Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov or Wlassow was a Russian Red Army general. During World War II, he fought in the Battle of Moscow and later was captured attempting to lift the siege of Leningrad. After being captured, he defected to Nazi Germany and headed the Russian Liberation Army. At the war's end, he changed sides again and ordered the ROA to aid the Prague uprising against the Germans. He and the ROA then tried to escape to the Western Front, but were captured by Soviet forces. Vlasov was tried for treason and hanged.
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian retired tennis player, coach and commentator. She worked at the Seven Network between 2011 and 2018 as an analyst for women’s matches. She was also an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She has won four Grand Slam doubles titles and two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She was ranked world No.1 in doubles for three weeks in 2000. She represented Australia at four successive Summer Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008.
Leonid Ivanovych Zhabotynsky was a Soviet weightlifter who set 19 world records in the superheavyweight class, and won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games.
Yury Petrovich Vlasov is a Soviet writer and retired heavyweight weightlifter and politician. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1960 and a silver in 1964; at both games he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union. During his career Vlasov won four world titles and set 31 ratified world records. He retired in 1968 and became a prominent writer and later a politician. He was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union (1989) and then of the Russian State Duma (1993) and took part in the 1996 Russian presidential election.
The Sports Clubs of the Army, Russian: спортивные клубы Армии [СКА] sportivnye kluby Armiy, SKA, also called the Sports Clubs of the Soviet Ministry of Defense or simply Armed Forces or Army were a system of sports clubs and one of the largest sports societies in the USSR.
Alexander Vlassov is a former Soviet pair skater who currently works as a coach. With partner Irina Vorobieva, he won the silver medal at the 1977 World Figure Skating Championships and the silver medal at the 1977 European Figure Skating Championships. They placed 4th at the 1976 Winter Olympics. They were coached by Tamara Moskvina. He later skated with Zhanna Ilina.
Viktor Petrovich Vlasov was a Russian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Soviet team, which won the silver medal. He trained at Dynamo in Moscow.
Irina Nikolayevna Vorobieva is a Russian pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union. With partner and then-husband Igor Lisovsky, she is the 1981 World champion and the 1981 European champion. They were coached by Tamara Moskvina.
Yuriy Vlasov is a retired male freestyle swimmer from Ukraine. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, finishing in 11th place in the men's 50 m freestyle event.
Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko is a Ukrainian-born Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist (MMA), sambist, and judoka, currently competing for Rizin Fighting Federation and Bellator MMA. He has won championships and accolades in multiple sports, most notably in MMA Pride Fighting Championships, FIAS World Combat Sambo Championship, and Russian Judo Federation National Championship.
Arsen Julfalakyan is an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic silver medalist, World and European Champion, and three-time Olympian.
Roman Andreyevich Vlasov is a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a two-time Olympic Champion, a two-time World Champion, and a three-time European Champion. He also won the gold medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade. Furthermore, he was runner-up at the 2013 World Championships and the 2014 and 2015 World Cup. Vlasov trains under Viktor Kuznetsov, the same coach who raised Aleksandr Karelin.
Mark Overgaard Madsen is a retired Danish Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in the featherweight division. He is an Olympic silver medalist and four-time medalist at the World Wrestling Championships. After his wrestling career, Madsen became a mixed martial artist and is currently signed to Cage Warriors.
Aliaksandr Fiodaravich Kikiniov is an amateur Belarusian Greco-Roman wrestler, who competes in the men's middleweight category. He won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Wrestling Championships in Herning, Denmark, defeating Germany's Konstantin Schneider. He is also a three-time medalist at the European Championships.
Zurab Datunashvili is a professional Georgian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's middleweight category. He won a silver medal in the same weight division at the 2013 European Wrestling Championships, coincidentally in his home city Tbilisi, losing out to defending Olympic champion Roman Vlasov of Russia.
Qualification for tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was not determined by any form of qualifying tournament, but by the rankings maintained by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
The mixed 50 metre rifle three positions shooting competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 23 July at the Dynamo Shooting Range in Moscow, USSR. The gold medal went to Soviet Viktor Vlasov, who broke the world record with 1,173.
Zoya Sergeyevna Mironova was a Russian speed skater and sports physician, one of the founders of the sports traumatology in the Soviet Union. She was the head surgeon of the Soviet Olympic team between 1952 and 1976, and personally operated Olympic champions including Valentin Muratov, Sofia Muratova, Yury Vlasov, Alexander Yakushev and Aleksandr Karshakevich.
Viktor Nemeš is a Serbian Greco-Roman wrestler of Hungarian ethnicity. His twin brother Mate Nemeš is also a wrestler.
