The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Nicaragua
This page contains a list of the greatest Nicaraguan Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 2 of which were born in Nicaragua. This makes Nicaragua the birth place of the 175th most number of Athletes behind Laos, and Cabo Verde.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Nicaraguan Athletes of all time. This list of famous Nicaraguan Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Evidelia González (b. 1997)
With an HPI of 23.13, Evidelia González is the most famous Nicaraguan Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 3 different languages on wikipedia.
Evidelia González Jarquin (born 20 November 1997) is a Nicaraguan rower. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was one of the eight athletes who represented Nicaragua in these games, as well as the first Nicaraguan woman to compete in the rowing discipline. In 2018, Ana Vanegas and Evidelia González won bronze in the double scull competition at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia. In 2017 she won the gold medal in the rowing competition at the Central American Games in Managua (2017).
2. Sema Ludrick (b. 1999)
With an HPI of 1.00, Sema Ludrick is the 2nd most famous Nicaraguan Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 2 different languages.
Sema Nancy Ludrick Rivas is a Nicaraguan weightlifter. She represented Nicaragua at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She won the silver medal in the women's 64 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina. She competed in the women's 71 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Nicaraguan athletes born between 1997 and 1999. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Nicaraguan athletes include Evidelia González, and Sema Ludrick. As of April 2024, 2 new Nicaraguan athletes have been added to Pantheon including Evidelia González, and Sema Ludrick.
