* At the 49th ISSF World Shooting Championships in Zagreb, Croatia (through August 5):
- Russia won the gold medal in the 10m running target mixed junior women's team competition with 1,105 points. Germany took silver with 1,074 points, and Ukraine took bronze with 1,071 points
- Russia won gold in the 25m standard pistol junior men's team competition with 1,651 points. France took silver with 1,645 points, and Thailand finished third with 1,588 points
- Russia won the silver medal in the 25m standard pistol men's team competition with 1,711 points. China won gold with 1,715 points, and Ukraine finished third with 1,706 points
- Oksana Danilenko won the silver medal in the 10m running target mixed junior women's team competition with 370 points, beating compatriot Olga Stepanova on extra shots. Both Russians finished one point behind gold medalist Bianka Keczeli (Hungary)
- Leonid Yekimov won the silver medal in the 25m standard pistol junior men's competition with 558 points. Kyusang Park (Korea) won gold with 559 points, and Thibaut Sauvage (France) finished third with 557 points
- Russia won the bronze medal in the 10m running target mixed women's team competition with 1,121 points. Ukraine won gold with 1,131 points, and China took silver with 1,126 points
* At the 28th European Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary (through August 6):
- Yekaterina Seliverstova won the gold medal in the 5km open water swimming in 2h01m50.8s. Larisa Ilchenko and Jana Pechanova (Czech Republic) shared third place (2h01m52.4s), just 0.1 second behind silver medalist Cathi Dietrich (France).
* At the $820,000 Generali Open ATP tennis tournament in Kitzbuehel, Austria (through July 30):
Singles:
- Top-seed Nikolai Davydenko failed to advance to the third round, losing to unseeded Nicolas Lapentti (Ecuador) 3-6, 3-6
* At the $500,000 Countrywide Classic ATP tennis tournament in Los Angeles (through July 30):
Singles
- Marat Safin failed to advance to the third round, losing to No.3-seed Fernando Gonzalez (Chile) 4-6, 2-6
- Igor Kunitsyn lost to Paul Goldstein (U.S.) 4-6, 4-6 in the second round
Doubles:
- Kunitsyn and Dmitry Tursunov advanced to the second round, beating Stephen Huss (Australia) and Xavier Malisse (Belgium) 6-3, 6-2
* At the $600,000 Bank of the West Classic WTA tennis tournament in Stanford, U.S. (through July 30):
Singles:
- Vera Zvonaryova advanced to the second round by defeating No.8-seed Sania Mirza (India) 6-3, 6-2
Doubles:
- Alla Kudryavtseva and Tetiana Luzhanska (Ukraine) lost to Bethanie Mattek (U.S.) and Sania Mirza (India) 1-6, 3-6
* At the $145,000 Budapest Grand Prix WTA tennis tournament (through July 30):
Doubles:
- Alisa Kleybanova and Urszula Radwanska (Poland) advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating Katerina Bohmova (Czech Republic) and Jarmila Gajdosova (Slovakia) 6-4, 6-3
* Spartak Moscow soccer club drew with Sheriff Tiraspol in the first away leg of the two-leg tie in the UEFA Champions League tournament's second qualifying round. The second leg is set for August 2 in Moscow
* Premier League soccer results (host teams listed first):
Rubin Kazan - Shinnik Yaroslavl - 0:0
Team standings:
1 Spartak Nalchik - 13 games/27 points/ goal difference +9
2 CSKA Moscow - 13/24/+10
3 Rubin Kazan - 13/23/+6
4 Lokomotiv Moscow - 13/22/+8
5 Spartak Moscow - 13/22/+9
6 Krylya Sovietov Samara - 13/20/+6
7 Tom Tomsk - 13/19/0
8 Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 13/18/+2
9 Zenit St. Petersburg - 13/18/0
10 FC Moscow - 13/17/-2
11 Saturn Ramenskoye - 13/14/-1
12 FC Rostov - 13/13/-4
13 Amkar Perm - 13/11/-12
14 Torpedo Moscow - 13/9/-9
15 Dinamo Moscow - 13/9/-6
16 Shinnik Yaroslavl - 13/7/-16
