The most important sporting events of 2017 will be the FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia, the Ice Hockey World Championships in France and Germany and the Biathlon World Championships in Austria.
Top rated sports competitions — final tournaments World and European football championships and the Olympic Games are traditionally held in even years. Nevertheless, many important tournaments will also take place in 2017, including in Russia.
In February in Hochfilzen, Austria the championship will be held biathlon world. The Russian team will try to rehabilitate itself after its failure at the world championship in 2016, where for the first time in history it did not win a single medal.
The World Hockey Championships will take place in Paris and Cologne in May. In this sport, Russians also did not achieve their goals in 2016. Oleg Znark's team lost at the semi-final stage and at home championship world, and at the World Cup in Canada.
In June, the Russian national football team will make its debut at the Confederations Cup, which will bring together the strongest teams from six continents, as well as world champions from Germany. This tournament will be the only official competition for the team of Stanislav Cherchesov this year.
FIFA Confederations Cup
Mascot of the 2018 World Cup Wolf Zabivaka and head coach German national team Joachim Loew (Photo: Christian Charisius/DPA/Global Look Press)
Venue: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Sochi
Number of participants: 8 teams (Russia, Germany, Australia, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal and African champion)
The Confederations Cup is the tournament that precedes the World Cup. In addition to the Russian team, the tournament will be attended by the current world champions, the Germans, as well as the winners of six continental tournaments - Portugal, Mexico, New Zealand, Chile, Australia and the African champion.
On November 26, the draw for the Confederations Cup took place in Kazan. The Russian national team will meet the New Zealand team in the opening match in St. Petersburg on June 17, will play a match with Portugal in Moscow on June 21, and will conclude the group tournament with a game in Kazan against Mexico. Group B will feature the teams of Chile, Australia and Germany, as well as the African champion, who will be determined in February.
The tournament matches will be held at four stadiums in four cities of Russia. The games will take place in Moscow at the Otkritie Arena, in St. Petersburg at the new Krestovsky stadium, in Sochi at the Fisht Olympic stadium and at the Kazan Arena in the capital of Tatarstan. Each arena will host four matches. The game for third place will be held in Moscow, the final will be in St. Petersburg.
Ice Hockey World Championship
Venue: Paris (France) and Cologne (Germany)
Number of participants: 16 teams (Russia, Belarus, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, USA, Slovenia and Italy)
For the third time in the history of the World Championships hockey will take place in two countries at once. Previously, the tournament was held in Sweden and Finland in 2012 and 2013. In addition, in 1930, three countries hosted World Cup matches: France, Austria and Germany.
16 teams will be divided into two groups of eight teams. The tournament is organized on a round-robin basis. The teams finishing in the first four places will advance to the playoffs, while the team in eighth place will be relegated to the first division of the 2018 World Cup.
On group stage The Russian national team will play in Cologne with teams from Germany, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Slovakia, the USA and Sweden. Teams from Canada, Finland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Belarus, Norway, France and Slovenia will compete in Paris. Two quarter-finals, both semi-finals, as well as the match for third place and the final will be held in Cologne.
Biathlon World Championships
Venue: Hochfilzen (Austria)
Medal sets: 11
At the Biathlon World Championships, 11 sets of medals will be played out - five each for men and women in the sprint, pursuit, mass start, individual race, relay and one set of medals in mixed relay. According to tradition, the results of the races will also count towards the World Cup.
In March, at the 2016 World Cup in Holmenkollen, Norway, the Russian team for the first time in history did not win a single medal during the entire tournament. Previously worst result The Russian team had one medal at the World Championships in Anterselva, Italy in 1995. Then the only award for the team was brought by Pavel Muslimov, who lost in the sprint only to Patrice Bailly-Salin from France. At three previous tournaments - in the German Ruhpolding in 2012, the Czech Nove Mesto in 2013 and the Finnish Kontiolahti in 2015 - Russia won two medals each.
World Championship figure skating
Venue: Helsinki (Finland)
Medal sets: 4
Championship peace will pass at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, where the KHL team Jokerit receives its guests. Russia will be represented at the tournament by two singles players, three singles players, three sports couples and two dance duets.
The Russian team has the greatest chance of winning in the women's single skating, where 17-year-old Evgenia Medvedeva will defend her title. IN pair skating Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, who won the Grand Prix series final in Marseille in mid-December, will compete for victory.
Spring part of the Russian Football Championship
Photo: Dmitry Golubovich/Globallookpress.com
Time: beginning of March - end of May 2017
Number of participants: 16 teams (Spartak, Zenit, CSKA, Terek, Krasnodar, Amkar, Rostov, Ufa, Rubin, Lokomotiv, Anzhi, Krylia Sovetov, "Ural", "Orenburg", "Arsenal" and "Tom")
Spartak finished the autumn part of the Russian Championship in first place with a five-point gap over Zenit, which occupies second place. Bookmakers consider the chances of the nine-time Russian champions to receive their tenth title to be the most preferable. Spartak won its last trophy in 2003, winning the Russian Cup.
