* At the World Fencing Championship in Turin, Italy (through October 7):
- Stanislav Pozdnyakov won gold in the men's saber competition, beating Zsolt Nemcsik (Hungary) 15-11 in the final. Alexei Frosin and Won Woo Young (S. Korea) took bronze.
* At the World Wrestling Championship in Guangzhou, China (through October 1):
- Yelena Perepyolkina won bronze in the 72kg female category. Stanka Zlateva (Bulgaria) won gold, beating Hamaguchi Kyoko (Japan) in the final bout
* At the $175,000 Guangzhou Open WTA tennis tournament in China (ended October 1):
Singles:
- No.3-seed Anna Chakvetadze won the title, beating No.4-seed Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) 6-1, 6-4
* At the $600,000 Luxembourg Open WTA tennis tournament (ended October 1):
Doubles:
- No.2-seed Dinara Safina and Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) failed to advance to the final, losing to No.4-seed duo Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany) and Liezel Huber (South Africa) 4-6, 7-5, 1-6
* At the $380,000 Mumbai Open ATP tennis tournament in India (the final suspended from October 1,2 due to rain):
Singles:
- No.4-seed Dmitry Tursunov advanced to the final, defeating top-seed Tommy Robredo (Spain) 7-6, 3-6, 6-1, and beat No.3-seed Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 6-3 in the final's first set before the match was suspended due to rain
* At the $550,000 Thailand Open ATP tennis tournament in Bangkok (ended October 1):
Singles:
- Marat Safin failed to advance to the final, losing to No.3-seed James Blake (U.S.) 6-3, 4-6, 6-7
* At the $940,000 AIG Japan Open tennis tournament in Tokyo (through October 8):
Women's singles:
- No.3-seed Maria Kirilenko failed to advance to the second round, losing to Akiko Morigami (Japan) 6-1, 2-6, 6-7
* At the $145,000 Tashkent Open tennis tournament in Uzbekistan (through October 8):
Singles:
- Alla Kudryavtseva advanced to the second round, beating Kira Nagy (Hungary) 7-5, 6-3
* Premier League soccer results and standings (host teams listed first):
Shinnik Yaroslavl - FC Rostov - 1:6
Tom Tomsk - Amkar Perm - 1:3
FC Moscow - Spartak Moscow - 3:3
Zenit St. Petersburg - Spartak Nalchik - 4:0
Dinamo Moscow - Krylya Sovietov Samara - 1:1
Saturn Ramenskoye - CSKA Moscow - 2:2
Torpedo Moscow - Luch-Energia Vladivostok (set for October 2)
Rubin Kazan - Lokomotiv Moscow (set for October 2)
1 CSKA Moscow - 22 games/42 points/ goal difference +14
2 Lokomotiv Moscow - 21/40/+15
3 Spartak Moscow - 22/40/+18
4 Zenit St. Petersburg - 22/39/+12
5 FC Moscow - 22/32/+7
6 Saturn Ramenskoye - 22/31/+9
7 Spartak Nalchik - 21/30/+4
8 FC Rostov - 22/28/-4
9 Krylya Sovietov Samara - 22/28/+1
10 Tom Tomsk - 22/28/+1
11 Rubin Kazan - 20/28/-4
12 Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 20/25/-3
13 Amkar Perm - 22/24/-12
14 Dinamo Moscow - 22/18/-12
15 Torpedo Moscow - 21/15/-14
16 Shinnik Yaroslavl - 22/9/-28
* SuperLeague hockey results and standings (host teams listed first):
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - CSKA Moscow - 1:2
SKA St. Petersburg - Dinamo Moscow - 1:1
Severstal Cherepovets - HK MVD Tver - 1:1
CSKA Moscow - Khimik Voskresensk - 4:7
Sibir Novosibirsk - Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - 4:2
Salavat Yulayev Ufa - Amur Khabarovsk - 1:4
Traktor Chelyabinsk - Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 3:2
Vityaz Podolsk - Avangard Omsk - 4:2
Lada Tolyatty - Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 2:1 (OT)
1 Ak Bars Kazan - 10 games/23 points/goal difference +20
2 Sibir Novosibirsk - 9/22/+9
3 Vityaz Podolsk - 10/19/+1
4 Khimik Voskresensk - 9/19/+10
5 Avangard Omsk - 9/17/+8
6 HK MVD Tver - 10/17/+5
7 Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 9/15/+2
8 Dinamo Moskow - 10/15/0
9 CSKA Moscow - 11/14/+2
10 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - 10/12/-6
11 SKA St. Petersburg - 9/12/+2
12 Lada Tolyatty - 9/12/-2
13 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 9/11/-4
14 Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 9/10/+3
15 Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 9/10/-5
16 Severstal Cherepovets - 9/9/-8
17 Traktor Chelyabinsk - 9/7/-13
18 Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 8/6/-11
19 Amur Khabarovsk - 8/4/-13
