Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics
IOC code	RUS
NOC	Russian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.ru (in Russian)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	282 in 26 sports
Flag bearer	Sergey Tetyukhin (opening)[1] Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina (closing)
Medals Ranked 4th	Gold 19 Silver 17 Bronze 19 Total 55
Officials	55
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900–1912)  Soviet Union (1952–1988)  Unified Team (1992)  Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)

The Russian Federation competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was Russia's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics as an independent nation.

On 18 July 2016, an independent investigation commissioned by World Anti-Doping Agency concluded that it was shown "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the RUSADA, the Ministry of Sport, the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Centre of Sports Preparation of the National Teams of Russia had "operated for the protection of doped Russian athletes" within a "state-directed failsafe system" using "the disappearing positive [test] methodology." According to the McLaren Report, the Disappearing Positive Methodology operated from "at least late 2011 to August 2015." It was used on 643 positive samples, a number that the authors consider "only a minimum" due to limited access to Russian records. Based on these finding the International Olympic Committee called for an emergency meeting to consider banning Russia from the Summer Olympics.^[2]

On 24 July, the IOC rejected WADA's recommendation to ban Russia from the Summer Olympics and announced that a decision would be made by each sport federation. With each positive decision having to be approved by a CAS arbitrator. On 7 August 2016, the IOC cleared 278 athletes, while 111 were removed because of the scandal.^[3][4]

On 7 August 2016, the International Paralympic Committee announced that it had voted unanimously to ban the entire Russian Paralympic team from competing in the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in the wake of a larger scandal that exposed the participation of Russian Olympic and Paralympic athletes in a state-sponsored doping program.

On 8 December 2016, silver medalist Misha Aloyan was found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive for Tuaminoheptane, a specified stimulant, prohibited in-competition under S6 on the WADA Prohibited List, during an in-competition doping control on 21 August 2016. The results obtained by the athlete in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were disqualified.^[5]

On 9 December 2016, Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren published the second part of his independent report. The investigation found that from 2011 to 2015, more than 1,000 Russian competitors in various sports (including summer, winter, and Paralympic sports) benefited from the cover-up.^[6][7][8] Emails indicate that they included five blind powerlifters, who may have been given drugs without their knowledge, and a fifteen-year-old.^[9]

Medalists ^[a]

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Beslan Mudranov Judo Men's 60 kg 6 August  Gold Yana Egorian Fencing Women's sabre 8 August  Gold Khasan Khalmurzaev Judo Men's 81 kg 9 August  Gold Inna Deriglazova Fencing Women's foil 10 August  Gold Artur Akhmatkhuzin Aleksey Cheremisinov Timur Safin Fencing Men's team foil 12 August  Gold Yekaterina Dyachenko Yuliya Gavrilova Yana Egorian Sofya Velikaya Fencing Women's team sabre 13 August  Gold Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina Tennis Women's doubles 14 August  Gold Aliya Mustafina Gymnastics Women's uneven bars 14 August  Gold Roman Vlasov Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 75 kg 14 August  Gold Davit Chakvetadze Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 85 kg 15 August  Gold Evgeny Tishchenko Boxing Men's heavyweight 15 August  Gold Natalia Ishchenko Svetlana Romashina Synchronized swimming Women's duet 16 August  Gold Vlada Chigireva Natalia Ishchenko Svetlana Kolesnichenko Aleksandra Patskevich Elena Prokofyeva Svetlana Romashina Alla Shishkina Gelena Topilina Maria Shurochkina Synchronized swimming Women's team 19 August  Gold Russia women's national handball team Anna Sedoykina   Victoria Zhilinskayte Polina Kuznetsova   Yekaterina Marennikova Daria Dmitrieva   Irina Bliznova Anna Sen   Ekaterina Ilina Olga Akopyan   Maya Petrova Anna Vyakhireva   Tatyana Yerokhina Marina Sudakova   Victoriya Kalinina Vladlena Bobrovnikova Handball Women's team 20 August  Gold Abdulrashid Sadulaev Wrestling Men's freestyle 86 kg 20 August  Gold Margarita Mamun Gymnastics Women's rhythmic individual all-around 20 August  Gold Aleksander Lesun Modern pentathlon Men's 20 August  Gold Vera Biriukova Anastasia Bliznyuk Anastasia Maksimova Anastasiia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva Gymnastics Women's rhythmic group all-around 21 August  Gold Soslan Ramonov Wrestling Men's freestyle 65 kg 21 August  Silver Vitalina Batsarashkina Shooting Women's 10 m air pistol 7 August  Silver Tuyana Dashidorzhieva Ksenia Perova Inna Stepanova Archery Women's team 7 August  Silver Sofya Velikaya Fencing Women's sabre 8 August  Silver Denis Ablyazin David Belyavskiy Nikolai Kuksenkov Nikita Nagornyy Ivan Stretovich Gymnastics Men's team 8 August  Silver Yuliya Yefimova Swimming Women's 100 m breaststroke 8 August  Silver Angelina Melnikova Aliya Mustafina Maria Paseka Daria Spiridonova Seda Tutkhalyan Gymnastics Women's team 9 August  Silver Olga Zabelinskaya Cycling Women's road time trial 10 August  Silver Yuliya Yefimova Swimming Women's 200 m breaststroke 11 August  Silver Daria Shmeleva Anastasia Voynova Cycling Women's team sprint 12 August  Silver Sergey Kamenskiy Shooting Men's 50 m rifle three positions 14 August  Silver Maria Paseka Gymnastics Women's vault 14 August  Silver Denis Ablyazin Gymnastics Men's vault 15 August  Silver Valeria Koblova Wrestling Women's freestyle 58 kg 17 August  Silver Nataliya Vorobyova Wrestling Women's freestyle 69kg 17 August  Silver Alexey Denisenko Taekwondo Men's 68 kg 18 August  Silver Aniuar Geduev Wrestling Men's freestyle 74 kg 19 August  Silver Yana Kudryavtseva Gymnastics Women's rhythmic individual all-around 20 August  Bronze Natalia Kuziutina Judo Women's 52 kg 7 August  Bronze Timur Safin Fencing Men's foil 7 August  Bronze Vladimir Maslennikov Shooting Men's 10 m air rifle 8 August  Bronze Anton Chupkov Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke 10 August  Bronze Olga Kochneva Violetta Kolobova Tatiana Logunova Lyubov Shutova Fencing Women's team épée 11 August  Bronze Aliya Mustafina Gymnastics Women's artistic individual 11 August  Bronze Evgeny Rylov Swimming Men's 200 m backstroke 11 August  Bronze Kirill Grigoryan Shooting Men's 50 m rifle prone 12 August  Bronze Stefania Elfutina Sailing Women's RS:X 14 August  Bronze Denis Dmitriev Cycling Men's sprint 14 August  Bronze Denis Ablyazin Gymnastics Men's rings 15 August  Bronze Sergey Semenov Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg 15 August  Bronze Roman Anoshkin Canoeing Men's K-1 1000 metres 16 August  Bronze David Belyavskiy Gymnastics Men's parallel bars 16 August  Bronze Anastasia Belyakova Boxing Women's lightweight 17 August  Bronze Vladimir Nikitin Boxing Men's bantamweight 18 August  Bronze Ekaterina Bukina Wrestling Women's freestyle 75 kg 18 August  Bronze Russia women's national water polo team Anna Ustyukhina   Anastasia Simanovich Maria Borisova   Anna Timofeeva Ekaterina Prokofyeva   Evgenia Soboleva Elvina Karimova   Evgeniya Ivanova Nadezhda Fedotova   Anna Grineva Olga Belova   Anna Karnaukh Ekaterina Lisunova Water polo Women's team 19 August  Bronze Vitaly Dunaytsev Boxing Men's light welterweight 19 August Medal Changes Silver medalist Misha Aloyan was found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive for Tuaminoheptane, a specified stimulant, prohibited in-competition under S6 on the WADA Prohibited List, during an in-competition doping control on 21 August 2016. The results obtained by the athlete in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were disqualified.[5]