This season, the Moscow club won the first round of the championship for the first time in 16 years. In 15 matches, Spartak scored 37 points, repeating the club record for the most points in the first round in seasons involving 16 teams. Spartak also scored 37 points in 2000, which resulted in them winning gold medals. Only Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and Zenit St. Petersburg performed stronger in the first round, having scored 39 points in 1995 and 2010, respectively.
Europa League playoffs
Photo: Zenit official website
Number of participants: 32 teams
At the stage of the 1/16 finals of the Europa League, three clubs will represent Russia. Zenit will play with the Belgian Anderlecht, Rostov with the Czech Sparta, Krasnodar with the Turkish Fenerbahce. Zenit will play the first match away, while Rostov and Krasnodar will begin their playoffs at home.
The first legs of the 1/16 finals of the Europa League will take place on February 16, the return matches on February 23. Stage 1/8 draw the final will take place February 24. The final of the tournament will take place on May 24 at the Friends Arena in Stockholm. Bookmakers consider Manchester United to be the main favorite of the tournament.
World Championship athletics
Venue: London (UK)
Medal sets: 47
The 16th World Athletics Championships will be held at Olympic Stadium in London, which hosted the Olympic Games in 2012. The championship program includes competitions in 47 disciplines - 24 men's and 23 women's. The main star of the tournament promises to be the Jamaican runner Usain Bolt, who has 11 victories at the world championships and nine gold medals. Olympic medals. He will again be the favorite in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.
Participation in the championship of the Russian team, disqualified by the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) in November 2015, is unlikely. Especially after the publication of the second part of the report of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) led by Richard McLaren. At the same time, it is possible for individual Russian track and field athletes to perform in London as independent athletes.
World Championship aquatic species sports
Photo: official Twitter of the World Aquatics Championships
Venue: Budapest (Hungary)
Medal sets: 76
Last year, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) moved the 2017 World Aquatics Championships from Guadalajara to Budapest. The Mexican city failed to organize the tournament. The competition program includes a drawing of 76 sets of medals: in swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, open water swimming and high diving.
Traditionally, the Russian team counts on maximum quantity gold medals in synchronized swimming. In this case we are talking about nine awards highest quality. IN swimming pool Russian fans will count on medals from Yulia Efimova, who won two Olympic silvers in breaststroke in Rio de Janeiro, and current World Cup winner Vladimir Morozov.
Let's name five key ones
LONG AWAITED CHAMPIONS
May 17. Moscow. Tushino. "Spartak" - "Terek" - 3:0. Champion celebration of the red and white. Photo by Alexander FEDOROV, "SE"
The year of long-awaited champions - this is how 2017 will go down in history.
GENIUS USTYUGOV
At the beginning of the year, the skier went on a huge winning streak, during which he destroyed his opponents at the Tour de Ski stage race, and then won two gold medals and three silver medals at the World Championships in Lahti. Since Soviet times, we have not had such a successful athlete in men's cross-country skiing. At the same time, Sergei showed all the facets of his talents, achieving success in sprint and distance races, in “classics” and free style.
DOPING AS A REASON
Endless doping attacks on Russia by the end of the year resulted in a revision of the results in Sochi. A large group of our heroes of the 2014 Games were stripped of their medals on suspicion of manipulating doping tests, which caused a wave of indignation in the Russian sports community. We experienced even greater emotions at the moment when the IOC banned Russia from competing at the 2018 Olympics under its own flag for “systematic violations.” At the same time, there is hope that these punishments are the last and in the foreseeable future it will still be possible to stop the flow of doping accusations with political overtones.
Confederations Cup. Debut in Russia and debut in Russia
Probably the main sporting event of 2017 will be the Confederations Cup. For the first time Russia will host a football tournament of this scale, and the national team of our country will take part in the Cup for the first time best teams their associations.
In addition to the winners of the continental championships - the teams of Portugal, Chile, New Zealand, Mexico, Australia and the future winner of the African Cup - the current world champion - Germany - will also come to Russia. Our team received a ticket to participate in the tournament as the host country.
The opening match of the 2017 Confederations Cup will take place on June 17 in St. Petersburg at the Krestovsky Stadium - Russia will play with New Zealand. In the second round on June 21, our team will host Portugal at the Otkritie Arena in Moscow, and in the final match of Quartet A, the tournament host will play Mexico in Kazan. This meeting will take place on June 24.
Considering the composition of the Confederations Cup, by the will of the lot, the Russian team again did not have the strongest group. Maybe our home walls will help our team perform differently than usual?
