For the first time in 4 years, the International Athletics Federation has admitted the Russians to the World Cup

The International Athletics Federation (IWF) approved the participation of seven Russian athletes in neutral colors at the World Cup in October, but rejected the application for nine.

About it writes nemzetisport.hu with reference to Russia.

IWF also excluded from the list of participants of four Russians, who were included in the list of reservists.

They were not allowed Artem Okulova (88 kg), who won gold medals at the 2015 and 2018 World Cup, and the two -time European Champion Anastasia Romanov (77 kg), which was a bronze medalist of the World Cup ten years ago.

Also will not be able to compete in this year’s main tournament Zulfat Garayev (71 kg) and Yana Sotiyev (86 kg), who won the Bronze Medals of the World Cup in 2021.

The last Russian weightlifters competed at the World Cup-before the war in Ukraine in 2022-in December 2021, when the tournament was held in Tashkent.

This year’s World Cup will be held in Fjord, Norway, from October 2 to 11.

Last year, the world was hosted by the city of Manama, Bahrain. Ukrainian athletes failed to win medals. At the 2023 World Cup in Riyadh, Kamil Konotop (59 kg) won 2 “silver” and “bronze”. Anastasia Maniyevskaya (87 kg) brought another bronze medal “Blue and yellow”.

Recall, earlier Fide issued Wild Card to two Russians to participate in the World Cup.