Athletistic / Others. The Russian team suffered from IOC sanctions during the 2024 Winter Skyrunning World Championships. The Russians’ result was canceled.
“The International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) has informed the Russian Mountaineering Federation that, following the IOC’s recommendations to prevent teams from Russia and Belarus from participating in international competitions, it has excluded our team’s result in the team competition. Thus, the bronze medal was awarded to the Spanish team.
However, Russian athletes can participate in skyrunning competitions under the auspices of the ISF as neutral athletes, so all individual results of Russian athletes remain unchanged,” said the press service of the Russian Sports Federation. mountaineering (FAR) in a press release.
According to the results of the 2024 World Cup team tournament, the Russian team took third place with 498 points. The Russians lost only to the teams of Italy (628) and Germany (544). However, after the team result of the Russians was canceled, the Spaniards became third in the general ranking (452).
On March 28, 2023, the IOC published recommendations on the admission of athletes from Russia and Belarus to international competitions. According to these recommendations, Russians and Belarusians can only participate in tournaments as individual neutral athletes.
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