Medals by sport Sport Total Wrestling 4 3 2 9 Fencing 4 1 2 7 Gymnastics 3 5 3 11 Judo 2 0 1 3 Synchronized swimming 2 0 0 2 Boxing 1 0 3 4 Handball 1 0 0 1 Modern pentathlon 1 0 0 1 Tennis 1 0 0 1 Shooting 0 2 2 4 Swimming 0 2 2 4 Cycling 0 2 1 3 Archery 0 1 0 1 Taekwondo 0 1 0 1 Canoeing 0 0 1 1 Sailing 0 0 1 1 Water polo 0 0 1 1 Total 19 17 19 55 Medals by day Day Total August 6 1 0 0 1 August 7 0 2 2 4 August 8 1 3 1 5 August 9 1 1 0 2 August 10 1 1 1 3 August 11 0 1 3 4 August 12 1 1 1 3 August 13 1 0 0 1 August 14 3 2 2 7 August 15 2 1 2 5 August 16 1 0 2 3 August 17 0 2 1 3 August 18 0 1 2 3 August 19 1 1 2 4 August 20 4 1 0 5 August 21 2 1 0 3 Total 19 17 19 55 Medals by gender Gender Total Percentage Male 9 5 12 26 47.2% Female 10 12 7 29 52.8% Total 19 17 19 55 100%

Russian doping scandal

Media attention began growing in December 2014 when German broadcaster ARD reported on state-sponsored doping in Russia, comparing it to doping in East Germany. In November 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published a report and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) suspended Russia indefinitely from world track and field events. The United Kingdom Anti-Doping agency later assisted WADA with testing in Russia. In June 2016, they reported that they were unable to fully carry out their work and noted intimidation by armed Federal Security Service (FSB) agents.^[10] After a Russian former lab director made allegations about the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, WADA commissioned an independent investigation led by Richard McLaren. McLaren's investigation found corroborating evidence, concluding in a report published in July 2016 that the Ministry of Sport and the FSB had operated a "state-directed failsafe system" using a "disappearing positive [test] methodology" (DPM) from "at least late 2011 to August 2015".^[11]

In response to these findings, WADA announced that RUSADA should be regarded as non-compliant with respect to the World Anti-Doping Code and recommended that Russia be banned from competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[12] The International Olympic Commission (IOC) rejected the recommendation, stating that the IOC and each sport's international federation would make decisions on each athlete's individual basis.^[13][14] One day prior to the opening ceremony, 278 athletes were cleared to compete under the Russian flag, while 111 were removed because of doping.^[15] In contrast, the entire Kuwaiti team was banned from competing under their own flag (for a non-doping related matter).^[16][17]

