Chris takes the (wedding ceremony) cake on this regard, having performed this not as soon as, not twice, however thrice with athletes of three completely different sports activities and three completely different nationalities. She tied the knot (moderately loosely) earlier than with British tennis participant John Lloyd and American skier Andy Mill. It will need to have been real love with Evert and Norman as she paid Mill $7 million of their divorce settlement and Norman gave his ex a cool $128 million to release.
Listed below are our different prime 10 sports activities {couples}:
Nancy Chaffee and Ralph Kiner: Nancy was ranked No. 4 on the earth in tennis earlier than she married Kiner, the Corridor of Fame baseball participant and longtime Mets announcer who led the Nationwide League six years in a row in home runs. They’d three kids earlier than divorcing. She caught to sports activities, later marrying Jack Whitaker, the longtime CBS-TV sports activities announcer. Nancy died of most cancers at age 73 in 2002 .
Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner: Nadia, now 46, as a Romanian gymnast received 5 Olympic gold medals in all-around, stability beam and uneven bars and was the primary to attain an ideal 10 in an Olympic occasion. Conner, 50, took gold on the parallel bars in 1984. The 2 had met at a meet in 1976 and 20 years later, they bought married in Bucharest. Nadia grew to become a U.S. citizen in 2001. Now they run a gymnastics faculty in Norman, Okla., and do TV commentary and far charity work. They’d a child boy in 2006.
Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi: The last word tennis energy couple … she received 22 Grand Slam singles titles, he received eight. Steffi, 39, and Andre, 38, wed in Las Vegas in 2001 after changing into shut in 1999 whereas dancing the normal champions’ dance on the French Open, which they each had received. They’ve two kids, Jaden Gil and Jaz. The 2 have turn into well-known off the courtroom now for operating a constitution faculty in Vegas for at-risk kids.
Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra: Mia, 36, is definitely probably the most well-known girls’s soccer participant ever … she led the U.S. staff to Olympic gold in 1996 and 2004 and holds the document (male or feminine) for many worldwide objectives (158). Nomar, 35, led the AL in batting with averages of .357 and .372 … phenomenal for a shortstop … with the Pink Sox. He is taking part in for the Dodgers now as his profession winds do