| BIELSA | Marcelo, Argentinian football manager who coached his national side to the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics (6) |
| SCALONI | Lionel, Argentinian ex-footballer who coached his country at the 2022 FIFA World Cup (7) |
| FINALIST | Person who makes it through to the gold-medal round |
| ROONEY | Wayne, English ex-striker who is the record scorer for his national side with 53 goals (6) |
| ADVOCAAT | Dick, Dutch football coach who has managed Glasgow Rangers FC and his national side (8) |
| NAIRN | - - - MacEwan, 1970s Scotland flanker who later coached his country (5) |
| RIVERPLATE | Argentinian football club based at Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti |
| MESSY | Disorderly? Sounds like Lionel, the Argentinian football ace (5) |
| LESLIE | Law, British eventer who won the individual gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics (6) |
| SEBRLE | Roman ___, Czech athlete who won the decathlon gold medal at the 2004 Olympics |
| ROBSON | Bobby, English national football manager who coached Ipswich Town and Newcastle United FC (6) |
| BELLINGHAM | Jude, English midfielder who made his debut for the national side in 2020 at the age of 17 (10) |
| KHAN | Amir ---, British former light-welterweight world champion boxer who won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics (4) |
| AMIR | - Khan, Bolton-born boxer who won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics (4) |
| LEON | _ Taylor, British diver who won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics (4) |
| EMMS | Gail ___, retired English badminton player who won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics (4) |
| NITU | Who won the gold medal at the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games in the minimum weight category? (4) |
| RAJITHA | Identify this college student from Andhra Pradesh, who was part of the women's 4x400m relay team which made history by winning the gold medal at the 26th Asian Athletic Championship held in South Kore |
| SJOBERG | Patrik ___, Swedish high jumper who won the gold medal at the World Championships in Rome in 1987 |
| ERKINOOL | Estonian decathlete who won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney |
