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Kyosti Lehtonen

Kyösti Lehtonen (Kyösti Eemil Lehtonen, Köpi), Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler, 1956 Melbourne Olympic lightweight gold medalist, World silver medalist 1953 and 1955, nine-time Finnish champion, later national coach.

Kyosuke Matsuyama

Kyosuke Matsuyama (松山恭助), born 1996, Japanese left-handed foil fencer and JTB employee; Olympic men's foil team gold at Paris 2024 and world team gold at Milan 2023, both firsts for Japan.

Kyreece Lisbie

Kyreece Lisbie (born 2003) is an English right winger for Reading FC, signed from Colchester United in June 2026; son of Kevin Lisbie and twin of Kyrell Lisbie, formerly of Brentford B.

Kyrell Lisbie

Kyrell Jeremiah Lisbie (born 2003, London) is an English left winger at Millwall, signed from Peterborough United in July 2026 after 11 League One goals; twin of Kyreece Lisbie, son of Kevin Lisbie.

Kyren Lacy

Kyren Lacy, LSU wide receiver from Thibodaux, Louisiana (also UL-Lafayette 2020-21), 2024 second-team All-SEC with 9 TD catches; died April 12, 2025 amid disputed charges over a fatal December 2024 crash.

Kyren Williams

Kyren Williams (born 2000) is a Los Angeles Rams running back from Kirkwood, Missouri; a 2022 fifth-round pick out of Notre Dame with three straight 1,000-yard seasons and a $33 million extension.

Kyren Wilson

Kyren Wilson (born 1991, Kettering, England), nicknamed The Warrior, English snooker player; 2024 World Champion (beat Jak Jones 18-14), 2026 Masters winner, 10 ranking titles, career-best ranking No. 2, five 147 maximum breaks.

Kyrgyzstan national football team

Kyrgyzstan (Кыргызстан) national men's football team, run by the Kyrgyz Football Union (AFC). First major tournament at the 2019 Asian Cup, reaching the last 16; FIFA ranking high of 75th; eight World Cup qualifying campaigns.

Kyrie Irving

Kyrie Irving, born 1992 in Australia, is an NBA guard, 2011 No. 1 pick, 2016 champion, nine-time All-Star, now with the Dallas Mavericks after ACL surgery; returned October 2026.

Kyril Louis-Dreyfus

Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, born 1997, is a Swiss businessman who became Sunderland AFC's majority owner and chairman in 2021, the youngest chairman in English football at the time.

Kyshawn George

Kyshawn George (born 2003) is a Swiss NBA wing for the Washington Wizards, drafted 24th overall in 2024 by the Knicks. One Miami season, 6'8" with 6'10¼" wingspan, rookie records for threes, 2025-26 breakout ended by elbow injury.

Kysre Gondrezick

Kysre Gondrezick (born 1997, Benton Harbor, Michigan) is an American guard and model, 2021 WNBA fourth overall pick by the Indiana Fever, later Chicago Sky; 24 career WNBA games.

Kyūdō (弓道)

Kyūdō (弓道), the Way of the Bow, is the modern Japanese martial art of archery using the asymmetric yumi, governed by the ANKF and IKYF, shot through the eight-stage Shaho-Hassetsu, with the 5th World Kyudo Taikai set for Tokyo 2028.

L & T Hasewelle

L&T Hasewelle: artificial standing surf wave (Citywave) in the L&T Sporthaus department store, Osnabrück, Germany, opened 2018; 45-minute sessions, 39/49 €, Rapid Surf League venue.

L Game

L Game, de Bono's L game, is a 1967 abstract strategy board game by Edward de Bono: two L tetrominoes and two neutral pieces on a 4x4 board; solved as a draw with perfect play.

L. a. m. a.

L. a. m. a. (L.L.A.M.A.), from German "Lege alle Minuspunkte ab", is Reiner Knizia's 2019 AMIGO card-shedding game for 2-6 players: 56 cards, llama cards bridging 6 and 1, penalty chips, game ends at 40 points, Spiel des Jahres 2019 nominee.

L. Haydock

L. Haydock (Louisa Haydock), American sprinter, set the women's 75-yard dash world record of 8 3/5 seconds at New Haven on 26 April 1913; the only ratified record in that event, dropped after 1927.

L.A. Live

L.A. Live (L.A. LIVE) is AEG's sports and entertainment district in Downtown Los Angeles surrounding Crypto.com Arena and Peacock Theater, built in three phases from 2007 to 2010, home to the Emmys and, from 2029, the Oscars.

L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire (LA Noire) is a 2011 Team Bondi detective game published by Rockstar, set in 1947 Los Angeles with Cole Phelps, MotionScan facial capture, Metacritic 89, and a VR Case Files spin-off.

L'hombre

L'hombre (lomber), also Ombre or Hombre, is a Spanish-origin three-player trick-taking card game, the first with bidding; it dominated 17th-18th century Europe and survives in Denmark, Spain (Tresillo), and South America (Rocambor).

L'Jarius Sneed

L'Jarius Sneed, NFL cornerback born 1997 in Minden, Louisiana; Louisiana Tech, Chiefs fourth-rounder (138th, 2020), two-time Super Bowl champion, traded to Titans 2024 for a 2025 third, back with Kansas City in 2026.

L'union sportive avranches mont saint michel

US Avranches Mont-Saint-Michel (USAMSM), founded 1897 in Avranches, Manche, is a French amateur football club playing at Stade René-Fenouillère; 2014 CFA champions, 2017 Coupe de France quarterfinalists, in National 1 from 2026-27.

La Bombonera

La Bombonera (Estadio Alberto J. Armando), Boca Juniors' stadium at Brandsen 805, La Boca, Buenos Aires; inaugurated 25 May 1940, D-shaped with three steep tiers, capacity 54,000, planned expansion to 80,000.

LA Bowl

LA Bowl: college football bowl game at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, 2021-2025, Mountain West vs Pac-12, sponsored by Jimmy Kimmel then hosted by Rob Gronkowski; discontinued after five editions.

La Catalina

La Catalina (Catalina García, born 2000, Santiago) is a Chilean professional wrestler, "La Diva del Ring"; first Chilean woman signed by WWE (2019), former CMLL Universal Amazonas champion, and current AAA Reina de Reinas Champion.

La Chascona

La Chascona (also Chicochao, Chisqui-Chasque) is a traditional Canarian two-player alignment board game with nine pieces per player, documented especially in Fuerteventura, related to nine men's Morris; forming three in line captures an opponent's piece.

La Course by Le Tour de France

La Course by Le Tour de France (avec FDJ) was ASO's women's one-day cycling race from 2014 to 2021, first run on the Champs-Élysées and won five times by Dutch riders including Marianne Vos and Annemiek van Vleuten, before being replaced by the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2022.

La Dama

La Dama: name for regional draughts games (Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Filipino dama) and a Canarian rock-carved 25-hole board game of Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife; compulsory maximum captures define Turkish dama.

La Dolfina

La Dolfina is an Argentine high-handicap polo team founded by Adolfo Cambiaso in Cañuelas, known for winning three consecutive Argentine Triple Crowns from 2013 to 2015.

La fiorita

SP La Fiorita (La Fiorita 1967) is a football club from Montegiardino, San Marino, founded 1936 and refounded 1967; 6 league titles, 8 Coppa Titano, 6 Supercoppa, and continuous UEFA qualifying play since 2012.