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Krzysztof Soszynski

Krzysztof Soszynski, "The Polish Experiment" (born 1977, Stalowa Wola, Poland), Polish-Canadian UFC light heavyweight, TUF 8 semifinalist, 26-12-1 record, kimura specialist; retired 2011, later UFC Gym director and actor in Logan.

Krzysztof Wielicki

Krzysztof Wielicki (born 1950) is a Polish mountaineer, fifth person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, first winter ascender of Everest, Kangchenjunga, and Lhotse, and Piolet d'Or Carrière laureate.

KS Cracovia

KS Cracovia (Klub Sportowy Cracovia S.A., 'Pasy'), Kraków football club founded 13 June 1906; five Polish titles, Piłsudski Stadium, Święta Wojna derby with Wisła, Platek ownership since 2025.

Ksenia Afanasyeva (Ксения Дмитриевна Афанасьева)

Ksenia Afanasyeva (Ксения Дмитриевна Афанасьева), born 1991 in Tula, Russian artistic gymnast; 2011 world floor champion, 2010 world team champion, 2012 Olympic team silver, 2013 and 2015 European floor champion.

Ksenia Efremova (Ксения Ефремова)

Ksenia Efremova (Ксения Ефремова) is a French tennis player, born in Moscow in 2009, who won the 2026 Australian Open girls' singles title and became the youngest ITF champion since 2003.

Kseniya Dudkina

Kseniya Pavlovna Dudkina (Ксения Павловна Дудкина), Russian rhythmic gymnast born 1995 in Omsk; group gold at the 2010 Youth Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics, plus 2011 and 2013 World Championship medals.

Kseniya Sinitsyna

Kseniya Sinitsyna (Ксения Синицына) is a Russian ladies' singles figure skater, born in 2004, who won silver at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics and gold in the team event.

Kseniya Stolbova

Kseniya Stolbova (Ксения Столбова), Russian pair skater born 1992 in St. Petersburg; with Fedor Klimov won 2014 Olympic team gold and pairs silver, later skated with Andrei Novoselov before retiring around 2020.

KSI vs Logan Paul

KSI vs Logan Paul: two boxing matches between YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul; the 2018 amateur bout in Manchester ended in a draw, and the 2019 professional rematch in Los Angeles was won by KSI via split decision.

KSI vs Tommy Fury

KSI vs Tommy Fury: 14 October 2023 cruiserweight bout at Manchester's AO Arena on Misfits x DAZN X Series 10: The Prime Card; professional boxer Tommy Fury beat YouTuber KSI by majority decision, later corrected to unanimous, after a scorecard error and a point deduction.

KSI vs. Logan Paul II

KSI vs. Logan Paul II, the 9 November 2019 Staples Center rematch, was both fighters' professional boxing debut; KSI won a six-round split decision after Logan Paul's fourth-round two-point deduction for hitting while KSI was down.

KSK Beveren

KSK Beveren (Koninklijke Sportkring Beveren) is a Belgian club from East Flanders that won two league titles (1978–79, 1983–84) and two Cups (1978, 1983). It relaunched its men's team in 2022.

Kuaidian (快点)

Kuaidian (快点), formerly Kuaidian Yuedu, is a Beijing-based Chinese startup whose mobile app presents stories as on-screen text conversations and short dramas; it raised nearly $100 million in July 2020.

Kuang

Kuang is a two-player traditional board game reconstructed in the Ludii system (ruleset Kuang, Ludii 2), played on a 5x5 square-tiled board with Markers that step adjacent; the reconstruction draws on Kolowis Awithlaknannai and related games.

Kuban ' (football club)

Kuban (ПФК «Кубань»), Krasnodar football club founded 1928, dissolved 2018, revived by fans; RPL member until 2016, Krasnodar derby rival of FC Krasnodar, now in lower leagues.

