List of sportspeople who competed for more than one nation
This is a list of sportspeople who have moved to compete for another country. Not included in this list are:
- Players who could choose to play for a new country after the dissolution of their former country. This mainly affected players from the former Soviet Union, such as Viktor Onopko, and the former Yugoslavia, such as Davor Šuker.
- Players who represented the country they moved to in childhood. Frequently, the home countries of such players are former colonies of their future countries (such as Patrick Vieira, born in Senegal but moved to France in childhood). Another example of such a player was Marcel Desailly, a Ghana-born player who was adopted in childhood by a French diplomat and raised in France.
- Players who could have chosen to represent another country due to their birthplace, parentage, ancestry (i.e., at least one grandparent), and/or residence. Some notable examples:
- Former England international Owen Hargreaves's birth in Canada made him eligible for that country, he was eligible to play for England through his father and Wales through his mother, and his residence in Germany would have made him eligible for that country also.
- Former German international Kevin Kurányi, who chose Germany (parentage) over Brazil (birthplace), Panama (parentage) and Hungary (ancestry).
- Former USA international Earnie Stewart, who chose the USA (parentage) over the Netherlands (birthplace and parentage).
- However, players who actually represented one country, either at junior or senior level, before representing a second country are included, even if they qualify by ancestry. For example:
- In football, Nigel Quashie represented England at U-21 level, but qualified for Scotland via his Scottish grandfather, and plays for the Scotland senior side.
- In rugby union, Diego Domínguez played for Argentina at senior level before playing for Italy, for which he qualified via a grandparent. Similarly, Clyde Rathbone represented South Africa at U-21 level before opting for Australia at senior level, and Isaac Boss represented New Zealand at U-19 level before choosing Ireland at senior level; both also qualified for their new countries via a grandparent. Daniel Vickerman represented South Africa at U21 level, but then went on to play 63 times for Australia, including two Rugby World Cup finals.
Alpine skiing
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Kilian Albrecht |  |
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| Katrin Gutensohn | |
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| Elfi Eder | |
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| Urs Imboden |  |
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| Christa Kinshofer | |
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| Alessia Dipol |  |
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| Edit Miklós |  |
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| Dalibor Šamšal |  |
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| Romed Baumann | |
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Archery
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Natalia Valeeva | |
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Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
| Name of athlete | Previous national team | New national team |
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| Bárbaro Cañizares |  |
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| Bruce Chen |  |
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| Yasser Gómez | |
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| Alex Rodriguez | |
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Basketball
| Name of athlete | Previous national team | New nation team |
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| Vassil Evtimov |  |
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| Ermal Kuqo |  |
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| Anton Gavel |  |
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| Hakeem Olajuwon |  |
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| Jericho Cruz |  |
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| Charlie Villanueva | |
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Biathlon
Bobsleigh
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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Boxing
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| Kostya Tszyu |  |
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| Dariusz Michalczewski |  |
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| Lennox Lewis | |
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| Graham Moughton | |
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Bridge
Parenthetical date spans such as (1935–1937) or (1935–1935) report first and last representative appearances in World and European championship tournaments, according to the World Bridge Federation and European Bridge League shared database (WBF People Finder or EBL Player Lookup). This list does not cover, say, US immigrant participation in United States Bridge Championships competition to determine US representatives—so to speak, transfers of national eligibility not consummated by play as national representatives.
Single dates imply one known representative international appearance, such as one-time play in the now-biennial Bermuda Bowl tournament.[5]
Canoeing
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Sergiy Bezugliy |  |
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| Valentin Demyanenko | |
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| Maksym Prokopenko | |
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| Stjepan Janić | |
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| Josefa Idem | |
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| Natasa Dusev-Janics | |
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| Michał Śliwiński | |
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| Marcel Glavan | |
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| Benoît Peschier | |
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| Dalma Ružičić-Benedek | |
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| Fabien Lefèvre | |
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Chess
Cricket
Only those who played for more than one International Cricket Council (ICC) member are listed.
