* At the European Curling Championship in Basel, Switzerland (ended December 16):
The Russian women's team won the title, defeating Switzerland 7-5 in the semifinal and Italy 9-4 in the final. Switzerland took bronze.
* At the Women's European Handball Championship in Sweden (ended December 17):
World champions Russia failed to win the European title, losing to defending champions, Norway, 24:27 in the final. France won bronze, beating Germany 29:25 in the bronze-medal match.
* At the Channel One Cup in Moscow, the third of four tournaments in the Euro Hockey Tour, an unofficial European championship involving Europe's top four men's teams (ended December 17):
Russia beat Finland 3:0 and the Czech Republic 4:1 to win the tournament.
Channel One Cup results and final standings:
Russia - Sweden - 0:1 (on penalty shots)
Finland - Czech Republic - 3:2
Russia - Finland - 3:0
Sweden - Czech Republic - 7:5
Russia - Czech Republic - 4:1
Finland - Sweden - 2:1
1 Russia - 7 points
2 Finland - 6
3 Sweden - 5
4 Czech Republic - 0
Euro Hockey Tour standings:
1 Russia - 9 games/23 points
2 Finland - 9/13
3 Sweden - 9/12
4 Czech Republic - 9/6
* At the Cross-country Skiing World Cup tournament's round in France's La Clusaz (ended December 17):
- Russia won gold in the 4x10-kilometer men's relay in 1 hour 45 minutes 58.4 seconds. Norway took silver in 1:47:22.7, and Germany finished third in 1:47:23.9
- Alexander Legkov and Yevgeny Dementyev won silver and bronze in the men's 30-kilometer mass start, finishing 0.6 second and 0.8 second, respectively, behind the winner, Germany's Tobias Angerer (1:17:11.8)
* At the Biathlon World Cup tournament's third round in Hochfilzen, Austria (ended December 17)
- Maxim Tchoudov won silver in the 10-kilometer men's sprint, finishing in 25 minutes 03.7 seconds, just 3.5 seconds behind the winner, Michael Greis of Germany (both with 1 penalty loop). Bjorn Ferry, with a perfect shooting, won bronze finishing 6.1 seconds behind the winner.
- Russia won silver in the 4x6-km women's relay in 1hour 13 minutes 00.5 seconds (penalty loops - 0, extra shots - 9). France won gold in 1:12:46.7 (0+3), and China took bronze in 1:13:17.2 (1+9)
- Russia won silver in the 4x7.5-kilometer men's relay in 1:20:51.1 (0+7), finishing just 5.6 seconds behind the winner, Norway (0+11). Germany took bronze in 1:21:18.0 (0+6)
* Three Russian men's water polo teams advanced to the LEN Trophy competition's quarterfinals.
Round of 16 second-leg results (host teams listed first):
Jadran Herceg Novi (Montenegro) - Dinamo Moscow - 7:7 (15:17 on aggregate)
Lukoil Spartak Volgograd - Ilyichevets Mariupol (Ukraine) - 14:3 (20:9 on aggregate)
Sintez Kazan - N.C. Chios (Greece) - 9:5 (18:15)
* Russian men's basketball SuperLeague results and standings (host teams listed first):
UNICS Kazan - Spartak-Primorye Vladivostok - 83:78
Dinamo Moscow - Ural-Great Perm - 93:73
Standard Samara Region - CSKA Moscow - 61:105
UNICS Kazan - Dinamo Moscow Region - 87:59
1 UNICS Kazan - 10 games/20 points
2 CSKA Moscow - 10/19
3 Dinamo Moscow - 10/18
4 Khimky Moscow Region - 10/17
5 Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don - 9/14
6 Dinamo Moscow Region - 10/15
7 Spartak-Primorye Vladivostok - 8/12
8 CSK VVS Samara - 9/12
9 Spartak St. Petersburg - 10/13
10 Ural-Great Perm - 10/12
11 Universitet-Ugra Surgut - 11/14
12 Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - 10/12
13 Standard Samara Region - 9/10
* Russian women's basketball SuperLeague results and standings (host teams listed first):
CSKA Samara - Dinamo Kursk - 85:43
Dinamo Moscow Region - Nadezhda Orenburg - 72:77
UMMC Yekaterinburg - Shelen Krasnoyarsk - 74:65
1 CSKA Samara - 9/18
2 Nadezhda Orenburg - 9/16
3 Spartak Vidnoye - 8/14
4 Dinamo Moscow - 7/12
5 UMMC Yekaterinburg - 8/13
6 Vologda-Chevakata Vologda - 7/11
7 Dinamo Kursk - 9/13
8 Dinamo Moscow Region - 8/11
9 Dinamo-Energia Novosibirsk - 8/11
10 NUR Kazan - 7/8
11 Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg - 6/6
12 Shelen Krasnoyarsk - 8/8
