Sports
- Yury Bessmertny (born 1987), Belarusian kickboxer
- Yuriy Burlakov (born 1960), Russian-Soviet cross country skier
- Yuriy Cheban (born 1986), Ukrainian sprint canoer
- Yuriy Gavrilov (born 1967), Ukrainian handball player
- Yuriy Gurin, Soviet sprint canoer
- Yuriy Hayduk (born 1985), Ukrainian luger
- Yuriy Krymarenko (born 1983), Ukrainian high jumper
- Yuriy Krivtsov (born 1979), Ukrainian road bicycle racer
- Yuriy Kunakov (born 1990), Russian diver
- Yuriy Lahutyn (1949–1978), Ukrainian-Soviet handball player
- Yuriy Laptikov, Soviet sprint canoer
- Yuriy Melnichenko (born 1972), Kazakhstani wrestler
- Yuriy Nuzhnenko (born 1976), Ukrainian boxer
- Yuriy Panchenko (born 1959), Ukrainian-Soviet volleyball player
- Yuriy Poyarkov (born 1937), Ukrainian volleyball player
- Yuriy Rybin (born 1963), Russian javelin thrower
- Yuriy Venherovsky (1941–2004), Ukrainian-Soviet volleyball player
- Yuriy Vinogradov, Soviet sprint canoer
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“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)
“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)