Cue sports
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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Cycling
Diving
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Huang Qiang | |
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| Kevin Chávez |  |
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| Li Shixin | |
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| Alexander Bondar | |
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| Irina Lashko | |
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| Uschi Freitag | |
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Draughts
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Alexander Baljakin |  |
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Equestrianism
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Jos Lansink | |
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| Sven Rothenberger | |
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| Eddy Stibbe | |
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| Phillip Dutton | |
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Fencing
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Nathalie Moellhausen | |
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| Luan Jujie | |
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| Igor Tikhomirov | |
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| Hajnalka Kiraly-Picot | |
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| Paola Pliego | |
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Figure skating
Men’s Football (soccer)
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Women’s Football (soccer)
| Name of athlete | Previous national team | New national team |
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| Sophie Perry | |
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| Emily Kraft | |
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| Ruesha Littlejohn |  |
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| Sophie Howard | |
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| Rhiannon Roberts | |
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Gymnastics
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Anna Dogonadze |  |
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| Li Donghua | |
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| Katerina Pisetsky | |
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| Anna Pavlova | |
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| Yulia Inshina | |
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| Annia Hatch | |
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Handball
| Name of athlete | Previous national team | New national team |
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| Andrej Klimovets | |
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| Oleg Velyky | |
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| Bogdan Wenta | |
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| Ivo Díaz | |
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| Carlos Reinaldo Pérez | |
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| Vladimir Rivero | |
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| Bojana Radulović | |
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| Roberto Julián Duranona | |
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| Katarina Bulatović | |
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| Ana Đokić | |
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| Irina Pusic | |
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| Katja Nyberg |  |
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| Lina Olsson Rosenberg |  |
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| Hassan Mabrouk |  |
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| Eldar Memišević |  |
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| Bertrand Roiné | |
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| Goran Stojanović | |
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| Žarko Marković | |
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| Danijel Šarić | |
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| Iztok Puc | |
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| Talant Dujshebaev | |
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| Julio Fis | |
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| Rolando Uríos | |
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| Arpad Sterbik | |
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Ice hockey
Until German courts were forced to rule on the eligibility of Miroslav Sikora in 1987, it was forbidden to compete for more than one nation in IIHF events.[35]
- * = Only represented this nation at the Canada Cup or World Cup of Hockey and did not affect IIHF or Olympic eligibility
- ^ = Eligibility contested in only appearance
Judo
Karate
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Junior Lefevre | |
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Lacrosse
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Max Seibald | |
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Lawn Bowls
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Morgan Moffat | |
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Luge
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Miroslav Zajonc |  |
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Motorcycling
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Travis Pastrana | |
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Netball
| Name of athlete | Previous national team | New national team |
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| Leana de Bruin |  |
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| Irene van Dyk | |
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Nordic skiing
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Mikhail Botvinov | |
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| Katerina Smutna | |
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| Ivan Babikov | |
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| Jan Schmid | |
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| Akseli Kokkonen | |
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| Johann Mühlegg | |
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| Antonina Ordina | |
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Pool and snooker
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Alex Pagulayan | |
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Rowing
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Igor Lucić | |
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| Luka Đorđević | |
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Rugby League
| Name of athlete | Previous national team | New national team |
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| Brent Webb | |
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| Nathan Fein | |
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| Setaimata Sa | |
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| Brad Thorn | |
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| Tonie Carroll | |
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| Willie Mason | |
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| Lote Tuqiri |  |
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| Lesley Vainikolo | |
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| Maurie Fa'asavalu | |
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| Christiaan Roets | |
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| Rangi Chase | |
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Rugby Union
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Sailing
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Philipine van Aanholt | |
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| Carolijn Brouwer | |
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| Mitch Booth | |
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| Maksim Oberemko | |
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Shooting
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Short track speed skating
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Choi Min-Kyung |  |
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| Viktor Ahn | |
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Skeleton
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Sean Greenwood | |
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| Dirk Matschenz | |
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Ski orienteering
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Olga Novikova | |
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Snowboarding
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Vic Wild | |
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Softball
| Name of athlete | Previous national team | New nation team |
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| Amber Freeman[106][107] | |
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Speed skating
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Emese Hunyady | |
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| Bart Veldkamp | |
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| Hans van Helden | |
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Squash
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Natalie Grainger | |
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| Peter Nicol | |
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Surfing
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Wendy Botha | |
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Swimming
Table tennis
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Liu Song | |
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| Geng Lijuan | |
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| Chen Xinhua | |
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| Chen Weixing | |
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| Feng Tianwei | |
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| Qianhong Gotsch | |
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| He Zhili | |
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| Li Jiao | |
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| Li Jie | |
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| Li Jiawei | |
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| Melek Hu | |
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| Jing Jun Hong | |
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| Jiang Huajun | |
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| Wenguan Johnny Huang | |
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| Chen Jing | |
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| Han Ying | |
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| Diane Scholer-Rowe | |
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| Lin Ling | |
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| Zhou Mi | |
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| Tie Yana | |
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| Fliura Abbate-Bulatova | |
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| He Zhili | |
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| Seiko Iseki | |
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| Ni Xialian | |
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| Yadira Silva | |
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| Elena Timina | |
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| Li Ping | |
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| He Zhi Wen | |
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| Laszlo Bellak | |
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| Gao Jun | |
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| Rupa Mukherjee | |
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Taekwondo
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
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| Aaron Cook | |
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| Zoran Prerad | |
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Tennis
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Volleyball
| Name of athlete | Previous national team | New national team |
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| Taismary Agüero | |
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| Osmany Juantorena | |
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| Carolina Costagrande | |
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| Elena Chebukina | |
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| Irina Kirillova | |
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| Tatyana Sidorenko | |
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| Dragana Marinković | |
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| Brankica Mihajlović | |
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| Wilfredo León | |
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| Andrej Kravárik | |
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Water polo
| Name of athlete | Previous national team | New national team |
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| István Gergely | |
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| Slobodan Soro | |
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Weightlifting
Wrestling
Notes
- Kilian Albrecht at Sports Reference
- Lorig represented Unified Team (then known as Khatuna Kvrivichvili) in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
- "Fenomena pemain pindah negara". BBC. 18 August 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- "Beiwen Zhang: Pursuing Dreams Single-Mindedly". bwfworldsuperseries.com. 7 April 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- Some entries in international Teams or Pairs tournaments have represented WBF geographical zones such as North America, rather than any "bridge nation" such as Canada. A change of zones qualifies in the spirit of this table, which lists the nationalities rather than the zones without reference to the national/zonal details.
