Athletes in the 100 World's Most Powerful Celebrities for 2010

Forbes.com released its annual report on the World's Powerful Men and Women for this year. And here is the list of the Men and Women in the sports world.

From various discipline, celebrities / sportsmen where ranked as follows:

#96: Danica Patrick - American Auto Racing Driver competing for the IndyCar Series. Last year's rank was #100;

#83: Venus Williams - American professional tennis player. Last year rankings was at #77, down with 6 points;

#81: Maria Sharapova - Russian professional tennis player. Last year rankings was at #76, down with 5 points;

#65: Lance Armstrong - American professional road racng cyclist. Known for winning the Tour de France in a record he made (7 consecutive times) after he survived his testicular cancer.

#64: Derek Jeter - American professional baseball player. A Major League Baseball, a shotstop of the New York Yankees. Last year rankings was at #66, up with 2 points.

#61: Serena Williams - American professional tennis player. Last year rankings was at #67, up with 6 points;

#55: Manny Pacquiao - Filipino boxer, the best Pound-For-Pound boxer in the world. Manny Pacquiao was ranked #57 last year, up with 2 points;

#49: Alex Rodriguez - American professional baseball player;

#48: Cristiano Ronaldo - Protugese footballer a winger or forward of the Spanish club Real Madrid;

#36: David Beckham - an English footballer, last year's rankings was at #28 down wit 8 points;

#31: Floyd Mayweather Jr. - American professional boxer;

#29: Roger Federer - Swiss professional tennis player;

#28: LeBron James - American professional basketball player, an NBA Superstar. Last year rankings was at #19, down with 9 points;

#20: Michael Jordan - American living legend of NBA;

#14: Kobe Bryant - American professional basketball player, currently playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, last year's rankings was at #10 now down with 4 points;

and #5: Tiger Woods - American professional golfer. He is with the same rankings of year #5.