Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev was a Soviet weightlifter. He set 80 world-records and 81 Soviet records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician.
Vasily Pavlovich Rochev is a former Soviet/Russian cross-country skier who competed in the 1970s and early 1980s, training at Dynamo in Syktyvkar. He won two medals for the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, with a gold in the 4 × 10 km relay and a silver in the 30 km.
Vasily Vasilyevich Rochev is a Russian cross-country skier who has competed since 2000. He won the bronze medal in the Team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin.
Vasiliy Vladimirovich Berezutski is a Russian football coach and a former player who played as a defender. He is an first-team coach with the Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua. He began his professional career in 1999 at the age of 17 with Torpedo Moscow, having graduated from their famed academy. He was a Russia national football team regular, earning his 100th cap on 6 September 2016 in a friendly against Ghana. He played as a fullback or centre-back and sometimes was also deployed as wingback or midfielder.
Vassily Anatolyevich Solomin was a boxer who represented the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There, he won a bronze medal in the lightweight division, after being beaten in the semifinals by Romania's eventual silver medalist Simion Cuţov.
Vasili Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov was a Soviet and Russian decathlete who won the European title in 1954, 1958 and 1962. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won bronze medals in 1956 and 1960, placing seventh in 1964.
Vasiliy Vladimirovich Khmelevskiy was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw. He won a bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics with a throw of 74.04 metres, behind compatriot Anatoly Bondarchuk and Jochen Sachse of East Germany. He also finished in third place at the national championships in 1971 and 1972. He achieved a personal best of 74.98 meters on 8 July 1975 in Minsk.
Vasily Vladimirovich Koshechkin is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played exclusively in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
Yevgeny Vladimirovich Belousov was a Soviet luger who competed in the mid to late 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at Sarajevo in 1984.
Vasily Fyodorovich Borisov was a Soviet rifle shooter. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in five individual events and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. Between 1954 and 1966 Borisov won 22 medals at the world championships. At the 1954 World Championships, he and his teammate Anatoli Bogdanov won 13 medals each, cleansweeping most rifle events.
Vasyl Yurchenko (alternate spellings: Vasily Yurchenko, Vasiliy Jurtzhenko; born 26 May 1950) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals. This included one silver and one bronze.
Anton Ryakhov is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers and six bronzes.
Vasily "Torero" Shish is a Belarusian Muay Thai middleweight kickboxer fighting out of Minsk, Belarus for the Chinuk Gym. He is a five time world and five time European Muaythai and kickboxing champion who has won titles at both amateur and professional level. Vasily has fought for several notable promotions such as K-1 MAX and Thai & Kickbox SuperLeague.
Oleg Aleksandrovich Zhestkov is a Russian sprint canoeist who competes in the four-man K-4 1000 m event. He won the world title in 2013, placing third in 2011, and had a silver medal at the 2016 European Championships. His teams finished seventh at the 2012 and ninth at the 2016 Olympics.
Vasily Mikhailovich Egorov is a Russian boxer of Yakut descent in Light flyweight category. He won silver at the 2015 World Championships and gold at the 2015 European Championships.
Vassiliy Levit is a Kazakh heavyweight amateur boxer who won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Tibor Linka is a Slovak sprint canoer who competes in the four-man (K-4) events. He won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics. Earlier in 2014 he was named Athlete of the Year in his native town of Šamorín. He is of Hungarian ethnicity.
Vasily Anisimov is a Kazakhstan-born Dominican-Croatian billionaire businessman of Russian ancestry who has made his fortune in a variety of industries, including aluminium, real estate and vodka production, as well as the former president of the Russian Judo Federation. In September 2022, he renounced Russian citizenship.
Vasily Gorbachyov, also transcripted as Vasily Gorbachov and Vasili Gorbatchev, is a former Belarusian cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 30 kilometre freestyle event at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