Unlike the IOC, the International Paralympic Committee voted unanimously to ban the entire Russian team from the 2016 Summer Paralympics and suspended the Russian Paralympic Committee, having found evidence that the DPM was also in operation at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.^[18]

The IOC's decision on 24 July 2016 was widely criticized by both athletes^[19][20][21] and writers,^[22][23][24] as well as members of the Olympic Committee. WADA's president Craig Reedie said, "WADA is disappointed that the IOC did not heed WADA's Executive Committee recommendations that were based on the outcomes of the McLaren Investigation and would have ensured a straight-forward, strong and harmonized approach."^[25] On the IOC's decision to exclude Stepanova, WADA director general Olivier Niggli stated that his agency was "very concerned by the message that this sends whistleblowers for the future."^[25] A member of the IOC Athletes' Commission, Hayley Wickenheiser, wrote, "I ask myself if we were not dealing with Russia would this decision to ban a nation [have] been an easier one? I fear the answer is yes".^[26] Writing for Deutsche Welle in Germany, Olivia Gerstenberger said that the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach had "flunked" his first serious test, adding, "With this decision, the credibility of the organization is shattered once more, while that of state-sponsored doping actually receives a minor boost".^[27] Bild (Germany) described Bach as "Putin's poodle".^[28]

The positive evaluation of every eligible participant is to be confirmed by a CAS arbitrator, which is "independent from any sports organization involved in the Olympic Games Rio 2016". On 30 July 2016, the IOC specified that following each federation's positive evaluation and its arbitration approval, a three-person IOC panel would be making the final decision.^[29] Originally Russia submitted a list of 389 athletes for competition. On 7 August 2016, the IOC cleared 278 athletes, while 111 were removed because of the scandal.^[4]

Competitors

Archery

Russian archers qualified for the women's events after having secured a top eight finish in the team recurve at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[39][40] The archery team was named to the Olympic roster on 13 July 2016.^[41]

On 25 July 2016, World Archery Federation announced that, following the criteria set down for the entry of Russian athletes to the 2016 Summer Olympics, that the three archers competing for Russia had been deemed eligible, having undertaken a significant number of anti-doping tests and procedures outside Russia, both in and out of competition.^[42] On 4 August 2016, the IOC cleared all of the archers to participate.^[43]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tuyana Dashidorzhieva	Women's individual	654	5	Karma (BHU) W 7–3	Cao H (CHN) L 4–6	Did not advance
Ksenia Perova		641	17	Sánchez (COL) W 6–4	Stepanova (RUS) L 3–7	Did not advance
Inna Stepanova		643	16	Nemati (IRI) W 6–2	Perova (RUS) W 7–3	Choi M-s (KOR) L 3–7	Did not advance
Tuyana Dashidorzhieva Ksenia Perova Inna Stepanova	Women's team	1938	2	N/A		Bye	India (IND) W 5–4	Italy (ITA) W 5–3	South Korea (KOR) L 1–5

Athletics

Women

Field events

Badminton

Russia has qualified four badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament. Vladimir Malkov and Natalia Perminova were selected among the top 34 individual shuttlers each in the men's and women's singles, while London 2012 Olympians Vladimir Ivanov and Ivan Sozonov secured the men's doubles spot by virtue of their top 16 finish in the Badminton World Federation World Rankings as of 5 May 2016.^[44] On 28 July 2016, BFW cleared all four athletes for competition.^[45]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Vladimir Malkov	Men's singles	Nguyễn T M (VIE) L (21–15, 9–21, 13–21)	Lin D (CHN) L (18–21, 7–21)	Obernosterer (AUT) W (21–11, 21–10)	3	Did not advance
Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov	Men's doubles	Lee S-m / Tsai C-h (TPE) W (21–11, 22–20)	Chau / Serasinghe (AUS) W (21–16, 21–16)	Lee Y-d / Yoo Y-s (KOR) W (21–17, 19–21, 21–16)	1 Q	N/A	Chai B / Hong Wi (CHN) L (13–21, 21–16, 16–21)	Did not advance
Natalia Perminova	Women's singles	Baldauf (AUT) W (21–17, 21–8)	Tai T-y (TPE) L (12–21, 9–21)	N/A	2	Did not advance

Boxing

Russia has entered eleven boxers to compete in the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament. Vladimir Nikitin and Adlan Abdurashidov were the only Russians finishing among the top two of their respective division in the World Series of Boxing, while three further boxers (Aloyan, Zamkovoy, and Chebotarev) did so in the AIBA Pro Boxing Series.^[46] Vasily Yegorov, Vitaly Dunaytsev, and Evgeny Tishchenko had claimed their Olympic spots at the 2015 World Championships.^[47]

