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List Of Russian Sportspeople
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 :Russian sportspeople. Alpine skiing * Svetlana Gladysheva, Olympic silver medalist and World Championship bronze medalist * Aleksandr Khoroshilov (skier), Aleksandr Khoroshilov, Olympic skier * Sergei Maitakov, 3rd place at the world junior ski championships * Yevgeniya Sidorova, Olympic bronze medalist * Varvara Zelenskaya, World Cup skier * Aleksandr Zhirov (alpine skier), Aleksandr Zhirov, World Cup skier American football *Charles Goldenberg *Ace Gutowsky Archery * Andrey Abramov, Olympic archer * Bair Badënov, Olympic bronze medalist, 1st place at the European championships * Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportspeople
An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-developed physiques obtained by extensive physical training and strict exercise accompanied by a strict dietary regimen. Definitions The word "athlete" is a romanization of the el, άθλητὴς, ''athlētēs'', one who participates in a contest; from ἄθλος, ''áthlos'' or ἄθλον, ''áthlon'', a contest or feat. The primary definition of "sportsman" according to Webster's ''Third Unabridged Dictionary'' (1960) is, "a person who is active in sports: as (a): one who engages in the sports of the field and especially in hunting or fishing." Physiology Athletes involved in isotonic exercises have an increased mean left ventricular end-diastolic volume and are less likely to be depressed. Due to their strenuous physical activities, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miroslava Dagbaeva
Danzandorjiin Miroslava born Miroslava Dagbaeva (born 14 August 1987) is a Buryat Mongol athlete from Mongolia who competes in archery (since 2013). Career 2008 Summer Olympics She represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Miroslava finished her ranking round with a total of 637 points. This gave her the 23rd seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Rina Dewi Puspitasari in the first round. Both archers scored 106 points in the regular match and had to go to a decisive extra round to make the difference. Miroslava scored 10 points in the extra round, while Puspitasari scored 9 points. In the second round Miroslava was unable to win against 10th seed Ana Rendón and lost the game with 110–106.Athlete biography: Miroslava Dagbaeva , be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeriy Borchin
Valeriy Viktorovich Borchin (russian: Вале́рий Ви́кторович Бо́рчин; born 11 September 1986) is a race walker from Russia who won the 2008 Olympic gold medal and was World champion over the 20 km distance. His World Championship was retroactively stripped in 2015 due to doping. Biography He was born in the village of Povadimovo near Saransk in what is now the Republic of Mordovia. After trying out weightlifting and long-distance running in his youth, he began practising racewalking at the age of seventeen after a knee injury. He met Viktor Chegin, a prominent Olympic-level coach in the region, in 2004 and began practising with his training group. The year after he was the runner-up in the junior 10 km walk in the national championships. However, he received a year-long ban from competition soon after, lasting from June 2005 to 2006, after he failed an in-competition drugs test for the banned stimulant ephedrine. Upon his return to competiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Bondarenko
Olga Petrovna Bondarenko (née Krentser, russian: О́льга Петро́вна Бондаре́нко-Кренцер; Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-01-19. born 2 June 1960 in ) is a retired Russian athlete, who competed mainly in the . She trained at the Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Bolotnikov
Pyotr Grigoryevich Bolotnikov (russian: Пётр Григо́рьевич Боло́тников; 8 March 1930 – 20 December 2013) was a Soviet Track and field athlete who competed mainly in long-distance running events. Great Russian Encyclopedia (2005), Moscow: Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Entsiklopediya Publisher, vol. 3, p. 731 He was the winner of the 10,000 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Born in Zinovkino, Krasnoslobodsky District, Mordovian ASSR (now the Republic of Mordovia), Bolotnikov started athletics only at age twenty, when he joined the Soviet Army. He trained at VSS Spartak, coached by Grigory Nikiforov. Bolotnikov won his first national championship title in 10,000 m in 1957, when he surprisingly beat the great Vladimir Kuts in a finishing straight by 0.2 seconds. He became the double Soviet champion in 5000 m and 10,000 m from 1958 to 1962. He also won the national 10,000 m title in 1964 and national cross country title in 1958. In 1959 he became the Honoured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalya Antyukh
Natalya Nikolayevna Antyukh (russian: Наталья Николаевна Антюх, born 26 June 1981) is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles. She won the bronze medal in the 400 metres and a silver for the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She is currently serving a four-year suspension from 2021 to 2025 for anti-doping rule violations. Her results from 15 July 2012 onwards had been disqualified, including her 2012 Olympic gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles. According to World Athletics, she last competed in 2016. Background Her younger brother Kirill Antyukh is a former competitive sprinter, who turned to bobsleigh, and was part of the reserve Russian squad for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Career 2004: Double Olympic medalist at 23 years old Leading up to the 2004 Summer Olympics, Antyukh achieved a personal best time of 49.85 seconds in the 400 metres at the year's Russian Championships in Tula to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Aksinin
