For this article, we’ve taken a look at some of the most beautiful women in professional sports. These women come an amazing number of sports and from all over the world. In this list, we have World Cup winners, Olympic Gold medalists, and even some professional surfers.
These women are incredibly talented in their chosen professions, but they are also stunningly gorgeous. Because most professional women’s sports don’t pay nearly as much as the men’s, most of these women have used their fame, and good looks, to supplement their incomes with modeling jobs and endorsement deals. So it’s likely you’ve seen some of these women without knowing who they were!
So flip through the slides and learn about some of the most beautiful athletes in the world. This is a list you won’t want to miss.
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Alex Morgan
Alex Morgan is not only one of the best female soccer players in the world, but she is also one of the most beautiful. Morgan has been a staple in the United States Women’s National Team for over a decade now and has scored over 100 goals for her country.
A native of California, Morgan now plays for the Orlando Pride in the NWSL. She is married to fellow professional soccer player Servando Carrasco. The couple just recently welcomed their first child.
Aly Raisman
Even in her field, Aly Raisman is a bit of an outlier. Gymnasts have incredibly short careers and are often retired by the time they leave their teenage years. Not Raisman. The incredibly beautiful and talented gymnast featured in not one, but two Olympics.
Raisman took home gold medals in both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. She became just the second American ever to win back to back gold’s in the team competition, partially because of her longevity. She is the second-most decorated Olympic gymnast in American history with six total Olympic medals.
Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Vonn has a trophy case full of medals, yet she’s certainly still thinking about the medals she missed out on during the 2014 Winter Olympics. As will happen to most athletes at some point in their careers, Vonn missed so time due to injury. Unfortunately for Vonn, that injury cost her a chance to defend her gold medal at the Olympics.
Still, Vonn can be proud of her career, winning more World Cup skiing titles than any other woman in history. She’s also spent time in the tabloids after dating Tiger Woods and most recently, hockey player P.K. Subban with whom she is now engaged.
Ronda Rousey
Did you know before Ronda Rousey was a household name for dominating the MMA scene, she was the first American woman to earn an Olympic medal in judo? She took home the bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. This catapulted her into a career in MMA and you know the rest by now.
With her MMA career over, Rousey has taken her fame and popularity to a different shaped ring, the world of WWE. While the fights may be fixed these days, you can still see her tossing around opponents every week.
Sage Erickson
Sage Erickson’s life changed forever when her family moved to Oahu, Hawaii when she was 9. For most of us, that would just mean more time spent at the beach, adventures in the jungle, and likely a sunburn that would never go away. For Erickson, it meant an introduction to surfing that changed everything for her.
Fast forward to today and Erickson is one of the top female surfers in the world. In fact, she’s won two of the last three US Open of Surfing championships and currently ranks 13th in the world in the World Surf League. Just think, her family could have moved anywhere. It would have been tough to start a surfing career from say, Illinois.
Caroline Wozniacki
How much money is enough money? For Caroline Wozniacki, apparently the answer is $35,233,415. That is the exact sum of money Wozniacki earned from her tennis victories before retiring in January 2020. That’s good enough for 5th all-time in the women’s game. Wozniacki stunned the tennis world when she announced that she would be retiring after the 2020 Australian Open at the age of 29.
This is a woman who has owned the world number 1 ranking and has won a Grand Slam tournament, yet she’s calling it quits before her 30th birthday. With all that money, it seems Wozniacki wants to spend the rest of her life doing something other than tennis. Good for her.
Anastasia Ashley
Anastasia Ashley first picked up a surfboard at the age of 5. Her career took off from there, winning her first contest at 6 and earning her first sponsorship at 7. While you and I were playing hopscotch or jumping rope, Ashley was shredding barrels, or whatever surfers call it.
Ashley has won it all, including the National Scholastic Surfing Association and the Professional Surfing Tour Championship. You may have seen her if you picked up the 2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. She’s also modeled in Maxim and owns her own jewelry line. She’s a woman of many talents.
Lauren Sesselmann
Lauren Sesselmann was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and played her college soccer at Purdue University. She had a solid, if unspectacular start to her career, and chose to acquire Canadian citizenship through her father.
With a call-up to the loaded United States team unlikely she used her new citizenship to make it into the Canadian National Team. With Canada, she picked up a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics and featured for Canada at the 2015 Women’s World Cup.
