* At the Biathlon World Cup tournament's fifth round in Ruhpolding, Germany (through January 14):
- Russia won gold in the 4x6-km women's relay in 1hour 20 minutes 18.1 seconds (penalty loops - 0, extra shots - 1). Germany took silver (+ 7.9 seconds, 0+9), and France finished third (+ 2 minutes 14.4 seconds, 0+11)
* Basketball team Khimki Moscow Region lost to Alba Berlin (Germany) 83:90, in overtime, in 2006/2007 ULEB Cup tournament's qualifying Group C. UNICS Kazan lost to Real Madrid (Spain) 61:77 in Group D.
Results and standings (host teams listed first):
Group C
Alba Berlin - Khimki - 90:83 (OT)
Oostende (Belgium) - Hapoel Migdal Jerusalem (Israel) - 82:66
Lukoil Academic Sofia (Bulgaria) - Montepaschi Siena (Italy) - 76:81
1 Montepaschi - 9 games/16 points
2 Hapoel Migdal - 9/13
3 Khimki - 9/13
4 Alba Berlin - 9/13
5 Lukoil Academic - 9/13
6 Oostende - 9/13
Group D
Real Madrid - UNICS Kazan - 77:61
Crvena Zvezda Belgrade (Serbia) - Dexia Mons (Belgium) - 96:69
PAOK Thessaloniki (Greece) - EiffelTowers (Netherlands) - 90:88
1 Real Madrid - 9/15
2 UNICS Kazan - 9/15
3 Crvena Zvezda - 9/15
4 PAOK - 9/15
5 EiffelTowers - 9/11
6 Dexia Mons - 9/10
* Russian men's basketball team Dinamo Moscow Region beat ASK Riga (Latvia) 91:68 in 2006/2007 EuroCup tournament's qualifying Group J. Lokomotiv Rostov lost to Panionios BC Athens (Greece) 60:62 in Group K.
Results and standings (host teams listed first):
Group J
Dinamo Moscow Region - ASK Riga - 91:68
Maroussi Athens - SC Azovmash Mariupol - 72:83
1 Dinamo Moscow Region - 1 game/2 points
2 Azovmash Mariupol - 1/2
3 Maroussi Athens - 1/1
4 ASK Riga - 1/1
Group K
Lokomotiv Rostov - Panionios BC Athens - 60:62
Turk Telekom S.C. Ankara (Turkey) - Spirou Charleroi (Belgium) - 81:71
1 Turk Telekom - 1/2
2 Panionios BC Athens - 1/2
3 Lokomotiv Rostov - 1/1
4 Spirou Charleroi - 1/1
* Men's volleyball team Lokomotiv-Belogorye Belgorod beat Evivo Duren (Germany) 3:0 (25-19, 25-17, 25-18) at home in European Champions League's qualifying Group A.
Group A standings:
1 Tours VB (France) - 6 games/11 points
2 Lokomotiv-Belogorye - 7/11
3 Portol Drac Palma Mallorca (Spain) - 6/10
4 Buducnost Podgoricka Banka (Montenegro) - 6/10
5 Evivo Duren - 7/9
6 Hypo Tirol (Austria) - 6/7
* At the $1,036,000 Medibank International tennis tournament in Sydney, Australia (through January 13):
Men's singles:
- Yevgeny Korolyov advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Robby Ginepri (U.S.) 0-6, 6-4, 6-4
- No.2-seed Nikolai Davydenko failed to advance to the quarterfinals after he retired in the second set against Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) due to injury
* At the $145,000 Moorilla Hobart International WTA tennis tournament in Hobart, Australia (through January 12):
Singles:
- Top-seed Anna Chakvetadze advanced to the semifinals, beating Zheng Jie (China) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
- Vasilissa Bardina advanced to the semifinals, beating Catalina Castaño (Colombia) 3-6, 6-2, 7-5
Doubles:
- No.4-seed pair Yelena Likhovtseva and Yelena Vesnina advanced to the semifinals, beating Akiko Morigami (Japan) and Vladimira Uhlirova (Czech Republic) 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Anastassia Rodionova and Andreea Vanc (Romania) lost to top-seed Spanish duo Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual 2-6, 4-6, in the quarterfinals
* Russian men's bandy Superleague results and standings (host teams listed first):
Western Division:
Rodina Kirov - Uralsky Trubnik Pervouralsk - 9:4
1 Dinamo Moscow - 14 games/42 points
2 Zorky Krasnogorsk - 14/35
3 Rodina Kirov - 15/30
4 Uralsky Trubnik Pervouralsk - 14/30
5 Raketa Kazan - 12/24
6 Vodnik Arkhangelsk - 12/16
7 Volga Ulyanovsk - 11/13
8 AMNGR Murmansk - 15/10
9 Stroyitel Syktyvkar - 13/6
10 Start Nizhny Novgorod - 13/5
11 Lokomotiv Orenburg - 15/5
Eastern Division:
Sibselmash Novosibirsk - Metallurg Bratsk - 1:6
Kuzbass Kemerovo - Lesokhimik Ust-Ilimsk - 10:4
1 Kuzbass Kemerovo - 14/39
2 Baikal-Energia Irkutsk - 12/25
3 Yenisei Krasnoyarsk - 14/25
4 SKA-Neftyannik Khabarovsk - 12/23
5 Sibselmash Novosibirsk - 14/21
6 SKA-Zabaikalets Chita - 11/16
7 Metallurg Bratsk - 12/15
8 Mayak Krasnoturyinsk - 12/13
9 Lesokhimik Ust-Ilimsk - 13/12
10 Sayany Abakan - 13/8
11 SKA-Sverdlovsk Yekaterinburg - 11/3
