«Локомоти́в» победи́л «Аванга́рд» и остаётся без пораже́ний в КХЛ
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl beat Avangard Omsk 2–1 on September 18, winning its sixth KHL game in a row. Artyom Kuzin scored his first goal in the league.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl beat Avangard Omsk 2–1 on September 18, winning its sixth KHL game in a row. Artyom Kuzin scored his first goal in the league.
Liudmila Samsonova beat top seed Marta Kostyuk to reach her first WTA semifinal of 2026 in Guadalajara. She then lost to Peyton Stearns in the semifinal.
The International Skating Union rejected Kamila Valieva’s appeal after withdrawing her neutral-athlete status. Valieva and three other Russian figure skaters cannot currently compete in ISU events as neutral athletes.
Karen Khachanov reached the US Open semifinals for the second time. Alexander Zverev won their September 11 match in straight sets, with tiebreaks in the last two sets.
Ben Shelton beat defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in a five-set US Open quarterfinal in New York. The match ended at 3:33 a.m., the latest finish in the tournament’s history.
Russian rower Vladislav Makarov and Kazakhstan’s Anastasia Kulinich won the coastal-rowing singles finals at the fifth International Vladivostok Regatta. The races took place on Amur Bay on September 4, 2026.
Russia’s men’s team won gold at the 2026 Modern Pentathlon World Championships in Guiyang, China. Egor Gromadskii also took individual silver.
SKA Saint Petersburg beat Admiral Vladivostok 3–0 on August 28 at the Nikolai Puchkov preseason tournament. Zakhar Bardakov scored twice, while Artemiy Pleskov kept a clean sheet.
Four cyclists won individual gold medals on August 28 at the track-cycling competition of the Spartakiad in Omsk. Alina Lysenko and Nikita Kiriltsev won the sprint events, while Valeria Valgonen and Daniil Zarakovsky won the omniums.
Mariia Fefelova and Artem Valov won the junior ice-dance event at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Xi’an, China, on August 21. The pair competed as Individual Neutral Athletes and scored a personal best of 162.16 points.