A world champion has won first place at their sports "World Championships". An olympic champion has won first place, a gold medal, in their sports olympic competition. While the World Champion can change every year, olympic champions can only be toppled off their perch once every four years.
olympic champion, world champion, national champion(visa championships), Tyson American cup champion! there are like 10000000 other 1s!
The are: Christian Cantwell: 2008 Olympic Silver medalist; 2009 World Champion. Reese Hoffa: 2007 World Champion. Adam Nelson: 2000 & 2004 Olympic Silver medalist; 2001, 2003, & 2007 World Silver medalist; 2005 World Champion.
Duke Kahanamoku was a world famous champion surfer. He was also an Olympic champion swimmer and an actor in adventure films.
Usain Bolt is the Olympic champion and world record holder.
Muhammad Ali has an Olympic Gold Medal in Boxing
The "most decorated" male gymnasts of all time are:1. Nikolai Andrianov (Soviet Union/Russia) - 15 Olympic medals/7 gold (second most decorated male Olympican after swimmer Michael Phelps); 12 World Championship medals; 1976 Olympic AA champion; 1978 World AA champion2. Boris Shakhlin (Soviet Union/Ukraine) - 13 Olympic medals/7 gold; 14 World Championship medals; 1960 Olympic AA champion; 1958 World AA champion3. Sawao Kato (Japan) - 12 Olympic medals/8 gold; 3-time (1968, 1972, 1976) Olympic AA champion (most all time)4. Alexander Dityatin (Soviet Union/Russia) - 10 Olympic medals/3 gold; 12 World Championship medals; 1980 Olympic AA champion; 1979 World AA champion
Current Olympic champion is Nelson Evora of Portugal and the current world champion is Phillips Idowu of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Brian Boitano is a world and national champion figure skater. He is also an Olympic champion figure skater winning a gold medal in 1988.
Nastia Liukin (also the current Olympic Champion from Beijing 2008)
Sure. You're lucky - I am the World and Olympic Games champion in A$$ Licking !!!
Tom Daley is a British Olympic contender in the sport of Diving.
I think he was the first man to bring home gold and be a world champion. I know he was the first to bring home gold with one of those titles, but of which, world champion or US champion, I'm not for sure.