* At the World Weightlifting Championship in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (through October 7):
- Svetlana Tsarukayeva won silver in the women's 58kg category with a total of 233kg (108kg in the snatch and 125kg in the clean and jerk). Hongmei Qiu (China) won gold with 237kg (107 + 130) and Kameaim Wandee (Thailand) took bronze with 230kg (100 + 130)
* Men's volleyball team Lokomotiv-Belogorye (Belgorod) beat VB Tours (France) 3-0 away in European Champions League's qualifying Group A
Group A results and standings:
VB Tours - Lokomotiv - 0:3 (22-25, 24-26, 22:25)
1 Lokomotiv-Belogorye - 2 games/4 points
2 Tours VB - 2/3
3 Buducnost Podgoricka Banka (Serbia) - 1/2
4 Hypo Tirol (Austria) - 1/1
5 Portol Drac Palma Mallorca (Spain) - 1/1
6 Evivo Duren (Germany) - 1/1
* At the $940,000 AIG Japan Open tennis tournament in Tokyo (through October 8):
Men's singles:
- No.6-seed Dmitry Tursunov advanced to the third round, beating Yeu-Tzuoo Wang (Taiwan) 6-3, 5-7, 7-5
* At the $650,000 Porsche Grand Prix WTA tennis tournament in Stuttgart, Germany (through October 8):
Singles:
- No.6-seed Dinara Safina advanced to the second round, beating Mara Santangelo (Italy) 6-1, 5-7, 7-6
- Yelena Likhovtseva failed to advance to the second round, losing to Tatiana Golovin (France) 6-4, 0-6, 3-6
- Yekaterina Bychkova lost to Shahar Peer (Israel) 3-6, 3-6 in the first round
* At the $145,000 Tashkent Open WTA tennis tournament in Uzbekistan (through October 8):
Singles:
- No.6-seed Olga Puchkova advanced to the second round, beating compatriot Lyudmila Skavronskaya 6-7, 6-2, 7-5
- No.2-seed Yelena Vesnina failed to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukraine) 6-3, 4-6, 4-6
- Alla Kudryavtseva lost to top-seed Maria Elena Camerin (Italy) 1-6, 3-6 in the second round
* SuperLeague hockey results and standings (host teams listed first):
Avangard Omsk - Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 0:0
Amur Khabarovsk - Traktor Chelyabinsk - 3:3
Dinamo Moscow - HK MVD Tver - 2:4
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - Vityaz Podolsk - 5:3
Lada Tolyatty - Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 3:3
1 Ak Bars Kazan - 11 games/26 points/goal difference +25
2 Khimik Voskresensk - 10/22/+14
3 Sibir Novosibirsk - 10/22/+7
4 Avangard Omsk - 11/21/+10
5 HK MVD Tver - 11/20/+7
6 Vityaz Podolsk - 11/19/-1
7 Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 10/16/+2
8 Dinamo Moscow - 11/15/-2
9 CSKA Moscow - 11/14/+2
10 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 10/14/-2
11 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - 11/13/-6
12 SKA St. Petersburg - 10/13/+2
13 Lada Tolyatty - 10/13/-2
14 Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 10/11/+3
15 Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 11/11/-9
16 Traktor Chelyabinsk - 11/11/-11
17 Severstal Cherepovets - 10/9/-13
18 Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 9/6/-13
19 Amur Khabarovsk - 10/6/-13
