Russian Athletics News. World Champion and Indoor record holder Yelena Soboleva started her season at the Russian Cup in Tula. Yelena won the women's 800m clocking 1:55.7 hand timed. This time is the World second mark behind Kenya's Pamela Jelimo

Russian Athletics News. Svetlana Feofanova won the women's pole vault at her season first meeting of the IAAF Grand Prix series held in Madrid. She cleared 4.75m ahead of Tatyana Polnova (4.65) and Yuliya Golubchikova (4.60)

Russian Athletics News. Sergey Makarov wont the men's javelin throw at an athletics meeting held in Kuortane, Finland, He achieved 86.88m beating World Champion Tero Pitkamaki with 85.81