- "Rixi Markus". WBF.
Austria and Great Britain won Ladies and Women world team championships with Rixi Markus and she enjoys the greatest historical reputation among their players. - "Laszlo Decsi". WBF. 2011-09-29.
Francis, Henry G.; Truscott, Alan F.; Francis, eds. (2001). The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (6th ed.). Memphis, TN: American Contract Bridge League. p. 607. ISBN 0-943855-44-6. OCLC 49606900.
Historia de los Campeonatos Sudamericanos Libres [1948–2005 table]. See 1955, "Ladislao Desci". confsudbridge.org. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
Hungary and Brazil won Open team championships of Europe and South America with Décsi; the former prior to the first world championship tournament (1937), the latter prior to South America's first participation in a world championship tournament (1958). - "Michael Rosenberg". WBF.
- "Sam Lev". WBF. 2011-10-01.
- "Zia Mahmood". WBF. 2011-10-01.
- "Bjorn Fallenius". WBF. 2011-09-29.
Fallenius played for one team representing USA (2004) and played with Americans in many transnational events. Since then he has played for at least one team representing Sweden. See also Cavendish Invitational regarding his move to New York City. - "Mark Molson". WBF. 2011-09-29.
- "Geoff Hampson". WBF. 2014-06-27.
- "Fred Gitelman". WBF. 2014-06-27.
- "Franck Multon". WBF.
- 2009 if the European Champions Cup is interpreted as a tournament among national representatives.
"Franck Multon". WBF.
"Pierre Zimmermann". WBF. - Zimmermann has been the employer, captain, and one of six players for many 'Zimmermann' teams in transnational events. Regarding the move to Monaco, see this report on the Bridgetopics website. Archived 12 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- "Fulvio Fantoni". WBF. 2010-10-01.
- "Claudio Nunes". WBF. 2010-10-01.
- "Geir Helgemo". WBF. 2014-06-27.
- "Tor Helness". WBF. 2010-10-01.
- "Fritzi Gordon". WBF. 2011-09-29.
- "Boris Koytchou". WBF. 2014-06-27.
- Rosenkranz played on Mexico teams in the World Team Olympiad 1972, 1980, 1988, 1996, and on 'USA2' in the 1983 Bermuda Bowl.
"George Rosenkranz". WBF.
"Jorge Rosenkranz". WBF. - "Loula de Zogheb". WBF. 2011-09-29.
- "Irina Levitina". WBF. 2014-06-27.
- "Pierre Zimmermann ". WBF. 2011-08-08.
- "Alan Truscott". WBF. 2014-06-27.
- "Benito Garozzo". WBF. 2014-06-27.
Between his play on open and senior teams, Garozzo represented Italy as coach of youth teams in European and World competition 1994 to 1996. - "Jaggy Shivdasani". WBF. 2014-06-27.
- "Jacek Pszczola ". WBF. 2014-06-27.
The WBF database shows that Pszczola has represented USA in teams competition only as coach, 2005 and 2008. - After debut match, FIFA disqualified Tiago Silva to play for Bulgaria
- Represented Germany at U-18, U-19 & U-20 levels before choosing the Philippines at senior level.
- Represented the Philippines in 1917 at senior level before choosing Spain at senior level, whom he represented from 1921-1923. Also represented Catalonia from 1915-1924.
- Podnieks, Andrew (9 May 2016). "Not where you're from". IIHF.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
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- Podnieks, Andrew (2010). IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011. Moydart Press.
- Represented both New Zealand and Samoa in internationals.
- After representing Australia at league, Thorn represented New Zealand at rugby union.
- Represented Australia after representing New Zealand.
- New Zealand born Mason represented Tonga, by heritage, before representing Australia.
- Played test Rugby League for Fiji before playing for Australia at league, then union, then league again.