Hannah Stocking
Hannah Stocking is a famous model and internet personality, who before achieving her fame, played volleyball at the Dominican University of California, where she majored in biology and chemistry. The internet star chose to give her sports career a rest, despite being so good at it.
Currently, Stocking is among the top followed people on social media, with a combined audience of over forty million followers on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. The former volleyball player is also a famous model and actress who has appeared in several productions like Boo 2! A Madea Halloween with her performance earning rave reviews.
Danica Patrick
Danica Patrick dropped out of high school to move to England to further her racing career. That’s incredible in itself, but what makes it even more incredible is that it worked! How is a teenage girl from Wisconsin supposed to make it Formula One racing? Well, she did, and she used that success to return to America and Indy Car.
After spending a few years in the relatively niche Indy racing scene, Patrick made the jump to the big time and NASCAR. During her racing career, Patrick was making just as much money off the track as she was on it. She’s appeared as the official spokesperson for GoDaddy.com, appeared as a commentator on Fox’s NASCAR coverage, and endorsed many other products.
Ellen Hoog
Ellen Hoog is a highly regarded women’s field hockey player from the Netherlands. Dutch field hockey doesn’t usually make onto the radar of most sports fans, but when the players are this attractive, you take notice. Hoog isn’t just good looking, she’s a star in the field hockey game.
She’s won two Olympic gold medals and a silver with the Dutch team as well as multiple World Cups and European Championships. We can’t tell you much about field hockey, but if the medals tell us anything, it’s that she’s pretty darn good at it.
Jaqueline Carvalho
Volleyball player. Raised on the beach volleyball scene in Recife, Brazil, this beautiful and accomplished woman has helped Brazil dominate the Olympic Women’s Volleyball scene.
Carvalho took home back to back Olympic gold’s in 2008 and 2012 for her home nation of Brazil. She retired from international competition in 2018, but still plays professionally in Brazil with Osasco Audax in the Brazilian Women’s Volleyball Superliga, the top professional women’s volleyball league in South America.
Allison Stokke
The professional pole-vaulting scene doesn’t get much attention in the sports world, but that all changed when a photo of Allison Stokke went viral. Since then, much controversy had surrounded the image but Stokke has carried on with her career. After competing at the University of California, Berkeley she embarked on a professional career.
During this time, she earned numerous endorsements and modeling gigs with Nike and Athleta, among others. In October 2019, Stokke married professional golfer Rickie Fowler.
Alica Schmidt
Widely considered the most beautiful athlete in the world, Alica Schmidt is a young athlete who took the world by storm when she helped her German team win a bronze medal at the European Championships. Schmidt is already touted as the future of German athletics, and it's easy to see why.
The middle-distance runner's talents don't stop at the tracks, though; she recently joined Borussia Dortmund football club as a fitness coach. The sportswoman has a substantial online following, and despite efforts by numerous fashion magazines to try and lure her into modeling, she decided to concentrate on sports, and we bet it will all be worth it.
Anna Kournikova
Among the players considered the best to play tennis is Anna Kournikova. The legendary player won a couple of Grand Slam titles, achieving the feat in the doubles competition, where she was at one point ranked number one.
Anna's beauty and athleticism brought her celebrity status, and during the peak of her career, she was the most searched tennis player on the internet, with many people looking for her images. Sadly, the talented player had to hang her racket and quit the game due to severe spinal and back problems. Despite retiring from the sport, Anna has appeared in numerous productions and is involved in several philanthropic activities as well.
Ivona Dadic
Not many people are as talented as Ivona Dadic, who was already competing in athletics by the age of 9, a contest that she won. The field and track sportswoman is the definition of beauty and athleticism, with a jaw-dropping appearance in conjunction with her skills winning her lots of fans worldwide.
Ivona is a rising star who won bronze in the 2016 European Athletics Championships and has participated in the 2012 London Olympics. The Austrian is no doubt on the way to becoming one of the most sought after athletes, and we won't be surprised to see her on the covers of fancy editorials.
Ana Ivanović
Ana Ivanović is one of the most successful female tennis players with one Grand Slam and fifteen WTA Tour singles titles under her belt. The Serbian began her career with a band when she was 18, beating several top-listed players, and since then, she took off, achieving massive success and earning millions of dollars in prize money.
