pic) is now in the illustrious company of GOATs.
The World Games have nominated the 37-year-old Penangite in their Greatest Athlete of All Time list as voting for the award started on Friday.
Nicol is the only Malaysian and Asian to be on the list, which has 24 past and present athletes from different sports nominated by their international federations.
Some of them include Swedish archer Morgan Lundin, the Brazilian women’s beach handball team, Russian gymnastics legend Evgeniya Kanaeva, Dutch Jiu-Jitsu exponent Rob Haans and Sweden’s muaythai world champion Sofia Olofsson.
Nicol won three gold medals and a bronze at The World Games between 2005 and 2017. She also boast eight World Championship titles and an unprecedented nine-year reign as world No. 1.