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Top 10 Highly Acclaimed and Successful Female Athletes in The World

By Ainul Haque May 12, 2022 Update on : May 5, 2023

The role and contribution of indomitable women players, athletes, and organizers in the last fifty years in the world sports arena are remarkable.

Female athletes have opened a new chapter and created a social revolution in the world’s sports arena by changing its old culture, context, mentality, and thinking process. They also have taken the world’s sports for women to a new height.

The highly acclaimed and successful female athletes, who established many records in the world, are not only a player for a team or a nation but also a symbol of inspiration for the young generation.

We will discuss 10 remarkable female athletes who are on the top chart in the world in 2022. If anyone wants to know more about the female highest achiever in the sports arena, he or she can read the article.

The female athletes on the list are not only attractive and talented, but also they are rich due to their expertise and talent in their respective fields. They are called female sports stars and heroes.

Successful Top 10 Female Athletes in The World

10. Hilary Knight

Hilary Knight also known as Hilary Atwood Knight was born in Palo Alto of California on July 12, 1989. But she grew up in Lake Forest, Hanover, Illinois and New Hampshire a US state in New England.

She is an American. She plays as an ice hockey forward with the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association PWHPA, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocate for promoting professional women’s ice hockey.

Hilary Knight also plays for the United States women’s national ice hockey team. Earlier, she has played for the Les Canadiennes de Montreal of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) and the Boston Pride of the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL), with whom she won the inaugural Isobel Cup.

She competed in the Choate Rosemary Hall and Wisconsin Badgers women’s ice hockey program.

She is one of the best female hockey players in the world and secured her positing at number 10 in the list of the most marketable female athletes in 2022.

She is a six-time World Champion and two-time Olympic Silver medalist. She has brought a change in the view of females in the sports arena.

She grew up in a skiing household with her parents who had never actually ice skated. However, she was on skis at the age of two and when she turned five, her family moved to Chicago, and she began playing ice hockey.

Hilary Knight’s height and weight

She is now a 32 years old hockey star in the world at present. Her height is 5 feet 11 inches tall and her weight is 78 kg and in pounds 141 lbs

Her life partner, hobbies and favorites

Her boyfriend Unmarried Frederick Anderson is also a paid Ice hockey player. The couple has no children together.

Hilary Knight’s hobbies are snowboarding, skiing, hiking, watching movies, playing ice hockey and listening to music.

Hilary Knight’s net worth and source of income

The net wealth of Hilary Knight is estimated at $ 1 million dollars as of 2022 and Ice Hokey playing is her source of income.

9. Anna Prugova

Anna Prugova, known as Anna Aleksandrovna Prugova, is an ice hockey player from Russia. She is a member of the national ice hockey team of the country. She is at present playing in the Zhenskaya hockey league with Agidel Ufa.

Anna Prugova is a two-time Olympian. During her carrier, she represented Russia in 2010 and 2014 in the women’s ice hockey tournaments at the Winter Olympic Games.

During the 2010 Winter Olympics, she was the youngest player who was competing in ice hockey when her age was over 16 years at that time.

She was a player in the bronze medal-winning team in the IIHF Women’s World Championship in 2016.

Anna Prugova’s age, height, and weight

She was born on November 20, 1993, in the Khabarovsk area of Russia. She is now a 28 years old young female athlete who scored the ninth position in the list of female marketable athletes in 2022.

Her height is 1.74 m and her weight is 60 kg.

Anna Prugova’s net worth

She is one of the richest and most popular ice hockey players in the world. According to an analysis, of Forbes & Business Insider and Wikipedia, her net worth is around $1.5 million.

Who is dating Anna Prugova?

As it is known till December 2021, she is possibly single and she has not been previously engaged with any boyfriend. As of December 2021, Anna Prugova is not dating anyone.

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8. Sydney Leroux

Sydney Leroux, also known as Sydney Rae Leroux, is a daughter of an American father Sandi Leroux, and a Canadian mother Ray Chadwick. She is an Olympic gold medalist and a professional soccer player.

As a forward, she is currently playing for Orlando Pride in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL).

Sydney Leroux represented Canada at various levels until she chose to play for the USA women’s national under-20 soccer team in 2008. Later, she began playing for the US senior national team in 2012.

She has earned around 75 caps playing in the senior national team and was part of the US’s winning squads at the 2012 London Olympics and 2015 Women’s World Cup.

She made her professional reintroduction for the Boston Breakers in the NWSL during its opening season in 2013.

In 2014, she was later traded to Seattle Reign FC and in 2015, to Western New York Flash, and in 2016, FC Kansas City before the 2016 season.

She holds dual citizenship of Canadian and American. She secured number eight in this list of most marketable female athletes in 2022.

Sydney Leroux’s age, height, and weight

She was born on May 7, 1990 in Surrey of Columbia, and she is a 31 years old soccer player. Her weight is 5 feet 7 inches and her weight is 66 kg.

She has children named Cassius Cruz Dwyer and Roux James Dwyer and Shayla Leroux, Novara Leroux, Tye Leroux, and Tory Leroux are her siblings

Sydney Leroux’s net worth

She is the most outstanding performer and her success has made her a superstar in the sport’s history. As of 2022, her net worth is $3 million.

Sydney showed her interest in sport from an early age and her first desire was to be a football when he was a child.

She has performed as a model for various advertising campaigns including work for top agencies.

7. Hope Solo

Hope Solo is also known as Hope Amelia Solo. She is a former soccer goalkeeper in America. She played as a goalkeeper for the American national women’s soccer team between 2000 and 2016. She is an Olympic gold medalist for two-time and a World Cup champion.

After playing at the collegiate level for the University of Washington, she played for the Philadelphia Charge in the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA).

As the WUSA folded after her first season, Solo went to Europe to play for the top division leagues in France and Sweden.

Solo played in the Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) for Atlanta Beat and magicJack and Saint Louis Athletica from 2009 to 2011.

She is considered one of the top female goalkeepers of all time. She currently holds the US record for most career clean sheets and secured the seventh position in the top 10 marketable female athletes in 2022.

She was the beginning goalkeeper for the majority of the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup. She helped lead the US national team to the semifinals giving only two goals in four games

After a contentious step was taken by head coach Greg Ryan in favor of goalkeeper Briana Scurry, the United States has been defeated 4–0 by Brazil. Following the development Solo became headlines with post-game remarks and many of her teammates started shunning her.

Later, she reemerged to help the US win gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

After her performance at the 2011 World Cup, Solo started participating in the television show Dancing with the Stars and posing for many magazines, most remarkably the Body Issue of ESPN.

She received her second Olympic gold medal after the 2012 London Olympics and later, she published her bestselling autobiography Solo: A Memoir of Hope.

Solo holds several US goalkeeper records including appearances 202, starts 190, wins 153, shutouts 102 and wins in a season of 26, consecutive minutes played 1,256, and a longest undefeated streak of 55 games.

Solo’s age, height, and weight

She was born on July 30, 1981, in Richland of Washington, US, and she is now a 41 years old female athlete. She is by born an American and she has a single son named Zodiac Sign Leo.

Her height is 175 centimeters and her weight is 68 kg

Thai food, bell peppers with cheese and crackers, and Chevrolet Corvette Brickyard 400 are among her favorite things.

Hope Solo’s net worth

She bought a 5,330 square foot home in Kirkland of Washington involving $1.2 million in 2012.

In 2016, she sold the three-bedroom with 3.5-bathroom home at $1.75 million. In addition to the sports court and swimming pool, the property reflects mountain views.

Her net worth till 2022 is estimated around at $3 million.

6. Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn, also known as Lindsey Caroline Vonn, is an American nation. She is a former World Cup alpine ski racer on the United States Ski Team.

She won World Cup overall championships four times in three consecutive years in 2008, 2009, and 2010 and another in 2012.

As the first American woman, she won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Vonn also created a record by winning eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline in 2008 2013, 2015, and in 2016), five titles in super-G from 2009 to 2012 and in 2015, and three consecutive titles in the combined 2010 to 2012.

Vonn won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title in 2016. She has the second-highest super ranking record of all skiers in both men and women groups.

Vonn is one of the six women who have won World Cup races in all five disciplines-downhill, super-G, slalom, giant slalom, and super combined. She also won 82 World Cup races through February 3, 2018.