Yaroslava Yakushina and Anastasia Belyakova were the only two Russian women to book their Olympic spots with a semifinal victory at the 2016 European Qualification Tournament in Samsun, Turkey, and with a quarterfinal victory at the Women's World Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, respectively.^[48] Meanwhile, Petr Khamukov secured an additional place on the Russian roster with his quarterfinal triumph at the 2016 AIBA World Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.^[49] All of the boxers were cleared for competition one day prior to the opening ceremony.^[50] However, Tishchenko's final match and Nikitin's quarterfinal match became controversial, leading to the suspension of the referees in question.^[51] Nikitin was forced to withdraw from his semifinal bout against Shakur Stevenson due to cuts he sustained in his previous bouts; he received a bronze medal.^[52]

On 8 December 2016 Misha Aloyan was found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive for Tuaminoheptane, a specified stimulant, prohibited in-competition under S6 on the WADA Prohibited List, during an in-competition doping control on 21 August 2016. The results obtained by the athlete in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were disqualified.^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Vasily Yegorov	Light flyweight	Bye	Hernández (USA) L 0–3	Did not advance
Misha Aloyan	Flyweight	Bye	Konki (FRA) W 3–0	Ávila (COL) W 3–0	Hu Jg (CHN) W 3–0	Zoirov (UZB) L 0–3	DSQ
Vladimir Nikitin	Bantamweight	Warawara (VAN) W 3–0	Butdee (THA) W 2–1	Conlan (IRL) W 3–0	Stevenson (USA) L WO	Did not advance
Adlan Abdurashidov	Lightweight	Katua (PNG) W 3–0	Benbaziz (ALG) L 0–3	Did not advance
Vitaly Dunaytsev	Light welterweight	Bye	Baatarsükh (MGL) W 3–0	Hu Qx (CHN) W 3–0	Gaibnazarov (UZB) L 1–2	Did not advance
Andrey Zamkovoy	Welterweight	Okwiri (KEN) L 1–2	Did not advance
Artem Chebotarev	Middleweight	Bye	Shakhsuvarly (AZE) L 1–2	Did not advance
Petr Khamukov	Light heavyweight	Ramirez (VEN) L 1–2	Did not advance
Evgeny Tishchenko	Heavyweight	Bye	Nogueira (BRA) W 3–0	Russo (ITA) W 3–0	Tulaganov (UZB) W 3–0	Levit (KAZ) W 3–0

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Anastasia Belyakova	Lightweight	Bye	Mayer (USA) W 2–0	Mossely (FRA) L TKO	Did not advance
Yaroslava Yakushina	Middleweight	Chen N-c (TPE) W 3–0	Shields (USA) L 0–3	Did not advance

Canoeing

Sprint

Russian canoeists have qualified a total of ten boats in each of the following distances for the Games through the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.^[55] Meanwhile, one additional boat was awarded to the Russian squad in men's K-1 1000 m by virtue of a top two national finish at the 2016 European Qualification Regatta in Duisburg, Germany.^[56] As a response to the "multiple positive cases" of doping by Belarus and Romania, two further spare boats were accepted by the Russian team to round out the roster size to ten.

A total of 14 sprint canoeists (11 men and 3 women) were named to the Russian roster for the Games on 15 July 2016, with Alexander Dyachenko and Yury Postrigay looking to defend their men's sprint kayak double title at the Rio regatta.^[57]

On 26 July 2016, the International Canoe Federation announced that five selected Russian sprint canoeists, namely Yelena Anyushina, Natalia Podolskaya, Alexander Dyachenko, Andrey Kraitor and Aleksey Korovashkov, had been implicated in the DPM benefiting from the state-sponsored doping program. As a result, the Russian entries in the men's C-1 200 m, men's C-2 1000 m, and men's K-2 200 m, along with the women's events (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, and K-2 500 m), were removed, with four of the quota places being provisionally re-allocated to the different NOCs – women's K-2 500 m to Austria, women's K-1 200 m to Germany, men's K-2 200 m to Sweden and men's C-1 200 m to Iran.^[58] Kraitor's decision was reconsidered and was allowed to compete a day before the opening of the Games.^[50]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Roman Anoshkin	K-1 1000 m	3:37.296	5 Q	3:34.833	1 FA	3:33.363
Andrey Kraitor	С-1 200 m	39.985	1 Q	40.394	1 FA	40.105	6
Evgenii Lukantsov	K-1 200 m	35.245	4 Q	35.567	7 FB	37.482	14
Ilya Shtokalov	C-1 1000 m	4:02.626	3 Q	3:58.259	1 FA	4:00.963	4
Ilya Shtokalov Ilya Pervukhin	C-2 1000 m	3:43.105	3 Q	3:42.127	3 FA	3:46.776	5
Roman Anoshkin Kirill Lyapunov Vasily Pogreban Oleg Zhestkov	K-4 1000 m	2:56.662	4 Q	3:01.065	4 FB	3:06.825	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Elena Anyushina	K-1 500 m	1:52.597	3 Q	1:57.229	4 FB	1:57.202	9
Elena Anyushina Kira Stepanova	K-2 500 m	1:45.906	5 Q	1:42.439	2 FA	1:46.319	5

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

Road

Russian riders qualified for the following quota places in the men's and women's Olympic road race by virtue of their top 15 final national ranking in the 2015 UCI Europe Tour (for men) and top 22 in the 2016 UCI World Ranking (for women).^[59][60] The road cycling team, highlighted by two-time bronze medalist Olga Zabelinskaya from London 2012, was named to the Olympic roster on 26 June 2016.^[61]

