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title: "Who topped Forbes' list of world's highest paid female athlete surpassing Russia's Maria Sharapova?"  
description: "Who topped Forbes' list of world's highest paid female athlete surpassing Russia's Maria Sharapova?"  
author: "Eshan Rathaur"  
published: 2018-03-10  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38405/who-topped-forbes-list-of-world-s-highest-paid-female-athlete-surpassing-russia-s-maria-sharapova  
category: "general knowledge"  
tags: ["general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Who topped Forbes' list of world's highest paid female athlete surpassing Russia's Maria Sharapova?

Who topped Forbes' list of [world](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2334/what-would-occur-if-the-world-were-to-divide-in-half)'s [highest paid](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50351/who-is-the-highest-paid-actor-in-bollywood-2018) [female athlete](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38355/name-the-female-athlete-from-odisha-who-broke-the-women-s-100m-national-record-twice-in-a-day-in-women-s-100m-event-and-qualified-for-the-rio-olympics-at-the-xxvi-international-meeting-in-kazakhstan) surpassing [Russia](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2481/researchers-in-russia-unearth-a-48-500-year-old-zombie-virus)'s Maria Sharapova?\
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