The acclaimed athlete isn't all about tennis, though, her beauty and charm have made the world take notice, and she has appeared in several magazine covers like the FHM and Vanity Fair. Despite retiring in 2016, Ana is still active in the sport, working as a brand ambassador of PlaySight Interactive.
Darya Klishina
Darya Klishina is a Russian long-jumper who combines power and good looks to full effect. Despite starting her sports career in volleyball when she was eight years, the athlete decided to switch to long jump when she turned thirteen, after being influenced by her father.
Klishina has broken several records during her time in the sport, and despite injuring her foot before the World Championships in 2011, she came back stronger, showing that beauty can indeed be robust and resilient. So beautiful is the athlete that in 2010, an online poll named her the number one beauty of Russian sport. With all the charm she flaunts, it's hard to disagree!
McKayla Maroney
McKayla Maroney is among the most successful young gymnasts in America, with over seven gold and silver medals won throughout her career. Having started gymnastics at the age of two, her parents saw it wise to enroll her for training, and by the time she was nine, McKayla was already training for the sport.
That decision paid off, as she went on to bring home a gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics. Although now retired, Maroney is still in the limelight, using her beauty and voice to charm the masses, having recently released the single Wake Up Call and has also starred in several television shows.
Snežana Rodič
Born in Slovenia, Snežana Rodič is a triple jumper who has represented her country in several competitions, and while she has not achieved the top spot yet, her performances are undeniably great. Having started her career in 2003, the athlete has since participated in every significant event, making a mark in world athletics.
Rodič's talents can be seen every time she hits the tracks, and her charm is in full view of the world. Her athletic stature and dark hair are admired by many, and she is 'the' Slovenian sports icon.
Serena Williams
No one in world sport epitomizes beauty, grit, and success like the tennis star Serena Williams. The player is considered among the all-time greats ever to grace the sport, and her 39 Grand Slam titles are a testament to her abilities.
Apart from her sports endeavors, Serena puts her popularity and beauty into fair use, getting involved in several fashion campaigns and philanthropic activities. The star launched a fashion line named Serena and has appeared on numerous magazine covers, including the famous Vogue. Serena is also a talented actress, having made cameo appearances in countless television series and music videos that's hard not to love.
Shelina Zadorsky
Shelina Zadorsky may hail from Canada but her soccer career has taken her all over the world. She moved to the United States to play collegiately at the University of Michigan, before beginning a professional career that would see her play professionally in Australia and Sweden before returning to the United States.
Zadrosky has also played over 60 times for her national team, including at the 2016 Olympic Games and the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Now 27 years old, Zadorsky still has plenty of years left in her professional career. You can see her playing for the Orlando Pride in the NWSL.
Simone Biles
In modern gymnastics, Simone Biles is indeed among (if not) the best in the sport. She's from Columbus, Ohio, and her World Championship and Olympic medals amount to 32 already. Biles got home-schooled when she was a teenager so she could spend more time training.
She was supposed to study at UCLA and compete in their gymnastic team, but she decided to turn professional. Biles represented the United States once again in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and she made headlines after she stepped away from the individual all-around competition citing mental health.
Katie Ledecky
Many refer to Katie Ledecky as one of the most excellent female swimmers in history. She holds records in the women's 1500-, 800-, and 400-meter freestyle, and she already brought home seven Olympic gold medals. She even won fifteen times at the World Championships.
She was only fifteen years old when she made her Olympic debut in 2012. In 2016, Ledecky was the most decorated female athlete during the Olympic Games. She continues to achieve new heights today, and she takes pride in being the first swimmer who won a distance event for three consecutive years.
Anastasija Zolotic
Anastasija Zolotic might only be eighteen years old today, but she's already making America proud with her achievements as an athlete. She competes in taekwondo, and she had her first taste of success when she became a silver medalist during the Summer Youth Olympics in 2018.
Zolotic finally qualified for the Summer Olympics in 2020, and she made history in 2021 when she became the first woman from the United States who won first place at the Olympics. She defeated Tatiana Minina from Russia. At the rate she's going, she will indeed have a memorable legacy within the taekwondo community.
Oksana Chusovitina
While some athletes only represent one country, gymnast Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina got to bring pride to Uzbekistan, the Soviet Union, and Germany. In 1988. she was the winner of the USSR Junior Nationals, and then she competed internationally the following year.
