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Yury Sisikin
Yury Sisikin (Юрий Фёдорович Сисикин), Soviet foil fencer (1937–2025): two Olympic team foil golds (1960, 1964), 1960 individual silver, five world team titles, FIE Hall of Fame 2024.
Yushin Okami (岡見勇信)
Yushin Okami (岡見勇信), "Thunder", Japanese MMA middleweight born 1981, judo black belt, 39-15 record, 14-7 in UFC, challenged Anderson Silva at UFC 134, later ONE and Shooto.
Yuto-Ice
Yuto-Ice (Yuto Nakashima, 中島佑斗), born 1997, NJPW heavyweight wrestler; Knockout Brothers tag team with OSKAR, IWGP Tag Team Champion, first G1 Climax in 2026.
Yuya Wakamatsu (若松佑弥)
Yuya Wakamatsu (若松佑弥), "Little Piranha", Japanese flyweight MMA fighter from Kagoshima; 2016 Pancrase Neo Blood champion, ONE Flyweight MMA World Champion 2025, 2025 ONE Fighter of the Year, record 21-7.
Yves Edwards
Yves Edwards (born 1976), the "Thugjitsu Master," is a retired Bahamian lightweight MMA fighter, 42-22-1, who fought from 1997 to 2014 in the UFC, Pride, EliteXC, Strikeforce, and Bellator.
Yvonne Bonisch
Yvonne Bönisch (Snir-Bönisch), German judoka born 1980 in Ludwigsfelde, won 2004 Athens Olympic gold at 57 kg, the first for a German woman in judo; now head coach of Austria's national team.
Zab Judah
Zab Judah (Zabdiel Judah, born 1977, Brooklyn) is a retired American southpaw boxer, undisputed welterweight champion 2005-2006, IBF light welterweight champion 2000, WBO 2003, active 1996-2019.
Zabit Magomedsharipov (Забит Ахмедович Магомедшарипов)
Zabit Magomedsharipov (Забит Магомедшарипов), Dagestani UFC featherweight, retired 18-1 with a 6-0 UFC record; ACB champion, Wushu-Sanda European champion, never fought for UFC gold.
Zach Gowen
Zach Gowen (Zachary Mark Gowen, born 1983), also known as Tenacious Z, is an American retired one-legged professional wrestler from Michigan who competed in WWE 2003-2004, returned via AEW in 2025, and retired in October 2026.
Zack Sabre Jr.
Zack Sabre Jr., English technical wrestler of NWA-UK Hammerlock origin, known as the Technical Wizard; two-time IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, inaugural NJPW World TV Champion, and repeated WON Best Technical Wrestler award winner.
Zagalav Abdulbekov
Zagalav Abdulbekov (Загалав Абдулбекович Абдулбеков), born 1945 in Karata, Dagestan, Soviet freestyle wrestler; 1972 Munich Olympic featherweight (62 kg) gold, world champion 1971 and 1973, later coached the Soviet national team 1974–80.
Zak Chelli
Zak Chelli, born 1997, is a British professional boxer from Fulham, London; former British, Commonwealth, English, and WBA Continental super-middleweight champion, current English light-heavyweight titleholder, known for his 2026 knockout upset of David Morrell.
Zak Zodiac
Zak Zodiac (Zak Bevis, later Zak Knight) is an English professional wrestler from Norfolk of the Knight family, a WAW champion, brother of Saraya/Paige, with six failed WWE tryouts who later signed with AEW.
Zaria (wrestler)
Zaria (wrestler): Australian pro wrestler, formerly DELTA of Riot City Wrestling in Adelaide; signed WWE after a 2024 Perth tryout, debuted on NXT October 22, 2024, and won the NXT Women's North American Championship.
Zayda Steel (فاطمة الزهراء)
Zayda Steel (فاطمة الزهراء), real name Fatima Zahra, is a Moroccan-American professional wrestler born 2003, the first WWE ID signee, now signed to AEW and a member of SkyFlight.
Zelim Kotsoev
Zelim Kotsoev (Zelym Kotsoiev, Зелим Олегович Коцоев), Azerbaijani judoka born 1998 in Beslan, competes at -100 kg; Olympic champion Paris 2024, world champion Abu Dhabi 2024, European champion 2023 and 2025.
Zelina Vega
Zelina Vega (Thea Megan Trinidad, b. 1990), WWE wrestler and manager from Queens, NY; first Queen's Crown winner, ex-Women's Tag Team and 2025 Women's United States Champion, LWO member, released 2020 over Twitch, rehired 2021.
Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov
Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov, a Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, competed for the Soviet Union, winning the light-flyweight gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and becoming Kazakhstan's first ethnic champion.
Zhan Beleniuk
Zhan Beleniuk (Жан Венсанович Беленюк), Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler born 1991 in Kyiv: Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 at 87 kg, silver Rio 2016, bronze Paris 2024, two-time world champion, and first Black member of Ukraine's Parliament.
Zhang Mingyang (张明扬)
Zhang Mingyang (张名扬), "Mountain Tiger", Chinese UFC light heavyweight born 1998, pro since 2014; 19-8 record with 19 first-round finishes, Shanghai headliner, 2025-26 KO losses to Walker and Menifield.
Zhang Weili (张伟丽)
Zhang Weili (张伟丽), nicknamed Magnum, is a Chinese UFC women's strawweight fighter and two-time champion; first Chinese UFC titleholder (2019, 42-second KO of Andrade), famed for the 2020 war with Jedrzejczyk.
Zheng Shuyin
Zheng Shuyin (郑姝音), Chinese taekwondo heavyweight born 1994 in Dandong; 2016 Rio Olympic +67 kg champion, 2010 Youth Olympic gold, 2015 Universiade gold, wife of Zhao Shuai.
Zhilei Zhang (张志磊)
Zhilei Zhang (张志磊), "Big Bang", Chinese heavyweight boxer born 1983 in Zhoukou; 2008 Olympic silver medalist, WBO interim champion, 27-3-1 with 22 KOs; beat Joe Joyce twice and Deontay Wilder, lost to Hrgovic, Parker, Kabayel.
Zhong Man
Zhong Man (仲满), born 1983 in Nantong, is a Chinese sabre fencer who won men's individual sabre gold at Beijing 2008 under French coach Christian Bauer, the first Chinese male Olympic fencing champion, later China's sabre team coach.
Zilla Fatu
Zilla Fatu, son of Umaga (Eddie Fatu), is an American wrestler in the Anoa'i/Fatu family, trained by Booker T, formerly ROW and 4th Rope champion, now signed to WWE NXT since August 2026.
Zita Funkenhauser
Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, born 1966 in Satu Mare, Romania, is a German foil fencer, wife of Matthias Behr, with Olympic team gold 1984 and 1988, individual bronze 1988, team silver 1992, and three world team titles; later a dentist in Tauberbischofsheim.
Zoey Stark
Zoey Stark (Theresa Serrano, born 1994), also Lacey Ryan and Zoey Serrano, American wrestler; former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Io Shirai, Raw 2023 Trish Stratus alliance, WWE release 2026, now TNA.
Zoltan Horvath
Zoltan Horvath (Hungarian: Horváth Zoltán, 1937–2025) was a Hungarian sabre fencer who won 1960 Olympic team gold and individual silver, and the 1962 world title.
Zoltan Nemere
Zoltán Nemere (Nemere Zoltán), Hungarian épée fencer, 1942–2001. Two Olympic team golds (1964, 1968), 1965 individual world champion; later a dentist in Essen, died in a car accident near Csongrád.
Zoltan Schenker
Zoltan Schenker (Ozoray), Hungarian fencer, 1880–1966, sabre and foil. Olympic gold 1912 sabre team, silver 1924 sabre team, bronze 1924 foil team; fourth in individual sabre 1912 and 1924.