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== Sport ==
{{See also|Category:Sport in Odesa}}
[[File:Odessa Palace of Sports at Shevchenko Avenue (01).jpg|thumb|The Odesa Palace of Sports]]

The most popular sport in Odesa is [[Association football|football]]. The main professional football club in the city is [[FC Chornomorets Odesa]], who play in the [[Ukrainian Premier League]]. Chornomorets play their home games at the [[Chornomorets Stadium]], an elite-class stadium which has a maximum capacity of 34,164. The second football team in Odesa is [[FC Odesa]].[[File:Odesa Chornomorets Stadium 1.jpg|thumb|Chornomorets Stadium renovated in preparation to the [[Euro 2012]]]]Basketball is also a prominent sport in Odesa, with [[BC Odesa]] representing the city in the [[Ukrainian Basketball League]], the highest tier basketball league in Ukraine. Odesa will become one of five Ukrainian cities to host the [[FIBA EuroBasket 2015|39th European Basketball Championship]] in 2015.

=== Athletes ===
The cyclist and aviator [[Sergei Utochkin]] was one of the most famous natives of Odesa in the years before the Russian Revolution. [[Chess]] player [[Efim Geller]] was born in the city. Gymnast [[Tatiana Gutsu]] (known as "The Painted Bird of Odesa") brought home Ukraine's first Olympic gold medal as an independent nation when she outscored the USA's [[Shannon Miller]] in the women's all-around event at [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in Barcelona, Spain.

Figure skaters [[Oksana Grishuk]] and [[Evgeny Platov]] won the 1994 and 1998 Olympic gold medals as well as the 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 World Championships in ice dance. Both were born and raised in the city, though they skated at first for the Soviet Union, in the Unified Team, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and then Russia. Hennadiy Avdyeyenko won a 1988 Olympic gold medal in thehigh jump, setting an Olympic record at {{convert|2.38|m|ft|2|abbr=off}}.

'''Other notable athletes:'''

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* [[Mykola Avilov]], Olympic champion in decathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
* [[Oksana Baiul]], Olympic champion in figure skating in 1994
* [[Ihor Belanov]], European Footballer of the Year in 1986
* [[Yuriy Bilonoh]], European Athletics Championships in shot put at 2002 in Munich
* [[Leonid Buryak]] (born 1953), football coach and former Olympic bronze medal-winning player
* [[Maksim Chmerkovskiy]], professional ballroom & Latin dancer on American Dancing With the Stars
* [[Valentin Chmerkovskiy]], professional ballroom & Latin dancer on American Dancing With the Stars
* [[Charles Goldenberg]] (1911–1986), NFL All-Pro football player
* [[Viktor Kanevskyi]] (born 1936), football player and coach
* [[Svetlana Krachevskaya]], Olympic silver medalist in shot put
* [[Viacheslav Kravtsov]], NBA basketball player
* [[Lenny Krayzelburg]] (born 1975), Olympic champion swimmer
* [[Irina Krush]] (born 1983), US chess grandmaster
* [[Artur Kyshenko]], K1 Muay Thai kickboxer
* [[Yevgeny Lapinsky]], Olympic champion in volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico
* [[Roman Pelts]], Soviet chess master
* [[Viktor Petrenko]], Olympic champion in figure skating in 1992
* [[Vladimir Portnoi]], Olympic silver and bronze medalist in gymnastics
* [[Vitaliy Pushkar]], racing driver, No. 6 in 2012 International Rally Challenge Production cup standings<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ircseries.com/drivers|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411041839/http://www.ircseries.com/drivers?category=3&sort=3|url-status=dead|title=Drivers - IRC Intercontinental Rally Challenge - Eurosport|archive-date=11 April 2013|access-date=4 March 2013}}</ref>
* [[:ru:Резвой, Теодор Павлович|Theodore Rezvoy]], ocean rower, Guinness records holder (twice)
* [[Ekaterina Rubleva]], Russian ice dancing champion
* [[Yulia Ryabchinskaya]], Olympic champion in the K-1 500&nbsp;m Kayak Singles at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
* [[Dmitry Salita]] (born 1982), boxer
* [[Michael Shmerkin]] (born 1970), Israeli competitive figure skater
* [[Elina Svitolina]] (born 1994), professional tennis player
* [[Olena Vitrychenko]], world champion in rhythmic gymnastics
* [[Andriy Voronin]] (born 1979), football manager and player
* [[Yakov Zheleznyak]], Olympic champion in 50&nbsp;m Running Target at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
* [[Dayana Yastremska]] (born 2000), professional tennis player
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