She's the only woman in gymnastics who competed in the Olympics eight times. Chusovitina is also among the few gymnasts who returned to competitions even after having a baby. She said in 2012 that she would retire and shift her focus to coaching, but she made her way to Tokyo in 2021.
Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova burst onto the scene at the age of 16, earning the WTA Newcomer of the Year award after a debut season that saw her upset some major players in Grad Slam events and even pick up a tournament win in Japan. Two years later she was the world’s number 1 player and a global superstar.
Since then she’s earned a career Grand Slam and won 36 total titles. She was one of the most famous and marketed female athletes in the world, appearing in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, and in ads for Nike, Canon, and has been the face of fashion houses such as Cole Haan.
Hilary Knight
In a family full of skiers, Hilary Knight forged her own path. She became a world-class ice hockey player, starting her career by winning a National Championship at the University of Wisconsin.
After college Knight began her professional career, playing for the Boston Blades, Boston Pride, and her current team, Les Canadiennes de Montreal. She’s also represented Team USA at 2010, 2014, and 2018 Olympics. With Team USA she’s won 1 gold medal and two silver medals.
Camila Giorgi
Camila Giorgi may look sweet, but she’s got power in her. She is regarded as one of the hardest hitters of the tennis ball in the entire women’s tennis game. Her career hasn’t made it to the heights of some other famous female tennis stars, but she’s still earned nearly $4 Million in prize money over her career.
She reached her career peak in 2018 when she reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon and earned a 26th place ranking in the world. Interestingly, her mother is a fashion designer who designs a different dress for Camila to wear for each of her matches.
Julie Ertz
Julie Ertz, or Julie Johnston as she was known earlier in her career is a 2-time Female U.S. Soccer Player of the Year and winner of the 2015 and 2019 World Cups with the United States Women’s National Team. She plays professionally for the Chicago Red Stars in the NWSL.
Collecting trophies is something the Ertz family knows well as her husband, Zach Ertz, is a professional football player with the Philadelphia Eagles. Zach played an important role in the Eagles Super Bowl-winning team in 2017.
Skylar Diggins
Skylar Diggins is at the top of her game. She’s a four-time WNBA All-Star, and just signed a massive new deal with the Phoenix Mercury. She sat out the entire 2019 season while on maternity leave, so you know she’ll come back hungry and ready to prove herself.
Diggins is married to former Notre Dame wide receiver Daniel Smith. She was also the first female athlete to sign with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Sports when she joined in 2013. She has used her platform and good looks to land modeling jobs with Vogue and Sports Illustrated.
Sally Fitzgibbons
Sally Fitzgibbons has always been a tremendous athlete. When she was a youngster growing up in Australia she won national championships in track, touch football, soccer, surfing, and cross-country. The ocean stole her heart though and she has been chasing the biggest waves ever since.
These days Fitzgibbons is a legend in the surfing scene, and as of July 2019, was the number 1 rated female surfer in the world. That’s earned her over $1 million in career earnings, not to mention all the endorsements she’s earned. Brave, beautiful, and wealthy? She’s the total package.
Elena Delle Donne
One of the few top recruits in the women’s game not to attend UConn, Delle Donne played her college ball at the University of Delaware. Delle Donne was a star for the Blue Hens and was drafted 2nd overall in the 2013 WNBA Draft.
Since she entered the league, she’s won two MVP Awards, been an All-Star six times, and finally won the WNBA Championship in 2019 with the Washington Mystics. She is one of, if not the best players in the league every season.
Emma Coburn
Emma Coburn is the greatest female American in the history of her field, so why haven’t you heard of her? Unfortunately for Coburn the track and field world doesn’t get much press, and the steeplechase event gets even less. But, Coburn is the American record holder in the 3000-meter steeplechase nonetheless.
Incredibly, she became the first American woman to win any medal in the event when she won bronze at the 2016 Olympics. She won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships and was poised for gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics before the pandemic postponed the games. Be sure to tune in in 2021 to see if she can win it all.
Michelle Jenneke
Michelle Jenneke briefly took over the internet with her viral warm-up dance prior to a race in 2012. Jenneke, a hurdler, has a pre-race warm-up routine that involves a giant smile, and vigorous shaking of the hips.
It’s likely that Jenneke never would have achieved the fame that she has garnered without the routine, as she was never at the top of her field. She did qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil but finished in 37th place. She’s still competing but has parlayed her fame into a modeling career as well.
