| KASPAROV | Gary, chess player who became world champion in 1985 (8) |
| PETERLEKO | Hungarian chess player who became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994 |
| NAVRATILOVA | Czech-born tennis player who became world no. 1 in 1978 (7,11) |
| MARTINA | Czech-born tennis player who became world no. 1 in 1978 (7,11) |
| GARBINEMUGURUZA | Spanish-Venezuelan female tennis player who became world No 1 in 2017 |
| KARPOV | Anatoly ___, chess grandmaster who became world champion in 1975 when Bobby Fischer refused to play (6) |
| SONNYLISTON | Boxer who became world champion in 1962 by beating Floyd Patterson |
| WILLIAMS | Formula One motor racing team for whom Nigel Mansell drove when he became world champion in 1992 (8) |
| BUCHANAN | Ken --, Scottish boxer who became world lightweight champion in 1970 (8) |
| ALEKHINE | Alexander ___, Russian-born French chess player who was world champion from 1927 to 1935 and 1937 to 1946 (8) |
| RUSEDSKI | Canadian-born tennis player who became British No.1 in the late 1990s (8) |
| LASER | Sailing class in which Tauranga's Tom Saunders became world champion in 2021 (5) |
| BILLIARDS | Game at which Mike Russell became world champion in 2002 (9) |
| DENNIS | ___ Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player who was World Champion in 1985 (6) |
| ALAINPROST | French Formula One driver who was world champion in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993 |
| TAL | Mikhail, Latvian who became world chess champion in 1960 (3) |
| KENBUCHANAN | British boxer who became world lightweight champion in 1979 (3,8) |
| TAYLOR | Dennis ......, snooker's world champion in 1985 (6) |
| BARRYMCGUIGAN | Irish boxer who became W.B.A. world featherweight champion in 1985 (5,8) |
| HAGLER | Marvin ......, boxer who became world middleweight champion in 1980 (6) |
