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Is Beijing ready for Russia's mighty 109-strong Olympic team?
| 25.07.2008
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World Indoor 1,500m Champion Yelena Soboleva will
tackle both the 800m and 1,500m in Beijing.
Photo by Picture Alliance.
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Following an outstanding National
Championships in Kazan, the Russian Athletics
Federation has been able to send one of the largest Olympic teams to Beijing, with 60 women
and 49 men making up the 109-strong team of athletes.
The only events Russia will not be
represented in are the men's 5,000 m and the men's 4x100m Relay, and there will
be a number of star performers taking on a double Olympic challenge: Tatyana
Lebedeva in Long and Triple Jump, Yelena Soboleva in 800m and 1,500m and
Gulnara Samitova-Galkina in the 3,000m Steeplechase and the 5,000m.
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya has decided to
focus on the 400m rather than the half lap event and Mariya Konovalova will
also run her longer distance, the 10,000m over the 5,000m.
The participation of this year's Race
Walking World Cup 50km silver medallist, Vladimir Kanaykin, is in question due
to some health complaints, however 2005 World Champion Sergey Kirdyapkin is on
standby.
11 individual medallists from Athens 2004
are included in the final team selection including gold medal winners
Borzakovskiy, Slesarenko, Isinbayeva, Lebedeva and Sadova. Eight 2004 medallists
have either not qualified or are no longer active: Voyevodin (50km Walk),
Antyukh (400m), Simagina (Long Jump), Krivelyova (Shot Put), Kuzenkova (Hammer)
and Olimpiada Ivanova (20km Walk).
The Russian team travels on July 28 to its pre-Olympic
camp in Irkutsk.
Russian Team
Men
Event
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Athlete
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100m
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Andrey Yepishin |
200m
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Roman Smirnov |
400m
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Denis Alekseev,
Maksim Dyldin |
800m
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Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Dmitriy Bogdanov |
1,500m
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Vyacheslav Shabunin |
10,000m
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Sergey Ivanov |
Marathon
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Grigoriy Andreyev, Oleg Kulkov, Aleksey Sokolov |
110m Hurdles
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Yevgeniy Borisov,
Igor Peremota |
400m Hurdles
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Aleksandr Derevyagin |
3,000m Steeplechase
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Pavel Potapovitch, Ildar Minshin, Roman Usov |
High Jump
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Yaroslav Rybakov, Vyacheslav Voronin, Andrey Tereshin |
Long Jump
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Vladimir Maliavin |
Triple Jump
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Danil Burkenya,
Igor Spasovkhodckiy, Aleksandr Petrenko |
Pole Vault
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Yevgeniy Lukianenko, Dmitriy Starodubtzev,
Igor Pavlov |
| Shot Put |
Ivan Yushkov, Pavel Sofyin, Anton Luboslavskiy
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| Discus |
Bogdan Pizshalnikov
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| Hammer |
Ikirl Ikonnikov, Igor Vinnichenko
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| Javelin |
Sergey Makarov, Aleksandr Ivanov,
Ilya Korotkov
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| 20km Race Walk |
Valeriy Borchin, Ilya Markov, Sergej Morozov
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| 50km Race Walk |
Denis Nizhegorodov, Vladimir Kanaykin, Igor Yerokhin |
| Decathlon |
Aleksey Sysoev, Aleksandr Pogorelov,
Aleksey Drozdov
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| 4x400m Relay |
Denis Alekseev, Maksim Dyldin,
Anton Kokorin, Konstantin Svechrar,
Vladislav Frolov, Ivan Buzolin
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Women
Event
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Athlete
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100m
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Yevgeniya Polyakova |
200m
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Aleksandra Fedoriva,
Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Natalya Rusakova |
400m
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Yulia Guzshina, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firova |
800m
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Yelena
Soboleva, Tatyana Andrianova, Svetlana Kluka |
1,500m
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Liliya Shobukhova, Gulnara Samitova-Galkina,
Yelena Zadorozhnaya |
5,000m
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Shjbukhova, Galkina - Samitova, Zadorozhnaya |
10,000m
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Inga Abitova, Mariya Konovalova, Tatyana
Aryasova |
Marathon
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Galina Bogomolova, Irina Timofeyeva, Svetlana Zakharova |
100m Hurdles
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Yulia Kondakova, Tatyana Degtyareva |
400m Hurdles
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Yekaterina Bikert, Iirina
Obedina, Anastasiya Ott |
3,000m Steeplechase
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Gulnara Samitova-Galkina, Tatyana Petrova,
Yekaterina Volkova |
High Jump
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Anna Chicherova, Yelena Slesarenko, Svetlana Shkolina |
Long Jump
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Tatyana
Lebedeva, Tatyana Kotova, Oksana Umdurtova |
Triple Jump
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Tatyana Lebedeva, Anna Pyatykh,
Viktoriya Gurova |
| Pole Vault |
Svetlana Feofanova, Yulia Golubchikova, Yelena Isinbayeva
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| Shot Put |
Irina Khudoroshkina, Olga Ivanova, Anna Omarova
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| Discus |
Natalya Sadova, Darya Pishchalnikova, Svetlana Saykina
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| Hammer |
Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, Elena Konevtsova, Anna Bulgakova
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| Javelin |
Mariya Abakumova,
Mariya Yakovenko
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| 20km Race Walk |
Olga
Kaniskina, Tatyana Sibileva, Tatyana Kalmykova
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| Heptathlon |
Tatyana Chernova, Anna Bogdanova, Olga Kurban
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4x100m Relay
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Yevgeniya Polyakova, Natalya Rusakova, Natalya Murinovitch,
Kapachinskaya,
Yulia Guzshina
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| 4x400m Relay |
Yulia Guzshina, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firova,
Yelena Migunova, Lyudmila Litvinova, Tatyana Veshkorova |
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