Russian Nadezhda Petrova reached quarter-final of Australian Open
Russian tennis-player Nadezhda Petrova has reached a quarter-final of Australian Open championship, which is held in Melbourne these days.
Plushenko became 5-times European champion
Russian Evgeny Plushenko won European figure-skating championship in Lyon. Plushenko confidently figure-skated his free program and got 254.33 points for performance in France.
Akhatova wins bronze in pursuit race of World Cup
Russian skier Albina Akhatova won bronze medal in pursuit race (10 km) at 6-th stage of biathlon World Cup in Anterselva (Italy).
Russian tennis-player Myskina passed to 4-th round of Australian Open
On Saturday Russian tennis-player Anastasia Myskina passed to 4-th stage of Australian Open championship, which takes place in Melbourne.
Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov became 3-times European champions
Russian team has won third golden medal at European figure skating championship in Lyon.
Russian Irina Slutskaya goes down in history as first 7-times European champion
Women competition of European figure skating championship finished in French Lion. Leading places took Russian figure-skaters - Irina Slutskaya and Elena Sokolova. Slutskaya became the first 7-times European champion in figure-skating history. Bronze was awarded to Italian figure-skater Caroline Kostner. Another Russian Victoria Volchkova demonstrated 9-th result.
Navka and Kostomarov lead after original dance
Russian Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov became leaders in competition of dance pairs in European figure skating championship, which takes place in Lion (France).
Sharapova passed to 4-th stage of Australian Open
Strongest Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova easily passed to 4-th stage of Australian Open championship.
Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin won European championship
First medals of European figure skating championship were awarded on Wednesday evening in Lion (France).
Irina Slutskaya leads at European Figure Skating Championship
Russian figure skater Irina Slutskaya has taken leading position at European Figure Skating Championship in Lyon.
Italia offers to Isinbayeva $6 million for citizenship change
Italy has made an attracktive proposal to Russain athlete Elena Isinbayeva. According to the information from National Federation of track and field athletics, Russian pole vault champion will receive $6 million, if she adopt Italian citizenship.
Kuznetsova and Petrova passed to 3-d round of Australian Open
First matches of third round of Australian Open championship were played. By their results Russian sportswomen Nadezhda Pertrova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Elena Vesnina and Maria Kirilenko passed to third round of the tournament. Ekaterina Bychkova, Galina Voskoboeva and Elena Likhovzeva finished the struggle. Russian tennis-player Maria Sharapova still plays the game.
Russian Totmyanina and Marinin lead in championship for figure skating
Russian Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin lead in competitions of sport pairs in European championship for figure skating, which started in French Lion town on Tuesday.
Eugeny Plushchenko to perform at European Championship
Eugeny Plushchenko is to perform at European Figure Skating Championship, which has started on Tuesday in French Lyon. This information has been received from the sportsman`s coach Aleksei Mishin.
Andreev and Davydenko won start games at Australian Open
3 Russian tennis-players passed to second round of Australian Open. They are Dmitry Tursunov, who defeated Tim Henman, Igor Andreev and Nikolai Davydenko.
Plushchenko may miss European Figure skating Championship
After Russian Figure Skating Championship the leader of Russian team caught an acute cold, he hasn`t recovered from yet.
Putin called EU attempts to influence football as "imperialism"
Russian president met with president of Federation of Internationalof Football Assosiation Swiss Joseph Blatter and general secretary of Russian Football Union (RFU) Vitaly Mutko.
Russian Vladimir Chagin pronounced winner of "Dakar-2006" rally
On Sunday before final stage of "Dakar-2006" rally organizers of the race announced that in the view of tragic events of 2 last days, when 2 boys died under wheels of competing automobiles, last special route will not be timed.
Firdaus Kabirov won penultimate stage of "Dakar-2006" rally
Russian Firdaus Kabirov on KamAZ (Naberezhnie Chelny, Tatarstan) has won penultimate stage of "Dakar-2006" rally, informed organizers of competitions in telephone conversation.
Championship for valenki throwing took place in Pyatigorsk
Third open championship for valenki (Russian traditional winter footwear) throwing over Caucasian Mineral Waters region took place in Pyatigorsk park named after Kirov.
Russians Chagin and Kabirov took prize places in 13-th stage of "Dakar" rally
On Friday 13-th stage Labe-Tambakund with total length of 567 km, including 348 km of special route, took place.
Chepalova finished second in World Cup stage
Yulia Chepalova took the lead from the beginning of the distance and set the pace of the race till 13-th km, when Czech skier Katherine Noimannova successfully overpassed her.
Show at Football World Cup-2006 cancelled
Planned on June 7 festive gala-performance with participation of numerous sport and world variety celebrities on Olympic stadium in Berlin will not take place.
Russian biathlon sportswomen won relay race in Ruhpolding
In German town Ruhpolding 5-th stage of World Cup for biathlon started with female relay-race 4 by 5 km. Russian team, being 1/10 of second ahead of German team, gained the victory.
New head coach of Russian Football team to be foreigner
President of Russian Football Association Vitaly Mutko announced that he chose candidature on position of head coach of Russian team. By his words, he will be a foreign expert. Mutko informed that wage of new tutor of national team will be from 1.5 to 5 millions euros per year.