The best of Russian athletes' league performing in IAAF World Championships, that take place in Moscow from August 10-18.
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Olympic high-jump champion in London Anna Chicherova could well add gold to her collection of awards at the World Championships in Moscow, especially since her main rival, Croatia's Blanka Vlasich, has pulled out of the competition.
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Following the news that 800m runner Yuri Borzakovsky will not take part in the World Championships, Team Russia's hopes in this eye-catching event are pinned to 2012 Olympic champion Maria Savinova.
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Elena Isinbaeva has set 26 world records in the pole vault, yet is unlikely to produce number 27 in Moscow. Her appearance at Luzhniki Stadium will be the last of her career.
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The extravagant Ivan Ukhov shuns press conferences, but his victories give him the right to be capricious. The 2012 Olympic champion sacrificed the chance to compete in the "Diamond League" at the World Student Games in order to take the high-jump crown at the World Championships.
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Team Russia is a trendsetter in race walking. The greatest chance of victory in the women's event comes in the shape of Elena Lashmanova, who claimed Olympic gold in London.
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Long-jumper Darya Klishina, one of Russia's most beautiful athletes, couldn't quite go the distance in the 2012 Olympics, but that didn't dent her popularity. In Russia, she is inundated with offers for commercials and photo-shoots for fashion magazines. At the World Championships in Moscow, she will try to back up her media profile with sporting results.
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29-year-old Olympic and former world record-holder Tatiana Lysenko is the favorite in the hammer at the games in Moscow.
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3000m steeplechase Olympic champion Yulia Zaripova will defend her title against some strong Kenyan runners.
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Veteran race walker, 33-year-old Sergei Kirdyapkin, is among the favorites in the 50km event.
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After her triumph in London, 400m hurdler Natalia Antyuk flirted with retirement... but decided to stay. Already within a hair's breadth of the world record, she will try to break it in Moscow.
