UNESCO Champion for Sport


UNESCO Champions for Sport are international celebrity sport personalities advocates for the United Nations agency UNESCO. This family of world-class athletes purveys UNESCO's message the world over. As well, they reflect UNESCO's concerns to promote the values of physical education and sports with a view of building a better future for younger generations.

Current list

Currently, twelve personalities are designated UNESCO Champion for Sport:
NameCountrysincesportLink
Virgilijus AleknaLTU23 November 2007discus throw
Veronica Campbell-BrownJAMOctober 2009sprint
Serhiy BubkaUKR2003pole vault
David DouilletFRASeptember 2001judo
Vyacheslav FetisovRUS26 May 2004ice hockey
Hakuho MNGSeptember 2008sumo wrestling
Justine HeninBEL14 December 2006tennis
Vitaliy & Wladimir KlitschkoUKR4 December 2006boxing
PeléBRAApril 1994association football
Michael SchumacherGER2002Formula One racing
Jacqueline "Jackie" SilvaBRASeptember 2009beach volleyball
Óscar TabárezURU30 January 2012association football
Nadia NadimAFG/DEN2019association football
Hristo StoichkovBULMay 2016association football