Russia's biathlon for 2017 - '' 18

With unprecedented speed, the Russian Biathlon Federation has already announced the composition of the national team for the upcoming season. It is probably not a random choice, since some athletes (Anton Shipulin head) seem willing to start earlier than usual preparing for the 'Olympic winter.

Thursday 6 April 2017 5 minutes reading time

To compose the "national team", which is the highest level ever, 8 men and 8 women were chosen. Not the smaller working groups are already defined and athletes who, not being inserted in the federal cadres, must prepare themselves with regional teams. But they know the names of who is more fully reflected in view of PyeongChang 2018. Men: Anton Shipulin, Evgeny Garanichev, Maxim Tsvetkov, Anton Babikov, Alexander Loginov, Alexei Volkov, Matvei Eliseev, Yuri Chopin. Â Women: Irina Starykh, Tatyana Akimova, Daria Virolainen, Ekaterina Yurlova, Victoria Slivko, Svetlana Mironova, Irina serviceÃ¢, Olga Podchufarova. The Russian Biathlon Union (RRF) partially published the composition of the Russian national biathlon coaching staff for the 2017/18 season, approved at a meeting of the Board RRF. Â The men 's team will be trained by Rikko Gross and Andrey Padin, the group of Anton Shipulin and Alexei Volkov will be prepared for the season by Andrey Kryuchkov and Andrei Gerbulov. Â The coaching staff of the women ''s will be announced after an additional working team meeting, alla quale the final decision will be made. Â The full composition of the teams, including coaches and assistants and specialists, will be announced additionally. The head coach of the Russian national biathlon team Alexander Kasperovich will leave His post, reports "Soviet Sport". Â The position of the head coach will be eliminated. In the season-2017/18 Kasperovich will be responsible for the preparation of the reserve team. Â According to the publication, the women ''s can be headed by a specialist team who previously held the position of senior coach of the national team. Â Recall That the Board of the Russian Biathlon Union (UBR) will announce the composition of the coaching staff of the women ''s after an additional working team meeting. NATIONAL TEAM MASCHILEAKIMOV Vyacheslav (1990) BABIKOV Anton (1991) DEDIUKHIN Aleksandr (1994) ELISEEV Matvey (1993) GARANICHEV Evgeny (1988) KORASTYLEV Sergey (1989) LATYPOV Eduard (1994) MAKHAMBETOV Timur (1992) MALYSHKO Dmitry (1987) PASHCHENKO Peter ( 1991) PECHENKIN Aleksandr (1991) POVARNITSYN Alexander (1994) SHIPULIN Anton (1987) SHOPIN Yury (1993) SLEPOV Alexey (1986) SUCHILOV Semen (1992) VOLKOV Alexey (1988) NATIONAL TEAM FEMMINILEAKIMOVA Tatiana (1990) GLAZYRINA Ekaterina (1987) KAISHEVA Uliana (1994) MIRONOVA Svetlana (1994) NAZAROVA Valentina (1987) NECHKASOVA Galina (1989) NIKULINA Anna (1991) PODCHUFAROVA Olga (1992) SHESTERIKOVA Olga (1990) SHUMILOVA Ekaterina (1986) SLEPTSOVA Svetlana (1986) SLIVKO Victoria (1993) Trusova Irina (1988) VILUKHINA Olga (1988) VIROLAYNEN Daria (1989) Yakimets Diana (1995) YURLOVA Ekaterina (1985) ZAGORUIKO Anastasia (1988)

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