THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL TEAM WILL TAKE PART IN THE IPC ATHLETICS GRAND PRIX IN DUBAI

07 February 2021

Dubai (UAE) will host the Grand Prix in Athletics of the International Paralympic Committee, which will open the international sports season in 2021. A total of 7 Grand Prix events are scheduled in the international calendar.

The competition will be held at the same stadium where the World Cup starts were held in 2019.

The first competition day is February 10, and the closing ceremony will take place on February 13.

The Russian national team consists of 8 athletes with a lesion of the musculoskeletal system, 6-with visual impairment and 8-with intellectual disabilities.

COMPOSITION OF THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL TEAM

Sports of persons with PODA: Alexander Brilin (Bryansk region/St. Petersburg), Alan Kokoity (RSO-Alania), Andrey Vdovin (Nizhny Novgorod Region), Evgeny Malykh (KhMAO-Yugra), Zamir Shkakhov (KhMAO-Yugra), Alexey Ashapatov (KhMAO-Yugra), Anna Pimutkina (KhMAO-Yugra) and Natalia Chebakova (Krasnodar Territory).

Blind Sports: Oleg Antipin (Sverdlovsk Region), Nadezhda Burkova (Perm Region), Alexey Dunin (Perm Region), Denis Gavrilov (Chuvash Republic, leading athlete Sergey Ivanov), Pavel Nesterenko (Krasnodar Region) and Igor Baskakov (Stavropol Region).

Sports of persons with intellectual disabilities: Alexander Alexandrov (KhMAO-Yugra), Artem Muratov (Krasnoyarsk Territory), Irina Potekhina (Nizhny Novgorod Region), Alexander Rabotnitsky (Omsk Region), Galina Randelina (Saratov Region), Pavel Sarkeev (Moscow Region), Alexandra Ruchkina (Kaliningrad Region) and Vladimir Samolyuk (Nizhny Novgorod Region).