Sports List_of_Slovaks

1 sports

1.1 football
1.2 ice hockey
1.3 tennis
1.4 water sports
1.5 figure skating
1.6 modelsports

sports

ivan bátory (1975) – cross-country skiing
imre bugár (1955) – ethnic hungarian athlete
karol divín (1936) – figure-skating
bohumil golián (1931) – volleyball-player
jozef gönci (1974) – sport shooter
jozef krnáč (1977) – judo
ondrej nepela (1951–1989) – figure-skating
jozef plachý (1949) – athlete
jozef pribilinec (1960) – race walker, olympic gold medalist
jack quinn (1883–1946) – baseball player
richard réti – austrian-hungarian, later czechoslovak chess grandmaster
jozef sabovčík – figure-skating
peter sagan (1990) – cyclist
alojz sokol (aloisius szokol) (1871–1932) – athlete, pioneer of olympic movement in historic hungary
anton tkáč (1951) – cyclist
yvonne tobis (born 1948) - israeli olympic swimmer, born in bratislava
július torma (1922–1991) – boxer
elmer valo (1921–1998) – baseball player
ján zachara (1928) – boxer
radoslav Židek (1981) – snowboarder, first slovak medallist independent slovakia @ winter olympics

football

jozef adamec (1942) – former footballer
peter dubovský (1972–2000) – footballer
marek hamšík (1987) – midfielder, playing italian side ssc napoli
karol jokl (1945–1996) – footballer
marek mintál (1977) – footballer
Ľubomír moravčík (1965) – footballer
ján popluhár (1935) – footballer
viliam schrojf (1931–2007) – footballer
martin Škrtel (1985) – liverpool f.c. player
jozef vengloš (1936) – football manager , former footballer, managed aston villa, celtic fc (glasgow), czechoslovak , slovak national teams, current director of fifa s technical study group.
vladimír weiss senior (1964) – head coach of slovakia national football team
vladimír weiss junior (1989) – winger, considered 1 of talented slovak players of generation

ice hockey

see long list in separate article.


Ľuboš bartečko – (1976)
peter bondra – (1968)
zdeno cíger – (1969)
pavol demitra – (1974–2011)
vladimír dzurilla – (1942–1995)
marián gáborík – (1982)
jozef golonka – (1938)
jaroslav halák – (1985)
michal handzuš – (1977)
marcel hossa – (1981)
marián hossa – (1979)
zdeno chára – (1977)
igor liba – (1960)
vincent lukáč – (1954)
stan mikita – (1940)
ladislav nagy – (1979)
Žigmund pálffy – (1972)
dárius rusnák – (1959)
jozef stümpel – (1972)
miroslav Šatan – (1974)
anton Šťastný – (1959)
marián Šťastný – (1953)
peter Šťastný – (1956)
róbert Švehla – (1969)
ladislav troják – (1914–1948)
Ľubomír višňovský – (1976)

tennis

karol beck (1982)
dominika cibulková (1989)
karina habšudová (1973)
daniela hantuchová (1983) – slovakia s successful female player
martina hingis (1980) – košice born, retired swiss female tennis-player
dominik hrbatý (1978)
martin kližan (1989)
karol kučera (1974)
miloslav mečíř (1964)
magdaléna rybáriková (1988)
marián vajda (1965) – coach of world top tennis-player novak Đoković

water sports

juraj bača (1977) – speed canoeing
jana dukátová (1983) – water slalom
peter , pavol hochschorner (1979) – water slalom
elena kaliská (1972) – water slalom
slavomír kňazovický (1967) – speed canoeing
michal martikán (1979) – water slalom, olympic gold medalist, atlanta 1996, beijing 2008
juraj minčík (1977) – water slalom
martina moravcová (1976) – swimmer
michal riszdorfer (1977) – speed canoeing
richard riszdorfer (1981) – speed canoeing
erik vlček (1981) – speed canoeing

figure skating

karol divín (1936)
ondrej nepela (1951)
jozef sabovčík (1963)

modelsports

jozef gábriš (joseph gabris) – born in bratislava. popular , successful control line aerobatics pilot (f2b) of former czechoslovakia.