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Eldrick "Tiger" Woods is an professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, Woods was the highest paid professional athlete in 2005, having earned an estimated $87 million. In 2006, at the age of 30, he won his eleventh and twelfth professional major golf championships and has more wins on the PGA Tour than any other active golfer. He is the only active golfer currently in the top 10 in either career major wins (2nd) or career PGA Tour wins (5th).Woods won the "World Sportsman of the Year" award at the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2000 and 2001, and is the only individual two-time winner of Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award (1996, 2000). He also received ESPN's ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete in 2000, 2001, and 2002, won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award in 2000, and was named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year a record-tying four times, in 1997, 1999, 2000, and 2006.Woods, who is multiracial, is credited with prompting a major surge of interest in the game of golf among minorities and young people in the United States.
   
Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer, former WBO and the current IBF and IBO World Heavyweight Champion. Though a major celebrity in his former adopted home of Germany, in 2004 he moved with his older brother, former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, to Beverly Hills
   
     
  
Eisler Liván Hernández Carrera known as Liván Hernández, is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Arizona Diamondbacks (2006-present). He is the half brother of pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernández and is currently dating Canadian Vocalist Tacquira.Hernández defected to the United States from Cuba in 1995. From 1996 through 2004, Hernández played with the Florida Marlins (1996-99), San Francisco Giants (1999 - 2002), Montreal Expos (2003 – 2004) the Washington Nationals (formally Montreal Expos) (2005 - 2006) and the Arizona Diamondbacks (2006 - present). He bats and throws right handed. He is known for often throwing a "slow hook" sometimes going even below 60 miles per hour, as a strikeout pitch.A two-time All-Star, Hernández is considered to be a great defensive pitcher, having made just 11 errors in his career. He is described as a workhorse; he throws many pitches, pitches many innings, and makes every start he needs to in order to provide his team's bullpen much rest. He led the National League in innings pitched in three consecutive seasons, 2003 through 2005, and led the league in complete games for the first two of those years. In 2005, he once threw 150 pitches in nine innings, although the game went into extra innings after he left. Hernández also is a dangerous hitter, helping his own cause with the bat.After the 2005 season, he had knee surgery, and his performance in the first half of 2006 suffered. At the all star break he had a 5.64 ERA and allowed hitters a .308 average. But over his last five starts with the Nationals, he had a 3.27 ERA with four walks and 23 strikeouts. On August 7, 2006, Hernandez was traded from the Nationals to the Diamondbacks for two young pitching prospects, Matt Chico and Garrett Mock.
   
Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Els is a South African golfer who has been one of the top professional players in the world since the mid-1990s. A former World No. 1, he is known as "The Big Easy," for his imposing physical stature (he stands 6 feet 3 inches) along with his fluid, seemingly effortless golf swing.
   
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu is a Ghanaian-American soccer (football) player for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer.At the age of 14, Adu became the youngest professional athlete in modern American team sports history when he signed a professional contract with Major League Soccer, the top league of the United States soccer pyramid. Adu is regarded as one of the most exciting young players in the world. Adu left Ghana with his family in 1997 and is now a resident of Potomac, Maryland. In 2003, he became a U.S. citizen.
   
     
  
   
Chandra still has one of the most powerful swings in ladies tennis.
   
Lands a powerful right and show why he's still one of the best young fighters around the boxing game.
     
  
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In November 2003, Woods became engaged to Elin Nordegren, a Swedish model. They were introduced by Swedish golf star Jesper Parnevik, who had employed her as a nanny, during The Open Championship in 2001. They married on October 5, 2004 and live at Isleworth, a community in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, Florida. They also have homes in Jackson, Wyoming, California, and Sweden. In January 2006, Woods and his wife purchased a $39 million residential property in Jupiter Island, Florida, which they intend to make their primary residence. Woods' Jupiter Island neighbors will include fellow golfers Gary Player, Greg Norman and Nick Price, as well as singers Celine Dion and Alan Jackson.Tiger and Elin are expecting their first child in the summer of 2007.In late January 2007, Woods admitted that he would miss The Open Championship at Carnoustie if it coincides with the birth.
   
