Top Five Sportsmen/Women of all time?

[Herbie]

In your opinion who would be the top five sportsmen or women of all time? Heres mine
1.Ali
2.Pele
3.Eddie Merckx
4.Jack Nicklaus
5.Usain Bolt

 

[Dayvo]

1) Don Bradman
2) Pele
3) Eddie Merckx
4) Jesse Owens
5) Walter Lindrum

 

[Vapin' Joe]

1/ Lance Armstrong Eddy Merckx
2/ Bobby Moore
3/ Tiger Woods
4/ Ayrton Senna
4/ Joe Davis

 

[laurence]

1) Senna
2) Rossi
3) Judith Arndt
4) Wiggins (his achievements just this year have been incredible)
5) Cancellara

 

[accountantpete]

Tiger Woods
Hedley Verity
The Doctor
Mark Cavendish
Bill Shankly

 

[4F]

Don Bradman
Eddie Mercx
Pele
Martina Navratalova
Carl Lewis

 

[asterix]

W.G. Grace
Beryl Burton
Mohammed Ali
Sir Stanley Matthews
Pele

 

[Dayvo]

Beryl Burton

Good call!

 

[defy-one]

Pele
Mohammed Ali
Haile Gebrselassie
Eddy Merckx
Usain Bolt

 

[ACS]

Mark Allen
Mercx
Haile Gebre Selassie
Ali
Steven Redgrave

 

[dellzeqq]

Bradman
Merckx
Navratilova
Di Stefano
Beryl Burton

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Three votes for Beryl Burton?

A British time trialist would be a long way down the list of all time great sportswomen. Vos and Longo are just two from the world of cycling who would be way ahead.

 

[Typhon]

Johan Cruyff
Michael Phelps
Roger Federer
Michael Schumacher
Steffi Graf

It was so difficult to leave out Steve Redgrave, Ben Ainslie and Chris Hoy.

 

[slowmotion]

I think that David Purley has to be in there somewhere. Not many people win the George Medal participating in their sport, do they?

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I think that David Purley has to be in there somewhere. Not many people win the George Medal participating in their sport, do they?

Very brave man, but he never won a single point in his GP career so he wouldn't even make the first hundred pages.