The semifinal matches will take place on July 28 and 29 in Kazan and Sochi. On the last day of the tournament, July 2, Moscow will host the match for third place, and St. Petersburg will host the final. In total, 16 games will take place in Russia - four in each of the four cities. This tournament will serve as a dress rehearsal for the World Cup, which the country will host a year later.
Ten years later, he had a chance to become the best in Europe again - this time as the head of the president of the national basketball federation.
CSKA retains title in new format
The current champion of the main club tournament in European basketball, CSKA Moscow, began its campaign for a new title confidently and is several points ahead of its closest competitors in the table.
By the way, the Euroleague really became a league in the 2016/17 season. The continent's 16 strongest teams play a two-round tournament, after which the top eight play a playoff round that will determine the participants in the final four. The decisive matches will take place on May 19-21 in Istanbul.
In addition to CSKA, Kazan UNICS also takes part in the Euroleague. On at the moment In the main part of the tournament, only half of the matches have been played - 15 out of 30, which means that the whole struggle is still ahead.
Winter sports
Russia is losing tournaments and athletes
On December 9, 2016, the second part of the commission’s report (WADA) was made public, which states that more than a thousand Russian athletes were involved in manipulation of doping samples in thirty sports at various competitions.
The reaction was immediate. A few days after the publication, the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) deprived our country of the right to host the 2017 World Championships in Sochi. Then Russia lost the Biathlon World Cup in Tyumen and the World Junior Championships in Ostrov.
Literally in the same minutes International Union speed skating (ISU) announces the postponement of the World Cup final speed skating from Chelyabinsk. The next day, the International Federation skiing(FIS), in addition to suspending six skiers, announced that the World Cup Final ski racing will be moved from Tyumen.
And now we are facing 2017 with the threat of transfers from Russia and other competitions.
In addition, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) continues to conduct its investigation into the substitution of doping tests of Russians at the Games in Sochi, as well as the existence in Russia of a state system for supporting the use of prohibited drugs by athletes.
If two IOC commissions discover real evidence of Russia’s guilt, the most serious sanctions may follow in 2017 - up to and including the removal of all Russian athletes from international competitions, including winter ones Olympic Games- 2018, as well as the deprivation of the Russian Olympic Committee of membership in the IOC. But it’s better not to think about it for now.
World Championships with an eye on the Olympics
The World Figure Skating Championships, which will be held in Helsinki from March 29 to April 2, will be the last one before the upcoming games in Korea. This means that Olympic quotas will be played out at the tournament, which determine the number of athletes who will represent Russia at the main start of the planet in 2018.
At the tournament in Finland, Russian fans' main hopes are tied to the women's single skating, where the title of the current world champion will be defended.
In addition, they can easily compete for victory. It’s safe to say that we are looking forward to the type of program that was once the weakest in the Russian national team.
Another hope is associated with the return of Olympic champions and.
The Biathlon World Championships will take place from 9 to 19 February in Hochfilzen, Austria. A year ago, this tournament became simply terrifying for the Russian team - our team was left without medals.
This year's prospects Russian team look optimistic. Men finish in the top three in almost all World Cup races, and among women they shot, winning the sprint at the stage in the Czech Republic.
Also from February 22 to March 5, 2017, the Finnish World Championships will be held in Lahti. skiing types a sport that will show the level of Russian athletes before the upcoming Olympics.
Athletics. Will the Russians be allowed to say goodbye to Bolt?
The main athletics event of 2017, the World Championships, will take place from August 5-13 at the Olympic Stadium in London. But the participation of Russian athletes at this forum remains a big question mark.
IN New Year Russian athletes are included in the rank of suspended from all international competitions, and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), due to numerous violations of anti-doping rules, suspended membership in the organization of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) back in November 2015. So, at the Olympics in Rio, Russia was represented only by a long jumper.
The IAAF hoped for the Russians to return to the London World Championships, but the president of the association, after reading the second part of McLaren’s report, admitted that he was “outraged” by the new facts that emerged during the investigation.
Some solutions to the “Russian issue” are possible as early as January. This month, an independent IAAF commission led by the IAAF will visit our country, which should assess how far ARAF has progressed in meeting the criteria for restoration of membership. A meeting of the IAAF Council will be held in February, at which Andersen will talk about the situation in Russian athletics.
Among other things, the 2017 World Championships should be the last official tournament in which the famous Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt will perform. Whether Russian track and field athletes will be able to say goodbye to the nine-time Olympic champion is still a big question.
Tennis. Sharapova after a “meldonium” vacation
2017 in the world tennis will be marked by the return to the courts of the famous Russian athlete.
Winner of five tournaments Grand Slam in June 2016, she was disqualified by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) for two years starting in January 2016, after traces of meldonium were found in her doping test, but later Sports arbitration court(CAS) reduced the period of disqualification. Sharapova is cleared to return to tournament competition starting April 26.
