Sport

Adopting a well-balanced plant-based diet is one of the healthiest choices you can make. So it's little wonder that some of our best-loved athletes have chosen vegan diets to give them the edge over their opponents.

Well-known vegan sports people include:

Sally Eastall, marathon runner
Keith Holmes, former world champion middleweight boxer
Carl Lewis, winner of nine Olympic Gold Medals and one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century
Martina Navratilova, champion tennis player - one of the most successful tennis players in history
Dave Scott, six-time Ironman Champion and first inductee into the Ironman Hall of Fame
Lucy Stephens, triathlete

Athletics and bodybuilding