2015 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. This year, some sporting events listed below are qualifying ones, for athletes, to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. From July 2015 to May 2016, the venues for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics will be tested, by hosting various events in them.
Bilyal Valerievich Makhov is a Russian freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestler. He was the Russian champion in 2007 and 2010, European champion in 2010 and World champion in 2007, 2009 and 2010 in Men's Freestyle 120 kg wrestling and bronze medalist in 130 kg Greco-Roman Wrestling at the World Championships in 2014 and 2015. In 2015, he won the Russian National Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships.
Kazakhstan competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. It was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era. The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan fielded a roster of 104 athletes, 55 men and 49 women, to compete across seventeen different sports at these Games, the smallest Summer Olympic team since the nation's debut in Atlanta 1996. Moreover, Kazakhstan did not send teams in any of the team sports for the first time in twenty years. Track and field accounted for the largest number of athletes on the Kazakh squad, with 25 entries. There was a single competitor each in slalom canoeing, track cycling, fencing, and table tennis.
Iran competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's return in 1948 after having made their debut in 1900, Iranian athletes had attended in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, with the exception of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics.
Azerbaijan competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
Uzbekistan competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
The following were the events of Gymnastics for the year 2014 throughout the world.
This article lists the in the water and on the water forms of aquatic sports for 2017.
This article lists the 12 different combat sports and their results for 2018.
Uzbekistan competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
This article lists the main weightlifting events and their results for 2016.
This article lists the main weightlifting events and their results for 2015.
This article lists the main weightlifting events and their results for 2014.
This article lists the main weightlifting events and their results for 2013.
This article lists the main weightlifting events and their results for 2011.
Rio de Janeiro at the Riocentro 
Hasanboy Dusmatov; 
Yuberjén Martínez; 
Joahnys Argilagos; 
Nico Hernández 
Mikhail Aloyan; 
Yoel Finol; 
Hu Jianguan 
Sofiane Oumiha; 
Dorjnyambuugiin Otgondalai 
Lorenzo Sotomayor; 
Artem Harutyunyan 
Daniyar Yeleussinov; 
Mohammed Rabii; 
Misael Rodríguez; 
Joshua Buatsi 
Filip Hrgović; 
Mira Potkonen; 
Nouchka Fontijn; 
Buenos Aires [1] 
United States won both the gold and overall medal tallies.
Yaoundé [2] 
Samsun [4] 
India won 3 overall medals each.
Hovhannes Bachkov
Marlo Delgado 
Chiang Mai [8] 
