Greatest Sports Couples in History

“Some of the most famous sports couples aren’t sports couples at all. They’re a mixture of sports and celebrity, such as David/Victoria Beckham, Russell Wilson/Ciara, Tom Brady/Gisele and one that’s taken center stage at the Stanley Cup Finals: the Nashville Predators’ Mike Fisher and country music superstar Carrie Underwood.

But a true sports couple involves two great athletes. Today, we rank the 17 best of those couples throughout history by taking into account sports prowess, strength of relationship, likability and other various factors. Couples can be currently married, divorced, dating, broken up or whatever, as long as they were known to be an item at some point.

Anna Kournikova and Russian hockey players (divorced)
Kournikova broke onto the scene in 1997 with a run to the Wimbledon semifinal as a 16-year-old. Though she’d eventually climb to No. 8 in the rankings in 2000, she never had a better Grand Slam than that Wimbledon. The Russian famously never won a tournament at any level (though she had two doubles Grand Slam titles) and by 2003 she was out of the sport, at the age of 22…”

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