However, in the first major competition of the new year Russian athlete will not be able to participate. One of the four Grand Slam tournaments - Open Championship Australian tennis starts on January 16th.
"Formula 1". New tires and Hamilton's partner
In 2017, Formula 1 will see revolutionary updates to its technical regulations. The requirements for power plants and aerodynamic components of cars will change, and the tires will change radically, which will become much wider. All new items will be visually noticeable to the naked eye - appearance the cars will become more aggressive, and thanks to all the changes, the lap speed can increase by 2-6 seconds.
One of the main intrigues upcoming season The lineup of Mercedes drivers, winners of the 2016 Constructors' Championship, remains.
After winning the championship title, he left Formula 1, freeing up the cockpit for his new partner, Lewis Hamilton.
One of the candidates for a place in the German “stable” is Valtteri Bottas. If the Finnish pilot leaves Williams, he may return to the “royal racing”, having previously announced his retirement, but, according to rumors, has already agreed to return to the track.
In addition, the process of changing Formula 1 owners should be completed in 2017. The world motorsport championship will be headed by the American company Liberty Media, whose arrival in the “royal racing” could seriously change the usual course of the championship. The first race of the season will be the Australian Grand Prix, which will take place on March 26.
Boxing. Battles at Wembley and in court
From 2016 into the coming year, several stories are moving in the boxing world that are awaiting their outcome. All of them relate exclusively to sporting confrontations, but here is one - the situation with the failed title fights super heavyweight - will be decided not in the ring, but in the judges' halls and offices of sports officials.
The date of one of the most anticipated fights in the new year is already known: former champion The world heavyweight champion will return to the ring on April 29 after a break of almost a year and a half.
His opponent in the fight, which will take place at the famous Wembley Stadium, will be the holder of the IBF belt, the British Olympic champion.
A rematch in the up to 79.4 kg category between the Russian and the American should also take place at the beginning of 2017, who, after a rather controversial victory on points, became the owner of three belts at once - WBO, IBF and WBA (Super). The condition in the form of a rematch in the event of Crusher’s defeat was prudently included in the contract for the first fight by promoter Katie Duva, but there is still no exact information about when it could take place. If you believe the overseas media, the fight could take place in Russia.
It is quite possible that 2017 will be the last in the long career of one of best boxers last decade, regardless of weight categories — Manny Pacquiao. At least, this is what his long-term coach talks about, and the Filipino’s manager notes that, most likely, Pacman will hold his fights in June and November.
Finally, one of the most technical representatives of modern boxing, the Ukrainian, who holds the WBO champion title in the up to 59 kg category, is determined to take revenge on the Mexican veteran Orlando Salido, who previously defeated the two-time Olympic champion in his second fight at professional ring. Another boxing star from the post-Soviet space, a Kazakhstani, will begin the year with the mandatory defense of one of his three belts in the up to 74.2 kg category: on March 18 in New York, his opponent should be an American.
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The upcoming sporting events in June 2017 will be just as exciting as they were in May, so even if the early days of summer don't offer good weather, there will be plenty to keep you busy.
June 1st. Champions League final (women)
The summer will begin with the final games of the last year, among which one of the most important is the Champions League (women) final. The French women of Paris Saint-Germain and their compatriots from Leon will take to the football field.
June 3. UEFA Champions League Final
The 2017 Champions League final will take place on June 3 at 21.45. Last year's highly anticipated event will take place as planned in Cardiff, Wales. The contenders for the victory of the 62nd season were Juventus and Real Madrid, who performed best in football tournament this year. Is there a chance for the Spanish Real Madrid to go down in the history of the tournament as the first team to take 1st place two years in a row, or will the UEFA Cup go to the Italians this time? Let's see.
June 12-18. European Diving Championships
Back on July 9, 2016, it was decided that the 2017 European Diving Championships would take place in Ukraine, which means that athletes from all over the world would spend almost a week in Kyiv. We remind you that last year more than 20 countries took part in the tournament, and according to medal count Great Britain became the record holder (Italy took second place, and Ukraine – third).
June 17-21. FIBA World Championship (3×3)
The 2017 FIBA Basketball World Championship (3x3) will be held in France (Nantes). More than 20 men's and 20 women's teams will take part in this tournament, including the winners of previous years (Serbia and the Czech Republic).
June 24-25. European Team Athletics Championships
Another of the summer sporting events that cannot be missed is Team Championship European Athletics 2017. Teams from all over the world will gather in one city of Lille (France) and will compete for two days team points in 40 athletics disciplines.
June 17 – July 2 Confederations Cup
The 2017 Confederations Cup is one of the most significant events of the year, as this tournament will allow the best of the best to perform. The competition will take place in four cities of Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Sochi) for almost two weeks. Eight national teams will take part in the so-called rehearsal before the World Cup.