Gary Jim Player is a South African professional golfer generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the game's history.He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has logged more than 14 million miles in travel, more than any other human being. Dubbed the Black Knight, Mr. Fitness and the International Ambassador of Golf, Player is a renowned golf course architect with over 200 design projects throughout the world. He operates Black Knight International, which includes Gary Player Equipment, Gary Player Academy, and Gary Player Enterprises, and aspects of which include licensing, publishing, videos, apparel and memorabilia. The Gary Player Stud Farm has received worldwide acclaim for breeding top thoroughbred race horses including 1994 English Derby entry Broadway Flyer. He operates The Player Foundation with its primary objective to promote education around the world. The Foundation built the Blair Atholl Schools in Johannesburg, South Africa, which has educational facilities for over 500 students from kindergarten through grade eight.Vijay Singh is a professional golfer who was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. A Fijian of Indian ancestry, he was born in Lautoka, Fiji and grew up in Nadi. He has won three major championships (one Masters in 2000 and two PGA Championships in 1998 and 2004) and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003 and 2004. Singh is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.Singh, a resident of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, is the son of Mohan Singh, an airplane technician who also taught golf. Growing up, he admired the swing of Tom Weiskopf, using it as an early model for his own. Singh is known for his meticulous preparation, often staying at the range hours before and after his tournament rounds working on his game.Singh is married to Ardena Seth, who is Malaysian. They have a son, Qass Seth, born on 16 June 1990.
     
  
Hasim Shariff Rahman is an boxer who became the linear and legit Heavyweight champion of the world by knocking out Lennox Lewis in 2001. His nickname is The Rock (the name comes from his last name, correctly pronounced "rock-mahn"). Rahman lives and trains in Rochester, NY.A lifelong Muslim, Rahman has visited Mecca.Rahman grew up in Baltimore, but unlike most championship boxers, got a relatively late start in the sport. He took up boxing at age 20 and had just 10 amateur bouts before making his pro debut on December 3, 1994 at age 22.Despite his inexperience, Rahman had obvious natural boxing skills that propelled him to 11 knockout wins in his first 12 fights. Then he took a step up in class in March 1996 with a 10-round decision win over veteran Ross Puritty and seven months later, he repeated the feat against former world champion Trevor Berbick.In July 1997, he won the USBA regional heavyweight title, and four months later, he added another regional belt, the IBF Intercontinental heavyweight title. By the fall of 1998, he was ranked as one of the top five heavyweights in the world.On December 19, 1998, Rahman faced fellow contender David Tua in a fight to determine who the IBF's mandatory contender would be. Rahman apparently won most of the first eight rounds and appeared to be on his way to victory when Tua staggered him with a punch after the bell in the ninth round. Because the punch was illegal, Rahman should have been given whatever time he needed to recover, but the referee erroneously forced him to begin the 10th round after just a few minutes. Tua pounced on him immediately and won by a technical knockout.Because of the controversial nature of the loss, Rahman's ranking did not suffer, but in November 1999, he was knocked out by Oleg Maskaev in the eighth round of a fight he looked to be winning, and dropped out of the Ring Magazine top 10 as a result.
   
Cabrera worked as a caddie at the home club of internationally successful Argentine professional Eduardo Romero, who became his mentor. Cabrera turned professional at the age of twenty. His first three visits to the European Tour Qualifying School were unsuccessful, but on his fourth trip in 1995, made with Romero's financial assistance, he qualified for membership of the European Tour in 1996. He retained his card comfortably in his first three seasons and improved substantially to tenth on the Order of Merit in 1999. He has since finished in the top 15 of the Order of Merit on six occasions, with a best placing of fifth in 2005.Romero's first two professional wins came in Latin America in 1995 and his first European Tour win was the 2001 Argentine Open, which was sanctioned by the European Tour on a one off basis that year. In 2005 he won the BMW Championship, which is the most prestigious event on the European Tour schedule outside of the majors and the World Golf Championships. However it was only his third European Tour win, a tally which was perhaps a little disappointing given his consistent form on the tour. At that point he had also won seven non-European Tour events in Latin America, where the standard of play is much lower than on the European Tour.Ángel Carbrera featured a highest of 9th in the Official World Golf Rankings on October 2005. He has been the top ranked Latin American player for some time.
   
Michelle Sung Wie is a professional American golfer who has gained attention for her many attempts to make a cut at a PGA Tour event. In 2006, she was named in a Time magazine article, "one of 100 people who shape our world." She has been accepted to Stanford University and has said she will be enrolling in fall 2007