| 1 | Katarina Witt |
| 2 | Diego Maradona |
| 3 | Pete Sampras |
| 4 | Jeannie Longo |
| 5 | Michael Jordan |
| 6 | Jackson Richardson |
| 7 | David Douillet |
| 8 | Carl Lewis |
| 9 | Lance Armstrong |
| 10 | Pelé |
| 11 | Jonah Lomu |
| 12 | Jesse Owens |
| 13 | Jacques Secrétin |
| 14 | Alberto Tomba |
| 15 | Sergey Bubka |
| 16 | Juan Fangio |
| 17 | Martina Navratilova |
| 18 | Michel Platini |
| 19 | Zinedine Zidane |
| 20 | Eddy Merckx |
| 21 | Nadia Comaneci |
| 22 | Alexandre Popov |
| 23 | Emile Zatopek |
| 24 | Bjon Borg |
| 25 | Dick Fosbury |
| 26 | Joe Montana |
| 27 | Abebe Bikila |
| 28 | Cassius Clay |
| 29 | Ian Thorpe |
| 30 | Tiger Wood |