List of Slovaks - Sports

Sports

  • Ivan Bátory (1975) - cross-country skiing
  • Imre Bugár (1955) - ethnic Hungarian athlete
  • Karol Divín (1936) - figure-skating
  • Bohumil Golián (?) - volleyball-player
  • Jozef Gönci (1974) - sport shooter
  • Jozef Krnáč (1977) - judo
  • Ondrej Nepela (1951–1989) - figure-skating
  • Jozef Plachý (1949) - athlete
  • Jozef Pribilinec (1960) - race walker, Olympic gold medalist
  • Jack Quinn (1883-1946) - baseball player
  • Richard Réti - Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster
  • Jozef Sabovčík - figure-skating
  • Peter Sagan (1990) - cyclist
  • Alojz Sokol (Aloisius Szokol) (1871–1932) - athlete, pioneer of the Olympic movement in historic Hungary
  • Anton Tkáč (1951) - cyclist
  • Július Torma (1922–1991) - boxer
  • Elmer Valo (1921–1998) - baseball player
  • Ján Zachara (1928) - boxer
  • Radoslav Židek (1981) - snowboarder, first Slovak medallist from independent Slovakia at the Winter Olympics

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    “There be some sports are painful, and their labor
    Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
    Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
    Point to rich ends.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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    He at length our good will sever.”
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