The Best of 2018 The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018  

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List Rules The best all-around athletes in their respective sports. Vote based on their 2018 performance only.

When it comes to being an all-around best athlete, you're not just talking about the leading scorers of all time, or the best quarterbacks. An all-around great athlete offers the best of both worlds. Whether that's being a league leader on offense and defense, or finishing first in the both the 100 and 1000-meter race, all-around athletes are certainly not one-trick ponies. In more rare cases, all-around athletes even transition from sport to sport, dominating in any. Here on this list, however, is a round up of the best in their sport. So, who are your picks for the best all-around athletes of 2018?

From offensive and defensive powerhouse and NBA star Lebron James to the home-run-slugging and play-making Aaron Judge, the sports world has seen some serious all-around talent in 2018. But these big names aren't the only athletes making waves in their sports, as players like Kevin Durant and Nolan Arenado (respectively) are both giving them a run for their money. Of course, we can't forget stars of the NHL, top soccer players, tennis players, track-and-field greats, and so on. 

On that note, take a look at the list of all-around best athletes below, and vote up those you think have performed best throughout 2018. Feel free to add any missing athletes to the list.

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Cristiano Ronaldo is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 33 Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, GOIH, known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid C.F. and the Portugal national team. He is a ...more

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398 183
Novak Djokovic is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 31 Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players ...more

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401 207
Kylian Mbappé is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
AdamAmroun1 added 19 Kylian Mbappé Lottin is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. Mbappé came into prominence at an early age, ...more

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Luka Modrić is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
AdamAmroun1 added age 33 Luka Modrić is a Croatian footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Croatia national team. Modrić plays mainly as a central midfielder, but can also play as an attacking ...more

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Roger Federer is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 37 Tennis player Roger Federer (IPA pronunciation: [ˈɹɑ.dʒər ˈfɛ.dər.ər]) (born August 8, 1981) is a Swiss tennis professional, currently ranked World No. 1. Many experts and many of his own tennis ...more

6
401 212
Rafael Nadal is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 32 Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player currently ranked world No. 5. He is widely regarded as one of the finest clay court players in history and has been ...more

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Mohamed Salah is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SidPrasad added age 26 Mohamed Salah is an Egyptian footballer who plays for Arab Contractors SC.

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Neymar is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 26 Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, commonly known as Neymar or Neymar Jr., is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Spanish club FC Barcelona and is the captain for the Brazil ...more

9
349 200
Maria Sharapova is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 31 Maria Yuryevna Sharapova is a Russian professional tennis player, who as of October 6, 2014 is ranked world No. 2 by the Women's Tennis Association. A United States resident since 1994, ...more

10
293 149
Robert Lewandowski is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 30 Robert Lewandowski is a Polish footballer who plays as striker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and captains the Polish national team. After being the top scorer in the third and second tiers ...more

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269 135
Karim Benzema is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
AdamAmroun1 added age 31 Karim Mostafa Benzema is a French footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the French national football team as a striker. He is described as an "immensely talented ...more

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Mesut Özil is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
AdamAmroun1 added age 30 Mesut Özil is a German footballer who plays for English club Arsenal and the German national team. Özil has been a youth national team member since 2006, and a member of the German ...more

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Virat Kohli is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
lizzyrocker added age 30 Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer. A right-handed middle-order batsman, he is the captain of the Indian Test team. He captained the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup ...more

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Giorgio Chiellini is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 34 Giorgio Fabricio Chiellini is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team. He began his career as a left-back, but made his name as an ...more

15
268 137
Angelique Kerber is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 30 Angelique Kerber is a German tennis player of Polish background. Kerber has won four singles titles on the WTA tour, as well as eleven singles and three doubles on the ITF tour in her career. On ...more

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Franck Ribéry is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
AdamAmroun1 added age 35 Franck Henry Pierre Ribéry, also known as Bilal Yusuf Mohammed as an adopted name since his conversion in 2006 to Islam, is a French footballer currently playing for German Bundesliga ...more

17
534 478
LeBron James is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 34 LeBron Raymone James is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. Standing at 6 ft 8 in and weighing 250 lbs., he has started ...more

18
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Serena Williams is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 37 Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her World No. 1 in singles on ...more

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363 426
Lionel Messi is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 31 Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi Cuccittini is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He is a forward and serves ...more

20
317 439
Stephen Curry is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 30 Wardell Stephen "Steph" Curry II is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. Listed at 6 ft 3 in tall ...more

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Kevin Durant is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 30 Kevin Wayne Durant is an American professional basketball player who plays with the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. Standing at 6 ft 9 in and weighing 240 pounds, ...more

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Tom Brady is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
lizzyrocker added age 41 Thomas Edward Patrick "Tom" Brady, Jr., nicknamed Tom Terrific, is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. After playing college ...more

