More than 100 Russian athletes have filed individual appeals with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for the admission to the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the press service of the Russian Paralympic Committee said.
"The Chairman of the Executive Committee, First Vice President of the Russian Paralympic Committee, Pavel Rozhkov, said that more than 100 Russian athletes of the total 266 candidates for participation in the Paralympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, except for team sports (Sitting Volleyball, Goalball, Football 5x5, Football 7x7 - 54 people) filed personal appeals with the International Paralympic Committee for the admission to the Paralympics 2016," TASS cited the statement as saying.
A Russian sports agent, Andrei Mitkov, told TASS that "the number of athletes submitting personal applications with the IPC on the participation in Rio Paralympics will amount to 33." There are six track and fielders among the athletes who applied to the IPC: Dmitry Dushkin, Anna Pimutkina, Yevgeny Malykh, Olesya Baisarina, Yan Shkulka (all of them are persons with lesions of the musculoskeletal system) and Vitaly Telesh (blind sport), as well as Olga Pozdnysheva (judo for blind athletes). Vladimir Balynets (powerlifting, 49 kg), Stepanida Artakhinova (para-archery, compound bow, ST) and Anastasiya Diodorova (swimming) represent Russia’s Yakutia republic.
Previously, appeals with the IPC were filed by 23 athletes, including track and fielders Alexei Ashapatov, Margarita Goncharova, Akzhana Abdikarimova, Veronika Doronina, Irina Vertinskaya, Natalya Kocherova, Alexandra Moguchaya, Vladislav Barinov, Alexei Bychenok, Alexander Ganzei, Vitaly Gritsenko, Ivan Goncharov and Arsen Kurbanov, cyclists Yulia Sibagatova, Sergei Batukov, Arslan Gimtutdinov, Sergei Pudov, Sergei Syomochkin and Sergei Ustinov, Alexei Obydennov, Svetlana Moshkovich, Natalya Yanuto, as well as Olesya Vladykina (swimming).
