BILD’s reporters in Germany were asked to nominate their top ten greatest ever sportswomen.
And perhaps it's no surprise that tennis goddess Steffi Graf (40) - the last woman to complete the Grand Slam in a calendar year - emerged as the unsurprising clear victor.
There was also room for fellow tennis legend Martina Navratilova and sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner - as well as a few surprises!
The Top-10 list of world's greatest ever sportswomen of all time:
And perhaps it's no surprise that tennis goddess Steffi Graf (40) - the last woman to complete the Grand Slam in a calendar year - emerged as the unsurprising clear victor.
There was also room for fellow tennis legend Martina Navratilova and sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner - as well as a few surprises!
The Top-10 list of world's greatest ever sportswomen of all time:
- First place: Steffi Graf (40) – Tennis goddess with 22 Grand Slam titles, Olympic Champion in 1988, five time sportswoman of the year....186 weeks at no.1. She now lives in Las Vegas
- Second place: Birgit Fischer (47) – With seven gold and three silver Olympic medals....she is Germany's most successful Olympian of all time.
- Third place: Martina Navratilova (52) – Tennis queen with 331 weeks as no.1, 18 Grand Slam titles.....167 tournament victories. She is now a gay rights campaigner.
- Fourth place: Kati Witt (43) – The ice queen. She has two Olympic golds and four world championships... was voted Germany's ice skater of the century and has set up a foundation for children
- Fifth place: Nadia Comaneci (47) – Perhaps the best gymnast of all time...the Romanian has five Olympic Golds, three silvers and one bronze.
- Sixth place: Wilma Rudolph († 54) American world record sprinter....she won three Olympic Golds in 1960.
- Seventh Place: Ulrike Meyfarth (53) The high jumper won Olympic golds in 1972 and 1984...she has broken several world reocrds and was named sportswoman of the year on four occassions.
- Eight place: Rosi Mittermaier (58) – Known as 'Gold-Rosi', the skiing star was a double Olympic champion in 1976....in downhill and slalom. She is a German sports ambassador.
- Ninth place: Larissa Latynina (74) – The Medal Queen. Between 1956 and 1964 the Ukrainian won nine Olympic golds for gymnastics. She is the most successful Olympian ever, and now lives in Japan.
- Tenth place: Florence Griffith-Joyner († 38) – A legendary 100m sprinter who ran 10.49 seconds in 1988.which remains a world record to this day. The American died in 1998.
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