Lokomotiv clinches Russian title on final day
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Lokomotiv Moscow clinched the Russian title on the final day of the premier league season with a 2-0 win at Shinnik Yaroslavl on Friday.
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AC Milan wins the Champions League final Wednesday, defeating Liverpool 2-1 behind two goals by Filippo Inzaghi, right, for its seventh European Cup title.
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Russia&#39;s Evgeni Plushenko performs during the men&#39;s free skating at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Beijing Saturday Dec. 18, 2004.
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Moscow - Anastasia Myskina defeated Elena Dementieva 7-5 6-0 to defend her title in the first-ever all-Russian final at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament on Sunday as Russians won all four championship matches.
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PARIS: Captain Sergei Semak grabbed a hat-trick as CSKA Moscow won 3-1 at Paris St Germain on Tuesday but a late goal in Porto denied the Russian team a place in the knockout stages of the Champions League, handing Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich a
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Marat Safin overpowered substitute Jose Acasuso 6-3 3-6 6-3 7-6 in a nerve-racking fifth and decisive rubber to clinch Russia's second Davis Cup title with a 3-2 victory over Argentina on Sunday.
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Three Zenit St Petersburg fans, who had driven over 15,000 kilometres to watch their team play, were given a new car by the Russian premier league club.
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Jon Robert Holden scored with two seconds remaining in Madrid to lift Russia over Spain, 60-59, in the European Championship final. Holden stripped the ball from the Spanish center Pau Gasol, then pump-faked before his jump shot bounced high and in for the victory. Gasolâs jumper at the buzzer rattled out as time expired. Andrei Kirilenko, the tournamentâs most valuable player, had 17 points as the Russians earned their first European title since they won as the Soviet Union 22 years ago. Holden, who has dual American and Russian citizenship, played for Bucknell from 1994-98.
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Russia beat France 3-2 in a dramatic final to win the Fed Cup for the first time.
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Russia secured its third Fed Cup title Sunday after Svetlana Kuznetsova rallied to beat Francesca Schiavone 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5 in the first reverse singles and gave the hosts an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Italy.
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Mikhail Youzhny won the second title of his career with a straightforward victory over Karol Beck in the final of the St Petersburg Open on Sunday.
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In a rematch of All-Russian French Open championship match, Anastasia Myskina trounced Elena Dementieva 7-5 and 6-0 to win the Kremlin Cup final to retain her Moscow title on Sunday.
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Wolfsburg crushed Arminia Bielefeld 5-0 and jumped to fourth place in Sunday&#39;s final Bundesliga round before the winter break.
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The Russian company wins a legal skirmish.
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In a rematch of All-Russian French Open championship match, Anastasia Myskina trounced Elena Dementieva 7-5 and 6-0 to win the Kremlin Cup final to retain her Moscow title on October 17.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Russian Anastasia Myskina successfully defended her Kremlin Cup tennis title Sunday with a straight-sets victory over countrywoman Elena Dementieva in Moscow.
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BEIJING  - World champion Yevgeny Plushenko and Irina Slutskaya won the men&#39;s and women&#39;s singles titles as Russian skaters dominated the ISU Grand Prix finals.