* Russians athletes dominated at the IAAF World Indoor Championship held in Moscow over the weekend to take the top spot in the unofficial team standings with a total of 18 medals, including eight golds, five silvers, and five bronzes, ahead of the United States (7-4-2).
* Russian biathletes won the world mixed relay title, involving two men and two women in each team. At Pokljuka in Slovenia, Russia II (Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Sergei Chepikov, Irina Malgina and Nikolai Kruglov) finished 53 seconds ahead of Norway I. France I took the bronze.
* Athletes from Russia's northern Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area in Siberia, representing Russia at the XIX Arctic Winter Games in Alaska, took the fourth spot in the unofficial team standings with 22 golds, 21 silvers, and 7 bronzes. Alaska's team, representing the United States, finished first with 80 golds, 64 silvers, and 47 bronzes. Teams from Norway, Finland, Greenland, and Canada also competed.
* At the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, USA (women's singles):
- Anna Chakvetadze advanced into the third round by defeating Viktoriya Kutuzova from Ukraine, 6:4, 7:5
- Mariya Kirilenko beat Shinobu Asagoe from Japan, 6:2, 6:1, in the second round to take on compatriot Anna Chakvetadze in the third round
- Yelena Dementyeva made it into the third round by defeating Anastasiya Yakimova from Belarus, 6:4, 3:6, 6:3
- Ekaterina Bychkova lost to Marion Bartoli from France in the second round, 3:6, 6:3, 3:6
* Russian tennis player Mikhail Yuzhny lost to Kevin Kim from the United States in the first round of the $2,100,000 Pacific Life Open tournament in Indian Wells, USA, 5:7, 4:6.
* Russian women volleyball team Dynamo Moscow failed to win the Top Teams Cup title, losing Sunday's final in Moscow against Italy's Sant'Orsola Asystel Novara, 0:3 (17:25, 21:25, 26:28). Longa'59 Lichtenvoorde from the Netherlands took the bronze by defeating Poland's Centrostal Palac Bydgoszcz
* Russian player Pyotr Svidler finished fifth with 6.5 points at the 380,000-euro ($450,000) chess super-tournament in Linares (Spain). Levon Aronyan from Armenia won the tournament with 8.5 points, edging Hungary's defending FIDE world champion Peter Leko by 0.5 points
* Dynamo St. Petersburg, currently third in the Russian basketball national championships, clinched an important victory, 81:69, over Khimky of the Moscow Region, the second team in the competition. UNICS Kazan beat Dynamo Moscow, 72:61. Spartak St. Petersburg lost at home to Ural-Great Perm, 76:78. Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk was defeated by Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don, 69:80 at home. Spartak VGUES Primorye was beaten at home by Dynamo of the Moscow Region, 68:76
Russian men's basketball SuperLeague Division A standings:
1 CSKA Moscow - 40 points (after 21 games)
2 Khimky Moscow Region - 36 (20)
3 Dynamo St. Petersburg - 34 (19)
4 UNICS Kazan - 32 (18)
5 Ural-Great Perm - 32 (20)
6 Dynamo Moscow - 31 (19)
7 Dynamo Moscow Region - 31 (20)
8 Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don - 27 (19)
9 Spartak VGUES Primorye - 27 (21)
10 Spartak St. Petersburg - 26 (22)
11 Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - 25 (20)
12 CSK VVS Samara - 23 (19)
13 Universitet-Ugra Surgut - 23 (20)
* Dynamo Moscow and Kuzbass Kemerovo advanced into the finals of Russia's bandy championship by defeating Rodina Kirov and Zorky Krasnogorsk, respectively. The two-leg finals series is set for March 15 (Kemerovo), and March 19 (Moscow)
* Russian Cup 2005/2006 soccer 1/8-final second leg results (host teams listed first):
Terek Grozny (D1) - Zenit St. Petersburg - 1-0 (Zenit won 2-1 on aggregate);
FC Moscow - Torpedo Moscow - 1-3 (Torpedo won 4-3 on aggregate)
