The Most Famous
ATHLETES from American Samoa
This page contains a list of the greatest Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 1 of which were born in American Samoa. This makes American Samoa the birth place of the 139th most number of Athletes behind Guatemala, and Dominican Republic.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Athletes of all time. This list of famous Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Lisa Misipeka (b. 1975)
With an HPI of 27.01, Lisa Misipeka is the most famous Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Lisa Vasa Misipeka (born January 3, 1975) is an American Samoan athlete who specialises in the hammer throw. She was the first woman to represent American Samoa at the Olympics.She won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. First place was 75.20m, second place 72.56m, and 9m behind first and 6.5m behind second was Misipeka in third with 66.06m. It was the first ever international medal for American Samoa, and the greatest difference in distance between the first three medal places. The flag bearer for American Samoa at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece where she did not record a distance in the qualifying round of the women's hammer due to a knee injury and therefore did not advance to the final.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1975 and 1975. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Lisa Misipeka.
