Sports weekend with Izvestia
Football
The Russian Championship. Spartak – CSKA, Lokomotiv - Krasnodar
Next weekend, the 16th round of the Russian Football Championship will open the second round of the current RPL draw. Fans are expecting two top matches at once: on November 22, the main Moscow derby of the country, Spartak, will host one of the leaders of the tournament, CSKA, in the first match after the dismissal of head coach Deyan Stankovich. Two competitors of the army team in the fight for gold will play the next day — the capital's Lokomotiv will meet Krasnodar on their own field.
November 22, 16:45, Lukoil Arena Stadium (Moscow). November 23, 19:45, Russian Railways Arena Stadium (Moscow). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier
Figure skating
The Russian Grand Prix. The fifth stage
In figure skating, the main part of the current Russian Grand Prix is coming to an end. The last, fifth stage will take place next weekend. It will be held in Omsk. According to its results, the participants of the final, scheduled for March next year, will be announced.
In the upcoming stage, the audience, as usual, can see the stars among other participants. World and European champions, two-time Olympic bronze medalists Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov will compete in pair skating. In women's single skating, the champion of Russia – 2023 Sofia Akatieva, the bronze medalist of the Russian Championship – 2023 and the silver medalist of the Russian Championship – 2024 Sofia Muravyeva, as well as the bronze medalist of this year's national championship Alina Gorbacheva will take to the ice. Pyotr Gummenik, winner of the recent qualification tournament for the 2026 Olympics, Andrey Mozalev, World Junior champion 2020, Evgeny Semenenko, two-time champion of Russia (2023, 2024), Gleb Lutfullin, bronze medalist of the Russian Championship 2025, will compete in men's single skating.
November 22, short programs: 11:00, ice dancing; 12:30, women; 14:30, men; 16:15, sports pairs. November 23, free skating: 10:00 a.m., ice dancing; 11:45 p.m., women; 1:45 p.m., men; 3:45 p.m., pairs. G-Drive Arena (Omsk). Live broadcasts on Channel One and Channel One's website
Chess
Men. The World Cup. Semi-finals.
One of the largest chess competitions in the world is taking place in Goa, India, and is nearing completion. And Russian Andrey Esipenko, one of our strongest young grandmasters, is still among the contenders for the trophy. The 23-year-old chess player has reached the semifinals, in which he will play with Chinese Wei Yi. In the other pair of the penultimate round, two representatives of Uzbekistan will meet — Javokhir Sindarov and Nodirbek Yakkuboev. The first game in the semifinals will be played on Friday, and the second on Saturday. If the participants have one victory each, the finalists will be determined on Sunday as a result of tiebreaks. The final will be held early next week. The three best players of the World Cup will qualify for the tournament of candidates for the chess crown. Thus, it is enough for Esipenko to win the next semi-final in order to compete for the title of world champion in 2026 with the current 18th holder of this title, Gukesh Dommaraju from India.
November 21-23, 12:00. Hotel Record Rio (Goa, India). Live broadcasts on the FIDE website
Mixed martial arts
UFC Fight Night 265 tournament. Arman Tsarukyan – Dan Hooker, Tagir Ulanbekov – Kyoji Horiguchi
Qatar will host the UFC tournament this weekend for the first time in its history. The main match of the evening will be the confrontation of the first number in the lightweight ranking of Russian-Armenian fighter Arman Tsarukyan with New Zealander Dan Hooker, who is in seventh place in the UFC rankings. In addition, Russian viewers may be interested in the fight of the preliminary card in the lightest weight category, where our world champion in combat sambo Tagir Ulanbekov will face Bellator champion and former UFC champion Kyoji Horiguchi of Japan.
November 22, 20:05, Ulanbekov – Khoriguchi. November 23, 00:00, Tsarukyan – Hooker. Ali Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena (Doha, Qatar). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! The fighter"
Swimming
"The Cup of the strongest athletes"
A major swimming tournament called the "Cup of the Strongest Athletes" has started in Minsk. It is attended by about 500 athletes from 11 countries — Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Hungary, South Africa, China and Kazakhstan. Our team brought together 40 of the country's strongest swimmers, including Kirill Prigoda, Miron Lifintsev, Kliment Kolesnikov, Daria Klepikova and Evgenia Chikunova, winners and prize-winners of the World and European championships.
November 21: 10:00 a.m., preliminaries; 5 p.m., semifinals and finals. November 22: 10:00 a.m., preliminaries; 5 p.m., semifinals and finals. November 23: 09:00, preliminaries; 16:00, semifinals and finals. Republican Olympic Training Center for Aquatics (Minsk). Live broadcasts at the Match Arena
Basketball
VTB United League. CSKA – Zenit
The two most successful basketball clubs in Russia in recent years will meet at the end of this week. It was Zenit St. Petersburg that broke the 11-year hegemony of CSKA Moscow in 2022, taking the main trophy of the VTB United League from the army. But in the last two seasons, the Red and blue have once again dominated this tournament. However, things are not going well for both teams in the current regular season. Zenit is stuck in fourth place, having already lost four out of 11 matches. CSKA has already made two misfires in as many games, and the away defeat in the last match against the leading Kazan UNICS (75:76) was especially painful. Both participants of the upcoming meeting need to win in order to get closer to the first place.
November 23, 16:30, Megasport (Moscow). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! The game"
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