50,115 articles
Klara Guseva Nesterova
Klara Guseva-Nesterova (Клара Ивановна Гусева-Нестерова), Soviet speed skater, 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic 1,000 m champion in Olympic-record 1:34.1; also 1960 world champion; died 2019.
Klara Killermann Bartos
Klára Killermann-Bartos (Killermann Klára, Bartos Győzőné, 1929–2012), Hungarian breaststroke swimmer; three-time Olympian (1952–1960), 1954 European 200 m breaststroke bronze medalist, and holder of three 4×100 m medley relay world records.
Klas Lestander
Klas Lestander (1931–2023), Swedish biathlete from Arjeplog, won the first Olympic biathlon gold, the 1960 Squaw Valley 20 km individual, with the only clean 20-for-20 shooting despite the 15th-fastest ski time.
Klask
Klask is a two-player Danish magnetic dexterity tabletop game invented by Mikkel Bertelsen in 2013, combining air hockey and foosball; players steer strikers with under-board magnets, first to 6 points wins, with a World Championship since 2017.
Klaudia Kazimierska
Klaudia Kazimierska (born 2001, Włocławek) is a Polish 1500m runner based in Eugene, Oregon; Polish record holder (3:54.05), 2026 Diamond League Final and World Ultimate champion, European silver medallist.
Klaus Balkenhol
Klaus Balkenhol (Nikolaus Balkenhol, born 6 December 1939, Velen) is a German dressage rider and trainer; Olympic team gold 1992 and 1996 and individual bronze 1992 on police horse Goldstern, later German and US national dressage coach.
Klaus Bittner
Klaus Bittner (born 23 October 1938, Görlitz) is a German rower of the Ratzeburg-Kiel "Goldachter" who won Olympic gold in the men's eight at Rome 1960, the first non-US eights gold since 1900, and silver at Tokyo 1964.
Klaus Dibiasi
Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver (born 1947, Hall in Tirol, Austria), won 10m platform gold at 1968, 1972, 1976 Olympics after 1964 silver; only diver with three successive Olympic titles in one event.
Klaus Dieter Ludwig
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig, nicknamed Lucky, East German rowing coxswain (1943-2016); Olympic silver in coxed fours at Munich 1972, gold in the eights at Moscow 1980, and seven World Championship medals.
Klaus Dieter Neubert
Klaus-Dieter Neubert (born 1949, Oberwiesenthal) is an East German rowing coxswain, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed pair at Munich 1972 with Gunkel and Lucke, fourth at Mexico 1968, later a GDR foreign-trade official.
Klaus Gruner
Klaus Gruner (born 1952, Frankenhausen, Saxony) is a German handball player, East Germany's 1980 Moscow Olympic champion (23-22 overtime final win over the USSR), 112 caps, 295 goals, later a coach.
Klaus Jurgen Grunke
Klaus-Jürgen Grünke (born 1951, Bad Lauchstädt) is an East German track cyclist, 1976 Montreal Olympic champion and 1975 world champion in the 1,000 m time trial (1:05.927), with seven GDR titles.
Klaus Katzur
Klaus Katzur (1943–2016), East German breaststroke swimmer from Potsdam; silver in the 4×100 m medley relay at Munich 1972, double European champion 1970, later chaired the Association of German Olympians.
Klaus Koste
Klaus Koste (Klaus Köste, 1943-2012), East German artistic gymnast; 1972 Munich Olympic vault champion, team bronze 1964/68/72, European horizontal bar champion 1971 and 1973, 34 GDR national titles.
Klaus Kroppelien
Klaus Kröppelien (born 1958, Rostock) is a German rower, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist in the men's double sculls with Joachim Dreifke, also world champion 1979 (quadruple sculls) and 1981 (double sculls).
Klaus Michael Bonsack
Klaus Michael Bonsack (1941–2023) was a German luger who competed for East Germany and won four Olympic medals, including doubles gold with Thomas Köhler at Grenoble 1968.
Klaus Michler
Klaus Michler (born 1970, Stuttgart) is a German field hockey player, Olympic gold medallist with the re-unified Germany at Barcelona 1992 (2-1 over Australia), European champion 1991 and 1995, 162 caps for Crefelder HTC.
Klaus Reichert
Klaus Reichert, born 1947 in Hanau, is a retired West German foil fencer, OFC Bonn dentist, Olympic team gold 1976 and silver 1984, three world team titles 1977, 1983, 1987.
Klaus Richtzenhain
Klaus Richtzenhain (1934–2025), East German middle-distance runner nicknamed Zappel; won 1,500 m silver at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics behind Ronnie Delany, set a 1957 indoor 3,000 m world record, later an engineer in Erfurt.
Klaus Riekemann
Klaus Riekemann (born 19 May 1940, Dorsten) is a German rower, Olympic gold medallist in the coxed fours at Rome 1960 for the Unified Team of Germany, twice European coxed pair champion (1958, 1959), later a masters rower with Minerva Bath Rowing Club.
Klaus Steinbach
Klaus Steinbach, born 1953, West German freestyle swimmer, 1972 Olympic silver and 1976 bronze in relays, 1975 world champion, first under 50 s for 100 m freestyle short course, later NOK president 2002-2006 and orthopedic surgeon.
Klaus Tafelmeier
Klaus Tafelmeier (Klaus-Dieter Tafelmeier), West German javelin thrower born 1958 in Singen; 1986 European champion and first official world record holder with the new javelin, 85.74 m, Como 1986; fourth at Seoul 1988.
Klaus Teuber
Klaus Teuber (1952-2023), German board game designer, creator of The Settlers of Catan (1995); former dental technician, Spiel des Jahres winner for Barbarossa, founder of CATAN GmbH with his family.
Klaus Wolfermann
Klaus Wolfermann (1946-2024), West German javelin thrower; 1972 Munich Olympic champion at 90.48m, beating Janis Lusis by 2 cm; world record 94.08m in 1973; six German titles.
Klavdiya Boyarskikh
Klavdiya Boyarskikh (Клавдия Сергеевна Боярских), Soviet cross-country skier (1939–2009). Won all three women's events, 5 km, 10 km, and 3×5 km relay, at the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics; two golds and a silver at the 1966 Oslo World Championships.
Klavdiya Mayuchaya
Klavdiya Mayuchaya, née Lapteva, was a Soviet javelin thrower who won gold at the 1946 European Championships and first threw the javelin beyond fifty meters in 1947.
Klavdiya Tochonova
Klavdiya Tochonova (Клавдия Точёнова), Soviet shot putter, 1921-2004; 1952 Olympic bronze at 14.50 m and ratified world record holder 14.86 m from 1949; Leningrad blockade survivor.
Klax (video game)
Klax is a 1990 Atari Games arcade puzzle game by Mark Stephen Pierce and Dave Akers: catch tiles from a conveyor, drop them into a 5x5 well, and match three same-colored tiles across 100 waves; widely ported.
Klay Thompson
Klay Thompson, NBA guard (born 1990), 4-time champion and 5-time All-Star with the Warriors as one of the Splash Brothers with Stephen Curry; No. 4 all-time in threes; later Mavericks, then Miami Heat from 2026.
Klein Kubiak
Klein Kubiak, son of Gary Kubiak and brother of Klint and Klay, is the Dallas Cowboys' National Scout/Special Projects, a former Rice wide receiver who joined Dallas in 2019 after five years with the Denver Broncos.