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Dancing With The Athletes: When Sports And Dance Collide
Like sports, dancing requires dexterity, athleticism and timing. So it's no surprise that professional athletes have dominated the hit TV show Dancing With The Stars. In the show's 24 seasons, athletes have won 10 times. Olympians and NFL players fare especially well, with nine combined championships.
Here are the 10 athletes who have won Dancing With The Stars:
Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith, the NFL's all-time rushing leader, couldn't help but sing along and grin during his samba with Cheryl Burke. He received perfect scores in the samba, mambo, rumba and Cha-Cha-Cha en route to becoming the DWTS Season 3 champion.
Apolo Ohno
Eight-time Olympic speed skating medalist Apolo Ohno left the ice behind to turn up the heat with partner Julianne Hough in their Cha-Cha-Cha. Ohno went on to win Season 4 of DWTS.
Hélio Castroneves
Three-time Indy 500 winner Hélio Castroneves was almost as fast to pick up dancing as he is on the racetrack. Though his jive was not his best dance according to the judges, Castroneves left it all out on the floor, starting the dance on a sprained ankle and finishing with ripped pants and a bloodied knee.
Kristi Yamaguchi
Olympic figure skating gold medalist and DWTS Season 6 champion Kri
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Meryl Davis and Charlie White
American ice dancers
Davis and White (Meryl Davis and Charlie White) are American former ice dancers. The pair are the 2014 Olympic Champion, the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time (2011, 2013) World champion, five-time Grand Prix Final champion (2009–2013), three-time Four Continents champion (2009, 2011, 2013) and six-time U.S. national champion (2009–2014). They also won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Davis and White teamed up in 1997. They were the longest-lasting dance team in the United States. They are the first American ice dancers to win the World title, as well as the first Americans to win the Olympic title. At the 2006 NHK Trophy, they became the first ice dancing team to receive level fours on all their elements.[1]
Career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Davis began skating at age five on a local lake in the winter.[2] She started out as a single skater, but began doing ice dance at age eight.[2] She got as high as Midwestern sectionals in novice ladies before quitting singles to focus on ice dancing.[2]
White began skating at the age of 5. As a singles skater, he won the bronze medal at the 2004 U.S. Championships on the Novice level, and competed i