Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football. The Russian Championship. CSKA Moscow — Dynamo (Moscow)

The Russian Football Championship will host matches of the 20th round. The main confrontation in it will be the CSKA Moscow — Dynamo derby. Army men are fighting for RPL medals. They are seven points behind the first place and four points behind the third. Dynamo, who failed the first part of the season and are stuck in the middle of the table, will do everything to get closer to the leading group.

March 8, 19:30. VEB Arena (Moscow).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier.

Figure skating. The Russian Grand Prix. The final

The figure skating season is coming to an end in Russia. The main event of March will be the Grand Prix final, which will be held next weekend in Chelyabinsk. The leader of the women's overall standings, Adelia Petrosyan, who decided to take a break after the Olympics in Milan, will not take part. But our other Olympian, Pyotr Gumennik, will take to the ice in the Urals and try to take the first place in men's singles from Mark Kondratyuk, a participant of the OI—2022 in Beijing.

We are also waiting for the performances of the leaders of the overall standings in two other disciplines — Alexandra Boikova and Dmitry Kozlovsky in pair skating and Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin in ice dancing.

March 6, short programs:
16:30, couples;
18:00, dancing on ice.

March 7, short programs:
13:00, women;
3 p.m., men.

March 8, free programs:
13:00, couples;
2:40 p.m., ice dancing.

March 9, free programs:
13:00, women;
15:10, men.

"Valery Belousov Traktor Arena" (Chelyabinsk).

Live broadcasts on Channel One and Channel One's website.

Five fours: a vivid performance by Humennik and a sensation in pairs

Peter conquered the Omsk audience, Sadkova won among the girls, but Petrosyan, who performed outside the competition, was remembered.

Tennis. Masters and WTA-1000 tournaments

The Masters is the second most important series of tournaments in men's tennis after the Grand Slam. The winner of each such competition receives 1,000 points in his rating of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Traditionally, the first Masters tournament of the year takes place in March in the American Indian Wells. It started this week and will run until the end of next week.

A women's tournament of the same WTA-1000 status is taking place there on these dates, and the first quarterfinalists will be announced next weekend. Several Russians are fighting for the trophy.: Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Karen Khachanov, Mirra Andreeva, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Veronika Kudermetova, Lyudmila Samsonova, Diana Schneider, Anna Kalinskaya, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

March 6-9, 00:00-06:30, 22:00-00:00. Indian Wells Tennis Garden (Indian Wells, USA).

Live broadcasts on the ATP and WTA websites.

Hockey. KHL Regular Season

There are less than two weeks left until the end of the KHL regular season. All eight playoff participants from the Western Conference have already been determined, but there are still a lot of intrigues inside it in terms of the distribution of pairs in the first round. This will be seriously affected by the results of at least three matches over the coming weekend.

Dynamo Moscow, which is trying to rise from sixth place, will first host SKA St. Petersburg, which is behind, and then Dinamo Minsk, which is in second place in the West. In addition, the leader of the conference, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, will meet at home with the third Cherepovets Severstal.

There is still intrigue in the Eastern Conference in the fight for entry into the playoffs, as well as the struggle for leading positions and a more optimal grid in the Gagarin Cup. So, over the weekend, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, the leader of the KHL regular season, will host two Ural derbies at home — with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg and Traktor Chelyabinsk.

March 6, 17:00, Metallurg Arena (Magnitogorsk).

March 7, 19:30, VTB Arena (Moscow).

March 8, 2:30 p.m., Metallurg Arena (Magnitogorsk).

March 9, 17:00: VTB Arena (Moscow); Arena 2000 (Yaroslavl).

Live broadcasts on KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk.

Ski racing. Russian Championship

The Russian Ski Racing Championship is coming to an end in Sakhalin. So far, the three-time Olympic champion and two-time World Cup winner Alexander Bolshunov and the leader of the overall standings of the Cup of Russia Sergey Ardashev are totally dominating the men. Both won three gold medals, including medals in the mixed relay.

Women have no pronounced leaders in this tournament. But someone else can prove themselves in the last three days, when the relay races will be held, as well as mass starts, first in free and then in classic style.

March 7, 07:30, 50 km, mass start, free style, women.

March 8, 07:30, 50 km, mass start, free style, men.

Triumph Biathlon complex (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk).

Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match Arena and Match Planet.

Round of standings: will Korostelev be able to win the Youth World Cup

Our skier plans to add to his collection of awards in Lillehammer, and then go to the World Cup stage.

Ski racing. Junior World Championship

By participating in the neutral status at the Olympic Games in Italy, Russian skier Savely Korostelev was able to apply for the Junior World Championships in Lillehammer, in which he can still participate because he is under 23 years old. In the remaining three days of the championship, our athlete will try to take medals in the 10 km classic style race.

March 7, 11:30a.m. Ski Center (Lillehamer, Norway).

Basketball. VTB United League. UNICS — Zenit

The next top match in the VTB United League will be held next weekend. Two clubs from the "big four" will meet in it — Kazan UNICS, which is in second place, will host Zenit St. Petersburg, which is in third place. These two teams are among the leaders by a wide margin, along with CSKA Moscow and Krasnodar Lokomotiv Kuban.

March 7, 18:00, Basket Hall (Kazan).

Live broadcasts on "Match Country" and "Match Game".