* At the 2006 European wrestling championship in Greco-Roman, female and freestyle in Moscow (through April 30)
- Alyona Kartashova won the gold in the women's 63kg category by defeating Monika Michalik Rogien of Poland in the final. Nikola Hartmann of Austria and Agoro Papavasileiou of Greece took bronze medals
- Natalya Golts beat Ludmila Christea of Moldova in the finals to win the gold in the women's 55kg category. Johanna Mattsson of Sweden and France's Anna Gomis took the bronze
- Liliya Kaskarakova took the silver in the women's 48kg category, losing to Maria Stadnyk in the finals. Fani Psatha of Greece and Italy's Francine De Paola took the bronze
* Russia beat Finland 3:1 away to advance to the finals of the Euro Hockey Tour tournament, the unofficial European championships involving Europe's top four teams, regardless of results in the two remaining matches with Sweden and the Czech Republic
* At the 2006 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Bremen, Germany (through May 1):
- The Russian men's team beat Hong Kong 3:1 in the third round of Division 1 preliminary Group D.
Group D third-round results and standings:
Belarus - Slovakia - 3:2
Hong Kong - Russia - 1:3
Chinese Taipei - Greece - 0:3
1 Hong Kong - games -3/points-5
2 Greece - 3/5
3 Belarus - 3/5
4 Chinese Taipei - 3/4
5-6 Russia - 3/4
5-6 Slovakia - 3/4
- The Russian women's team beat the U.S. 3:2, and Croatia 3:2 in the fourth and fifth rounds of Division 1 preliminary Group D
Group D results and final standings:
Japan - Singapore - 3:0
Russia - USA - 3:0
Croatia - Slovakia - 3:2
Japan - Slovakia 3:0
Singapore - USA - 3:1
Croatia - Russia - 2:3
1 Japan - 5/10
2 Croatia - 5/8
3 Singapore - 5/8
4 Russia - 5/8
5 USA - 5/6
6 Slovakia - 5/5
* At the $950,000 Open Seat 2006 tennis tournament in Barcelona, Spain
- Nikolai Davydenko, seeded 2 for the tournament, failed to advance to the third round of men's singles, losing to unseeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 7:6, 5:7, 4:6
* VBM-SGAU Samara beat UGMK Yekaterinburg 83:72 at home in the second leg of the national women's basketball SuperLeague championship's best-of-five final.
Dinamo Moscow beat Spartak Moscow Region 77:61 at home in the second leg of the best-of-five bronze-medal tie.
VBM-SGAU and Dinamo both lead 2-0 in the series
The remaining final and bronze-medal legs are set for April 30 (May 1 and May 5 if necessary)
