All sports (97)
Action Sports (4)
Mountaineering & ClimbingThe mountains themselves — alpinism, big walls, ice and the 8,000-metre peaks, where the …
Roller SportsEverything on wheels but the skateboard — inline speed skating, artistic roller skating, …
SkateboardingStreet and park, judged trick by trick — a permanent Olympic sport from LA28, governed by…
Sport ClimbingBoulder, lead and speed — climbing's Olympic era under the IFSC, with Janja Garnbret the …
Air Sports (1)
Air SportsCompetition in three dimensions — skydiving, paragliding, gliding, aerobatics, ballooning…
Aquatic Sports (5)
Artistic SwimmingChoreographed routines of swimming, acrobatics and artistry, judged to music — formerly s…
DivingAcrobatic plunges from springboards and platforms, judged on execution and difficulty — a…
FinswimmingThe fastest form of human swimming — monofin racing on and under the surface, governed by…
SwimmingRacing through water — in 50 m and 25 m pools and in open water — in one of the oldest an…
Water PoloThe original Olympic team sport — seven-a-side handball-style play in deep water, contest…
Athletics (1)
BaseballAmerica's pastime and Latin America's passion — from MLB and the World Series to the Worl…
SoftballBaseball's sister sport and a college phenomenon — fastpitch under the WBSC, returning to…
Basketball (1)
BasketballThe game Naismith invented in 1891 — America's export to the world, from the NBA and Marc…
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & GrapplingThe gentle art — Brazil's ground-fighting science turned global sport, from the IBJJF Mun…
FencingFoil, épée and sabre — one of only five sports at every modern Olympics, fought on an ele…
JudoThe gentle way — Kanō's Olympic martial art of throws and submissions, the belt system's …
KarateOkinawa's empty hand — kumite and kata under the WKF, an Olympic sport once (Tokyo 2020) …
Kendo & WushuTraditional Asian martial arts as modern sport — Japan's way of the sword and China's cod…
Kickboxing & Muay ThaiStriking arts as sport — Thailand's national art of eight limbs and the international kic…
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)The complete fighting sport — striking and grappling under the Unified Rules, from Brazil…
SamboThe Soviet grappling art — sport and combat sambo under FIAS, which won full IOC recognit…
SumoJapan's national sport and living ritual — six grand tournaments a year, a ranked hierarc…
TaekwondoKorea's Olympic striking art — electronic scoring, spinning head kicks, and one of the wo…
WrestlingSport's oldest contest — freestyle, Greco-Roman and women's wrestling under UWW, with the…
BoxingThe sweet science — Olympic sport since 1904 and a global professional business, from nat…
Cricket (1)
Cycling (1)
BreakingBreakdancing as sport — judged battles of power moves and musicality, an Olympic sport at…
DanceSportBallroom and Latin as competition — judged couples across ten dances, IOC-recognized, and…
Fitness Racing (HYROX & OCR)The mass-participation boom — HYROX's standardized indoor race and obstacle course racing…
OrienteeringRunning with map and compass through unfamiliar terrain — Scandinavia's mass sport, gover…
TriathlonSwim, bike, run — from Olympic sprint racing to the Ironman, the definitive endurance spo…
EquestrianJumping, dressage and eventing — the horse-and-rider sports of the Olympic Games, and the…
Horse RacingThe sport of kings and the world's great betting sport — flat racing, jumps and harness, …
PoloThe ancient horseback game — Argentina's dynasty, the handicap system that rates every pl…
RodeoThe working West as sport — roughstock and timed events under the PRCA, and bull riding's…
Esports (1)
Football & Rugby (7)
American FootballThe gridiron game — America's most-watched sport, from Friday nights to the Super Bowl, n…
Australian Rules FootballAustralia's own code — 18 a side on an oval, no offside, and a Grand Final that stops the…
Canadian FootballThree downs, twelve players and a bigger field — the northern gridiron code, played for t…
Gaelic GamesIreland's amateur national sports — Gaelic football, hurling and camogie, played for coun…
RugbyThe handling code of football — 15-a-side rugby union, Olympic sevens, and a World Cup he…
Rugby LeagueThe thirteen-a-side code — born of a 1895 split over broken-time payments, and Australia'…
SoccerAssociation football — the most popular sport on Earth, played in every country under one…
Golf (2)
Disc GolfGolf with flying discs — free to play, exploding in participation, and professionalizing …
GolfThe ancient game of links and majors — from St Andrews to Augusta, governed by the USGA a…
Gymnastics (2)
CheerleadingStunts, tumbling and pyramids scored as sport — IOC-recognized since 2021, and one of the…
GymnasticsThe Olympics' oldest art of the body — artistic, rhythmic and trampoline gymnastics under…
BiathlonCross-country skiing plus rifle marksmanship — winter sport's biggest television audience…
