Twenty-six Russian athletes added to international target group

Twenty-six Russian track and field athletes are part of the international control group of the independent body for combating negative phenomena in athletics (AIU), according to the website of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF).

After the update, the pool includes 40 Russian athletes.

The updated international pool list is as follows:

Pole vault : Anjelika Sidorova, Polina Knoroz, Timur Morgunov, Alexander Soloviev;

Big jump: Ilya Ivanyuk, Maria Lasitskene, Danil Lysenko, Natalya Spiridonova, Matvey Tychinkin;

triple jump: Ekaterina Koneva, Daria Nidbaikina;

running: Elvira Khasanova, Klavdiya Afanasyeva, Margarita Nikiforova, Vasily Mizinov, Elena Lashmanova, Sergey Kozhevnikov, Anton Kurbatov, Reikhan Kagramanova, Sergey Shirobokov, Anastasia Kolchina, Maxim Denisov;

all around: Ilya Chkurenev, Valeria Moskvitina;

hammer throw: Valery Pronkin, Andrey Romanov, Elizaveta Tsareva, Sofya Palkina;

shot put : Maxime Afonine;

javelin throw: Boris Bezdolny;

run: Polina Tkalich (Miller), Fedor Ivanov, Artem Makarenko, Kristina Makarenko, Konstantin Krylov, Ekaterina Ivonina, Vladimir Nikitin.

ARAF official website