Yelena Isinbayeva soaks up the atmosphere after winning the Olympic pole vault title (© Getty Images)
A roster of more than 100 was announced today by Russia for the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany (15 – 23 August).
Leading the squad, among others, are World and Olympic Pole Vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva, three-time World champion Tayana Lebedeva, Olympic champion and 3000m Steeplechase World record holder Gulnara Galkina-Samitova, and Olympic Race Walk champions Olga Kaniskina and Valeriy Borchin.
The team (including some reserves) -
MEN:
200m - Roman Smirnov
400m - Maksim Dyldin
4x400m relay - Dyldin, Konstantin Svechkar, Valentin Krugliakov, Anton Kokorin
800m - Yuriy Borzakovskiy
10,000m - Anatoliy Rybakov
400mh - Aleksandr Dereviagin
3000m S/C - Ildar Minshin
Marathon - Oleg Kulkov, Yuriy Abramov, Sergei Rybin, Mikhail Limaev
HJ - Ivan Ukhov, Yaroslav Rybakov, Andrei Tereshin
Pole Vault - Viktor Chistiakov, Aleksandr Gripich, Igor Pavlov
LJ - Aleksandr Menkov
Triple - Igor Spasovkhodskiy, Yevgeniy Plotnir
SP - Maksim Sidorov, Pavel Sof'in, Valeriy Kokoev
Discus - Bogdan Pizshalnikov, Nickolai Seduk
Hammer - Aleksei Zagorniy
Javelin - Sergei Makarov, Ilya Korotkov, Aleksandr Ivanov
Decathlon - Aleksei Sysoev, Aleksandr Pogorelov, Vasiliy Kharlamov
20km Race Walk - Valeriy Borchin, Petr Trofimov, Andrei Krivov
50km Race Walk - Denis Nizhegorodov, Sergei Kirdiapkin, Yuriy Andronov
WOMEN:
100m - Yevgeniya Polyakova, Anna Geflikh
200m - Yuliya Gushchina, Yelena Bolsun, Olga Zaitzeva
4x100m relay - Polyakova, Gushchina, Natalya Rusakova,Yulya Chermoshanskaya, Aleksandra Fedoriva
400m - Antonina Krivoshapka, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Ludmila Litvinova
4x400m relay - Krivoshapka, Kapachinskaya, Litvinova, Natalya Nazarova, Tatyana Firova, Natalya Antyukh
800m - Marya Savinova, Svetlana Kluka, Yeltna Kofanova
1500m - Anna Alminova, Natalya Evdokimova, Oksana Zbrozhek
5000m - Elizaveta Grechishnikova, Natalya Popova
10,000m - Liliya Shobukhova, Marya Konovalova, Kseniya Agafonova
100mh - Yuliya Kondakova, Tatyana Dektiareva, Yekaterina Shtepa
400mh - Yuliya Pechonkina, Natalya Antyukh, Yelena Churakova, Natalya Ivanova (substitute)
300m S/C - Yekaterina Volkova, Gulnara Galkina-Samitova, Yuliya Zarudneva, Yelena Sidorchenkova
marathon - Svetlana Zakharova, Naillya Ulamanova, Olga Glok, Alevtina Biktemirova, Lubov Morgunova
HJ - Anna Chicherova, Yelena Slesarenko, Svetlana Shkolina
Pole Vault - Yelena Isinbayeva, Yuliya Golubchikova, Aleksandra Kiriashova, Tatyana Polnova
LJ - Tatyana Lebedeva, Yelena Sokolova, Irina Meleshina, Olga Kucherenko
Triple - Tatyana Lebedeva, Nadazhda Alekhina, Anna Pyatykh
SP - Anna Avdeeva
Discus - Natalya Sadova, Svetlana Saikina
Hammer - Tatyana Lysenko
Javelin - Valeriya Zabruskova, Marya Abakumova
Heptathlon - Tatyana Chernova
20km Race Walk - Olga Kaniskina, Anisiya Kirdiapkina, Vera Sokolova, Larisa Emelianova
