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 1
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 November 20, 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.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Malawian athletes born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Malawian athletes include Anthea Stewart.
