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Russia is one of the most successful countries at a number of sports and continuously finishing in the top rankings at the Olympic Games. Russia is the successor of (and the Russian SFSR was the largest part of) the Soviet Union (USSR) and during the Soviet era, the Soviet team placed first in the total number of medals won at 14 of its 18 appearances; with these performances, the USSR was the dominant Olympic power of its era. Since the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 and continuing today, Soviet and later Russian athletes never went below third place in the world (never below second until the most recent Olympics), in number and gold medals collected at the Summer Olympics. Russia has finished in the top five at every Paralympic Winter Games since 1994, and is continuously climbing the rankings at the Paralympic Summer Games. According to a survey made in 2015 by the biggest sport portal, the six most popular sports are in order ice hockey (31% of the votes), football (21%), bandy (14.3%), which is the only discipline to have official support of the Russian Orthodox Church (), biathlon (11.6%), auto racing, (6.1%) and figure skating (4.7%) (). Other sports widely practiced in Russia include basketball, handball, weightlifting, gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, martial arts, volleyball, rugby union, and skiing. ==Basketball== The Soviet Union was traditionally very strong in basketball, winning various Olympic tournaments, World Championships and Eurobasket; its legal successor the Russian national basketball team is considered as a worldwide basketball force. In 2007, Russia defeated world champions Spain to win EuroBasket 2007. Russian basketball clubs such as PBC CSKA Moscow (2006 and 2008 Euroleague Champions) have had great success in European competitions such as the Euroleague and the ULEB Cup. At the moment there are three Russian players in the NBA: Andrei Kirilenko of the Philadelphia 76ers, Alexey Shved of the Houston Rockets, Cleveland Cavaliers center Timofey Mozgov and Sergey Karasev of the Brooklyn Nets. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sport in Russia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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