In St. Petersburg, 72,000 are involved in sports activities, among these 68,000 are children and teenagers. One hundred twenty-six sports are cultivated in the city, including 51 kinds that are part of the Olympics. Twenty-four sports teems from St. Petersburg participate in championships of Russia.

Sports complexes:

• 3,675 sports facilities of various kinds, including:
• 38 stadiums with bleachers;
• 8 sports halls with ice rinks;
• 69 covered swimming pools;
• 44 skiing resorts;
• 1,209 sports halls;
• 160 soccer fields, and 4 soccer maneges;
• 69 shooting galleries;
• 6 rowing clubs;
• 8 yacht clubs;
• 6 equestrian clubs
• 62 tennis courts
• 46 bowling alleys
• 2 golf clubs
• among these the largest sports arenas of Russia, such as
• The S. Kirov Stadium
• The Peterburgsky Sports and Concert Complex
• The Yubilejny Sports Hall
• The Zenit Sports Games Hall
• The Ledovy Dvorets Sports and Show Hall
• The Governor's Tennis Center on Krestovsky Island

Sports organizations and institutions

• 2 Olympic reserve schools
• 4 schools of the highest sports mastering
• 98 youth sports schools
• over 90 federation on various kinds of sports
• the potential of scientific staffing is represented by three sports educational institutions:
• The Lesgaft Academy of Physical Culture (one of the oldest in the world)
• The Military Institute of Physical Culture
• The R&D Institute of Physical Culture.

Significant sports events:

• The Doroga Zhizny, White Nights, Pushkin-St. Petersburg races
• The St. Petersburg Open tennis tournament
• The Grand Prix Cup of Russia, the competitions of the world's best figure skaters
• The Foil of St. Petersburg, a stage of the World Cup fencing tournament
• The Baltic Cup international tournament on sports dancing
• The Grand Prix St. Petersburg ice hockey tournament
• The M. Chigorin and the White Rook chess tournaments
• Skiing tournaments: The Gubernatorskie starty St. Petersburg Championship on ski racing, the Olympic Pargolovskaya Lyzhnya, the Toksovo Ski Marathon
• The Stars of the Third Millennium Open Spartakiada (five kinds of sports) and the St. Petersburg Spartakiada
• The Kalokagatia-Marathon body-shaping festival
• The Free Russia festival of Oriental marshal arts