Below follow the main events in the Russian sports world in the last 24 hours at 2 p.m. GMT June 27

* The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Leonid Tyagachyov, the head of the Russian Olympic Committee, an Olympic Award for his contribution in the Olympic movement.

* A sports and athletics competition between 300 athletes from the armies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Tajikistan started in Russia's Samara Region.

* Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sport Vyacheslav Fetisov said that the issue of opening a center in Khabarovsk, Russia's Far East, to train athletes for the 2008 Olympics in China was still open.

* Metals giant Norilsk Nickel said it was ready to invest $30 million in the construction of a sports complex in Norilsk in Siberia.

* The management of the Russian students handball team set the task of winning the Students Handball Championship in Poland's Gdansk from July 1 to July 9 and to defend its championship title, won two years ago.

* Russia's women's basketball team won an international basketball under-16 tournament, held in the Moscow Region.

* At the 2006 Wimbledon Grand Slam series tennis tournament, which runs June 26 to July 9:

Women's singles:

- Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova (5) advanced to the second round after defeating Romina Oprandi from Italy 6-3, 6-2

Men's singles:

- Russia's Mikhail Yuzhny advanced to the second round after defeating Potito Starace from Italy 6-0, 6-4, 6-1