Who are your favorite (or best) athletes close to your age?

[Say Hey Kid]

My Generation are: Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Wayne Gretzky, Rickey Henderson, Mario Lemieux, Ronnie Lott, John McEnroe, Jim McMahon, Joe Montana, Walter Payton, Tim Raines, Ryne Sandberg, Mike Schmidt, Lawrence Taylor

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[Vamos Rafa]

Rafael Nadal (I was born in '87, he was born in '86)

 

[Prntscrn]

Ken Roczen. About a month difference

 

[Vasilevskiy]

I don't want to know.
(Marc Marquez, Neymar, Mario Gotze...)

 

[Hadoop]

Easy question. Roger Federer who is 4 1/2 months older then me.

 

[Maverick41]

Born in the same year as me:

Dirk Nowitzki - Basketball
Pavel Datsyuk - Hockey
Miroslav Klose - Football (Soccer)
Gianluigi Buffon - Football (Soccer)
Manny Pacquiao - Boxing
Tommy Haas - Tennis
Franziska van Almsick - Swimming

 

[kihei]

Too lazy to look all these up, but they are roughly in the ball park:

Ilie Nastase
Arthur Ashe
John Newcombe
Evonne Goolagong
Billy Jean King

Bobby Orr
Alexander Yakushev
Valeri Kharlamov
Yvan Cournoyer
Ken Dryden

Rod Carew
Tom Seaver
Jim Palmer
Johnny Bench
Mike Schmidt

Walt Frazier
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Pete Maravich
Julius Erving
Dave Cowens

Joe Namath
Ken Stabler
Lynn Swann
John Brockington
Willie Buchanan

Muhammad Ali
George Best
Tom Watson
Nancy Greene
Dick Fosbury

 

[Dr John Carlson]

McDavid is a day younger than me. That'll do.

 

[Desdichado93]

I'd say Roger Federer (he is 3 years younger then me) as well as Ronnie O' Sullivan and John Higgins (both are 3 years older then me)

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

Vladimir Tarasenko was born like 3 months before me, and he's one of my favorites

 

[Blainer114*]

I was born in 88' so others around my age

Brad Marchand
Sidney Crosby
Jonathan Toews
James Reimer
James Van Riemsdyk

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Jussi Jokinen was born 4 days before I was, and has the same birthday as my dad, and he is one of my favorite Hurricanes ever.

 

[Asiantuntija]

Patrik Laine
Rasmus Ristolainen
Wilma Murto

 

[Jack Straw]

Borg and McEnroe leap to mind.