Countries that have only ever produced one world famous sportsman:

Namibia - Frankie Fredericks

Paraguay - Andy Murray?

Panama is a loser, they have had quite a few world boxing champions.

Philippines  ^^^^

Liberia - George Weah

Philippines - Manny Pacquiao

And Panama

Panama Al Brown was the first Hispanic world champion in history

plus

Roberto Duran

Thought fiji was the most obvious one, excluding a few sevens players - Serevi for instance.

Vijay Singh is Fijian, I don't know any more.

Malta - Tony Drago?

St Kitts & Nevis - Kim Collins

North Korea - Kim Jong-il, although iirc he never competed internationally.

Thread title says world famous. How many people have heard of Panama Al Brown?

Liberia is George Weah...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDuZpma_Oxs

Thread title says world famous. How many people have heard of Panama Al Brown?

Me and you for starters.

Well, yeah, but.

My beloved Milwaukee Brewers (they stink, btw) have had a few Panamanians play for them. None of them famous though.

On reflection, it's possible that Panama Al Brown IS more world famous than Tony Drago. Snooker ffs!

Madagascar - Ravelomanantsoa

Surinam - Anthony Nesty (Swimming)

England-Tom Daley.

Equatorial Guinea - Eric 'the eel' Moussambani

Scotland - Rolf McHarris (aka McHaggis)

cyprus - marcos baghdatis

Phillipines had another great boxer, Pancho Villa.

Kazakhstan: Lunatic multiple Tour de France stage winner and Olympic gold medallist Александр Винокуров

My biggest ever (betting!) feck up came from mistakenly laying said lunatic multiple TdF stage winner and Olympic gold medallist.

Lu Liang-Huan ('Mr Lu') - Taiwanese golfer

San Marino underwater hockey legend Giambattista Belluzzi.

Uzbekistan - Djamolidine Abdoujaparov

Babylon - Arthur Jones

Thought of Wayne Gretzky (who is a huge worldwide superstar, not really in the UK though)

not sure if Bailey and Johnson were born and bred

st kitts and nevis  a fair shout.

Was gonna say Nick Price for Zim but forgot about Kirsty Coventry.  Not to mention a few cricketers.

Filber Bayi , Tanzania.

Marc Giardelli , Luxembourg.

I was gonna put Luxembourg - but for Andy Schleck.  But then I forgot about his brother.  And Marc Giardelli.

John Akii Bua - Uganda

Shocked nobody's mention Kim Collins; former 100 metre World Champ. Ran his first ever sub 10 second time this year aged 37. Legend.

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St Kitts & Nevis - Kim Collins

Somalia - mo farah

Syria - Ghada Shouaa (1996 Heptathlon Gold Medalist)

Zaire - Ilunga Mwepu (Defensive free kick specialist)
Azerbaijan - Tofiq Bahramov (Russian Linesman)

Andreas (and his sister Hanni - but she isn't a man) Wenzel of Leichtenstein

Somalia - mo farah

1987 1500m World Champion Abdi Bile available at 4/1 to beat Steve Cram at 1/4.  Hosed up

Surinam - Anthony Nesty (Swimming)

Clarence Seedorf, Jimmy Floyd Hass. and a few other famous footballers were born in Surinam

...

Faroe Islands  Pal Joenssen

Mozambique  Maria Mutola

Guernsey  Matthew Le Tissier

Mongolia   Dolgorsurengiin Dagvadorj  (Sumo)

Antigua  Sir Viv Richards

Pitcairn Islands  Fletcher Christian (mutineering and hide and seek champion)

CLYDEBANK29     23 Sep 14 21:18 
Mongolia   Dolgorsurengiin Dagvadorj  (Sumo)

Not exactly world famous, plus the last four yokozuna are all Mongolian.

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Shocked nobody's mention Kim Collins; former 100 metre World Champ. Ran his first ever sub 10 second time this year aged 37. Legend.


Kim Collins ran 9.97 in 2013 aged 37
Bettered that this year to 9.96 aged 38


Hmmmmmm

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North Korea - Kim Jong-il, although iirc he never competed internationally.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death was as an epic loss to golf, recalling the Stalinist state media's reports of Kim's 11 holes-in-one in a single round in 1994.

Reports hailed Kim's 38-under par 34 over 18 holes at the 7,700-yard (7,041m) Pyongyang Golf Course in his first round at golf, a feat watched purportedly by 17 security guards protecting the man hailed as 'Dear Leader'.

Kim, who died on Saturday of a heart attack at age 69, was 52 at the time he purportedly fired a round where birdie was his worst score on any hole.




I believe this more likely to be a fair and square record than Kim Collins

Curtley Ambrose, the most fearsome bowler I have ever seen, is from Antigua.  Also Ritchie Richardson.

Fair play on the sumo.

Tahiti  Fabrice Santoro

New Caledonia   Christian Karembeu

Mozambique - Eusebio.

Wot about Alf Tupper, the runner?

From Tristan da Cunha. Always their only
representative at the Commonwealth Games, etc.

Eusebio

Harder than you think this.

Bolivia?  Population of 10 million. Can't think of or find anyone who stands out.

My best googling didn't come up with much for Bolivia. This guy is probably the best candidate..

Paulo Víctor Aguilera
A BMX racer born in Santa Cruz in 1991, he has been the Latin American BMX champion fourteen times, the world champion five times, and the national champion innumerable times in this sport, which he has practiced since he was 3 years old.

http://www.boliviabella.com/famous-athletes.html

Vatican City's exciting number-one shirt Pope John Paul II

Sep 23, 2014 -- 10:14PM, CLYDEBANK29 wrote:

Eusebio Harder than you think this.Bolivia?  Population of 10 million. Can't think of or find anyone who stands out.

Probably Marco Etcheverry but he's hardly world class, world famous, etc. Too high for sport!

Ghana: Azumah Nelson. Three-time boxing world champion in two weight classes.

I then looked Ghana sportsmen up and found there are a few more (almost all footballers of recent years) but surely Azumah is the 'first best known one' from Ghana then?

Shocked nobody's mentioned Kim Collins; former 100 metre World Champ. Ran his first ever sub 10 second time this year aged 37. Legend.

Scotland.........Jocky Wilson.

Jan zelezny..cze..

Engerland - Andy Murray

Northern Ireland - Mary Peters

Monaco - Harry Redknapp

Tommy Toes     24 Sep 14 12:07 
Ghana: Azumah Nelson. Three-time boxing world champion in two weight classes.

I then looked Ghana sportsmen up and found there are a few more (almost all footballers of recent years) but surely Azumah is the 'first best known one' from Ghana then?

I'll eat my best friend if Asamoah Gyan didn't make the list.

The Oirish ,Jimmy Cricket.

England Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Jens Martin Knudsen, Faroe Islands goalkeeper, famous for his white wooly babble hat.
http://paulstott.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341cb6b753ef013480267216970c-800wi

Kim Collins a shocking omishun

I don't think most people know what country she's from, Desmond. Probably explains why she hasn't been mentioned until now.

Disgusted that Kim Collins doesn't get a mention. What do you have to achieve at 37 years of age to get noticed?

Whose that runner from St Kitts?

Grenada - Kerani James

Alex De Angelis - San Marino