# Hottest female athletes who posed for Playboy **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 26, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092 "2011-03-26T22:08:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kodabear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kodabear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kodabear)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/1 "2011-03-26T22:08:35Z")
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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/2 "2011-03-26T22:49:51Z")
Those clowns. They missed Anita Gandol. ---
**Author:** ![kodabear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kodabear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kodabear)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/3 "2011-03-27T02:29:38Z")
Charisma Carpenter used to be a cheerleader; she could have easily made the list. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/4 "2011-03-27T15:27:58Z")
What’s with all the examples being things you could show in Cosmo or Rolling Stone? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/5 "2011-03-27T18:02:08Z")
They misspelled “Katarina Witt.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/6 "2011-03-27T18:31:03Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > They misspelled “Katarina Witt.” They also noted that she was “in the 1998 addition [_sic_] of Playboy.” Did Playboy print an extra _edition_? Or was the writer of the above distracted by Ms. Witt’s photos? ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/7 "2011-03-27T19:21:46Z")
During one of the summer games, the US women’s volleyball team won a medal. This resulted in a picture of twoo teammates on the ground in a [suggestive embrace](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_taB1E5RMD1U/R604-J3t1VI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/oe_sEkilIoM/s400/capt.olyvbb11808241914.greece_olympics_beach_volleyball_olyvbb118-thumb.jpg). _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/8 "2011-03-27T19:22:11Z")
From IMHO to the Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/9 "2011-03-27T19:35:21Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > They misspelled “Katarina Witt.” And “Ashley Harkleroad”. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/10 "2011-03-27T19:46:21Z")
> [@Vlad\_Igor](#): > > During one of the summer games, the US women’s volleyball team won a medal. This resulted in a picture of twoo teammates on the ground in a [suggestive embrace](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_taB1E5RMD1U/R604-J3t1VI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/oe_sEkilIoM/s400/capt.olyvbb11808241914.greece_olympics_beach_volleyball_olyvbb118-thumb.jpg). _sigh_ [Even the audience got in on the action.](http://flattire.infodump.org/media/blogs/a/2008/081908_kerri_walsh_butt_reverse_angle.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/11 "2011-03-27T20:17:20Z")
The Brazilian team also got into the [action](http://www.the-a-line.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/beach_volleyball.jpg). When is the next summer olympics? ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/12 "2011-03-27T20:35:19Z")
I’m a straight woman, so I don’t know that my vote counts, but I vote for [Gabrielle Reece.](http://s11.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/e/a/eaog6fmly1591y9f.jpg) The photos inside are amazing. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/13 "2011-03-27T22:21:53Z")
I’ve been researching this, and a few from [this link](http://www.faniq.com/blog/Olympic-Athletes-That-Have-Posed-For-Playboy-Updated-And-Expanded-Edition-Blog-19059) should be mentioned. Svetlana Khorkina Maria Butyrskaya Amy Acuff (got her autograph after a track meet-yay me!) Ineta Radeviča and not mentioned, but needs to be is Tatiana Grigorieva who was born in Russia but got Australian citizenship. She posed for Playboy Australia, and wow! Links to the pics are here: [Tatiana Grigorieva](http://wallcrow.com/images/tatiana-grigorieva.php) ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/14 "2011-03-29T01:19:26Z")
[Amy Acuff](http://www.google.com/images?q=amy+acuff&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1348&bih=607), god help us all… ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-female-athletes-who-posed-for-playboy/576092/15 "2011-03-30T01:13:58Z")
Mom 😕 :eek: