User:Therexbanner/List of Russians in sports
This is a list of notable sportspeople from the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, and other Russian predecessor states, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list also includes those who were born in Russia but later emigrated, and those who were born elsewhere but immigrated to the country.
For the full plain list of Russian sportspeople on Wikipedia, see Category:Russian sportspeople.
Alpine Skiing
- Svetlana Gladysheva, Olympic silver medalist, 3rd place at the world championships
- Aleksandr Khoroshilov, Olympic skier
- Sergei Maitakov, 3rd place at the world junior ski championships
- Elena Mikhaylova, Russian national champion
- Elena Prosteva, Olympic skier
- Stepan Zuev, Olympic skier
American Football
Archery
- Andrey Abramov, Olympic archer
- Bair Badënov, Olympic bronze medalist, 1st place at the European championships
- Natalia Bolotova, 2nd place at the world championships
- Miroslava Dagbaeva, Olympic archer
- Elena Dostay, Olympic archer
- Natalia Erdyniyeva, 3rd place at the world championships
- Margarita Galinovskaya, Olympic archer
- Dmitry Nevmerzhitsky, Olympic archer
- Balzhinima Tsyrempilov, 2nd place the world championships, 1st place at the European championships
Arm Wrestling
Badminton
- Ekaterina Ananina, Russian national champion
- Ella Diehl, Russian national champion, Scottish International Open, & two-time Irish International winner
- Sergey Ivlev, Russian national champion,
- Anastasia Russkikh, Russian national champion
- Valeria Sorokina, 3rd place at the European championships, Russian national champion
- Nina Vislova, Gold medallist at the European Junior Badminton Championships, Russian national champion
- Marina Yakusheva, Olympic badminton player
- Nikolai Zuyev, Olympic badminton player
Bandy
- Vsevolod Blinkov, Russian national champion
- Mikhail Butusov, Russian national champion
- Valeri Maslov, Won the Bandy World Championship eight times
- Sergey Obukhov, Bandy World Cup, Champions Cup winner
- Vladimir Savdunin, Russian national champion
- Sergei Solovyov, Russian national champion
Baseball
- Eddie Ainsmith, Played for various Major League Baseball teams
- Victor Cole, Played for the Kansas City Royals
- Jake Livingstone, Played for the New York Yankees
- Victor Starffin, First professional pitcher in Japan to win three hundred games
Basketball
- Svetlana Abrosimova, Olympic bronze medalist
- Anna Arkhipova, Olympic bronze medalist
- Olga Arteshina, Olympic bronze medalist
- Ruslan Avleev, Olympic basketball player
- Elena Baranova, Olympic gold medalist
- Rasim Başak, Professional basketball player
- Sergei Bazarevich, 2nd place at the World championships, 2nd place at the European championships, played in the NBA
- Sergei Belov, Olympic gold medalist, two-time World champion, four-time European champion
- Sergei Bykov, European basketball champion
- Sergei Chikalkin, Russian national champion
- Ivan Chiriaev, Professional basketball player
- Aleksandr Dedushkin, Professional basketball player
- Fedor Dmitriev, Russian national champion
- Dmitri Domani, Professional basketball player
- Ivan Dvorny, Olympic gold medalist
- Andrei Fetisov, Professional basketball player
- Dmitry Flis, Professional basketball player
- Vitaly Fridzon, Professional basketball player
- Diana Goustilina, Olympic bronze medalist
- Becky Hammon, Olympic bronze medalist
- Travis Hansen, Professional basketball player
- Jon Robert Holden, Professional basketball player
- Maria Kalmykova, Olympic bronze medalist
- Vasily Karasev, 2nd place the World Championships, 2nd place at the European Championships
- Elena Karpova, Olympic bronze medalist
- Marina Karpunina, Olympic bronze medalist
- Anatoly Kashirov, Professional basketball player
- Sasha Kaun, Professional basketball player
- Victor Keyru, Professional basketball player
- Dmitri Khvostov, Professional basketball player
- Viktor Khryapa, European basketball champion
- Andrei Kirilenko, Professional basketball player, NBA All-Star
- Evgeny Kolesnikov, Professional basketball player
- Anatoly Konev, Olympic silver medalist, three-time European champion
- Yaroslav Korolev, Professional basketball player
- Ilona Korstin, Olympic bronze medalist
- Nikita Kurbanov, Professional basketball player
- Marina Kuzina, Olympic bronze medalist
- Fedor Likholitov, Professional basketball player
- Yekaterina Lisina, Olympic bronze medalist
- Kelly McCarty, Professional basketball player
- Cyrille Makanda, Professional basketball player
- Kelly Miller, Professional basketball player
- Sergei Monia, European basketball champion
- Nikita Morgunov, 2nd place at the World Championships, European basketball champion
- Timofey Mozgov, Professional basketball player
- Can Maxim Mutaf, Professional basketball player
- Anatoly Myshkin, Olympic bronze medalist, World champion, European champion
- Irina Osipova, Olympic bronze medalist
- Yuri Ozerov, Olympic silver medalist, European basketball champion
- Nikolay Padius, European basketball champion
- Svetlana Pankratova, professional basketball player
- Sergei Panov, 2nd place at the World Championships, 2nd place at the European Championships
- Evgeniy Pashutin, Professional basketball player
- Zakhar Pashutin, 2nd place at the World Championships, European basketball champion
- Alexander Petrenko, Professional basketball player
- Kirill Pichshalnikov, Professional basketball player
- Pavel Podkolzin, Professional basketball player
- Anton Ponkrashov, Professional basketball player
- Epiphanny Prince, Professional basketball player
- Oxana Rakhmatulina, Olympic bronze medalist
- Petr Samoylenko, Professional basketball player
- Aleksey Savrasenko, European basketball champion
- Nikita Shabalkin, Professional basketball player
- Tatiana Shchegoleva, Olympic bronze medalist
- Alexey Shved, Professional basketball player
- Dmitri Sokolov, Professional basketball player
- Irina Sokolovskaya, Olympic bronze medalist
- Maria Stepanova, Olympic bronze medalist
- Ilja Syrovatko, Professional basketball player
- Sergei Tarakanov, Olympic gold medalist, World champion, European basketball champion
- Yuri Vasiliev, Professional basketball player
- Viktor Vlasov, Olympic silver medalist, European basketball champion
- Natalia Vodopyanova, Olympic bronze medalist
- Gennadi Volnov, Olympic gold medalist, World champion, European basketball champion
- Evgeny Voronov, Professional basketball player
- Andrey Vorontsevich, Professional basketball player
- Egor Vyaltsev, OProfessional basketball player
- Olga Yakovleva, Professional basketball player
- Artem Zabelin, Professional basketball player
- Alexey Zhukanenko, Professional basketball player
- Aleksei Zozulin, Professional basketball player
Beach Volleyball
- Dmitri Barsouk, Olympic volleyball player, European volleyball champion
- Igor Kolodinsky, Olympic volleyball player,
- Alexandra Shiryayeva, Olympic volleyball player, European volleyball champion
- Natalya Uryadova, Olympic volleyball player, European volleyball champion
Biathlon
- Albina Akhatova, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Anna Boulygina, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Anna Burmistrova, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Svetlana Tchernusova, World biathlon champion
- Vladimir Dratchev, Olympic silver medalist, World biathlon champion
- Rustam Garifoullin, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Natalia Guseva, Olympic bronze medalist, World biathlon champion
- Ekaterina Iourieva, World biathlon champion
- Maria Iovleva, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Svetlana Ishmouratova, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Elena Khrustaleva, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Valeri Kiriyenko, Olympic silver medalist, World biathlon champion
- Galina Koukleva, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Nikolay Kruglov, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Nikolay Kruglov, Jr., Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Anastasiya Kuzmina, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Viktor Maigourov, Olympic bronze medalist, World biathlon champion
