Sports weekend with Izvestia
Football. The Russian Championship. Spartak — Lokomotiv
The final part of the current Russian championship will begin with the upcoming 23rd round. The central match next weekend will be the Moscow derby between Spartak and Lokomotiv. The Railwaymen are in third place and are fighting for gold, but to continue this struggle they need to defeat the red and white. Spartak players are on the sixth line and also need to win in order to keep their chances of winning medals.
April 5, 7:30 p.m. Lukoil Arena Stadium (Moscow).
Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier.
Chess. The Candidates' Tournament
At the end of last week, a chess candidates tournament started in Cyprus, the winner of which will have the opportunity to compete for the title of world champion with the current holder of the chess crown, Hindu Gukesh Dommaraju. The competition is led by eight grandmasters who play among themselves in two rounds. The last, 14th round will be held on April 15th. If there is no winner by this time, everything will be decided the next day based on the results of the tie-break. Among the participants of the candidates tournament is Russian Andrey Esipenko. His competitors are Americans Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, Hindu Rameshbabu Pragnanandha, Chinese Wei Yi, Uzbek Javokhir Sindarov, German Matthias Blubaum and Dutch Anish Giri. The fifth, sixth and seventh rounds will be held in the next three days, meaning the tournament will reach its equator by the end of the week.
April 3-5, 3:30 p.m., Cap St Georges Hotel (Peyia, Cyprus).
Live broadcasts on the FIDE website.
Figure skating. The Russian Challenge 2026 Show Program Tournament
The official figure skating season is already over. All the key competitions have been held, but next weekend in St. Petersburg, the audience will also have an exhibition event — the Russian Challenge show program tournament. The winner will receive 5 million rubles. The second place will bring 2.5 million rubles. The one who becomes the third will receive 1 million rubles. The same amount will go to the winners in special nominations. Such stars as Alina Zagitova, Kamila Valieva, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Alexandra and Makar Ignatov, Peter Gumennik and many others will take part.
April 4, 17:00-21:30, Yubileyny Sports Complex (Saint Petersburg).
Live broadcasts on Channel One and Channel One's website.
Ski racing. The Russian Cup. The final
The Russian ski racing season will end this week. This will happen in Kirovsk, where the Russian Cup final is taking place. The last sets of medals will be awarded in the sprint and mass start. Such stars as three-time Olympic champion Alexander Bolshunov, recent participants of the Olympic Games in Italy Daria Nepryaeva and Savely Korostelev and many others are taking part.
April 3, sprint:
12:30 p.m., qualification, women;
13:00, qualification, men;
14:30, quarterfinals, women;
15:00, quarterfinals, men;
3:30 p.m., semifinals, women;
15:42, semifinals, men;
15:58, final, women;
16:08, final, men.
April 5, mass starts:
10:00 a.m., women;
11:00 a.m., men.
Sports complex "Tirvas" (Kirovsk). Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match Arena and Match Planet.
Volleyball. Men. The Russian Championship. The semi-finals. Zenit-Kazan — Lokomotiv
The main winners of the men's volleyball season in Russia will be determined soon. The semi-finals of the playoffs have already started. There were two matches in the first of them. Zenit St. Petersburg lost both times at home to Dynamo Moscow and will lose their chances of the finals if they lose the third game away on April 9. In the other pair, the first match will take place on April 3. Zenit Kazan will host Lokomotiv Novosibirsk there.
April 3, 19:00. "Volleyball Center" (Kazan).
Live broadcasts on "Match Game".
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