The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Sierra Leone
This page contains a list of the greatest Sierra Leonean Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Sierra Leone. This makes Sierra Leone the birth place of the 128th most number of Athletes behind Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Sierra Leonean Athletes of all time. This list of famous Sierra Leonean Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Eunice Barber (b. 1974)
With an HPI of 35.17, Eunice Barber is the most famous Sierra Leonean Athlete. Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Eunice Claudia Barber (born November 17, 1974, in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean-French athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump. Barber initially competed for Sierra Leone and then for France from 1999 onwards. She won the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in 1999, the long jump in 2003 and finished second in heptathlon in 2003 and 2005.
2. Joshua Wyse (b. 2001)
With an HPI of 0.00, Joshua Wyse is the 2nd most famous Sierra Leonean Athlete. His biography has been translated into different languages.
Joshua Jonathan Julius Wyse (born 24 March 2001) is a Sierra Leonean swimmer. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
3. Solomon Bockarie (b. 1987)
With an HPI of 0.00, Solomon Bockarie is the 3rd most famous Sierra Leonean Athlete. His biography has been translated into different languages.
Solomon Bockarie (born 18 May 1987), sometimes Solomon Bayoh (born 18 May 1990), is a male Dutch sprinter. He competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. He competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics. He was born in Makeni, Sierra Leone and is a naturalised Dutch citizen. Bayoh represented Sierra Leone at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 200 metres and placed eighth in his first round heat in a time of 22.16 seconds, which was not enough to advance to the second round. He was one of three competitors at the Olympics competing for Sierra Leone. Michaela Kargbo and Saidu Kargbo were the others. He again represented his birth nation at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2022, he failed an out-of-contest drugs test, on the basis of testing positive for the growth hormone GHRP-2; he has claimed that this was due to eating chicken contaminated with the hormone.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Sierra Leonean athletes born between 1974 and 2001. Of these 3, 3 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Sierra Leonean athletes include Eunice Barber, Joshua Wyse, and Solomon Bockarie. As of April 2024, 2 new Sierra Leonean athletes have been added to Pantheon including Joshua Wyse, and Solomon Bockarie.
Living Sierra Leonean Athletes
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Eunice Barber
1974 - Present
HPI: 35.17
Joshua Wyse
2001 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Solomon Bockarie
1987 - Present
HPI: 0.00
