Sports Personalities
Hank Aaron (home run champion in major league baseball) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian B J Armstrong (US Basketball star) Al Beckles (body builder) Sorya Bonali (ice skater) Les Brown (veteran runner) Peter Burwash (tennis) Andreas Cahling (body builder) Chris Campbell (1980 world champion wrestler) Joanna Conway (ice skater) Sylvia Cranston (triathlete) Sally Eastall (Marathon runner - UK No 2, vegan) Di Edwards (runner, Olympic semi-finalist) Cory Everson (bodybuilder, Ms Olympia 6 times) Katie Fitzgibbon (marathon runner) Clare Francis (sailer) Louis Freitas (body builder) Carol Gould (marathon runner) Estelle Gray (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian Sammy Green (runner) Ruth Heidrich (3-time Ironman finisher, marathoner, age-group record holder, Pres. Vegetarian Society of Honolulu) (vegan) Source: personal acquaintance, also...her book--A Race for Life Sally Hibberd (British Women's Mountain Bike Champion) Sharon Hounsell (Miss Wales Bodybuilding Champion) Desmond Howard (formerly w/Washington Redskins, now w/Jacksonville Jaguars) Source: PETA mailer Roger Hughes (Welsh National Ski Champion) David Johnson (BAA coach) Kathy Johnson (Olympic Gymnast) Alan Jones (British ski jumper) Billie Jean King (tennis champion) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian Killer Kowalski (wrestler) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian Jack LaLaine (Fitness guru) (vegan) Donnie LaLonde (Former Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. (Lost title to Sugar Ray Leonard)) Source: Article in San Jose Mercury News Tony LaRussa (Manager of St. Louis Cardinals - US team) Source: PETA, Animals Agenda, Animals Voice, Veg Times, others Silken Laumann (Olympic rower) Source: Cooking Television Show Judy Leden (British, European & World Hang Gliding champion) Marv Levey (Buffalo Bills Coach) Jutta Müller (multiple Windsurfing World Cup Champion) Source: Flutlicht 95/6/18 on Südwest 3 (German TV program) Jack Maitland (triathlete and fell runner) Cheryl Marek (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian Leslie Marx (fencer;1996 woman's epee national champion) Kirsty McDermott (runner) Lindford McFarquar (body builder) Robert Millar (cyclist) Monika Montsho (weightlifter, 2 x runnerup GB Championships 60kg, NW woman weightlifter of the year 1991) Edwin Moses Martina Navratilova (Retired Tennis Champion) Source: Magazine Interviews/Genesis Awards Paavo Nurmi Bill Pearl (Bodybuilder, Mr America) Source: Getting Stronger by Bill Pearl, pg 399 Bill Pearl (Mr. Universe and bodybuilder) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian Dennis Rodman (Basketball for Bulls) Source: Oprah, episode sometime in May, 1996 Dave Scott (five time winner of the Ironman Triathlon) (vegan) "The New Laurel's Kitchen" cookbook Debbie Spaeth-Herring (Georgia State power-lifter) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian Jonathon Speelman (chess) Lucy Stephens (triathlete - vegan) Kirsty Wade (runner) Bill Walton (basketball player) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going
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