Russian Team for Budapest

The chief coach of Russian team Valeriy Kulichenko expects his team to win  5 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze medals and be placed as the second team overall after the USA at the 10th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, Budapest, Hungary (5-7 March). 

However, such expectations seem to be a little pessimistic as it is clear that on current form the Russian indoor team have more chances then ever to become the number one in the world.

The President of All-Russia Athletics Federation Valentin Balakhnichev hopes that his athletes did not use all their potential at the nationals championships last week, and that they’ll be ready to achieve even better results than they showed at national championships.

"I think they are still on their way to top form in Budapest," commented Balahknichev, and "I am glad that we are successfully continuing our preparations for the Olympic Games."    

Russian Team for Budapest - maximum of TWO per event, but reserves have also been named for some disciplines.

Men
60m Andrey Yepishin, Aleksandr Ryabov
200m Oleg Sergeev
400m Dmitriy Forshev, Andrey Rudnickiy, Boris Gorban.
800m Dmitriy Bogdanov
1500m Dmitriy Onufrienko
3000m Vyacheslav Shabunin
60mH Igor Peremota
4x400 m Dmitriy Forshev, Dmitriy Petrov, Aleksandr Usov, Andrey Rudnitskiy, Boris Gorban, Aleksandr Larin
Long jump Vitaliy Shkurlatov, Kiril Sosunov
High jump Yaroslav Rybakov, Sergey Klyugin
Triple jump Aleksandr Sergeyev,  Danil Burkenya
Pole Vault Igor Pavlov, Pavel Gerasimov
Shot Put Ivan Yushkov, Pavel Sofin
Heptathlon Lev Lobodin, Aleksandr Pogorelov (to be confirmed).

Women
60m Yuliya Tabakova, Larisa Kruglova
200m Anastasia Kapachinskaya, Svetlana Goncharenko
400m  Natalya Nazarova, Olesia Krasnomovets, Olga Kotlyarova.
800m Tatyana Andrianova, Olga Raspopova
1500m Yulya Kosenkova, Yulya Chizhenko, Gulnara Samitova
3000m Gulnara Samitova, Yelena Zadorozhnaya
60mH Natalya Kresova, Irina Shevchenko
4x400 m Natalya Nazarova, Olesia Krasnomovets Olga Kotlyarova, Olesia Zykina,  Natalia Antyuh, Tatiana Levina
High jump  Anna Chicherova, Yelena Slesarenko
Long Jump Tatyana Lebedeva, Tatyana Kotova, Irina Simagina
Triple jump Tatyana Lebedeva, Yelena Oleynikova
Pole Vault Svetlana Feofanova, Yelena Isinbayeva
Shot put  Svetlana Kriveleva, Irina Korzhanenko.