The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Malawi
This page contains a list of the greatest Malawian Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Malawi. This makes Malawi the birth place of the 124th most number of Athletes behind United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Malawian Athletes of all time. This list of famous Malawian Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Anthea Stewart (b. 1944)
With an HPI of 36.87, Anthea Stewart is the most famous Malawian Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Anthea Dorine Stewart (born 20 November 1944) is a former field hockey player who was a member of the Zimbabwe national women's team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Previously, she had represented South Africa between 1963 and 1974. Because of the boycott of the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the women's field hockey tournament: the hosting USSR team. A late request was sent to the government of Zimbabwe, which quickly assembled a team less than a week before the competition started. To everyone's surprise, they won, claiming Zimbabwe's only medal in the 1980 Games. Not only was it Zimbabwe's only medal, it was the first medal given for women's field hockey in Olympic history. Stewart is the mother of international diver Evan Stewart, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain.
2. Areneo David (b. 1995)
With an HPI of 0.00, Areneo David is the 2nd most famous Malawian Athlete. His biography has been translated into different languages.
Areneo David is a Malawian competitive archer. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, David etched a historic mark for Malawi as the first ever archer to compete in an Olympic tournament, shooting only in the men's individual recurve through a tripartite invitation. For the 72-arrow qualifying round, David discharged 603 points out of a possible 720 to take the sixty-second spot from a field of 64 archers, before he faced his initial challenge against the third-seeded Italian archer David Pasqualucci, which led to his abrupt departure from the tournament at 0–6. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's individual event.
3. Rebecca Henderson (b. 1991)
With an HPI of 0.00, Rebecca Henderson is the 3rd most famous Malawian Athlete. Their biography has been translated into different languages.
Rebecca Henderson (born 27 September 1991), for some years competing as Rebecca McConnell, is an Australian mountain biker. She represented Australia at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics in the Mountain Bike Cross Country event. She came 28th at the 2020 Olympics. Henderson won a bronze medal at the 2019 and 2020 Mountain Bike World Championships.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Malawian athletes born between 1944 and 1995. Of these 3, 3 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Malawian athletes include Anthea Stewart, Areneo David, and Rebecca Henderson. As of April 2024, 2 new Malawian athletes have been added to Pantheon including Areneo David, and Rebecca Henderson.
Living Malawian Athletes
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Anthea Stewart
1944 - Present
HPI: 36.87
Areneo David
1995 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rebecca Henderson
1991 - Present
HPI: 0.00
