The Greatest Baseball player at the Olympic Games
Who is the greatest Baseball player of all time based on Olympic Games performances? We have used a weighted total medal count of each male and female Baseball player from all modern Olympic Games to rank their overall performance, using data from all Olympics including the Tokyo 2020 Games.
The best all-time performing Baseball player at the Olympic Games is cuban player Pedro Luis Lazo who won 4 medals (2 of them gold) between 1996–2008. See the table below to see how other players ranked.
See also the best athlete from each sport, and the best overall.
Top Olympic Games Baseball Players
Here are the top ranked athletes from the sport of baseball for performances at all Olympiads at which Baseball appeared, using the Topend Sports Weighted Ranking System to order the athletes, awarding points for both gold (6 points) and other medals (silver 2 pts, bronze 1 pt). All athletes who have won at least 3 medals have been included in this list, and all are from Cuba!
Table: The Top Ranked Athletes from Baseball at the Olympic Games (including 2021)
rank name country Gold Silver Bronze total
medalsrating 1 Pedro Luis Lazo Cuba 2 2 0 4 16 2 Omar Ajete Cuba 2 1 0 3 14 3 Orestes Kindelán Cuba 2 1 0 3 14 4 Omar Linares Cuba 2 1 0 3 14 5 Antonio Pacheco Cuba 2 1 0 3 14 6 Eduardo Paret Cuba 2 1 0 3 14 7 Antonio Scull Cuba 2 1 0 3 14 8 Luis Ulacia Cuba 2 1 0 3 14 9 José Estrada González Cuba 2 0 0 2 12 10 Alberto Hernández Cuba 2 0 0 2 12 11 Juan Padilla Cuba 2 0 0 2 12 12 Lázaro Vargas Cuba 2 0 0 2 12 13 Ariel Pestano Cuba 1 2 0 3 10 14 Norge Luis Vera Cuba 1 2 0 3 10
Related Pages
- List of the best athlete from each Olympic sport
- The greatest ever Olympic athlete
- About Olympic Medal Ranking Systems
- medal tables from all Olympic Games
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