Aleksandr Timofeyevich Aksinin (russian: Александр Тимофеевич Аксинин, 4 November 1954 – 28 July 2020) was a Russian athlete and gold medal winner of the 4 × 100m relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Aleksandr Aksinin trained at Dynamo in Leningrad. At the 1976 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal as a member of Soviet 4 × 100 m relay team. He won silver in 1975, bronze in 1978 and 1980 European Indoor Championships in Athletics. At the 1978 European Championships in Athletics, he was seventh in 200 m and won again bronze medal as a member of Soviet 4 × 100 m relay team. Aksinin also won gold in 4 × 100 m relay event of the 1977 Summer Universiade. At the Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ... Olympics, Aksinin was fourth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Voyevoda
Alexey Ivanovich Voyevoda (russian: Алексей Иванович Воевода; born 9 May 1980) is a Russian bobsledder, professional armwrestler and politician. Bobsleigh A professional bobsleigher since 2002, Voyevoda won silver in the four-man bobsleigh event with teammates Philippe Egorov, Alexei Seliverstov, and Alexandre Zoubkov at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He also won a bronze in the two-man event at the 2008 FIBT World Championships in Altenberg, Germany. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Voyevoda won a bronze in the two-man event. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Voyevoda initially won a gold medal in the two-man event and a gold medal in the four-man event. Voyevoda received the Order For Merit to the Fatherland Award 4th class with Russian President Vladimir Putin handing the state awards. On 24 November 2017, he was stripped of the 2014 Olympic medals by the International Olympic Committee, following the doping violation of his bobsleddi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Yesheyev
Vladimir Nikolayevich Yesheyev (born 7 May 1958 in Zabaykalsky Krai) is a former archer from the Soviet Union. Biography He competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union in the individual event where he finished in sixth place. He missed the following Olympics due to the boycott but returned to compete in the 1988 Summer Olympics where he finished in third in the individual competition and fifth in the team event. Four years later competing for the Unified team finishing eleventh in the individual event and eighth in the team event. He is the President of Russian Archery Federation. The Russian archery team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the team event brought back to Russia Bair Badënov's bronze (the next national Olympic bronze in archery after Yesheyev's). After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the World Archery The World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French ''Fédération Internationale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balzhinima Tsyrempilov
Balzhinima Tsyrenzhapovich Tsyrempilov (russian: Бальжинима́ Цыренжа́пович Цыремпи́лов, links=no, ''Balzhinimá Tsyrenzhápovich Tsyrempílov'', born April 9, 1975 in Ulekchin, Zakamensky District, Buryatia) is a World Cup-winning and former world number one Buryat archer from Russia. 2004 Summer Olympics Tsyrempilov competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. Tsyrempilov placed 14th overall. 2007 World Championship At the 2007 World Archery Championships in July 2007 in Leipzig, Tsyrempilov won silver in recurve men's individual. 2008 Summer Olympics At the Men's individual archery event of 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Tsyrempilov finished his ranking round with a total of 671 points, eight points behind Juan René Serrano, the winner of the round. This gave him the sixth seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Daniel Pavlov in the first round, beating the Bulgarian 112-102. In the second round T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Nevmerzhitsky
Dmitry Vladimirovich Nevmerzhitsky (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Невмержицкий; born 27 February 1975) is an archer from Russia. Nevmerzhitskiy competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ... in men's individual archery. He was defeated in the first round of elimination, placing 53rd overall. External links Biography Russian male archers Olympic archers for Russia Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics 1975 births Living people {{Russia-archery-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Isachenko
Boris Valentinovich Isachenko (russian: Борис Валентинович Исаченко, born 26 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian archer who competed for the Soviet Union. He won individual silver medals at the 1980 Olympics and 1983 European Championships, but never won a Soviet title or a medal at world championships. Besides competitions he acted as a sports official with the Soviet State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports (1979–91) and Belarus Ministry of Sports (1991–97). In 1997–99 he headed the Robin Hood Archery Club. He is a member of the Belarusian Archery Federation, and since 1998 trained the Belarusian archery team. Since 2002 he is also a member of the Belarusian Olympic Committee The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus (, ) was one of many national Olympic committees that make up the International Olympic Committee. On February 26, 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its treatment o .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
