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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