Yelena Isinbayeva plants her 4.82 World record (© Getty Images)
The chief coach of Russian national team Valeriy Kulichenko said that he is very satisfied with the selection of the team for the World Championships in Paris (23-31 August). The most difficult was the selection of the women’s team for 400m because there are about 8 runners who can participate at the top international level.
“But we are not taking to Paris any athletes in 7 men’s events,” confirmed Kulichenko. “They could not show the qualification results.”
”We are planning to win 5-6 gold medals and 17-18 in total and to take a second place. We have a strong team and I hope it can achieve even more then we plan. Our strongest events are the same as they were in Edmonton, but who knows what will happen in reality, the struggle in some events is very unpredictable.”
”I know that the stadium in Paris is very comfortable venue for Russian athletes as in the past they have shown many good results there,” continued Kulichenko.
”Yuriy Borzakovskiy could not participate in the Russian Championships because he has got a cold, but the doctor said he will be all right very soon.”
“In every walking event Russian athletes are going to battle for the gold medal. We’ll see in Paris the winner of 50 km in Sevilla German Skurygin, who is returning after disqualification.”
”And the most interesting dramatic moments are going to be the rivalry between Russian girls in Pole Vault and High Jump. In Pole Vault Svetlana Feofanova and Yelena Isinbayeva has promised to jump at the World record level. Isinbayeva thinks that she can show the result very close to 4.90, “concluded Kulichenko
The Russian team list:
Men
400m- Anton Galkin.
800m- Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Dmiriy Bogdanov.
1500m- Viacheslav Shabunin.
400m/h- Boris Gorban.
3000m Steeple- Pavel Potapovitch.
4x400m- Aleksandr Usov, Yevgeniy Lebedev, Oleg Mishukov, Andrey Rudnickiy, Dmitriy Forshev.
Walk 20km- Roman Rasskazov, Vladimir Andreyev, Ilya Markov, Viktor Burayev.
Walk 50km- German Skurygin, Aleksey Voyevodin, Denis Nizhegorodov.
Long jump- Burkenya, Shkurlatov.
High jump- Viacheslav Rybakov, Piotr Brayko, Mikhail Tzvetkov.
Pole vault- Vadim Strogaliov, Pavel Gerasimov.
Triple jump- Igor Spasovkhodskiy, Vitaliy Moskalenko.
Shot put- Pavel Chumachenko, Pavel Sofyin.
Discus throw- Dmitriy Shevchenko, Aleksandr Borichevskiy.
Javelin throw- Sergei Makarov, Aleksandr Ivanov.
Hammer throw- Iiya Konovalov, Aleksey Zagorniy, Sergey Kirmasov.
Decathlon- Lev Lobodin, Aleksandr Pogorelov.
Women
100m- Marina Kislova, Yulia Tabakova
200m- Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Svetlana Goncharenko.
400m- Svetlana Pospelova, Natalya Nazarova, Olesya Zykina.
800m- Natalya Khruscheleva, Natalya Yevdokimova, Svetlana Klyuka.
1500m- Tatyana Tomashova, Yekaterina Rozenberg, Yelena Zadorozhnaya, Natalya Gorelova
5000m- Olga Yegorova, Yelena Zadorozhnaya, Gulnara Samitova.
10,000m- Galina Bogomolova, Alla Zhilayeva, Lidiya Grigoriyeva.
100m/h- Natalya Shekhodanova, Mariya Koroteyeva, Svetlana Laukhova
400m/h- Yulia Pechonkina,
4x100m- Olga Fedorova, Olga Khalandyreva, Irina Khabarova, Larisa Kruglova, Marina Kislova, Yulia Tabakova.
4x400m- Tatyana Levina, Yulia Pechonkina, Natalya Nazarova, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Svetlana Pospelova, Olesya Zykina.
Walk 20km- Olimpiada Ivanova, Yelena Nikolayeva, Natalya Fedoskina, Tatyana Gudkova.
Marathon- Svetlana Zakharova, Svetlana Timofeyeva, Larisa Zusko, Svetlana Demidenko, Viktoriya Klimina.
Long jump- Olga Rubleva, Tatiana Kotova, Lyudmila Galkina.
High jump- Marina Kuptsova, Anna Chicherova, Olga Kaliturina, Yelena Yelesina.
Pole vault- Yelena Beliakova, Svetlana Feofanova, Yelena Isinbayeva.
Triple jump- Tatiana Lebedeva, Anna Pyatykh, Nadezhda Bazhenova. Yelena Oleynikova.
Shot put- Svetlana Krivileva Irina Korzhanenko, Olga Ryabinkina
Discus throw- Natalya Sadova,
Javelin throw- Tatyana Shikolenko, Valeriya Zabruskova
Hammer throw- Olga Kuzenkova, Yelena Konevtsova, Alla Davydova
Heptathlon- Yelena Prokhorova, Natalya Raschupkina, Yelena Cherniavskaya.