Vonn surpassed Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria, who held the record since the 1970s through her total of 82 World Cup victories is a women’s record.

She received the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award in 2010 and was the United States Olympic Committee’s sportswoman of the year.

A total of 77 World Cup races were won by her in her career till now. Vonn failed to take part in several seasons including most of all the 2014 and the 2013 seasons. She announced her retirement due to her injuries in 2019.

She secured the number six position in the list of the most marketable female athletes in 2022.

Vonn’s age, height, and weight

She was born in St. Paul on October 18, 1984. Vonn a 38 years old female athlete became one of the top skiers in the world. Her height is five feet and 10 inches and her weight is 64 kg. Vonn’s breast size is 34 inches, hips, 35 is inches and waist size is 26 inches.

Lindsey Vonn’s net worth

The net worth of Vonn is estimated around $12 million as of 2021.

Hobbies and favorites

Her favorite Halloween candy is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, cereals, fruity pebbles, frozen yogurt chocolate vanilla swirl, cake batter or red velvet, non-alcoholic drink ginger ale, meal, Austrian pancake made with beer and raisins, favorite ice cream flavor Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia, exercises, plank-up, twist tuck, her favorite tennis player is Roger Federer and her favorite TV Series is Law and Order 1999-2010.

5. Ronda Rousey

Ronda Jean Rousey or Ronda Rousey, also Rowdy her nickname, is an American nation and professional actress and wrestler and also a former mixed martial and judoka artist.

Ronda Rousey has recently signed an agreement with WWE and she performs there on the SmackDown brand. During her time, she was a best-known and outstanding performer in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

As the first American female, she earned an Olympic medal in judo by winning bronze at the Summer Olympics in 2008. Rousey started her career in mixed martial arts (MMA) with King of the Cage in 2011.

Later, she joined the Strikeforce and became their last Women’s Bantamweight Champion until it is acquired by UFC.

She became part of the company’s first-ever female fight at UFC 157. She also held the record for the most UFC title defenses 6 by a female.

Rousey went on retirement from the MMA in 2016. She was the first female fighter introduced UFC Hall of Fame in 2018.

She won the Raw Women’s Championship at that year’s SummerSlam, and headlined WWE’s inaugural all-women’s pay-per-view when she defended her title at WWE Evolution.

Rowdy lost the title in the WrestleMania main event at WrestleMania 35. But she returned to Royal Rumble in 2022 by winning the women’s Royal Rumble match.

Later, she later threw a challenge to Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 38.

Rowdy was voted the best female athlete of all time in a 2015 ESPN fan poll. Besides, Fox Sports described her as one of the defining athletes of the 21st century.

The female judoka artist won MMA fights for 12 consecutive seasons and of which, six in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In May 2015, two magazines ranked her as the most dominant active athlete in the world.

Ronda Rousey’s early life

On February 1, 1987, she was born in Riverside, California. She was the youngest of three daughters of her mother AnnMaria De Mars.

For the first six years of her life, Rousey struggled to speak but failed due to apraxia, a neurological childhood speech sound disorder.

Height, weight, and net worth of Ronda Rousey

She is now 35 years old and her height is 5 feet 6 inches and her weight is 61 kg. She is one of the most famous and popular MMA fighters of all time. Her net worth is $13 million as of 2021. Gardening and landscaping are her hobbies.

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4. Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova

She, bitterly known as Anna Kournikova, is a Russian nation and American television personality. She is a professional outstanding tennis player and her appearance and status made her one of the best-acclaimed tennis stars across the world.

Though she did never win a singles title, she reached the number eight rank worldwide in 2000. She earned a greater success in playing doubles and where she was at a time the world’s number one tennis player.

She won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002, and the WTA Championships consecutively from 1999 to 2000 with her strong counterpart Martina Hingis. She was given the title of the Spice Girls of Tennis.

Due to serious spinal and back problems including a herniated disk, she went on retirement from professional tennis in 2003.

Now, she lives in Miami Beach, Florida. She plays in exhibitions occasionally and in doubles.

She secured number four in the list of most marketable female athletes in 2022 for her outstanding professional performance.

