Top 10 Best Women Athletes of All Time

The most decorated gymnast in history with 37 World and Olympic medals, four skills named after her, and the courage to prioritize mental health on the world's biggest stage.

Six-time FIFA Player of the Year and the all-time leading scorer in World Cup history across both genders — the Brazilian forward is football's greatest woman and it isn't particularly close.

Three Olympic golds, a world record in the heptathlon that has stood since 1988, and Sports Illustrated called her the greatest female athlete of the 20th century for good reason.

The only player to achieve the Golden Slam — winning all four Grand Slams and Olympic gold in a single calendar year in 1988 — a feat so extraordinary it may never be replicated.

Her 100m and 200m world records from the 1988 Seoul Olympics still stand nearly four decades later — the fastest woman who ever lived, wrapped in neon nails and one-legged bodysuits.

The first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics, at age 14 in 1976 — she earned seven perfect scores in Montreal and changed the sport's understanding of what perfection looks like.

Two World Cup titles, two Olympic golds, and 158 international goals that made her the face of women's soccer in America and inspired an entire generation of girls to play.

Seven Olympic medals in ice hockey including four golds with Canada, the first woman to score a goal in a men's professional league, and arguably the greatest hockey player — male or female — her country has produced.

The Jamaican Pocket Rocket won back-to-back Olympic 100m golds, ran sub-10.7 after giving birth, and proved that sprinting greatness can endure deep into your 30s with relentless determination.