European Athletics (EAA) – News – Full-strength Russian team for Daegu

The Russian athletics federation will send a full-strength 83-member team to the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea, from 27 August to 4 September.

The team composed of 83 athletes, 36 men and 47 women, boasts of the likes of Olympic champions Valeriy Borchin (20km walk), Yelena Isinbayeva (pole vault), Olga Kaniskina (20km walk), in addition to Berlin 2009 gold medallists – Sergey Kirdyapkin (50km walk) and Yaroslav Rybakov (high jump).

Russia finished fourth behind USA, Jamaica and Kenya with 13 medals (4 gold, 3 silver and 6 bronze medals) on the overall medals table in Berlin.

Team

Men

400m
Pavel Trenikhin

4x400m
Pavel Trenikhin
Maksim Dyldin
Denis Alekseyev
Konstantin Svechkar
Yuriy Trombovetskiy
Vladimir Krasnov

110mH
Sergey Shubenkov

400mH
Aleksandr Derevyagin

800m
Yuriy Borzakovskiy

3000mSt
Andrey Farnosov

Marathon
Aleksey Sokolov (1979)
Aleksey Sokolov (1983)

High jump
Yaroslav Rybakov
Aleksey Dmitrik
Aleksandr Shustov
Ivan Ukhov

Pole vault
Yevgeniy Lukyanenko
Dmitriy Starodubtsev

Long jump
Aleksandr Menkov

Triple jump
Aleksey Fedotov

Shot put
Maksim Sidorov

Hammer throw
Aleksey Zagorny
Kirill Ikonnikov
Sergey Litvinov

Javelin throw
Sergey Makarov
Aleksandr Ivanov
Dmitriy Tarabin

Decathlon
Aleksey Drozdov

20kmRW
Valeriy Borchin
Stanislav Yemelyanov
Sergey Morozov
Vladimir Kanaykin

50kmRW
Sergey Kirdyapkin
Denis Nizhegorodov
Igor Yerokhin
Sergey Bakulin

Women

100m
Yuliya Gishchina

200m
Yelizaveta Savlinis

4x100m
Yuliya Katsura
Yelizaveta Savlinis
Aleksandra Fedoriva
Yuliya Gushchina
Natalya Rusakova

400m
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Antonina Krivoshapka

4x400m
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Antonina Krivoshapka
Kseniya Vdovina
Kseniya Zadorina
Lyudmila Litvinova
Tatyana Firova

100mH
Tatyana Dertyaryova

400mH
Natalya Antyukh
Yelena Churakova

800m
Mariya Savinova
Yuliya Rusanova
Yekaterina Kostetskaya

1500m
Yekaterina Martynova
Olesya Syryeva
Natalya Yevdokimova

5000m
Yelizaveta Grechishnikova
Yelena Zadorozhnaya

3000mSt
Yuliya Zaripova (Zarudneva)
Lyudmila Kuzmina
Lyubov Kharlamova

Marathon
Margarita Plaksina

High jump
Anna Chicerova
Svetlana Shkolina
Yelena Slesarenko

Pole vault
Yelena Isinbayeva
Svetlana Feofanova

Long jump
Darya Klishina
Olga Zaytseva
Olga Kucherenko

Triple jump
Alsu Murtazina
Anna Kuropatkina

Shot put
Yevgeniya Kolodko
Anna Avdeyeva

Discus throw
Darya Pishchalnikova

Hammer throw
Tatyana Lysenko

Javelin throw
Marita Abakumova

Heptathlon
Tatyana Chernova
Anna Bogdanova

20kmRW
Olga Kaniskina
Anisya Kirdyapkina
Vera Sokolova
Tatyana Mineyeva

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