Among athletes, the best body is the strongest body — which is why tennis pro Serena Williams and NBA star LeBron James were described as having the ‘best bodies in sports’ by fellow professional athletes.

In addition to photographing stars like Caroline Wozniacki and Javier Baez for its latest edition of the Body Issue, ESPN The Magazine also polled 146 of the ‘world’s top athletes’ in eight sports leagues to learn who they believed amongst themselves had the best body.

Unsurprisingly, the winners were two pros at the tops of their fields: Grand slam title holder Serena Williams earned 43 per cent of the vote for females, while LeBron James earned 30 per cent of the vote for males.