List of Chileans - Sports

Sports

  • Marlene Ahrens – javelin thrower; Olympic silver medalist
  • Omar Aguilar – long-distance runner
  • David Arellano – football player, Colo-Colo's stadium is named after him.
  • Luis Ayala – tennis player; twice French Open finalist
  • Fernando Alvarez – jockey
  • Nick Carle – football player, Sydney FC
  • Carlos Caszely – football player.
  • Patricio Cornejo – tennis player, 1976 Davis Cup Finalist
  • Carlo de Gavardo – KTM rally motorcyclist.
  • Elías Figueroa – football player; three times elected as Best Football Player of America
  • Jaime Fillol – tennis player, 1976 Davis Cup finalist
  • Arturo Godoy – boxer, fought Joe Louis twice for the World Heavyweight title
  • Fernando González – tennis player; only Chilean to win Gold, Silver and Bronze medals at the Summer Olympics.
  • Alberto Larraguibel – horserider, record for Puissance (high-jump) on Horseback.
  • Sergio Sapo Livingstone – Chilean football goalkeeper
  • Godfrey Stevens González- Boxer - Chilean featherweight title (1963) & (1966) & (1967) South American featherweight title (1967) & (1968) Challenged Wold title in 1970 against Sojo Saijo.
  • Anita Lizana – tennis player; 1937 US Open champion. First Latin American, and first Hispanic person, to be ranked World Number 1 in tennis.
  • Nicolás Massú – tennis player; highest world ranking # 9, Olympic 2-time champion (singles & doubles)
  • Carlos Moreno – track and field sprinter
  • Iván Morovic – chess International Grandmaster
  • Érika Olivera – marathon runner; gold medal winner in women's marathon at the 1999 Pan American Games
  • Manuel Pellegrini- former footballer player for Universidad de Chile, ex manager of Real Madrid.
  • Alejandra Ramos – middle-distance runner
  • Monica Regonesi – long-distance runner
  • Fernando Riera - Chile's most successful soccer coach, led the national team to a third place finish in the 1962 World Cup.
  • Marcelo Ríos – first Latin American man to become world number-one tennis player.
  • Jose Romero – AFL player, Western Bulldogs
  • Sebastián Rozental – football player.
  • Eduardo Robledo – football player, Newcastle United F.C.
  • Jorge Robledo – football player, Newcastle United F.C.
  • Marcelo Salas – football player. Holds the record for most goals playing for the national team. Won titles with every team where he played.
  • Eliseo Salazar – race car driver. Competed in Formula One intermittently from 1980–1982, moved to Champ Car and the Indy Racing League
  • Alexis Sánchez – football player, FC Barcelona
  • Leonel Sánchez – football player, 1962 World Cup top scorer
  • José Santos – jockey, winner of US Triple Crown
  • Alejandro Silva – long-distance runner
  • Pablo Squella – middle-distance runner
  • José Sulantay - Chile's second most successful soccer coach, led the under 20 national team to a third place finish at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada.
  • Emilio Ulloa – long-distance runner
  • Dion Valle – football player, Marconi Stallions FC
  • Andy Vargas – football player, Green Gully SC
  • Rodrigo Vargas – football player, Melbourne Victory FC
  • Arturo Vidal - football player, Juventus
  • Gert Weil – shot putter
  • Iván Zamorano – football player.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:

    “Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
    —Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)

    “Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
    —Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)