The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Qatar
This page contains a list of the greatest Qatari Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 2 of which were born in Qatar. This makes Qatar the birth place of the 103rd most number of Athletes behind Antigua and Barbuda, and Anguilla.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Qatari Athletes of all time. This list of famous Qatari Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nasser Al-Attiyah (b. 1970)
With an HPI of 52.04, Nasser Al-Attiyah is the most famous Qatari Athlete. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah (Arabic: ناصر صالح ناصر عبدالله العطية : nāṣir ṣāliḥ nāṣir ʿabdullāh al-ʿaṭṭīyah; born 21 December 1970 in Doha) is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter. He was the 2006 Production World Rally Champion, 2014 and 2015 WRC-2 champion, an 18 time Middle East Rally Champion, five times winner of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, and a five times (2011, 2015, 2019, 2022, 2023) Dakar Rally winner. His five victories in the Dakar Rally make him the only Middle Easterner and West Asian to win the competition more than once.In shooting, Al-Attiyah won the bronze medal in the men's skeet event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
2. Mutaz Essa Barshim (b. 1991)
With an HPI of 47.49, Mutaz Essa Barshim is the 2nd most famous Qatari Athlete. His biography has been translated into 38 different languages.
Mutaz Essa Barsham (Arabic: معتز عيسى برشم, romanized: Muʿtazz ʿĪsā Baršam; born 24 June 1991) is a Qatari track and field athlete who competes in the high jump and is the current Olympic Champion (2020). He is also the former World Champion and second highest jumper of all-time with a personal best of 2.43. He won gold at the 2017 World Championships in London, at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, as well as the 2022 World Championships in Eugene. At the Olympics, Barsham originally won the full set of medals with bronze at the London 2012 Summer Olympics, silver at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, and shared gold at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2021, his bronze in the London 2012 Summer Olympics was promoted to silver in a three-way tie for second due to disqualification of the original gold medalist. He was the Asian Indoor and World Junior champion in 2010, and won the high jump gold medals at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships and 2011 Military World Games. He holds the Asian record in high jump. Mutaz jumps off his left foot, using the Fosbury Flop technique, with a pronounced backwards arch over the bar, he achieves this by looking over the landing mat. One of his brothers, Muamer, is also a high jumper.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Qatari athletes born between 1970 and 1991. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Qatari athletes include Nasser Al-Attiyah, and Mutaz Essa Barshim.
