Sports, games, and recreation

Dmitry Nelyubin

Dmitry Nelyubin (Дмитрий Нелюбин), Soviet track cyclist, 1988 Seoul Olympic team pursuit gold at 17, 1990 world champion, died 2005 in St. Petersburg.

Dmitry Pirog (Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог)

Dmitry Pirog (Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог), "The Grandmaster," Russian boxer born 1980, WBO middleweight champion 2010-2012, retired 20-0 (15 KOs) after a back injury, later a Russian State Duma deputy.

Dmitry Rylov (Дмитрий Вадимович Рылов), born 2001 in Kirov, is a Russian pair skater; with Apollinariia Panfilova he won the 2020 World Junior title and 2020 Winter Youth Olympics pairs gold, and trains in Perm. Not the swimmer Yevgeny Rylov.

Dmitry Sakunenko

Dmitry Sakunenko (Дмитрий Николаевич Сакуненко, 1930–2014), Soviet speed skater; first under 8 minutes for 5,000 m (7:54.9, Medeo 1955), all-around world record 184.638, 1956 Olympian, 1955 European bronze medalist.

Dmitry Sautin

Dmitry Sautin is a Russian diver, born in 1974 in Voronezh, who won eight Olympic medals across five Games from 1992 to 2008, the most of any male diver.

Dmitry Shevchenko

Dmitry Shevchenko names several Russian athletes: foil fencer Dmitry Stepanovich Shevchenko (born 1967, 1996 Olympic team gold, 2000 bronze) and discus thrower Dmitry Igorevich Shevchenko (born 1968, 1993 world silver, three Olympiads).

Dmitry Solovyov

Dmitry Solovyov (Дмитрий Владимирович Соловьёв), born 1989 in Moscow, Russian ice dancer with Ekaterina Bobrova; 2014 Olympic team gold, 2018 team silver, 2013 European champion, 2013 World bronze. Not the swimmer or runner of the same name.

Dmitry Svatkovsky

Dmitry Svatkovsky (Дмитрий Валерьевич Сватковский), born 1971 in Moscow, Russian modern pentathlete; 2000 Sydney Olympic individual champion, 1992 team silver, two-time world champion, later Nizhny Novgorod official and European pentathlon president.

Dmitry Torgovanov

Dmitry Torgovanov (Дмитрий Николаевич Торгованов, born 1972, Leningrad) is a Russian handball pivot, Olympic champion 2000, world champion 1993 and 1997, later coach of Neva St. Petersburg and the Russian national team.

Dmitry Trush

Dmitry Trush (Дмитрий Владимирович Труш), born 1973, Russian artistic gymnast with Dynamo Voronezh; 1996 Atlanta Olympic team gold medalist, 1994 world and European team silver medalist, later a coach in the USA.

Dmitry Ukolov

Dmitry Ukolov (Дмитрий Матвеевич Уколов, 1929–1992), Soviet ice hockey defenseman for Spartak and CSKA Moscow; 1956 Olympic champion, 1954 and 1956 world champion, seven-time Soviet champion, Hall of Fame 2004.

Dmitry Vasilenko

Dmitry Andreyevich Vasilenko (Дмитрий Андреевич Василенко), born 1975 in Cherkessk, Russian artistic gymnast, 1996 Atlanta Olympic team gold medalist; also 1994 Worlds team silver, 1997 bronze; died 2019 of ALS. Not the short-track skater or weightlifting official of the same name.

Dmitry Vasilyev

Dmitry Vasilyev (Дмитрий Викторович Васильев), Russian ski jumper born 1979 in Ufa; two-time Olympian (2006, 2014), 5th overall in the 2008/09 World Cup, Four Hills podium finisher; distinct from the 1962-born biathlete of the same name.

Dmitry Volkov

Dmitry Volkov (Дмитрий Аркадьевич Волков), Soviet breaststroke swimmer, 1966-2025; three Olympic medals (two bronze Seoul 1988, silver Barcelona 1992) and 1990 short course 100 m breaststroke world record 59.30.

