Sports
- Top position at World Chess Rankings (men), top 10 players average score of 2724 (2009)
- Top position at World Chess Rankings (women), top 10 players average score of 2469 (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Most Winter Olympic gold medals, 120 (2008)
- Russia/USSR: Winner of most Bandy World Championships (men), 19 (1957, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008) (as of 2009)
- Russia/USSR: Most World Chess Champions, 10 (as of 2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at UCI Track World Championships, Women (cycling), 48 gold medals, 111 total medals (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at FIE World Championships in Fencing, 121 gold medals, 257 total medals (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at World Figure Skating Championships, 74 gold medals, 178 total medals, (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 138 gold medals, 333 total medals (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, 23 gold medals, 58 total medals (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at gymnastics Trampoline World Championships, 21 gold medals (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at World Women's Handball Championship, 7 gold medals, 10 total medals (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Winner of most Ice Hockey World Championships (men), 25 times winner (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at Team Ice Racing World Championship, 26 times winner, (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at World Shooting Championships, 307 gold medals, 656 total medals (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women, 24 gold medals, 69 total medals (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at World Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men, 11 gold medals, 24 total medals (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Winner of most Volleyball World Championships (men), 6 (1949, 1952, 1960, 1962, 1978, 1982) (2006)
- Russia/USSR: Winner of most Volleyball World Championships (women), 6 (1952, 1956, 1960, 1970, 1990, 2006) (2006)
- Russia/USSR: Winner of most Volleyball World Cups (men), 5 (1965, 1977, 1981, 1991, 1999) (2009)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at World Weightlifting Championships (men), 350 gold medals, 746 total medals (2007)
- Russia/USSR: Best performance at FILA Wrestling World Championships, 64 times winner in three team tournaments (2009)
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“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)