News20 Feb 2014


Ukhov leads Russian team for Sopot – IAAF World Indoor Championships

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Russia's Ivan Ukhov in action in the high jump (© Getty Images)

Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov is part of a 37-strong Russian team heading to Sopot next month for the IAAF World Indoor Championships on 7-9 March.

After taking world indoor bronze in Istanbul two years ago, Ukhov will be looking to regain the title he won in 2010. He has been in outstanding form this year, leaping a world-leading 2.41m in Chelyabinsk last month, followed three weeks later with a 2.40m victory in Arnstadt.

But European indoor champion Aleksey Dmitrik, who also cleared 2.40m in Arnstadt, did not gain selection after finishing fourth at the Russian Indoor Championships. Instead, the second place on the team went to the up-and-coming Daniil Tsyplakov, who set a PB of 2.34m to qualify for the team.

World champion Aleksandr Menkov is named in the long jump, while world-leading jumpers Maria Kuchina, Svetlana Biryukova and Yekaterina Koneva lead the way in the high jump, long jump and triple jump respectively.

Medal hopes in the track events are carried by world-leading 400m runner Kseniya Ryzhova and European sprint hurdles champion Sergey Shubenkov.

ARAF and Jon Mulkeen for the IAAF


Russian team for Sopot

MEN
400m:
Lev Mosin
800m: Stepan Poistogov
60m hurdles: Konstantin Shabanov, Sergey Shubenkov
High jump: Daniil Tsyplakov, Ivan Ukhov
Long jump: Aleksandr Menkov
Shot: Aleksandr Lesnoy, Maksim Sidorov
4x400m: Aleksandr Khyutte, Vladimir Krasnov, Denis Kudryavtsev, Lev Mosin, Konstantin Petryashov, Roman Semakin

WOMEN
400m:
Kseniya Ryzhova
800m: Yekaterina Kupina, Anna Shchagina
1500m: Svetlana Karamasheva
3000m: Natalya Aristarkhova, Yelena Korobkina
60m hurdles: Yekaterina Galitskaya, Yuliya Kondakova
High jump: Irina Gordeyeva, Maria Kuchina
Pole vault: Anastasiya Savchenko, Anzhelika Sidorova
Long jump: Svetlana Biryukova, Darya Klishina
Triple jump: Yekaterina Koneva, Veronika Mosina
Shot: Yevgeniya Kolodko, Irina Tarasova
4x400m: Irina Davydova, Alena Tamkova, Yuliya Terekhova, Olga Tovarnova, Kseniya Ryzhova, Tatiana Veshkurova

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