Silje Norendal
Before her recent retirement from snowboarding, Silje Norendal made a mark in world sport when she won a gold medal during the Winter X Games Europe in 2013. Since then, she has participated in numerous competitions, performing exceptionally well in the slopestyle and BigAir contests.
Norendal is the perfect combination of snowboarding skill and beauty, with both traits ensuring that she has achieved massive popularity globally. The sportswoman is a famous figure on social media, with fans ardently following her athlete and family life. It's safe to say that Norendal will still be an iconic celeb in the sport despite hanging her boots.
Sydney Leroux-Dwyer
Sydney Leroux-Dwyer was born in Canada but chose to play her international soccer for the United States through her American father. This stunning striker made her professional debut at the age of 15 and has been scoring goals ever since. She has won an Olympic gold medal and a FIFA Women’s World Cup with Team USA.
She married British-born soccer player and MLS star, Dom Dwyer, in 2015. After obtaining American citizenship through their marriage, Dom was able to be eligible to play internationally for the United States.
Candace Parker
Candace Parker was the LeBron James of women’s basketball, becoming the only woman to win the Gatorade Girls High School Basketball Player of the Year Award twice. She then went to the traditional powerhouse University of Tennessee where she continued to dominate the game. Parker became the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game, and the first to dunk twice in one game.
Parker still plays for the team that drafted her, the Los Angeles Sparks. With the Sparks, Parker has won two MVP awards, been named an All-Star 5 times, and picked up the WNBA Championship in 2016.
Winifer Fernandez
Winifer Fernandez’s career got off to an incredible start as she Best Digger, Best Receiver, and Best Libero awards at the 2010 NORECA Youth Championships. A professional career followed that. She spent a few years of her career playing volleyball in her native Dominican Republic and Azerbaijan.
Because of her good looks, Fernandez earned some international fame and a spot on some “Most Beautiful Athlete” lists, but she simply wanted to be known for her playing skills, as she earned a reputation for being one of the best liberos in the world.
Blair O’Neal
Blair O’Neal isn’t really a golfer anymore, but she put her short career to good use. She burst onto the golf scene through the Golf Channel’s “The Big Break” tournament in the Dominican Republic. This exposure, and her good looks, earned her many sponsorship deals, and paved the way to her modeling and television career.
O’Neal hasn’t golfed professionally since 2015 and now spends most of her time working on the Golf Channel on shows such as “Morning Drive” and “Golf’s Sexiest Shots.” Incredibly, the last one is the name of a real show on the Golf Channel.
Brooke Mayo
Brooke Mayo is a professional fighter. To be more specific she’s a flyweight competing in the Bellator circuit. Mayo’s first fight in an MMA ring took place over 5 years ago at WFC 14. Since then she’s dominated the amateur scene in her native California.
Once she turned pro, things got a bit tougher. She has competed in two professional bouts, losing both. She’s all in on the MMA lifestyle though, as she spends her downtime with boyfriend, and fellow MMA fighter, Nick Pica.
Alessa Quizon
Like most Hawaiians, Alessa Quizon has been surfing since her early days. Quizon rode her first wave at the age of 4 and has been in the water ever since. She’s currently ranked 83rd in the World Surf League, but when your job is surfing, who cares where you’re ranked?
Quizon was formerly engaged to a fellow pro surfer, Caio Ibelli, but can these days been seen spending her personal time with UFC fighter Max Holloway. A quick check of her Instagram profile shows she’s living the surfer’s dream. Lots of time with waves and sand.
Paige VanZant
Paige VanZant is a 24-year-old mixed martial artist who appears destined for superstardom. She sports a decent 7-4 record, but will only get stronger as she gains more experience. While her sex appeal is quite obvious, her ability within the Octagon is the biggest reason she is under contract with the UFC. VanZant became somewhat of a national name after finishing second in the highly popular show Dancing with the Stars.
Paige Spiranac
Paige Spiranac played golf in college at both the University of Arizona and San Diego State before turning pro in 2015. The former Mountain West Conference champion found more success in college than she did in the professional game though.
Spiranac spent just two seasons on the professional golf circuit and only one in the LPGA. When she realized that golf wasn’t going to be a career, she used her other gift, her looks. She’s been featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and Golf Digest. Her biggest current success has been her Instagram account, which has over 2.5 million followers.