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Asara
Asara is a 2010 Ravensburger board game by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling for 2-4 players, in which architects buy tower sections with color-follow-suit buyer cards and build towers for prestige; it was nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2011, losing to Qwirkle.
Asashōryū Akinori (Долгорсүрэн Дагвадорж)
Asashoryu Akinori (Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj), Mongolian-born 68th yokozuna (2003–2010), won 25 top-division titles including all six tournaments of 2005, and was forced to retire in February 2010 after an alleged nightclub assault.
Asbel Kiprop
Asbel Kiprop (Asbel Kipruto Kiprop), born 1989 in Eldoret, Kenya, is a 1500 m runner: 2008 Olympic champion, triple world champion (2011, 2013, 2015), third-fastest ever at 3:26.69, later banned four years for EPO.
Ascenso MX
Ascenso MX was the name of Mexico's second-tier soccer league from 2012 to 2020, successor to Primera División 'A' and Liga de Ascenso and predecessor of Liga de Expansión MX, whose promotion to Liga MX was suspended in 2020.
Aschwin Wildeboer
Aschwin Wildeboer Faber, Spanish backstroke swimmer born 1986 in Sabadell; three-time Olympian, 2009 world bronze medalist, and former 100 m backstroke world record holder in long course (52.38) and short course (49.20).
Ascot Gold Cup
Gold Cup (Ascot Gold Cup): Group 1 flat race at Royal Ascot over 2m3f210y for horses aged four and older, first run 1807; record winners Yeats (4), jockey Lester Piggott (11), trainer Aidan O'Brien (10).
Ascot Racecourse
Ascot Racecourse, founded by Queen Anne in 1711 in Berkshire, England, hosts Royal Ascot each June plus 26 race days yearly; a right-handed triangular round course, straight mile, 2006 £200m grandstand, and £264.5m UK economic impact.
ASEAN Basketball League
ASEAN Basketball League (ABL), a Southeast Asian professional club basketball league founded 2009 under SEABA, championed by Tony Fernandes; nine seasons, champions from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Hong Kong; dormant since FIBA Asia withdrew recognition in November 2023.
ASEAN Championship
The ASEAN Championship, known as the Tiger Cup and AFF Suzuki Cup, is a biennial football tournament for Southeast Asian national teams, first played in 1996.
ASEAN Football Federation
ASEAN Football Federation (AFF, Persekutuan Bolasepak ASEAN): AFC-recognized regional football body founded 1984, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, with 12 members including Australia; runs the ASEAN Championship (Tiger Cup since 1996) and futsal, women's, and club tournaments.
Asen Zlatev
Asen Zlatev (Асен Златев), Bulgarian weightlifter born 1960, 1980 Olympic middleweight champion, three-time world champion, 225 kg clean and jerk world record at Sofia 1986, later elected president of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation in 2025.
Asgard's Wrath 2
Asgard's Wrath 2 is a VR open-world action RPG by Sanzaru Games, released December 15, 2023 on Meta Quest 2/3/Pro; a Cosmic Guardian possesses mortal heroes to hunt Loki. Meta's first AAA standalone Quest title, $59.99, free with Quest 3.
Asgore
Asgore Dreemurr (アズゴア・ドリーマー), king of the underground in Toby Fox's Undertale, plans to take seven human SOULs to break the barrier; his Neutral Route boss fight famously destroys the MERCY button, and he also appears in Deltarune.
Ashere
Ashere is a simple race game played by Yoruba children in twentieth-century Nigeria, on seven concentric circles or squares with four players; movement depends on guessing which hand hides a stick, and the first to reach the central circle wins.
Ashfaq Ahmed (athlete)
Ashfaq Ahmed (محمد اشفاق احمد, 1946–2005), Pakistani field hockey inside right, 49 caps, 11 goals; won 1968 Olympic gold, 1970 Asian Games gold, and 1971 first Hockey World Cup. Distinct from cricketers of the same name.
Ashford Town (Middlesex) F.C.
Ashford Town (Middlesex) F.C., also known as the Tangerines, is a football club founded in 1958 as Ashford Albion, based at the Robert Parker Stadium in Stanwell. Combined Counties Premier North champions 2025-26 with 81 points, promoted to Isthmian South Central for 2026-27.
Ashford United F.C.
Ashford United F.C., The Nuts & Bolts, an Ashford, Kent football club founded 1891 and re-formed 2011 after Ashford Town folded; plays at The Green Box Stadium, Homelands Park, in the Isthmian League South East Division under manager Craig Stone.
Ashia Hansen
Ashia Hansen, British triple jumper born 1971 in Evansville, Indiana; world indoor record 15.16 m (1998), two world indoor titles, 2002 European and two Commonwealth golds.
Ashington
Ashington AFC, the Colliers, football club founded 1883 in Ashington, Northumberland; Football League Third Division North 1921-1929, now Northern Premier League East Division at Woodhorn Lane, hometown of the Charltons and Jackie Milburn.
Ashirma
Ashirma (Aşırma), traditional belt wrestling of Azerbaijan and Iran's Tabriz region; wrestlers hold a fixed leather-belt grip and try to throw the opponent onto his back; bouts run two 3-minute periods in five weight categories.
Ashlee Evans-Smith
Ashlee Evans-Smith (born 1987, Ukiah, California), "Rebel Girl", American MMA fighter; UFC women's bantamweight/flyweight, pro record 6-6, UFC 3-6; known for 2013 TKO of Fallon Fox.
Ashleigh Barty
Ashleigh Barty is an Australian former tennis player, an Indigenous Ngaragu woman who won three Grand Slam titles and retired in 2022 at 25 while world No. 1.
Ashleigh McIvor
Ashleigh McIvor (born 1983, Vancouver) is a Canadian ski cross racer, 2009 world champion, and winner of the first Olympic gold in women's ski cross at Vancouver 2010; retired 2012.
Ashley Barnes
Ashley Barnes (Ashley Luke Barnes, born 1989) is an English striker for Burnley, where his 42 Premier League goals rank second behind Chris Wood, and a four-time Championship promotion winner.
Ashley Cain (footballer)
Ashley Thomas Cain (born 1990, Nuneaton), English former professional right midfielder for Coventry City, Mansfield, Tamworth, Telford, and Gaz Metan Medias; later Ultraman 2024 charity challenge for childhood cancer research.
Ashley Caldwell
Ashley Caldwell (born 1993, Ashburn, Virginia), American freestyle aerials skier; four-time Olympian, 2022 Olympic mixed team aerials gold medalist, first woman to land the quadruple-twisting triple backflip "The Daddy."
Ashley Callus
Ashley Callus (Ashley John Callus, born 1979) is an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer who won gold in the 4 × 100 m relay at Sydney 2000 and bronze at Beijing 2008.
Ashley Cole
Ashley Cole, born 1980 in London, is an English football coach and former left-back who won 107 England caps and took his first managerial job at Italy's Cesena in 2026.
Ashley Fletcher
Ashley Michael Fletcher (born 1995, Keighley) is an English centre-forward, ex-Manchester United academy, who played for West Ham, Middlesbrough, Watford and Blackpool before joining Huddersfield Town free in June 2026.
Ashley Force Hood
Ashley Force Hood, eldest daughter of John Force, is an American NHRA drag racer and the first woman to win a Funny Car national event, at the 2008 Southern Nationals, beating her father in the final; nine career wins, second in 2009 points.