BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/07/2008

Belarus selects team of 50 for Beijing

Reigning Olympic 100m champion Yuliya Nesterenko (Nestsiarenka), 2000 Shot Put champion Yanina Korolchik-Pravalinskaya (Karolchyk), and triple World Hammer Throw champion Ivan Tikhon (Tsikhan) head the Belarus team for Beijing.

Notably in the team line-up there is also the Olympic Discus Throw champion from Sydney 2000, Ellina Zvereva who will celebrate in November her 48th birthday.

Belarus for the first time in its history sends a big team of 50 athletes with the target of five medals.

National team coach Anatoly Baduev commented that, "the majority of the team are young athletes aiming at the 2012 Olympic Games. This time we are expecting medals from hammer thrower Ivan Tsikhan, shot putters Nadzeya Ostapchuk and Natallia Mikhnevich, Natalia's husband Andrei Mikhnevich, the 2003 World Shot Put champion, and also World Race Walk silver medallist Rita Turova."

"We hope women's hammer thrower Aksana Miankova and Decathlete Andrei Krauchanka will also show good results."

Mikhail Dubitski for the IAAF

Belarus Olympic Team

Men

Marathon - Andrei Gordeev

110m h - Maksim Lynsha

Triple Jump - Dzmitry Platnitski

Shot Put - Andrei Mikhnevich, Pavel Lyzhyn, Yury Bialou

Discus Throw - Dzmitry Sivakou

Hammer Throw - Ivan Tsikhan, Vadim Devyatovskiy, Valeriy Sviatokha

Javelin Throw - Vladimir Kozlov

Decathlon - Andrei Krauchanka, Aliaksandr Parkhomenka, Mikalai Shubianok

20km Race Walk - Ivan Trotskiy, Siarhei Charnou, Dzianis Simanovich

50km Race Walk - Andrei Stepanchuk

Women

100m - Yulia Nestsiarenka

4x100 Relay - Yulia Nestsiarenka , Hanna Bahdanovich, Aksana Drahun, Nastassia Shuliak, Yauhenia Valadzko, Volha Astashka

400m - Ilona Usovich

4x400m relay - Sviatlana Usovich, Ilona Usovich, Anna Kozak, Yulyana Yushchanka, Iryna Khliustava, Katsiaryna Bobryk

800m - Sviatlana Usovich

5000m - Volha Krautsova

100m h - Katsiaryna Paplauskaya

Long Jump - Volha Sergeenka, Iryna Charnushenka-Stasiuk

Triple Jump - Kseniya Pryiemka

Shot Put - Nadzeya Ostapchuk, Natallia Mikhnevich, Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya

Discus Throw - Iryna Yatchenko, Ellina Zvereva, Hanna Mazgunova

Javelin Throw - Natallia Shymchuk, Maryna Novik

Hammer Throw- Aksana Miankova, Darya Pchelnik, Maryia Smaliachkova

Heptathlon - Yana Maksimava

20km Race Walk - Rita Turova, Elena Ginko, Sniazhana Yurchanka

Source:

http://www.iaaf.org/OLY08/news/kind=100/newsid=46292.html

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