World sport left poorer after 2022. Among the most important names who decided to leave the arena this year are Roger Federer, Serena Williams, as well as Asaph Powell.

Big football retirements in 2022 – Home team

TENNIS

Roger Federer

The legendary Swiss retired in September at the age of 41, his last competition being the Laver Cup. His retirement was marked by an emotional ceremony that also saw his arch-rival and friend Rafael Nadal cry.

Federer was the ATP leader for 310 weeks, 237 of which were consecutive (February 2, 2004 – August 18, 2008).

He has 20 Grand Slam trophies: 6 Australian Open, one Roland Garros, 8 Wimbledon and 5 consecutive US Open.

He has won 1,251 ATP tournaments, second only to Jimmy Connors (1,274).

In addition, Federer won 103 trophies in ATP tournaments. The legendary Swiss won the Tournament of Champions six times, which is a record, writes News.ro.

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Serena Williams

The American ended her career as a tennis player in September, at the age of 41.

Williams has 23 Grand Slam titles. By the number of WTA titles, Serena Williams ranks fifth in the historical ranking with 73 trophies.

He was the WTA leader for eight periods, between 2002-2017, for a total of 319 weeks.

Serena ended her career with a balance of 858 won matches and 156 losses.

She has won more than $94 million in prize money in tennis tournaments, more than any other athlete in the game.

In addition, Serena Williams won four gold medals at the Olympic Games.

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Ashley Barty

Women’s world number one Ashley Barty shocked the sporting world in March when she announced her retirement from professional tennis at the age of just 25.

Barty won her first Grand Slam at Roland Garros in 2019 and Wimbledon in 2021.

In January, she became the first Australian to win a singles title (men’s or women’s) at the Australian Open in 44 years.

Barty won 15 singles and 12 doubles titles and earned $23,829,071 in tennis. In total, she was the WTA leader for 121 weeks.

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Kim Clijsters

On April 12, Kim Clijsters announced that she was retiring from tennis for the third time.

At the age of 39, Clijsters returned to tennis for the second time in 2019, but the coronavirus pandemic and several injuries prevented her from reaching the top of women’s tennis again. She played only five matches, all of which she lost, before saying goodbye to the sport in which she once again competed.

Kim Clijsters, the former WTA number one who won the US Open in 2005, retired for the first time in 2007 to raise a family. She returned to the court in 2009 and won three more Grand Slams, twice at the US Open and once at the Australian Open, before retiring again in 2012.

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Frenchman Jo-Wifried Tsonga ended his career on May 24 at the age of 37.

In the last period, he faced several injuries and reached the 220th place in the ATP.

Tsonga started his professional career in 2004 and won 18 titles.

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GYMNASTICS

Kohei Uchimura

The 33-year-old “King Kohei” announced his retirement on Jan. 10, five months after failing to win a single medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Uchimura has three Olympic titles in London and Rio de Janeiro.

From 2009 to 2016, Uchimura was the best in the individual all-around with six world titles and two Olympic titles in London in 2012 and Rio in 2016.

Uchimura won ten world titles: six in the individual event, one on the floor, one on the parallel bars, one on the fixed beam and one in the team event.

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ATHLETICS

Justin Gatlin

On February 10, on his 40th birthday, Justin Gatlin announced his retirement. The American sprinter won the 2004 Olympic 100m title and four world titles. His career was also marked by a doping ban in 2006.

Gatlin capped off a rich career that was marked by an Olympic 100m title in Athens in 2004, two silver medals (4x100m in Athens, 100m in Rio in 2016) and two bronze medals (200m in Athens and 100 meters in London in 2012).

He is also a four-time world outdoor champion: 100m and 200m in Helsinki in 2005, 100m in London in 2017 and 4x100m in Doha in 2019. He also has six silver medals and two World Indoor Championship titles. in 2003 and 2012.

One of the highlights of his career is testing positive for testosterone at the Kansas State Relays in April 2006. He announced the results in July 2006. USADA suspended him for eight years. The ban was reduced to four years and he resumed competition on 3 August 2010.

After this positive test, each of his results was scrutinized, even questioned. It was the same when he managed to defeat Christian Coleman and Usain Bolt in the final of the World Championships in London in 2017.

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Allison Felix

The 37-year-old American, the most decorated athlete of all time, a seven-time Olympic champion and a 13-time world champion, ended his sports career in the summer.

She competed in five Olympic Games and won a record seven Olympic titles, four in the 4x400m relay, two in the 4x100m relay and one in the 200m.

She has a total of 11 Olympic medals, winning silver three times (twice at 200 meters and once at 400 meters) and one bronze (at 400 meters). Only Finland’s Paavo Nurmi has more Olympic medals than her, 12, between 1920 and 1928.

The last Olympic Games in which he participated were held last year in Tokyo, where he won gold, 4×100 meters and bronze.

Her record at the World Championships in Athletics is even richer: 13 gold medals, also a record number, three silver and two bronze.

In November 2018, Felix gave birth to her daughter Camryn via emergency C-section at 32 weeks after discovering she had pre-eclampsia, a potentially life-threatening condition for both of them.

Less than a year after her birth, she became the most successful athlete in the history of the world championships, winning two gold medals in the relay in Doha.

In the same 2019, she sued sponsor Nike over maternity benefits. In May 2019, she wrote in the New York Times that Nike wanted to pay her 70 percent less after she became a mother, and three months later, the American sports equipment manufacturer changed its position.

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Asaph Powell

Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, the former 100m world record holder, officially announced his retirement in November, four days after he turned 40.

The world record holder in the 100 meters in June 2005 in Athens with a result of 9.77 inches, Asafa Powell has not competed on the international stage in recent years.

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