Ivan Tikhon of Belarus in Yokohama (© Kazutaka Eguchi/Agence SHOT)
Belarussia will send 18 women and 10 men to compete in the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Osaka, Japan (25 Aug to 2 Sep), the federation having decided to only send those athletes with realistic chances of making the finals of their events.
Reigning champions Ivan Tikhon (Tsikhan) in Hammer Throw and Nadzeya Ostapchuk in the women’s Shot Put will attempt to defend their World titles in Japan.
Vadim Devyatovskiy, the world season leader in the men’s Hammer Throw, and Yanina Provalinskaya-Karolchik, the 2000 Sydney Olympic and 2001 Edmonton World champion in the women’s Shot Put are ready to compete too.
The fastest female walker of the season Rita Turova, and the women’s 4õ400m squad, also the quickest in the world this year all have high medal aspirations.
Dubitski Mikhail for the IAAF
MEN
Shot Put
Yury Bialou 21.14 PB / 20.47 SB
Pavel Lyzhyn 20.92 PB / 20.02 SB
Andrei Mikhnevich 21.69 PB / 20.65 SB
Hammer Throw
Vadim Devyatovskiy 84.90 PB /82.94 SB
Ivan Tsikhan 86.73 PB / 82.58 SB
Decathlon
Andrei Krauchanka 8617 PB / 8617 SB
Aliaksandr Parkhomenka 8136 PB / 8101 SB
20km Race Walk
Ivan Trotskiy 1:19:40 PB / 1:20:13 SB
50km Race Walk
Andrei Stepanchuk 3:51:40 PB / 4:08:30 SB
Vitaliy Talankou 3:51:59 PB / 3:51:59 SB
WOMEN
400m
Ilona Usovich 50.69 PB / 51.58 SB
800m
Sviatlana Usovich 1:58.17 PB / 2:00.71 SB
5000m
Volha Krautsova 14:47.75 PB / 15:20.35 SB
10,000m
Volha Krautsova 31:58.52 PB / 31:58.52 SB
3000m Steeplechase
Alesia Turava 9:16.51 PB / - SB
Shot Put
Nadzeya Ostapchuk 21.09 PB / 20.34 SB
Yanina Provalinskaya-Karolchyk 20.61 PB / 19.24 SB
Discus Throw
Iryna Yatchenko 69.14 PB / 64.87 SB
Hammer Throw
Aksana Miankova 76.86 PB / 73.94 SB
20km RaceWalk
Elena Ginko 1:28:11 PB / 1:28:29 SB
Ryta Turava 1:26:11 PB / 1:27:10 SB
4x100m Relay
Volha Astashka
Aksana Drahun
Alena Neumiarzhitskaya
Natallia Safronnikava
Nastassia Shuliak
4x400m Relay
Iryna Khliustava
Anna Kozak
Ilona Usovich
Sviatlana Usovich
Yulyana Yushchanka