On 26 July 2016, UCI announced that three cyclists with previous bans had been withdrawn by ROC, these including Ilnur Zakarin, Olga Zabelinskaya and track rider Sergei Shilov. A further three unnamed riders were implicated in the 'disappearing positive methodology' uncovered by Richard McLaren's report into state-sanctioned doping.^[62][63] On 5 August 2016, the date of the Opening Ceremony, Zabelinskaya's, Shilov's and Zakarin's bans were reversed and they were cleared to compete.^[64]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Sergey Chernetskiy	Men's road race	6:19:43	31
Pavel Kochetkov	Men's road race	6:22:23	38
	Men's time trial	1:20:07.59	28
Alexey Kurbatov	Men's road race	Did not finish
Olga Zabelinskaya	Women's road race	3:55:52	16
	Women's time trial	44:31.97

Track

Following the completion of the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Russian riders have accumulated spots in the men's team pursuit and women's team sprint. As a result of their place in the women's team sprint, Russia has assured its right to enter two riders in the women's sprint and keirin. Although Russia failed to earn a place in the men's team sprint, they managed to secure a single berth in the men's keirin and two more in the men's sprint, by virtue of their final individual UCI Olympic rankings in those events.

On 26 July 2016, UCI announced that three cyclists with previous bans had been withdrawn by ROC, these including track rider Sergei Shilov. A further three unnamed riders were implicated in the 'disappearing positive methodology' uncovered by Richard McLaren's report into state-sanctioned doping. The UCI confirmed that the men's pursuit team from which Shilov was excluded would be allowed to replace him only from the existing pool of accepted athletes. The following day, two further track cyclists, Kirill Sveshnikov and Dmitri Sokolov were named as implicated in the methodology, and withdrawn, placing the Russian entry in the men's team pursuit in doubt.^[63][65]

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Denis Dmitriev	Men's sprint	9.774 73.664	4 Q	Sarnecki (POL) W 10.141 70.998	Bye	Webster (NZL) W 10.102 71.273	Bye	Baugé (FRA) W 10.202, W 10.166	Kenny (GBR) W 10.139, L, L	Glaetzer (AUS) W 10.105, W 10.190
Nikita Shurshin		10.418 69.111	26	Did not advance
Daria Shmeleva	Women's sprint	11.230 64.113	22	Did not advance
Anastasia Voynova		10.985 65.543	11 Q	Morton (AUS) W 11.503 62.592	Bye	Zhong Ts (CHN) W 11.271 63.880	Bye	Ligtlee (NED) L, L	Did not advance	5th place final  Zhong (CHN)  Lee W S (HKG)  Krupeckaitė (LTU) L	8

Team sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinals		Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Daria Shmeleva Anastasia Voynova	Women's team sprint	32.655 55.121	2 Q	Canada (CAN) W 32.324 55.686	2 Q	China (CHN) L 32.401 55.553

Keirin

Athlete	Event	1st Round	Repechage	2nd Round	Final
		Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Denis Dmitriev	Men's keirin	4 R	2	Did not advance
Daria Shmeleva	Women's keirin	3 R	2	Did not advance
Anastasia Voynova		4 R	1 Q	3 Q	4

Diving

Russian divers qualified for the following individual and synchronized team spots at the Olympics through the 2015 FINA World Championships and 2016 FINA World Cup series. The diving team, headlined by London 2012 springboard champion Ilya Zakharov, was named to the Olympic roster at the Russian Championships in Penza on 11 June 2016.^[68] In regard to the doping scandal, the FINA federation cleared all Russian divers for competition.^[26]

Men

Women

Equestrian

Russia has fielded a composite squad of three riders into the Olympic team eventing by virtue of the following results in the individual FEI Olympic rankings: a top finish from Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and two top nine finishes from the combined overall Olympic rankings. Two dressage riders have been added to the squad into the Olympic equestrian competition by virtue of a top two finish from Central & Eastern Europe in the individual FEI Olympic rankings.^[69] In regard to doping, on 4 August 2016, the IOC cleared all of the riders to participate in the competition.^[70]

Fencing

Russian fencers have qualified a full squad each in the men's team foil, women's team épée, and women's team sabre by virtue of their top 4 national finish in the FIE Olympic Team Rankings, while the men's épée team has claimed the spot as the highest ranking team from Europe outside the world's top four.^[71]

Meanwhile, 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Nikolay Kovalev and three-time Olympian Aleksey Yakimenko (men's sabre), along with women's foil fencers Inna Deriglazova and Aida Shanaeva, had claimed their individual spots on the Russian team by finishing among the top 14 in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.^[72]

