* At the 2006 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Bremen, Germany (through May 1):
- The Russian men's team lost to Chinese Taipei 1:3 in the second round of Division 1 preliminary Group B.
Group B results and standings after Day 2:
Russia - Belarus - 2:3
Hong Kong - Greece - 3:1
Chinese Taipei - Slovakia - 1:3
Hong Kong - Belarus - 3:2
Chinese Taipei - Russia - 3:1
Greece - Slovakia - 3:1
1 Hong Kong - games -2/points-4/set difference 6-3
2-4 Belarus - 2/3/5-5
2-4 Greece - 2/3/4-4
2-4 Chinese Taipei - 2/3/4-4
2-5 Slovakia - 1/1/1-3
6 Russia - 2/2/3-6
- The Russian women's team beat Slovakia 3:0 in the second round of Division 1 preliminary Group D
Group D results and standings after Day 2:
Japan - Russia - 3:1
Singapore - Slovakia - 3:1
Croatia - USA 2:0
Russia - Slovakia - 3:0
Japan - USA - 3:0
Singapore - Croatia - 2:3
1 Japan - 2/4 /6-1
2 Croatia - 2/4 /6-2
3-4 Russia - 2/3/4-3
3-4 Singapore - 2/3/5-4
5 Slovakia - 2/2/1-6
6 USA - 2/2/0-6
* Russian men's basketball SuperLeague Division A regular season final standings:
1 CSKA Moscow - 46 points
2 Dinamo St. Petersburg - 43
3 Khimky Moscow Region - 43
4 UNICS Kazan - 42
5 Dinamo Moscow - 41
6 Dinamo Moscow Region - 37
7 Ural-Great Perm - 37
8 Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don - 33
9 Spartak VGUES Primorye - 30
10 Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - 30
11 CSK VVS Samara - 29
12 Universitet-Ugra Surgut - 29
13 Spartak St. Petersburg - 28
The best-of-five quarterfinals draw:
CSKA Moscow - Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don
Dinamo St. Petersburg - Ural-Great Perm
Khimky Moscow Region - Dinamo Moscow Region
UNICS Kazan - Dinamo Moscow
The quarterfinal legs are set from May 3 to 11.
* The 2006 European wrestling championship in the Greco-Roman, female and freestyle started in Moscow (through April 30)
* Three-time Olympic champion Vladislav Tretyak was elected unopposed as president of the Russian Hockey Federation. Previous head of the federation Alexander Steblin resigned March 24.