Kournikova’s age, height, and weight

She was born in Moscow of Russia on June 7 in 1981. She is now 40 years old. Her height is five feet and eight inches and her weight could not be known yet. She has three children

Net worth of Anna Kournikova

She was a trainer for season 12 of a television show named The Biggest Loser, replacing Jillian Michaels, but she did not return to season 13.

Apart from her tennis career and television work, Kournikova works as a Global Ambassador for Population Services International’s “Five and & Alive” program, which works for addressing health crises for children aged under five and their families.

Her net worth is around 50 million.

She is at the peak of her career as her fans look for her images making her name one of the largely used search engines on Google Search.

She has made her the best-known female athlete in the world but, she cannot put makeup on her face properly like other. Despite it, she has become able to attract everyone for her glamor and beauty. She earned a lot of popularity through various television series, shows, and movies.

3. Eugenie Bouchard

Eugenie Bouchard, also generally known as Eugenie Genie Bouchard, is a Canadian tennis player. Bouchard became the first Canadian-born tennis player who represented Canada to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament in singles and finished runner-up to Petra Kvitová at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships.

Bouchard also reached the semifinals of the 2014 French Open and of the 2014 Australian Open.

After winning the 2012 Wimbledon girls’ title, Bouchard was named WTA Newcomer of the Year at the end of the 2013 WTA tour.

She, finally, received the WTA Most Improved Player award for the 2014 season and touched a career-high ranking of number five and ranked in the top 5 in singles format, she became the first Canadian tennis player.

Visionary Bouchard started playing tennis when she was five. At that time, she was a member of the National Training Centre in Montreal of Tennis Canada.

Bouchard grew up in Westmount, where she started her schooling at a private girls’ school and lived in the same area.

When she was 12, she shifted to Florida with her parents where she along with four children started attending a private school and Eugenie was coached by Nick Saviano. She met Laura Robson there, one of her best childhood friends, who is also a tennis player. Since then, Bouchard was nicknamed ‘the chosen one’ by her siblings.

Personal life of Genie Bouchard

Bouchard has a twin sister, Beatrice, who is older by six minutes than her. She has two younger siblings, and one of them is a sister –Charlotte who was born in 1995, and another one is a brother –William who was born in 1999.

As a talented and skillful student in mathematics and science, she has been considered a career as a physician.

Age, height, weight, and favorities of Bouchard

She was born on February 25, 1994, at Montreal in Québec of Canada. She is a 28 years old world-famous tennis star. Her height is 1.78 m and her weight is 58 kg.

Bouchard is known for her beautiful and powerful groundstrokes. She is famous specifically for her two-handed backhand and her wicked serves with all-time best at a whopping 111mph.

Roger Federer is her favourite tennis player and she met her at the Wimbledon Ball in 2012.

Her net worth is $6 million.

2. Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams is her nickname, but she is popularly known as Serena Williams. She is a professional tennis player in the USA.

Serena Williams has been ranked singles world number one by the Women’s Tennis Association for 319 weeks including a joint record for 186 consecutive weeks. She has finished as the year-end number one five times.

Serena Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era and the second-most of all-time behind Margaret Court’s 24.

Serena Williams, along with her older sister Venus, was coached by her parents Oracene Price and Richard Williams.

Emerging as a professional in 1995, Serena Williams won her first major singles title at the 1999 US Open.

She was dominant, winning all four major singles titles to achieve the career Grand Slam known as the ‘Serena Slam’ and a non-calendar year Grand Slam from the 2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open.

In the next few years, she claimed two more singles majors, but suffered from injury and declined in form. Starting from 2007, she, however, gradually returned to form despite having injuries and retook the world’s number one singles ranking.

Starting from the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, she returned to dominance and claimed Olympic gold, and became the first tennis player in both singles and doubles.

Williams won eight singles majors out of thirteen all four in a row including from 2014 to 2015 to achieve a second ‘Serena Slam’.

She won her 23rd major singles title at the 2017 Australian Open, exceeding Steffi Graf’s Open Era record. Later, she took a break from professional tennis due to her pregnancy.

Later, she returned back and reached four major finals since returning to play.

Serena Williams has also won 14 major women’s doubles titles all against her sister Venus and the pair was unbeaten in the Grand Slam doubles finals.

