Olympic champion of Athens, Russian Yelena Isinbayeva became the winner of the international pole vault tournament that ended in Donetsk, organized by Serhiy Bubka. In the women's competition, Isinbayeva set a new world record for indoor competitions, which now stands at 4.

Olena Bondarenko will have a chance to take revenge on German tennis player Anna-Lena Groenefeld for last week's loss at the tournament in Thailand. After today's victory over Canadian Pelletier – 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, Olena reached the semifinal of a WTA tournament for the first time in her life.

There are never too many victories – this is exactly about the Ukrainian national team.

After resting in Lutsk for a few days following the first training camp in Yevpatoria, the players of "Volyn" set off for the second one. Having reached Kyiv by club bus, the charges of head coach Vitaliy Kvartsyanyy, together with the president of FC "Volyn" Vasyl Stolyar, flew to Turkey.

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) has published its next club ranking of the 350 best clubs on the planet for January 2005. For Ukrainian clubs, compared with the TOP-350 of a month ago, practically nothing has changed.

At once three Ukrainian clubs will continue the fight in the 1/8 finals of the FIBA Men's EuroLeague draw. Following the capital's BC "Kyiv", which defeated the Russian UNICS, on Tuesday "Khimik" from Pivdenne and Mariupol's "Azovmash" secured their place in the next round of the Eurocup.

Recently, tennis competitions among boys born in 1989 and younger for the Lutsk Cup were held at the base of Lutsk School No. 2. Yevhen Horbik and Andriy Kondratyuk met in the final of the competition. The tennis players were worthy opponents of each other; after a tense struggle, Andriy Kondratyuk celebrated victory.

1. Roger Federer (Switzerland) - 5975 2. Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) - 4140 3. Andy Roddick (USA) - 3855 4. Marat Safin (Russia) - 3360 5. Guillermo Coria (Argentina) - 2570 6. Carlos Moya (Spain) - 2480 7. Tim Henman (Great Britain) - 2360 8. Gaston Gaudio (Argentina) - 1960 9. David Nalbandian (Argentina) - 1945 10.

For the first time in Lutsk this weekend, Taekwon-Do masters competed for the Liubart Cup. Teams from Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Drohobych in Lviv Oblast, and a team from the Rivne city of Sarny came to the Volyn capital for the competition.

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) intends to change the format of the qualifying cycle for the 2008 European Football Championship, the decisive stage of which will be held in Austria and Switzerland. \n \nTeams that finish second and third in their groups will have a chance to reach the final stage.