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197 384
Simone Biles is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 21 Simone Arianne Biles is an American artistic gymnast. Biles is a two-time US National All-Around Champion, two-time World All-Around Champion, two-time World Floor Champion, the 2014 World Beam ...more

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Russell Westbrook is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 30 Russell Westbrook Jr. is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. Westbrook played college basketball ...more

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James Harden is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 29 James Edward Harden, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. Harden played college basketball for ...more

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Venus Williams is listed (or ranked) 26 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
lizzyrocker added age 38 Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 11 in singles as of February 1, 2015. She has been ranked World No. 1 in ...more

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Aaron Judge is listed (or ranked) 27 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 26 Aaron Judge is an American professional baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). Judge played college baseball at Fresno State. A right-handed batter and ...more

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Alexander Ovechkin is listed (or ranked) 28 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 33 Alexander Mikhailovich "Alex" Ovechkin is a Russian professional ice hockey winger and captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. Prior to playing in the NHL, ...more

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Russell Wilson is listed (or ranked) 29 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 30 Russell Carrington Wilson is an American football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. Wilson was selected by the Seahawks with the 12th pick in the third round ...more

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Julio Jones is listed (or ranked) 30 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 29 Quintorris Lopez "Julio" Jones is an American football wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Falcons with the sixth overall pick ...more

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Drew Brees is listed (or ranked) 31 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 39 Drew Christopher Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. After a prolific college football career at Purdue University, he was ...more

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Le'Veon Bell is listed (or ranked) 32 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 26 Le'Veon Bell is an American football running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Steelers in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played ...more

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Chris Paul is listed (or ranked) 33 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 33 Christopher Emmanuel Paul (born May 6, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has won the NBA Rookie of the ...more

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Von Miller is listed (or ranked) 34 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 29 Vonnie B'Vsean Miller is an American football linebacker for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He played college football for Texas A&M University, earned consensus ...more

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DeAndre Hopkins is listed (or ranked) 35 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 26 DeAndre Rashaun Hopkins, also known as "Nuk," is an American football wide receiver for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Texans in the first ...more

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Todd Gurley is listed (or ranked) 36 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 24 Todd Gurley II is an American football running back for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia where he earned All-SEC honors in 2012 ...more

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Rob Gronkowski is listed (or ranked) 37 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 29 Robert James "Rob" Gronkowski, nicknamed "Gronk", is a tight end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He played college football for the University ...more

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Carson Wentz is listed (or ranked) 38 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added Carson James Wentz is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at North Dakota State University (NDSU) and ...more

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Aaron Rodgers is listed (or ranked) 39 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 35 Aaron Charles Rodgers is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. Rodgers played college football for California, where he set several career ...more

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Aaron Donald is listed (or ranked) 40 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 24 Aaron Charles Donald is an American football defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Rams in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He ...more

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105 355
Sidney Crosby is listed (or ranked) 41 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 31 Sidney Patrick Crosby, ONS is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who serves as captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. Crosby was drafted first overall by the ...more

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Antonio Brown is listed (or ranked) 42 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
SuperUnicorn33 added age 40 Antonio Duval Brown is a former American football wide receiver. Brown played with the Buffalo Bills and the Washington Redskins in the National Football League. He played college football at ...more

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Alex Morgan is listed (or ranked) 43 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 29 Alexandra Patricia "Alex" Morgan is an American soccer player and Olympic gold medalist. She is a forward for the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League and for the ...more

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Harry Kane is listed (or ranked) 44 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 25 Harry Edward Kane is an English professional footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team as a forward. He made his senior debut for Tottenham on 25 August 2011 in a ...more

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José Altuve is listed (or ranked) 45 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 28 José Carlos Altuve is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. Altuve made his major league debut in July 2011. As of 2014, he is ...more

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Mookie Betts is listed (or ranked) 46 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
Markus Lynn "Mookie" Betts, is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. Betts is listed at 5'9", 156 pounds, and bats and ...more

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88 338
Javier Báez is listed (or ranked) 47 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 26 Ednel Javier Báez is a Puerto Rican professional baseball second baseman for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball. Born in Puerto Rico, Báez attended high school in ...more

48
77 335
Carlos Correa is listed (or ranked) 48 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 24 Carlos Javier Correa, Jr. is a Puerto Rican baseball shortstop who was drafted first overall by the Houston Astros in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft. An honor roll graduate of the Puerto ...more

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Carli Lloyd is listed (or ranked) 49 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 36 Carli Anne Lloyd is an American professional soccer midfielder who currently plays for Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League and the United States women's national soccer team. She ...more

50
63 331
Megan Rapinoe is listed (or ranked) 50 on the list The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
age 33 Megan Anna Rapinoe is an American professional soccer midfielder and Olympic gold medalist who plays for Seattle Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League. She is also a member of the ...more