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.