She has won 4 Olympic gold medals, 3 in women’s doubles record with her sister. She is vastly considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time in the world.

In 2016, she was the world’s highest-paid woman athlete with her earning almost $29 million.

She has secured number two in the list of the most marketable female athletes in the world.

The Women’s Tennis Association has ranked the player as world number one in singles on seven occasions from 2002 to 2022.

She achieved the rank for the first time on July 8, 2002. Since then, she has achieved the ranking for the 7th time on January 30, 2017.

Personal life of Serena Williams

She was the youngest among five other siblings those are all sisters. She had three step-sisters Lyndrea, Yetunde, and Isha Price from her mother’s side, and one own sister Venus Williams.

Serena Williams’ husband and daughter

Williams engaged Reddit, co-founder Alexis Ohanian, in December 2016. Ohanian and Williams were married at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans of Louisiana on November 16, 2017. She, in a post on Snapchat, hinted that she was pregnant and showed her belly in April 2017, but the post was deleted after a few minutes.

She was pregnant and on September 1, 2017, she gave birth to a daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.

Age, height, weight of Williams

Williams was born in Saginaw of Michigan on September 26, 1981. She is now 40 years old star all time. Her height is 5 feet 9 and her weight 68 kg. Her nickname is Momma Smash or Meka, and her real name is Serena Jameka Williams.

Her net worth is around $95 million and of which $42 million have come from her professional tennis as of March 29, 2022.

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1. Maria Sharapova

Her real name is Maria Yuryevna Sharapova while her nickname is Maria Sharapova. She is a Russian nation and the number one former tennis player in the world.

The WTA Tour from 2001 to 2020 was successfully completed by her 2001 to 2020 and thus, she achieved the rank of the world’s number one in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association for a total of 21 weeks. Maria Sharapova is among the ten women and the lone Russian, to achieve the career Grand Slam.

Sharapova is also an Olympic medalist. She won silver in the women’s singles at the London Olympics in 2012.

For the first time, she achieved the world’s number one rank on August 22, 2005, when she was of 18 years old as the first Russian to top the singles rankings.

And last she held the same position for a fifth time for four weeks from June 11, 2012, to July 8, 2012.

She won five major titles including two at the French Open and she won a total of 36 titles including the year-end championships in 2004.

She had played under the banner of Russia but she was living in the United States as a permanent resident since 1994.

She was banned from playing tennis on June 8, 2016, for two years by the International Tennis Federation as she failed a drug test and was found positive for meldonium, a substance that has been strictly prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency on January 1, 2016.

On October 4, 2016, her suspension was reduced to 15 months. And later on April 26, 2017, Sharapova returned to the WTA Tour. And then, she went on retirement on February 26, 2020.

Additional performance alongside tennis

She has been presented in many modeling assignments including a feature in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Sharapova has appeared in many advertisements, including those for Nike, Canon, and Prince, and acted as a model of several fashion houses, most particularly Cole Haan.

Sharapova has been working as a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador since February 2007 and she was concerned especially for the Development Programme and Chernobyl Recovery.

Due to her outstanding performance, Sharapova was recognized as one of the ‘30 Legends of Women’s Tennis: Past, Present, and Future’ by Time in June 2011.

Later in March 2012, she was branded one of the ‘100 Greatest of All Time’ by Tennis Channel.

Age height and weight of Sharapova

The seasoned tennis legend was born on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan of Russia and she is now around 35 years old. Her height is 6 feet and 2 inches and her weight is 59 kg.

Personal life of Sharapova

She was engaged to Sasha Vujačić, a Slovenian professional basketball player in 2011 and with whom she has been maintaining a relationship since 2009, and after the engagement, she confirmed separation at the beginning of 2012.

Later in 2018, she built a relationship with Alexander Gilkes, a British businessman, and in December 2020 disclosed they are engaged. Later in April 2022, the couple announced that they are expecting their first child.

Net worth of Maria Sharapova

She has been named for 11 consecutive years as the highest-paid female athlete in the world. The seasoned tennis star earned $285 million including prize money since she turned pro in 2001.

Sharapova, launched a program to mentor women entrepreneurs in 2018, according to Forbes.

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