IAAF Neutral Athletes: Two More Russians Approved To Compete Internationally
The two Russian athletes who had file applications, have been approved by IAAF Doping Review Board to compete in international competition as neutral athletes during 2018.
However, the Russian national federation (RusAF) remains suspended.
The IAAF in December 2017, had issued a simplified application process for Neutral Athletes to reapply for continuing their eligibility to compete internationally during 2018. Since the simplified application process was published, the IAAF has received more than 200 applications from Russian athletes.
Till present, in total 74 Russian athletes have been declared eligible to compete in 2018. 68 applications have been denied.

The 2018 Authorised Neutral Athletes include:

  • 27 July 2018: Yegor Nikolayev (1,500m), Aleksandr Skorobogatko (400m)
  • 13 July 2018: Rinas Akhmadeev (10,000m/half marathon), Artem Alekseev (marathon), Artem Denmukhametov (400m), Denis Lukyanov (hammer throw), Elizaveta Tsareva (hammer throw)
  • 3 July 2018: Mariya Aglitskaya (100m hurdles), Timofey Chalyy (400m hurdles), Georgiy Gorokhov (pole vault), Ilya Ivanyuk (high jump), Timur Morgunov (pole vault), Vera Rudakova (400m hurdles), Yevgeniy Rybakov (distances), Fyodor Shutov (distances)
  • 22 June 2018: IAAF World U20 Championships and European U18 Championships: Oleg Braiko (jumps), Viktoriya Gorlova (long jump), Maria Kochanova (high jump), Elena Kulichenko (high jump)
  • 22 June 2018: IAAF World U20 Championships: Diana Adasko (triple jump), Elizaveta Bondarenko (pole vault), Ilya Dolbin (pole vault), Aleksei Fadeev (high jump), Aksana Gatauillina (pole vault), Elizaveta Kamenets (combined events), Stepan Kekin (combined events), Aleksei Kislitsa (discus), Polina Knoroz (pole vault), Polina Miller (sprints), Nikolay Orlov (javelin), Alina Sharkova (400m hurdles), Anastasiia Shkuratova (hammer), Olga Viktorova (400m hurdles), Valentina Ulianova (high jump)
  • 22 June 2018: European U18 Championships: Dzhennifer Akiniimika (sprints), Irina Boldyreva (sprint hurdles), Valeria Chehovich (400m hurdles), Arseniy Elfimov (combined events), Violetta Ignateva (throws), Dmitriy Kachanov (pole vault), Adelina Khalikova (high jump), Alexander Komarov (combined events), Vilena Komarova (combined events), Sergey Kozlov (discus), Iana Melnikova (discus), Maria Privalova (jumps), Olesia Soldatova (400m), Anastasiia Zui (400m hurdles), Sergey Zverev (hammer), Valeria Yakimenko (hammer)
  • 12 April 2018: Kseniya Aksyonova (sprints), Vasiliy Mizinov (race walks), Sergey Shubenkov (sprint hurdles), Yana Smerdova (race walks)
  • 21 February 2018: Maksim Afonin (shot put), Anna Krylova (triple jump)
  • 2 February 2018: Ilya Shkurenev (combined events)
  • 25 January 2018: Viktor Butenko (discus), Danila Danilov (hammer), Alexsey Fedorov (triple jump), Irina Gumenyuk (triple jump), Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko (sprints), Mariya Lasitskene (high jump), Aleksandr Lesnoy (shot put), Alyona Lutkovskaya (pole vault), Danil Lysenko (high jump), Alaina Mamina (sprints), Yuliya Maltseva (discus), Polina Miller (sprints), Ilya Mudrov (pole vault), Olga Mullina (pole vault), Sofiya Palkina (hammer), Viktoriya Prokopenko (triple jump), Anzhelika Sidorova (pole vault), Aleksei Sokyrskii (hammer)

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