The fencing team was officially named to the Olympic roster on 17 June 2016.^[73] In regard to the doping scandal, the International Fencing Federation, cleared all Russian fencers for competition.^[26]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Vadim Anokhin	Épée	Bye	Brinck-Croteau (CAN) W 15–14	Heinzer (SUI) L 7–15	Did not advance
Anton Avdeev		Bye	Verwijlen (NED) W 15–9	Minobe (JPN) L 12–15	Did not advance
Pavel Sukhov		Bye	Park S-y (KOR) L 11–15	Did not advance
Vadim Anokhin Anton Avdeev Sergey Khodos Pavel Sukhov	Team épée	N/A		Bye	Ukraine (UKR) L 32–45	Classification semifinal  Switzerland (SUI) L 28–45	7th place final  Venezuela (VEN) W 36–30	7
Artur Akhmatkhuzin	Foil	Bye	Chamley-Watson (USA) W 15–13	Massialas (USA) L 9–15	Did not advance
Aleksey Cheremisinov		Bye	Safin (RUS) L 10–15	Did not advance
Timur Safin		Bye	Cheremisinov (RUS) W 15–10	Davis (GBR) W 15–13	Chen (CHN) W 15–7	Garozzo (ITA) L 8–15	Kruse (GBR) W 15–13
Artur Akhmatkhuzin Aleksey Cheremisinov Timur Safin	Team foil	N/A			Great Britain (GBR) W 45–43	United States (USA) W 45–41	France (FRA) W 45–41
Nikolay Kovalev	Sabre	N/A	Decsi (HUN) W 15–10	Montano (ITA) W 15–13	Kim J-h (KOR) L 10–15	Did not advance
Aleksey Yakimenko		N/A	Paskov (BUL) L 14–15	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Violetta Kolobova	Épée	Bye	Choi I-j (KOR) L 12–15	Did not advance
Tatiana Logunova		Bye	Nakano (JPN) L 14–15	Did not advance
Lyubov Shutova		Bye	Kong (HKG) L 10–15	Did not advance
Violetta Kolobova Tatiana Logunova Lyubov Shutova Olga Kochneva	Team épée	N/A		Bye	France (FRA) W 44–41	Romania (ROU) L 31–45	Estonia (EST) W 37–31
Inna Deriglazova	Foil	Bye	Bulcão (BRA) W 15–6	Mohamed (HUN) W 15–6	Guyart (FRA) W 15–6	Shanaeva (RUS) W 15–3	Di Francisca (ITA) W 12–11
Aida Shanaeva		Bye	Rochel (BRA) W 15–13	Jeon H-s (KOR) W 15–11	Thibus (FRA) W 15–13	Deriglazova (RUS) L 3–15	Boubakri (TUN) L 11–15	4
Yekaterina Dyachenko	Sabre	Bye	Seo J-y (KOR) W 15–12	Zagunis (USA) W 15–12	Egorian (RUS) L 10–15	Did not advance
Yana Egorian		Bye	Arrayales (MEX) W 15–7	Vougiouka (GRE) W 15–11	Dyachenko (RUS) W 15–10	Kharlan (UKR) W 15–9	Velikaya (RUS) W 15–14
Sofiya Velikaya		Bye	Jóźwiak (POL) W 15–5	Lembach (FRA) W 15–14	Berder (FRA) W 15–10	Brunet (FRA) W 15–14	Egorian (RUS) L 14–15
Yekaterina Dyachenko Yana Egorian Yuliya Gavrilova Sofiya Velikaya	Team sabre	N/A			Mexico (MEX) W 45–31	United States (USA) W 45–42	Ukraine (UKR) W 45–30

Golf

Russia has entered one golfer into the Olympic tournament. Maria Verchenova (world no. 338) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for their respective individual events based on the IGF World Rankings as of 11 July 2016.^[74] On 4 August 2016, Verchenova was cleared to participate in the competition.^[43]

Gymnastics

Artistic

Russia fielded a full squad of five gymnasts in both the men's and women's artistic gymnastics events through a top eight finish each in the team all-around at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow.^[75][76] The men's and women's gymnastics squads, led by London 2012 uneven bars champion Aliya Mustafina and bronze medalists Denis Ablyazin and Maria Paseka, were named to the Olympic roster at the Russian Cup in Penza on 3 July 2016.^[77] The International Federation of Gymnastics cleared all Russian gymnasts to compete.^[26]

Men

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB			F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Denis Ablyazin	Team	14.700	N/A	15.633 Q	15.400 Q	N/A				15.100	N/A	15.700	15.600	N/A
David Belyavskiy		14.600	15.300 Q	14.533	14.900	15.933 Q	14.533	89.799	3 Q	14.666	15.500	N/A	15.033	15.800	14.958	N/A
Nikolai Kuksenkov		14.666	15.383 Q	14.433	14.900	15.366	14.100	88.848	9 Q	N/A	15.033	14.866	N/A	15.133	14.166	N/A
Nikita Nagornyy		14.066	14.541	14.900	15.266 Q	13.133	12.733	84.639	28	15.000	N/A	14.866	15.400	N/A	N/A
Ivan Stretovich		N/A	14.566	N/A		15.200	14.633	N/A			14.766	N/A		15.100	14.766	N/A
Total		43.966	45.249	45.066	45.566	46.499	43.266	269.612	3 Q	44.766	45.299	45.432	46.033	46.033	43.890	271.453

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Denis Ablyazin	Rings	N/A		15.700	N/A			15.700
	Vault	N/A			15.516	N/A		15.516
David Belyavskiy	All-around	15.000	14.766	14.533	15.133	15.933	15.133	90.498	4
	Pommel horse	N/A	15.400	N/A				15.400	5
	Parallel bars	N/A				15.783	N/A	15.783
Nikolai Kuksenkov	All-around	14.733	13.300	14.700	14.966	15.233	14.800	87.732	13
	Pommel horse	N/A	15.233	N/A				15.233	6
Nikita Nagornyy	Vault	N/A			15.316	N/A		15.316	5

