#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
27	Lev Yashin	Football	🇷🇺 Russia	1950–1971	90.2
87	Sergei Belov	Basketball	🇷🇺 Russia	1964–1980	88.7
202	Yelena Isinbayeva	Athletics	🇷🇺 Russia	1997–2016	87.9
332	Alexander Popov	Swimming	🇷🇺 Russia	1990–2004	86.0
464	Vladimir Salnikov	Swimming	🇷🇺 Russia	1976–1988	84.5
551	Tatyana Lebedeva	Athletics	🇷🇺 Russia	1997–2013	85.3
645	Sergey Kovalev	Boxing	🇷🇺 Russia	2009–2019	84.0
967	Natalya Antyukh	Athletics	🇷🇺 Russia	2001–2014	82.5
1061	Alex Ovechkin	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	2001–—	87.3
1085	Viacheslav Fetisov	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	1974–1998	87.4
1089	Veronika Andrusenko	Swimming	🇷🇺 Russia	2008–2021	82.6
1142	Sergei Makarov	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	1976–1997	86.2
1194	Vladimir Bure	Swimming	🇷🇺 Russia	1968–1976	80.1
1196	Alexander Ovechkin	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	2005–—	87.2
1309	Daniil Medvedev	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	2014–—	81.5
1323	Vladislav Tretiak	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	1968–1984	84.6
1430	Valeri Kharlamov	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	1967–1981	83.4
1449	Mariya Abakumova	Athletics	🇷🇺 Russia	2005–2015	79.3
1477	Marina Azyabina	Athletics	🇷🇺 Russia	1988–1996	79.6
1547	Nikolai Valuev	Boxing	🇷🇺 Russia	1993–2009	80.4
1554	Sergey Bakulin	Athletics	🇷🇺 Russia	2006–2014	78.4
1566	Vera Zvonareva	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	2000–—	82.4
1592	Vyacheslav Fetisov	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	1974–1998	84.0
1698	Marat Safin	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	1997–2009	79.2
1724	Ekaterina Makarova	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	2005–2019	81.2
1726	Andrei Arshavin	Football	🇷🇺 Russia	2000–2018	76.9
1789	Denis Pankratov	Swimming	🇷🇺 Russia	1992–2000	76.7
1843	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	1992–2003	79.5
1914	Igor Larionov	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	1981–2004	83.5
1999	Nikita Kucherov	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	2011–—	80.7
2000	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	2000–2022	81.7
2008	Mikhail Akimenko	Athletics	🇷🇺 Russia	2015–2021	76.3
2017	Maria Sharapova	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	2001–2020	79.6
2024	Nadia Petrova	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	1999–2017	80.3
2025	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	2006–—	81.0
2054	Aleksandr Mostovoi	Football	🇷🇺 Russia	1986–2005	76.8
2145	Evgeni Malkin	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	2003–—	81.3
2306	Lyudmila Buldakova	Volleyball	🇷🇺 Russia	1960–1972	82.5
2324	Yuliya Bogdanova	Swimming	🇷🇺 Russia	1978–1986	74.2
2345	Elena Dementieva	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	1998–2010	77.8
2412	Sergei Fedorov	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	1986–2012	81.1
2507	Viacheslav Krasilnikov	Volleyball	🇷🇺 Russia	2010–—	81.6
2521	Yelena Chebukina	Volleyball	🇷🇺 Russia	1984–1996	81.6
2546	Dinara Safina	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	2000–2014	75.7
2572	Evgeniya Artamonova	Volleyball	🇷🇺 Russia	1990–2012	82.6
2593	Yuri Chesnokov	Volleyball	🇷🇺 Russia	1956–1966	80.5
2630	Pavel Datsyuk	Ice Hockey	🇷🇺 Russia	1996–2021	78.8
2673	Anastasia Myskina	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	1999–2007	74.2
2771	Yury Berezhko	Volleyball	🇷🇺 Russia	2000–2019	80.9
2772	Lioubov Sokolova	Volleyball	🇷🇺 Russia	1995–2014	80.6

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