Kubb

Kubb (kubbspel), nicknamed Viking chess, is a Swedish lawn game from Gotland: teams throw wooden batons to topple 10 opponent kubbs on a 5x8 m pitch, then the king, under World Championship and AKA rules.

Kubrat Pulev (Кубрат Венков Пулев)

Kubrat Pulev (Кубрат Пулев), Bulgarian heavyweight boxer born 1981 in Sofia, "The Cobra". European amateur gold 2008; lost IBF title to Klitschko 2014 and to Joshua 2020; later WBA heavyweight champion, losing it to Gassiev in 2025.

Kuddelmuddel

Kuddelmuddel is a 2013 AMIGO real-time children's card game by Haim Shafir and Günter Burkhardt: 80 cards around a bell, build a seven-card matching row, Kinderspiel des Jahres recommendation 2013; distinct from the 2000 Rejchtman game and the 2026 EMF picture-search game of the same name.

Kuhhandel

Kuhhandel (You're Bluffing!) is a 1985 Rüdiger Koltze auction and bluffing card game from Ravensburger for 3-5 players, using 40 animal cards, 55 money cards, buy-rights, and face-down cattle trades.

Kulami

Kulami is a two-player abstract strategy board game, designed by Andreas Kuhnekath and published by Steffen Spiele, where players place marbles to hold the majority on wooden tiles.

Kulbir Bhaura

Kulbir Singh Bhaura, Indian-born British field hockey forward (born 1955, Jalandhar); 84 England and 61 Great Britain caps; Olympic bronze 1984 Los Angeles and gold 1988 Seoul; later hockey equipment businessman.

Kuldeep Yadav (कुलदीप यादव)

Kuldeep Yadav (कुलदीप यादव), born 1994, is an Indian left-arm wrist-spin (chinaman) bowler in all formats, known for his disguised googly and an ODI hat-trick against Australia.

Kult (role-playing game)

Kult, also known as Kult rpg, is a Swedish horror tabletop role-playing game first released in 1991 by Target Games and designed by Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén.

Kumar Rocker

Kumar Rocker, Texas Rangers starting pitcher; 2021 Mets 10th-overall pick who went unsigned over medical concerns, 2022 third overall by Texas. Vanderbilt 19-K no-hitter, 2019 CWS MOP, May 2023 Tommy John surgery, MLB debut September 12, 2024.

Kumar Sangakkara (කුමාර් චෝක්ෂනාද සංගක්කාර)

Kumar Sangakkara (කුමාර් චෝක්ෂනාද සංගක්කාර), Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batter born 1977 in Matale; 28,016 international runs, 12,400 Test runs at 57.40, 2014 T20 World Cup winner, MCC president 2019-21.

Kumite (组手)

Kumite (組手) is karate sparring, from prearranged drills to free sparring; WKF sport kumite uses controlled contact, yuko/waza-ari/ippon scoring to eight points, on an 8 m tatami.

Kun lbokator

Kun Lbokator (Bokator, គុនល្បុក្កតោ) is Cambodia's ancient martial art of close-quarter striking, grappling, and weapons, organized into 12 gates and 7 krama levels; UNESCO-inscribed in 2022 and a 2023 SEA Games discipline.

Kung fu (term)

Kung fu (功夫, gongfu) is a Chinese word for time, effort, and cultivated skill, not originally a martial arts term; the proper Chinese name is wushu. Bruce Lee's 1970s films made it the first Chinese martial arts term in the OED.

Kung Lao

Kung Lao is a Mortal Kombat fighting game character, a Shaolin monk and descendant of the champion Great Kung Lao who fights with a razor-rimmed hat, debuting in Mortal Kombat II (1993).

Kung-Fu Master (video game)

Kung-Fu Master (Spartan X, スパルタンX) is a 1984 Irem side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade game, distributed by Data East, in which Thomas fights up five temple floors to rescue Sylvia; the first of its genre, ported widely and adapted by Nintendo as Kung Fu.