* Russians shooters won a total of 28 medals to finish first in the unofficial team standing at the Moscow 2006 Air Gun European Championship, with 16 golds, 8 silvers and 4 bronzes
* Russia's women won four gold medals at the Gazprom Grand Prix Moscow 2006 rhythmic gymnastics tournament, with superstar Alina Kabayeva and her teammate Vera Sesina winning two gold medals each in the four events
* Russian skater Dmitry Dorofeyev, who won the 500m men's silver at the Winter Olympics in Turin, came second in the overall standings of ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2005/2006, with 720 points, finishing behind South Korea's Kang-Seok Lee (746), who won the last round of the competition, in the Dutch city of Heerenveen. Olympic 500m title holder Joey Cheek from the United States finished third with 705 points
* Russia's Svetlana Zhurova, 500m women's Olympic title holder, won the last round of the ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2005/2006 competition to finish second in the overall standings of the tournament with 617 points. Germany's Jenny Wolf won the World Cup (917), and Chiara Simionato from Italy took the third place (608)
* Russian tennis player Mikhail Yuzhny jumped 28 places to 26th spot in the ATP Race Standings. Russia's top-rated world No.5 Nikolai Davydenko, has the same, fifth rankings in the ATP Race, whereas Russians Igor Andreyev and Dmitry Tursunov are 29th and 37th, respectively
* Russian men's volleyball team Iskra Odintsovo, the runner-up at CEV Cup 2005/06 in Padua, Italy, failed to win the title losing to Italy's Lube Macerata in three straight sets, 19:25, 19:25, 22:25. France's Paris Volley took the bronze by beating the hosts Giotto Padova, 3:0
* Russian player Pyotr Svidler tied with leader Peter Leko from Hungary and is holding the fifth position, 1.5 point behind Leko, at the 380,000-euro ($450,000) tournament in Linares (Spain) to run through March 11
* Russian Cup 2005/2006 soccer 1/8-final first leg results (host teams listed first):
Luch-Energia Vladivostok lost to Spartak Moscow 0-1;
Zenit St. Petersburg - Terek Grozny (D1) 2-0;
Rubin Kazan - Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-1;
Krylya Sovietov Samara - Dynamo Moscow 2-0;
Amkar Perm - Saturn Moscow Region