Women

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F			V	UB	BB	F
Angelina Melnikova	Team	14.933	15.100	13.266	13.200	56.499	22	14.900	15.133	13.033	14.266	N/A
Aliya Mustafina		15.166	15.833 Q	13.033	14.066	58.098	6 Q	15.133	15.933	14.958	14.000	N/A
Maria Paseka		14.733 Q	N/A					15.700	N/A
Daria Spiridonova		N/A	15.683 Q	14.266	12.033	N/A			15.100	N/A
Seda Tutkhalyan		14.733	15.133	14.466	13.875	58.207	5 Q	N/A		14.766	13.766	N/A
Total		44.832	46.649	41.998	41.141	174.620	3 Q	45.733	46.166	42.757	42.032	176.688

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F
Aliya Mustafina	All-around	15.200	15.666	13.866	13.933	58.665
	Uneven bars	N/A	15.900	N/A		15.900
Maria Paseka	Vault	15.253	N/A			15.253
Daria Spiridonova	Uneven bars	N/A	13.966	N/A		13.966	8
Seda Tutkhalyan	All-around	14.866	15.033	13.800	10.966	54.665	22

Rhythmic

Russia has qualified a squad of rhythmic gymnasts for the individual and group all-around by finishing in the top 15 (for individual) and top 10 (for group) at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.^[78] The rhythmic gymnastics squad was named on 24 July 2016, following the IOC's decision against a total blanket ban on the Russian Olympic team.^[79]

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Yana Kudryavtseva	Individual	18.166	18.616	19.000	18.216	73.998	2 Q	19.225	19.250	17.883	19.250	75.608
Margarita Mamun		18.833	19.000	17.500	19.050	74.383	1 Q	19.050	19.150	19.050	19.233	76.483

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		5 ribbons	3 clubs 2 hoops	Total	Rank	5 ribbons	3 clubs 2 hoops	Total	Rank
Vera Biryukova Anastasia Bliznyuk Anastasia Maksimova Anastasiia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva	Team	18.283	17.233	35.516	2 Q	17.600	18.633	36.233

Handball

Summary

Key:

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Russia women's	Women's tournament	South Korea W 30–25	France W 26–25	Sweden W 36–34	Argentina W 35–29	Netherlands W 38–34	1	Angola W 31–27	Norway W 38–37ET	France W 22–19

Women's tournament

Main article: Handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Russia women's handball team qualified for the Olympics by virtue of a top two finish at the third meet of the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Astrakhan.^[82] Russia women's handball team qualified for the Olympics by virtue of a top two finish at the third meet of the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Astrakhan.^[83] On 28 July 2016 it was announced that the International Handball Federation (IHF) cleared the entire team to compete in Rio de Janeiro.

Team roster

The following is the Russian roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[84] On 12 August, Tatyana Yerokhina replaced Anna Sedoykina due to an injury.^[85]

Head coach: Yevgeni Trefilov

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Anna Sedoykina (1984-08-01)1 August 1984 (aged 32) 1.81 m 128 4 Rostov-Don 2 LW Polina Kuznetsova (1987-06-10)10 June 1987 (aged 29) 1.70 m 119 322 Kuban Krasnodar 7 CB Daria Dmitrieva (1995-08-09)9 August 1995 (aged 20) 1.78 m 43 92 Lada Togliatti 8 LB Anna Sen (1990-02-03)3 February 1990 (aged 26) 1.85 m 93 222 Rostov-Don 10 LB Olga Akopyan (1985-03-04)4 March 1985 (aged 31) 1.76 m 133 367 Lada Togliatti 13 RW Anna Vyakhireva (1995-03-13)13 March 1995 (aged 21) 1.62 m 37 165 Rostov-Don 15 RW Marina Sudakova (1989-02-17)17 February 1989 (aged 27) 1.66 m 38 56 Kuban Krasnodar 17 LB Vladlena Bobrovnikova (1987-10-24)24 October 1987 (aged 28) 1.80 m 36 69 Rostov-Don 21 LB Victoria Zhilinskayte (1989-03-06)6 March 1989 (aged 27) 1.88 m 110 159 Kuban Krasnodar 22 LW Yekaterina Marennikova (1982-04-29)29 April 1982 (aged 34) 1.79 m 120 260 Kuban Krasnodar 24 RB Irina Bliznova (1986-10-06)6 October 1986 (aged 29) 1.82 m 124 369 Lada Togliatti 33 CB Ekaterina Ilina (1991-03-07)7 March 1991 (aged 25) 1.75 m 68 187 Rostov-Don 77 P Maya Petrova (1982-05-26)26 May 1982 (aged 34) 1.84 m 55 82 Rostov-Don 84 GK Tatyana Yerokhina (1984-09-07)7 September 1984 (aged 31) 1.85 m 21 0 Lada Togliatti 88 GK Victoriya Kalinina (1988-12-08)8 December 1988 (aged 27) 1.83 m 39 0 Kuban Krasnodar

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	5	5	0	0	165	147	+18	10	Quarter-finals
2	France	5	4	0	1	118	93	+25	8
3	Sweden	5	2	1	2	150	141	+9	5
4	Netherlands	5	1	2	2	135	135	0	4
5	South Korea	5	1	1	3	130	136	−6	3
6	Argentina	5	0	0	5	101	147	−46	0

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.