Dmitry Voskoboynikov

Dmitry Voskoboynikov (Дмитрий Вячеславович Воскобойников), Soviet volleyball player, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist; world champion 1962, World Cup 1965; Burevestnik and CSKA Moskva player, distinct from fencer Pavel Voskoboynikov.

Dmitry Yushkevich

Dmitry Yushkevich (Дмитрий Юшкевич), born 1971 in Cherepovets, Russian defenseman; 1992 Olympic gold (Unified Team), 1998 silver, 1993 world champion, 786 NHL games with Flyers and Maple Leafs; later KHL coach with CSKA and Lokomotiv.

Dmytro Monakov

Dmytro Monakov (Дмитро Віталійович Монаков), Soviet and Ukrainian trap shooter, 1963-2007. Won Olympic trap gold at Seoul 1988 in a shoot-off and world titles in 1987 and 1994; later coached Ukraine's team.

DNA (climb)

DNA (climb): 9c/5.15d sport route, also called the world's second 9c, in the La Ramirole cave, Gorges du Verdon, France. 50 m, first ascended by Sébastien Bouin on 29 April 2022; first repeated by Jakob Schubert.

Do Gyeong Dong

Do Gyeong Dong (도경동), born 1999, South Korean right-handed sabre fencer for Daegu City Hall. 2024 Paris Olympic team sabre gold via a 5-0 bout vs Rabb; 2026 World Championships individual silver; FIE world No. 2.

Dobbm

Dobbm, also called Tappen, is an Austrian point-trick card game from the Stubai valley: 4 or 5 players, 36 Tell cards, hearts permanently trump, declarer versus three defenders, 120 card points, payments based on the difference from 60.

Doblet

Doblet (Doublet, Dubblets) is a medieval Spanish Tables race game for two players with 12 pieces and three dice, documented on folios 74r-74v of Alfonso X's Libro de los Juegos (1283), with later English versions by Holme and Cotton.

Doc Campbell

Doc Campbell (George Herrold Campbell, 1878-1972) was a Canadian field lacrosse player and dentist from Orangeville, Ontario, who won gold with Canada at the 1908 London Olympics, beating Great Britain 14-10, and later served as the town's mayor.

Doc Gallows

Doc Gallows is the ring name of Andrew William Hankinson, an American professional wrestler best known as Luke Gallows and as one half of The Good Brothers with Karl Anderson.

Doc Rivers

Doc Rivers (Glenn Anton Rivers, born 1961) is an American basketball coach, former point guard, and broadcaster; 2008 NBA champion Celtics coach, 2000 Coach of the Year, 2026 Hall of Fame inductee, and Bucks head coach until April 2026.

Dock Ellis

Dock Ellis (Dock Phillip Ellis Jr., 1945-2008), MLB pitcher 1968-1979, 138-119, 3.46 ERA; threw a 1970 no-hitter he said was on LSD, 1971 All-Star and World Series winner, later a drug counselor.

Docklands Stadium

Docklands Stadium, commercially Marvel Stadium, is a 52,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Melbourne's Docklands, opened March 2000, AFL-owned since 2016, with a retractable roof and names Colonial, Telstra Dome, Etihad, Marvel.

Doddie Weir

Doddie Weir (George Wilson Weir, 1970–2022), Scottish rugby union lock, 61 Scotland caps 1990–2000, 1997 British & Irish Lion, Newcastle Falcons Premiership winner, and MND research campaigner via the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation.

Dodgeball

Dodgeball: team sport where two teams eliminate each other by throwing balls and catching throws; also German Völkerball (ボール避け). Governed by WDBF in Cloth and Foam disciplines, six players a side on an 18 x 9 m court.

Dodgem

Dodgem is an abstract strategy board game invented by Colin Vout in 1972, in which two players race cars off a grid, moving forward or sideways but never backward.