Russia at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

Russia at the
2009 World Championships in Athletics
IAAF code RUS
National federation All-Russia Athletic Federation
Website eng.rusathletics.com
in Berlin
Medals
Gold Silver Bronze Total
4 3 6 13

Russia competes at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August. A team of over 100 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition, one of the largest squads in the competition. Selected athletes have achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards. Yelena Isinbayeva, Tatyana Lebedeva, Yekaterina Volkova, and Olga Kaniskina are the defending champions in their respective events. The 2008 Olympic champion Valeriy Borchin, and world record holder Gulnara Galkina-Samitova, are also competing.[1] Russia will be represented in all the women's events, and furthermore, only five men's events will not feature a Russian competitor.

Team selection

Track and road events
Event Athletes
Men Women
100 metres Yevgeniya Polyakova
Anna Geflikh
200 metres Roman Smirnov Yuliya Gushchina
Yelena Bolsun
Olga Zaitseva
400 metres Maksim Dyldin Antonina Krivoshapka
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Lyudmila Litvinova
800 metres Yuriy Borzakovskiy Mariya Savinova
Svetlana Klyuka
Elena Kofanova
1500 metres Anna Alminova
Natalya Evdokimova
Oksana Zbrozhek
5000 metres Elizaveta Grechishnikova
Natalya Popova
10,000 metres Anatoliy Rybakov Liliya Shobukhova
Mariya Konovalova
Kseniya Agafonova
Marathon Oleg Kulkov
Yuriy Abramov
Sergei Rybin
Mikhail Limaev
Svetlana Zakharova
Nailiya Yulamanova
Olga Glok
Alevtina Biktimirova
Lyubov Morgunova
100 metres hurdles Yuliya Kondakova
Tatyana Dektiareva
Yekaterina Shtepa
110 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles Aleksandr Dereviagin Yuliya Pechonkina
Natalya Antyukh
Yelena Churakova
Natalya Ivanova (reserve)
3000 m steeplechase Ildar Minshin Yekaterina Volkova
Gulnara Galkina-Samitova
Yuliya Zarudneva
Yelena Sidorchenkova
20 km race walk Valeriy Borchin
Petr Trofimov
Andrey Krivov
Olga Kaniskina
Anisiya Kirdiapkina
Vera Sokolova
Larisa Emelianova
50 km race walk Denis Nizhegorodov
Sergey Kirdiapkin
Yuriy Andronov
4×100 metres relay Yevgeniya Polyakova
Yuliya Gushchina
Natalya Rusakova
Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
Aleksandra Fedoriva
4×400 metres relay Maksim Dyldin
Konstantin Svechkar
Valentin Krugliakov
Anton Kokorin
Antonina Krivoshapka
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Lyudmila Litvinova
Natalya Nazarova
Tatyana Firova
Natalya Antyukh

Field and combined events
Event Athletes
Men Women
Pole vault Viktor Chistiakov
Aleksandr Gripich
Igor Pavlov
Yelena Isinbayeva
Yuliya Golubchikova
Aleksandra Kiryashova
Tatyana Polnova
High jump Ivan Ukhov
Yaroslav Rybakov
Andrei Tereshin
Anna Chicherova
Yelena Slesarenko
Svetlana Shkolina
Long jump Aleksandr Menkov Tatyana Lebedeva
Yelena Sokolova
Irina Meleshina
Olga Kucherenko
Triple jump Igor Spasovkhodskiy
Yevgeniy Plotnir
Tatyana Lebedeva
Nadezhda Alekhina
Anna Pyatykh
Shot put Maksim Sidorov
Pavel Sofin
Valeriy Kokoev
Anna Avdeeva
Discus throw Bogdan Pishchalnikov
Nikolay Sedyuk
Natalya Sadova
Svetlana Saikina
Hammer throw Aleksey Zagorniy Tatyana Lysenko
Javelin throw Sergei Makarov
Ilya Korotkov
Aleksandr Ivanov
Valeriya Zabruskova
Maria Abakumova
Heptathlon Tatyana Chernova
Decathlon Aleksei Sysoev
Aleksandr Pogorelov
Vasiliy Kharlamov


References

  1. Russia selects more than 100 for Berlin. IAAF (2009-08-03). Retrieved on 2009-08-05.

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