Bobsleigh, Skeleton & LugeThe sliding sports — 90 mph down a mile of ice, governed by the IBSF and FIL, with German…
CurlingChess on ice — the Scottish stone game turned Olympic obsession, governed by World Curlin…
Figure SkatingArtistry scored to the decimal — quads, ice dance and the Olympic spotlight, judged under…
Ice HockeyThe fastest team sport on Earth — from the NHL and the Stanley Cup to Olympic gold, won t…
Ski MountaineeringSkimo — climbing and descending mountains on skis against the clock, and the newest Olymp…
Skiing & SnowboardingSnow's racing and freestyle sports under the FIS — alpine's crystal globes, cross-country…
Speed SkatingThe oval and the pack — long track's clock and short track's chaos, both under the ISU, w…
Mind Sports (1)
Motorsport (2)
Motorcycle RacingTwo wheels at the limit — MotoGP's grand prix world championship, Superbike, motocross an…
MotorsportRacing on four wheels — Formula 1's new American era, Le Mans, NASCAR, IndyCar and rally,…
Para Sports (4)
Para AthleticsTrack, road, jumps and throws across more than thirty sport classes — the largest sport a…
Para CyclingFour machines and thirteen sport classes on road and track — handcycle, tricycle, bicycle…
Para PowerliftingOne lift, one sport class, twenty bodyweight categories — the bench press as the whole of…
Para SwimmingRacing in the same four strokes as the Olympic sport, across fourteen sport classes per s…
BadmintonThe fastest racquet sport — 400 km/h smashes, Asia's passion, the BWF World Tour and the …
Basque Pelota & Hand-Wall SportsThe fastest ball game on Earth — jai alai's 300 km/h cesta punta, plus Gaelic handball an…
PadelThe world's fastest-growing racquet sport — doubles on an enclosed glass court, born in M…
PickleballAmerica's fastest-growing sport — a paddle game born on Bainbridge Island in 1965, now a …
RacquetballThe American four-wall game — invented in 1950 in a Connecticut YMCA, with a world tour a…
SquashThe four-walled endurance game — Egypt's dynasty, the PSA world tour, and an Olympic debu…
Table TennisThe world's biggest racquet sport by players — China's dynasty, the WTT tour and Olympic …
TennisThe global racquet sport — a year-round professional game played on every continent, from…
Strength Sports (5)
BodybuildingThe judged physique — mass, symmetry and conditioning under stage lights, with the Mr. Ol…
Functional Fitness (CrossFit)The sport of fitness — unknown workouts scored across strength, gymnastics and endurance,…
PowerliftingSquat, bench, deadlift — the sport of maximal strength, with world records to the half-ki…
StrongmanAtlas stones, yokes and truck pulls — strength sport as spectacle, crowned each year at t…
WeightliftingSnatch and clean & jerk — Olympic since 1896, ruled by China, and rebuilt from a doping c…
Target Sports (6)
BowlingTen pins, 60 feet, and oil patterns most players never see — a mass participation sport w…
Pool & BilliardsNine-ball, eight-ball and carom — the world's bar-room game as professional sport, with t…
ArcherySeventy metres to a ten-ring — Olympic recurve and compound archery under World Archery, …
DartsAlly Pally and the treble twenty — a pub game turned television juggernaut, with Luke Lit…
ShootingRifle, pistol and shotgun — one of the original 1896 Olympic sports, governed by the ISSF…
SnookerSeventeen days at the Crucible — the cue sport's world championship, and China's rising g…
Team Sports (8)
Field HockeyThe stick game of a hundred nations — Olympic since 1908, ruled today by the Netherlands,…
FloorballIndoor stick sport of the Nordics — five a side on a rink, fast, cheap to play, and pushi…
HandballEurope's arena sport — seven-a-side speed and goals under the IHF, with Denmark's men and…
KabaddiIndia's ancient raiding game turned prime-time league sport — one breath, seven defenders…
KorfballSport's only fully mixed-gender team game by design — four men and four women a side, fro…
LacrosseThe Creator's Game — North America's oldest team sport, now Olympic again at LA28 in the …
NetballThe Commonwealth's great women's team sport — seven a side, no dribbling, and a World Cup…
Ultimate (Flying Disc)Self-refereed at every level — the disc sport whose Spirit of the Game rule survives into…
VolleyballOne of the world's most played sports — indoor six-a-side and Olympic beach doubles, unde…
Water Sports (4)
Canoe & KayakPaddle sport's two Olympic faces — flatwater sprint and whitewater slalom, plus kayak cro…
RowingOars against the clock — Olympic rowing under World Rowing since 1892, the Boat Race and …
SailingRacing by wind — Olympic classes, the America's Cup since 1851, ocean epics like the Vend…
SurfingRiding waves for scores — the WSL's world tour from Pipeline to Fiji, the ISA's Olympic p…
Awards & honors (43)
Championship titles, medals, records and named trophies have their own hub — browse all 43 awards and honours.