With so many transcendent athletes over the previous 25 years, we thought it was time to ballot our consultants to seek out the perfect of the perfect. In contemplating the perfect athletes of the twenty first century, we expanded our decisions past North America. ESPN editions from across the globe contributed to the nominations and voting technique of the Prime 100, in addition to particular person sport listing rankings.

Voters have been instructed to contemplate solely an athlete’s efficiency since 2000. In the long run, we obtained greater than 70,000 votes from ESPN contributors. Discover each listing as they’re revealed right here:

Prime 100 athletes of the 2000s

25 future prime athletes of the twenty first Century

July 22: Prime 25 MLB gamers | Prime 10 males’s MMA fighters

July 23: Girls’s MMA, males’s soccer, girls’s soccer, girls’s tennis, males’s tennis

July 24: NFL, Olympics

July 25: NBA, WNBA, Males’s and girls’s boxing

July 26: NHL, Golf