- Also represented
- Played international rugby union for Samoa before and after switching to and from League.
- Represented both Argentina and Australia at senior level. Also played test rugby for South American Jaguars and representative rugby for Tahiti
- Represented both Argentina and Australia at senior level.
- Played tests for Argentina before playing for Italy.
- Represented Argentina at u19 and u21 level.
- Represented Australia before representing Italy.
- Represented Australia before representing Ireland.
- Represented Australia internationally at 7's.
- Played international rugby league for Australia.
- Played for Australia at under-19 level before choosing Italy at senior level.
- Although Steve was born in Australia from Tongan heritage, he represented Australia at U20 level before switching allegiance and representing Tonga at senior international level.
- Represented Australia in Rugby League.
- Barbieri's brother Michael played test rugby for Canada.
- Capped by NZ before returning and capped by England.
- Played test Rugby League for Fiji and Australia.
- Played for France at under-21 level before attending university in the United States and playing American football there. After a brief NFL career, he returned to rugby union and represented the USA at senior level.
- Represented South Africa at 7s and toured with the Springboks but never played a test match
- Represented South Africa at 7s
- Represented New Zealand at senior level in both rugby union and rugby league before representing Croatia at senior level in union.
- Represented
- Waldrom's brother Scott represented New Zealand at senior level in a non-international match.
- Played for New Zealand at under-19 level before choosing Ireland at senior level.
- Played test rugby for NZ before playing for Wales
- Represented both NZ and Japan at test level.
- Represented NZ at test level in rugby league.
- His Samoan father, Brayn Williams, represented New Zealand at test level.
- Represented New Zealand at under-21 level, then represented Samoa at senior level, and still later represented New Zealand at senior level.
- Represented NZ at test level before switching back to Samoa and playing test rugby for Samoa.
- Represented Samoa before switching allegiance to New Zealand.
- Bachop played for Samoa before playing for NZ later returning to play for Samoa.
- Va'aiga Tuigamala played international rugby union for New Zealand before playing international rugby league for Samoa then playing international rugby union for Samoa.
- Manu's four elder brothers all represented Samoa.
- Gage later returned to South Africa and represented South Africa.
- Captained SA 7's before playing and captaining Ireland.
- Played for South Africa at U19 level. His brother played for South Africa in a non-cap match and his cousin has been capped for South Africa.
- Played for South Africa at U21 and U23 level.
- Played for South Africa at U21 and for Emerging Springboks.
- Played test cricket for South Africa.
- Played Rugby League and U21 union for South Africa.
- His grandson, Patrick Lambie, has been capped for South Africa.
- Mellish later returned to South Africa and represented South Africa.
- Played test cricket for South Africa.
- Played for South Africa at U19.
- Played for South Africa at U20.
- Played as captain test cricket for South Africa.
- Represented both Scotland and South Africa at test level.
- South African born from Scottish stock, Aitken represented Scotland at the Hong Kong Sevens while studying at Oxford University before returning to SA and representing SA at international level.
- Played for SA at school and U19/21 level.
- Roland's brother Marc captained the South African sevens team.
- Played for South Africa at U21 level.
- Won the U21 World Cup with South Africa in 2002.
- Captained South Africa at under-21 level before choosing Australia at senior level.
- Captained South Africa in test rugby before playing for Australia.
- Played for South Africa at under-21 level before choosing Australia at senior level.
- Stewart was born while his South African parents were on holiday in Canada. He learnt his rugby in SA, then played for Canada, then returned and played for South Africa.
- Lentz played U21 rugby for SA before playing for the US.
- Played 7's for SA before playing 15's for the US.
- Captained the South African schools side.
- Timani brother represented Tonga.
- Also represented
- NZ born Vuna played international rugby league for Tonga before switching to union and Aus.
- Born in the USA but raised in England, Corbisiero represented both the USA and England at U19 level, then played for England at U20 level before choosing England at senior level.
- Garvey represented both Zim and SA at World Cups
- https://www.spin.ph/softball/philippines-world-softball-rankings-philippine-blu-girls-a795-20181218
- http://manilastandard.net/mobile/article/293800
- During the most of her tennis career, the maiden name Gajdošová was used. From 2009 to 2011, she changed her married name to Groth after her marriage to fellow tennis player Sam Groth. Between 2016 until her retirement in 2017, she changed her married name to Wolfe.
- Dokic represented Australia once again after Serbia and Montenegro split and separate independent countries.
- Competed as part of the Cuba women's national volleyball team from 1992-2000 Summer Olympics
- Competed as part of the Cuba men's national volleyball team
- Competed as part of the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Represented Nauru at the Commonwealth Games. Competed for Samoa after successfully applied for Samoan citizenship to participate at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona due to Nauru not having an Olympic committee at that time. Later represented his home country Nauru 1993, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.
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