Sport

Several professional sports clubs are active in the city:

  • HC Sibir Novosibirsk - ice hockey, Kontinental Hockey League
  • FC Sibir Novosibirsk - football, Russian First Division
  • Sibirtelecom Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - Men's basketball team, Russian Basketball Super League
  • Dynamo-Energiya Novosibirsk - Women's basketball, Russian Women's Basketball Super League
  • HC Sibselmash — bandy, Russian Vyschaya Liga

Novosibirsk is the hometown of several former Olympians including Alexander Karelin, a 12-time world Greco-Roman wrestling champion, who has been voted the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of the 20th century by FILA.