish figure skater, the first Olympic figure skating champion in 1908 and ten-time World champion who invented the jump that bears his name.
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Uwe Seeler
German football striker and Hamburger SV club legend who captained West Germany at four FIFA World Cups in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Wilma Rudolph
American sprinter who became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics at the 1960 Rome Games.
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Xander Schauffele
American golfer and two-time major champion, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in men's individual golf.
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