List of multi-sport athletes

A multi-sport athlete is an athlete who competes at a high level in two or more different sports. Most of these athletes played two or more sports from a young age – especially in high school – before deciding to concentrate on just one sport.

List of athletes

Below is a list of multi-sport athletes who have played in at least one sport professionally, listed by primary athletic occupation, with notes on their secondary sport(s).

American football

Association football

Australian rules football

Baseball

Basketball

Bobsleigh

Bowling

  • Don Carter – PBA Hall of Famer, appeared in 38 pro baseball games for the Red Springs Red Robins (a farm club of the Philadelphia Athletics), where Carter hit .302 in 96 AB and also pitched in 15 games, acquiring a 3–7 win-loss record.
  • Eddie LubanskiUSBC Hall of Fame member, pitched for three seasons for farm clubs of the St. Louis Browns. He compiled an enviable 50–18 win-loss record, winning 20 games in his second season, but quit baseball entirely after a dispute with the owner of the Muskogee Reds.[73] He returned to Detroit to become a full-time pro bowler, an occupation he had started at age fifteen.
  • Walter Ray Williams Jr. – seven-time PBA Player of the Year, Williams has also won six Men's World Horseshoe Pitching titles.

Boxing

Canadian football

  • Jesse Lumsden – played in the Canadian Football League between 2004 and 2010 for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos, and Calgary Stampeders. Was a CFL East All-star in 2007. After retiring from football he became a bobsledder and made the 2010 Canadian Olympic team in both the two-man and four-man bobsled teams. In 2013 was part of the two-man World Cup two-man winning bobsled team.
  • Red Storey – played six seasons and won the Grey Cup twice with the Toronto Argonauts, but also was an all-star in the Ontario Lacrosse Association and played with the Montreal Royals minor hockey team. Finally, he was a referee in the Canadian Football League (12 years) and in the National Hockey League (9 years.)
  • Luc Tousignant – all-star college football player, he was the first French Canadian starting QB with the Montreal Concordes, having previously represented Canada in handball at the 1976 Summer Olympic games in Montreal.

Cricket

Cycling

Figure skating

  • Max Aaron – US figure skater who started his skating career as a figure skater, he also represented USA in USA Hockey nationals in both 2006 and 2007, and played U18 AA as well as competing in figure skating at amateur level during that time.
  • Elvis Stojko – Canadian figure skater in the 1990s, also competed in martial arts and motocross racing.

Golf

Handball

Ice hockey

Lacrosse

  • Paul Rabil – lettered in basketball, lacrosse, and track while in high school
  • Kyle Harrison – three sport standout in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse in high school
  • Jenny Williams – World Cup winning (1986) and team captain (1989–92) lacrosse player for Australia who represented South Australia in six sports (lacrosse, indoor lacrosse, touch football, soccer, cricket and Australian football)
  • Chazz Woodson – lettered in lacrosse, football, and basketball at Norfolk Academy

Mixed martial arts

  • Dave Bautista – was a WWE wrestler before becoming an MMA Fighter, returned to the WWE in 2014 and 2019.
  • Nick Diaz – turned pro in MMA in 2001, then made his pro boxing debut in 2005.[85]
  • Fedor Emelianenko – four-time world heavyweight champion in combat sambo while being No. 1 ranked heavyweight in MMA from 2003 till 2010. Also medaled in judo at national level.
  • Dan Severn – UFC Hall of Famer, former All-American collegiate wrestler and former professional wrestler.[86]
  • Adam Hollioake – turned pro in 2011 having already captained the England ODI side and having already fought as a professional boxer.
  • Holly Holm – started as a kickboxer winning a national amateur kickboxing title. Went on to fight professionally as a kickboxer and boxer, becoming one of the most highly decorated female boxers and defending titles in three different weightclasses, going both up and down in weight. Due to being a dominant champion for a long time is still ranked as all-time best pound-for-pound by boxrec automated ranking.[78] Started fighting in MMA while boxing and after retiring from boxing became the first athlete to be world champion in both boxing and MMA.
  • Keith Jardine – turned pro in MMA in 2001, then made his pro boxing debut in 2003.[87]
  • Bobby Lashley – performs at TNA Wrestling as well as fighting at Bellator MMA
  • Brock Lesnar – was Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Wrestler of the Year in 2002, and an NCAA Division I Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Also made the preseason roster for the Minnesota Vikings in 2004.
  • Darko Milicic – spent 9 seasons in the NBA before becoming a MMA fighter
  • Stipe Miocic – wrestled and played baseball at Cleveland State University before moving to MMA, eventually becoming UFC Heavyweight Champion.
  • Matt Mitrione – played nine games at Defensive Tackle for the New York Giants in the 2002 NFL season.[88]
  • Alistair Overeem – won the K-1 2010 World Grand Prix kickboxing championship.[89]
  • Ronda Rousey – former swimmer, 2008 Bronze Medalist in Judo for USA before becoming the first female UFC champion. Is currently a WWE wrestler.
  • Bob Sapp – played one game at Guard for the Minnesota Vikings in the 1997 NFL season.[90]
  • Semmy Schilt – four-time winner of the K-1 World Grand Prix kickboxing championship (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009).[91]
  • Ken ShamrockUFC Hall of Famer, shootfighter and professional wrestler
  • Anderson Silva – turned pro in MMA in 1997, then made his pro boxing debut in 1998.[92]
  • Mark Hunt – winner of the K-1 World Grand Prix kickboxing championship (2001).[93] 1999 WKBF Australian Super Heavyweight Champion.
  • Phil 'CM Punk' Brooks – former professional wrestler that is currently signed to the MMA promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship.
  • Tank Abbott – MMA fighter that competed in UFC and Pride Fighting Championships, signed and performed in World Championship Wrestling from 1999–2000.
  • Oleg Prudius – Ukrainian-American Sambo and Heavyweight Grappling champion and former professional wrestler.
  • Stu Bennett, better known as Wade Barrett – English WWE King of the Ring winner and former bare-knuckle boxing champion.

Motorsport

Netball

Rugby league

Rugby union

Sailing

  • Rob Waddell – retired rower, 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist in single sculls rowing who is a current Team New Zealand crewman as a grinder, he also played rugby union as a lock. He still holds world indoor rowing machine record time over 2000 m and 5000 m.

Skiing

Ski Jumping

Skyrunning

Snowboarding

Sumo

Swimming

Tennis

Track and field

Wrestling

Wrestlers who medaled in both Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling in a single event:

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gollark: And I didn't expect to wake up to see zero (0) macrons/cm³, but alas.
gollark: Honestly, this language is just *bad*.
gollark: I made yet *another* Macron implementation.
gollark: Made Macron yet?

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