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Inna Osipenko Radomska

Inna Osipenko Radomska is a Ukrainian sprint kayaker who won five Olympic medals. She competed for Ukraine from 2000–2012 and for Azerbaijan at the 2016 Rio Games.

Inna Ryskal

Inna Ryskal (Инна Валерьевна Рыскаль), born 1944 in Baku, is a retired Soviet volleyball player who won four Olympic medals between 1964 and 1976, taking gold in 1968 and 1972.

Innozenz Stangl

Innozenz Stangl (1911-1991), German artistic gymnast with TSV 1860 München, won team gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, was 20th all-around, fourth on horizontal bar, and later German all-around champion in 1947.

Insane Championship Wrestling

Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) is an independent pro wrestling promotion founded by Mark Dallas in Glasgow, Scotland, on 15 October 2006. Known for the Square Go battle royal, Fear & Loathing Hydro shows, WWE Network content, and Triller TV streaming.

Insanity (pastime)

Insanity, also sold as Madness, Pawn's Move, or Leap Frog, is a one-player peg puzzle in which two colors of pegs exchange sides using forward moves and short jumps.

Inscryption

Inscryption is a 2021 deckbuilding roguelike with escape-room puzzles and psychological horror by Daniel Mullins Games, published by Devolver Digital. Released October 19, 2021, it won BAFTA Game Design and GDC GOTY 2022 and sold over 1.46 million units by mid-2022.

Inside (video game)

Inside (INSIDE) is Playdead's 2016 2.5D puzzle-platformer, spiritual successor to Limbo, released on Xbox One, PC, PS4, iOS, Switch, and Mac; Metacritic 93, BAFTA and Game Awards winner, no dialogue or text.

Inside-the-park home run

Inside-the-park home run (IPH): a home run scored without the ball leaving the field, once common, now under 20 per MLB season; profiled by SABR since 1976.

Insurgency: Sandstorm

Insurgency: Sandstorm is a tactical FPS by New World Interactive, published by Focus Entertainment, released on PC December 12, 2018 and later on PS4, Xbox One, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, built on Unreal Engine 4 as the sequel to Insurgency (2014).

Inta Klimovicha

Inta Klimovicha (Inta Kļimoviča, born 1951) is a Latvian former 400 m sprinter for the Soviet Union: 1976 Olympic 4x400 m relay bronze and 1976 4x440 yards relay world record.

Intel Extreme Masters Season XII – Oakland

IEM Season XII – Oakland (IEM Oakland 2017), November 14–19, 2017 at Oracle Arena: CS:GO $300,000 won by Ninjas in Pyjamas over FaZe Clan, plus a $200,000 PUBG Invitational won by against All authority.

Intelligent Systems

Intelligent Systems (株式会社インテリジェントシステムズ) is a Kyoto-based Japanese video game developer closely affiliated with Nintendo, founded December 1986 by Toru Narihiro. Creator of Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Paper Mario, and WarioWare, and builder of Nintendo's development tools since the Game Boy.

Intellivision

Intellivision: Mattel Electronics' 1979 home video game console, Atari 2600 rival in the first console war, ~5 million units sold, 125 games; brand acquired by Atari in May 2024, revived as the Intellivision Sprint in 2025.

Inter City Firm

Inter City Firm (ICF): West Ham United hooligan firm formed 1977/78, named for InterCity trains, known for calling cards, Cass Pennant, the 1985 Hooligan documentary, and 1988 police crackdowns.

Inter Dominion

Inter Dominion: Australasian harness racing championship series first held in 1936, rotating between Australian states and New Zealand, with heats and Grand Finals for pacers and trotters; Blacks A Fake won a record four finals.

Inter Dominion Trotting Championship

Inter Dominion Trotting Championship: trotters' division of the Australasian Inter Dominion harness racing series, first run 1948 at Alexandra Park, Auckland; recent champions Just Believe, The Locomotive, Arcee Phoenix.

Inter Miami CF

Inter Miami CF (Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami) is an MLS club launched in 2018, owned by Jorge Mas, Jose Mas, and David Beckham, that signed Lionel Messi in 2023 and won the 2023 Leagues Cup, 2024 Supporters' Shield, and 2025 MLS Cup.

Inter Milan

Inter Milan, officially FC Internazionale Milano and nicknamed the Nerazzurri, is a professional Italian football club founded in Milan in 1908, with 21 league titles and 3 European Cups.

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Coupe des Villes de Foires), European club football competition 1955-1971 for trade-fair cities, forerunner of the UEFA Cup; Barcelona won three titles; UEFA excludes its records from official European records.

Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction (IF), or text adventure, is a game genre told primarily through text, advanced by typed parser commands or on-screen choices. Founded on Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) and Infocom's Zork; modern tools include Twine, Inform, and Ink.

Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004)

The Intercontinental Cup, also known as the European/South American Cup, was an annual football competition between European and South American club champions from 1960 to 2004.

Intercontinental Rally Challenge

The Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC), also called the International Rally Challenge, was a Eurosport rally series for production-based cars from 2006 to 2012, merged into the European Rally Championship in 2013.

Intercounty Baseball League

The Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) is a senior baseball league in southwestern Ontario, founded in 1919 and Canada's oldest still-operating amateur league, with 2025 attendance of 249,590.

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is an upcoming Naughty Dog action-adventure for PS5, announced December 12, 2024 at The Game Awards. Bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun (Tati Gabrielle) is stranded on Sempiria; scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross; full reveal set for 2027.

Interim championship

Interim championship: a temporary title in boxing and MMA awarded when a reigning champion cannot defend. Introduced by the WBA in 1998; the interim holder unifies with or is elevated to full champion; criticized as belt proliferation.

Interlagos Circuit

Interlagos Circuit (Autódromo José Carlos Pace), 4.309 km anti-clockwise F1 track in São Paulo, Brazil; opened 1940, F1 since 1973, renamed for 1975 winner José Carlos Pace, home of the São Paulo Grand Prix through 2030.

Interleague play

Interleague play: regular-season MLB games between American League and National League clubs, adopted 1997 and expanded to 46 games per team under the 2023 balanced schedule; AL leads .529, rivalries include Subway Series and Cubs-White Sox.

Internacional de Bogotá

Internacional de Bogotá (Inter Bogotá), Colombian Primera A club in Bogotá, created in 2025-26 by rebranding La Equidad after Tylis-Porter Group's ~US$20M acquisition with celebrity investors including Ryan Reynolds.

International Appalachian Trail

International Appalachian Trail (Sentier International des Appalaches), IAT/SIA: long-distance hiking trail network extending the Appalachian Trail from Maine's Katahdin through Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, and Morocco, following the ancient Appalachian-Caledonian mountains of Pangea.

International baseball federation

International Baseball Federation (IBAF), also IBF, FIBA, AINBA, IBA: world governing body for baseball founded 1938, led baseball into the 1992 Olympics, merged with the ISF into the WBSC on 14 April 2013 in Tokyo.