The Most Famous

ATHLETES from Zambia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Zambian Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 2 of which were born in Zambia. This makes Zambia the birth place of the 108th most number of Athletes behind Djibouti, and North Macedonia.

Top 6

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Zambian Athletes of all time. This list of famous Zambian Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Samuel Matete (b. 1968)

With an HPI of 39.29, Samuel Matete is the most famous Zambian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Samuel Matete (born 27 July 1968 in Chingola) is a retired male track and field athlete from Zambia, who competed mainly in 400 metres hurdles.

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2. Gillian Cowley (b. 1955)

With an HPI of 30.63, Gillian Cowley is the 2nd most famous Zambian Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Gillian Margaret "Gill" Cowley (born 8 July 1955 in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia) is a former hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Because of the boycott of the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the Women's Hockey Tournament: the hosting USSR team. A late request was sent to the government of the African nation, 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. The team became known as the "Golden Girls."

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3. João Monteiro (b. )

With an HPI of 0.00, João Monteiro is the 3rd most famous Zambian Athlete.  Their biography has been translated into different languages.

João Monteiro may refer to: João Monteiro (editor), Brazilian editor of Nature Medicine João Monteiro (table tennis) (born 1983), Portuguese table tennis player João Monteiro (footballer) (born 2001), Portuguese footballer

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4. Rhoda Njobvu (b. 1994)

With an HPI of 0.00, Rhoda Njobvu is the 4th most famous Zambian Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into different languages.

Rhoda Njobvu (born 29 January 1994) is a Zambian athlete who specializes in sprinting.

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5. Steven Mungandu (b. 1995)

With an HPI of 0.00, Steven Mungandu is the 5th most famous Zambian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Steven Mungandu (born 6 May 1995) is a Zambian judoka. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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6. Sydney Siame (b. 1997)

With an HPI of 0.00, Sydney Siame is the 6th most famous Zambian Athlete.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Sydney Sido Siame (born 7 October 1997) is a Zambian sprinter. He competed in the 200 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without advancing from the first round. In addition, he won a gold medal at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. A run of 9.88 seconds was recorded for the 100 m in Lusaka in 2017, but Siame's time was excluded from the global lists on the basis of doubtful timing. This would have been the first time a Zambian had broken the 10-second barrier and a highly unusual improvement of 0.34 seconds for the athlete.

People

Pantheon has 6 people classified as Zambian athletes born between 1955 and 1997. Of these 6, 6 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Zambian athletes include Samuel Matete, Gillian Cowley, and João Monteiro. As of April 2024, 4 new Zambian athletes have been added to Pantheon including João Monteiro, Rhoda Njobvu, and Steven Mungandu.

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