The Most Famous

ATHLETES from Curaçao

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This page contains a list of the greatest Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 2 of which were born in Curaçao. This makes Curaçao the birth place of the 110th most number of Athletes behind Zambia, and Burundi.

Top 9

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.

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1. Churandy Martina (b. 1984)

With an HPI of 37.49, Churandy Martina is the most famous Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.

Churandy Thomas Martina (born 3 July 1984) is a Dutch sprinter. He originally placed second in the 200 metres at the 2008 Beijing Olympics but was later disqualified due to a lane violation. Martina secured four and two individual top-five finishes at the Summer Olympics and World Athletics Championships respectively. He was the 100 metres 2007 Pan American Games champion representing the Netherlands Antilles and claimed three individual titles at the Central American and Caribbean Games. He won gold medals in the 200 m and 100 m at the 2012 and 2016 European Athletics Championships respectively. Martina is the Dutch national record holder for the 60, 100, 200 and 400 metres. His 100 m 9.91-second record was set at the 2012 London Olympics semi-final and 200 m 19.81-second record was achieved at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2016. He won 13 Dutch national titles. Martina hails from Curaçao and represented the Netherlands Antilles until its dissolution in 2010.

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2. Liemarvin Bonevacia (b. 1989)

With an HPI of 28.28, Liemarvin Bonevacia is the 2nd most famous Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Liemarvin Bonevacia (born 5 April 1989) is a Dutch sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He won bronze medals in the event at the 2016 and 2024 European Athletics Championships, and the 2017 and 2021 European Indoor Championships. Bonevacia also earned five major medals for the 4 × 400 m relays, either men's or mixed, including silver medal in the men's relay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He is the Dutch record holder for the outdoor and indoor 400 m, and won 12 individual national titles (200 m, 400 m). Bonevacia was born in Willemstad (Curaçao island), Netherlands Antilles.

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3. Chris Garia (b. 1992)

With an HPI of 0.00, Chris Garia is the 3rd most famous Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Christopher George Paul Garia (born 16 December 1992) is a Dutch sprinter and former baseball player from Curaçao. Garia won the 60 metres at the 2018 Dutch National Indoor Championships in a time of 6.70 seconds. He was also a member of the Dutch national baseball team before completing his transformation to sprinter.

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4. Jemyma Betrian (b. 1991)

With an HPI of 0.00, Jemyma Betrian is the 4th most famous Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into different languages.

Jemyma Betrian (born January 24, 1991) is a Curaçaoan-born Dutch female kickboxer and boxer, based in Oosterhout, Netherlands. She competes professionally since 2005 and is the former WBC Muay Thai Bantamweight champion and mixed martial artist. Between November 2016 and May 2018 she was ranked in the top ten pound for pound women in the world by Combat Press. As of April 2020, she is the #2 Super Bantamweight in the world by WBC Muaythai.

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5. Taymir Burnet (b. 1992)

With an HPI of 0.00, Taymir Burnet is the 5th most famous Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Taymir Burnet (born 1 October 1992) is a Dutch sprinter. He earned two bronze medals as part of Dutch men's 4 × 100 and 4 × 400 metres relays. Burnet represented Netherlands at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, competing in the 200 metres. He won one Dutch national title.

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6. Terrence Agard (b. 1990)

With an HPI of 0.00, Terrence Agard is the 6th most famous Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Terrence Agard (born 16 April 1990 in Willemstad) is a Dutch sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He represented the Netherlands Antilles until the dissolution of that country in 2010. In September 2015, he had a car crash while riding with fellow sprinters, Churandy Martina and Hensley Paulina, which left Agard with a broken vertebra in his neck. He returned to competition in April 2016.

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7. Hensley Paulina (b. 1993)

With an HPI of 0.00, Hensley Paulina is the 7th most famous Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Hensley Paulina (born 26 June 1993) is a Dutch sprinter. He competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing narrowly missing the final.

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8. Philip Elhage (b. 1982)

With an HPI of 0.00, Philip Elhage is the 8th most famous Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Philip Yousef Elhage (born 11 April 1982) is a sport shooter. Born in Curaçao, he competes internationally for Aruba. Elhage represented the Netherlands Antilles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's 10 m air pistol. He finished only in forty-sixth place by two points behind Turkey's Yusuf Dikeç from the fourth attempt, for a total score of 566 targets. Elhage represented Aruba at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He competed in the men's 10 metre air pistol qualification round on 24 July, where he shot 556 points resulting in 35th place and failing to qualify to the final.

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9. Veronika Marchenko (b. )

With an HPI of 0.00, Veronika Marchenko is the 9th most famous Athlete.  Their biography has been translated into different languages.

Veronika Marchenko may refer to: Veronika Marchenko (activist), Russian activist Veronika Marchenko (archer), Ukrainian archer

People

Pantheon has 9 people classified as athletes born between 1982 and 1993. Of these 9, 9 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Churandy Martina, Liemarvin Bonevacia, and Chris Garia. As of April 2024, 7 new athletes have been added to Pantheon including Chris Garia, Jemyma Betrian, and Taymir Burnet.

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