- Irina Malgina, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Valery Medvedtsev, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Olga Medvedtseva, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Olga Melnik, Olympic silver medalist, World biathlon champion
- Pavel Muslimov, Olympic bronze medalist
- Luiza Noskova, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Nikolay Polukhin, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Eugeni Redkine, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Anfisa Reztsova, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Yana Romanova, Professional biathlete
- Olga Romasko, Olympic silver medalist, World biathlon champion
- Pavel Rostovtsev, Professional biathlete
- Sergey Rozhkov, Professional biathlete
- Anton Shipulin, Olympic bronze medalist, World biathlon champion
- Svetlana Sleptsova, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Nataliya Snytina, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Natalya Sokolova, Professional biathlete
- Nadezhda Talanova, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Sergey Tarasov, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Mikhail Terentiev, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Sergey Tchepikov, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Ivan Tcherezov, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Maxim Tchoudov, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Andrey Tokarev, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Evgeny Ustyugov, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Dmitri Yaroshenko, World biathlon champion
- Olga Zaitseva, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
- Irek Zaripov, Olympic gold medalist, World biathlon champion
Bobsleigh
- Dmitry Abramovitch,
- Konstantin Aladachvili,
- Alexey Andryunin,
- Kristina Bader,
- Elena Doronina,
- Olga Fyodorova,
- Sergey Golubev,
- Nikolay Hrenkov,
- Alexey Kireev,
- Alevtina Kovalenko,
- Petr Moiseev,
- Denis Moiseychenkov,
- Roman Oreshnikov,
- Evgeny Pechonkin,
- Yevgeni Popov,
- Sergey Prudnikov,
- Alexei Seliverstov,
- Anastasia Skulkina,
- Kirill Sosunov,
- Dmitriy Stepushkin,
- Yulia Timofeeva,
- Viktoria Tokovaya,
- Dmitry Trunenkov,
- Alexander Ushakov,
- Alexey Voyevoda,
- Filipp Yegorov,
- Andrey Yurkov,
- Alexandr Zubkov,
Bodybuilding
- Varya Akulova
- Aleksandr Fyodorov
- Elena Panova
- Sergey Shelestov
- Efim Shifrin
- Elena Shportun
- Vladimir Turchinsky
Bowling
Boxing
- Alexander Alexeev
- Georgy Balakshin
- Denis Boytsov
- Valery Brudov
- Aleksander Emelianenko
- Denis Inkin
- Sergey Kalchugin
- Roman Karmazin
- Sergey Kazakov
- Matvey Korobov
- Alexander Maletin
- Egor Mekhontsev
- Dmitry Pirog
- Aleksandr Povetkin
- Roman Romanchuk
- Oleg Saitov
- Aleksei Tishchenko
- Kostya Tszyu
- Nikolai Valuev
- Sergey Vodopyanov
- Andrey Zamkovoy
- Roman Zentsov
Bridge
Chess
- Alexander Alekhine
- Ekaterina Atalik
- Mikhail Botvinnik
- Elisabeth Bykova
- Dmitry Jakovenko
- Anatoly Karpov
- Garry Kasparov
- Alexandra Kosteniuk
- Vladimir Kramnik
- Boris Maliutin
- Vasily Smyslov
- Artyom Timofeev
- Sergey Volkov
Canoeing
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kovalyov
Mikhail Nikolayevich Kuznetsov (canoer)
Cross-Country Skiing
Curling
Cycling
Darts
Diving
Natalia Mikhaylovna Goncharova
Draughts
Electronic Sports
Equestrians
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia
Fencing
Field Hockey
Figure Skating
Football (Soccer)
Freestyle Skiing
Go
Golf
Gymnastics
Handball
Ice Hockey
Kickboxing
Luge
Martial Arts
Mountain Climbing
Nordic Skiing
Orienteering
Pentathlon
Pool
Professional Wrestling
Racing
Sergey Afanasyev (racing driver)
Andrei Romanov (racing driver)
Alexey Vasilyev (racing driver)
Rally
Rowing
Rugby League
Rugby Union
Shooting
Speed Skating
Skeleton
Ski Jumping
Snowboarding
Sumo
Swimming
Synchronized Swimming
Yelena Antonova (synchronized swimmer)