6 August 2016 (2016-08-06) 14:40	Russia	30–25	South Korea	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Santos, Fonseca (POR)
	Sudakova 6	(12–13)	Jung, Kim O. 6
	3× 3×	Report	7× 4× 1×

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8 August 2016 (2016-08-08) 11:30	France	25–26	Russia	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Lah, Sok (SLO)
	Lacrabère 11	(10–15)	Kuznetsova 6
	6× 3×	Report	4× 4×

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10 August 2016 (2016-08-10) 14:40	Russia	36–34	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Pinto, Menezes (BRA)
	Bobrovnikova, Dmitriyeva 6	(15–18)	Gulldén 11
	3× 4× 1×	Report	6× 3× 1×

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12 August 2016 (2016-08-12) 19:50	Russia	35–29	Argentina	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Mousaviyan, Kolahdouzan (IRI)
	Vyakhireva 7	(20–18)	Pizzo 6
	11× 3× 1×	Report	7× 4×

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14 August 2016 (2016-08-14) 14:40	Netherlands	34–38	Russia	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Lah, Sok (SLO)
	Polman 12	(16–17)	Ilina 8
	6× 3×	Report	4× 2×

Quarterfinal

16 August 2016 (2016-08-16) 20:30	Russia	31–27	Angola	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Pinto, Menezes (BRA)
	Kuznetsova 5	(18–14)	Bernardo 8
	5× 2× 1×	Report	4× 3×

Semifinal

18 August 2016 (2016-08-18) 20:30	Norway	37–38 (ET)	Russia	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Lah, Sok (SLO)
	Mørk 14	(16–18)	Bobrovnikova 8
	7× 3×	Report	5× 4×
	FT: 31–31 ET: 6–7

Gold medal match

20 August 2016 (2016-08-20) 15:30	France	19–22	Russia	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Røen, Arntsen (NOR)
	Dembélé, Pineau 5	(7–10)	Vyakhireva 5
	1× 2×	Report	2× 3×

Judo

Russia has qualified a total of eleven judokas (seven men and four women) for each of the following weight classes at the Games by virtue of their top 22 national finish for men and top 14 for women in the International Judo Federation (IJF) World Ranking List of 30 May 2016. Seven members of the Russian judo team were named to the Olympic roster on May 31, with four more rounding out the lineup under the federation selection based on IOC requirements on 26 June 2016.^[86][87]

On 4 August 2016, the entire team was cleared to participate in the Olympics.^[70]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Beslan Mudranov	−60 kg	Bye	Mooren (NED) W 002–000	Davtyan (ARM) W 001–000	Kim W-j (KOR) W 100–000	Papinashvili (GEO) W 100–000	Bye	Smetov (KAZ) W 010–000
Mikhail Pulyaev	−66 kg	Bye	Bouchard (CAN) L 000–001	Did not advance
Denis Yartsev	−73 kg	Bye	Duprat (FRA) W 001–000	Sai Yj (CHN) W 100–000	van Tichelt (BEL) L 010–011	Did not advance	Shavdatuashvili (GEO) L 000–100	Did not advance	7
Khasan Khalmurzaev	−81 kg	N/A	Mollaei (IRN) W 000–000 S	Abdelaal (EGY) W 010–000	Valois-Fortier (CAN) W 010–000	Toma (UAE) W 100–000	Bye	Stevens (USA) W 100–000
Kirill Denisov	−90 kg	Bye	Mehdiyev (AZE) L 000–100	Did not advance
Tagir Khaibulaev	−100 kg	Bye	Gasimov (AZE) L 000–011	Did not advance
Renat Saidov	+100 kg	N/A	Allerstorfer (AUT) W 001–000	R Silva (BRA) L 000–100	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Irina Dolgova	−48 kg	Kim S-m (PRK) W 010–000	Pareto (ARG) L 000–102	Did not advance
Natalia Kuziutina	−52 kg	Bye	Guica (CAN) W 002–000	Nakamura (JPN) L 000–100	Did not advance	Legentil (MRI) W 100–000	Ma Yn (CHN) W 100–000
Irina Zabludina	−57 kg	Manuel (NZL) L 000–001	Did not advance
Ekaterina Valkova	−63 kg	van Emden (NED) L 000–000 S	Did not advance
Ksenia Chibisova	+78 kg	Külbs (GER) W 101–000	Ortiz (CUB) L 000–100	Did not advance

Modern pentathlon

Russia has qualified a total of four modern pentathletes for the following events at the Games. Aleksander Lesun and Donata Rimšaitė had claimed one of three available Olympic quota places each in the men's and women's event at the 2015 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, while Egor Puchkarevskiy and Gulnaz Guybaidullina added a second spot each to the full roster through the European Championships. Maksim Kustov became the third Russian to qualify for the men's event in Rio, as a result of his world ranking as of 31 May 2016, leading to his selection to the Olympic team instead of Puchkarevskiy.^[88]

On 26 July 2016, Maksim Kustov was named as one of the athletes implicated in the 'disappearing positive methodology' as part of the McClaren Report on Russian state-sponsored doping, and excluded from the games, along with reserve Ilia Frolov. Because of this doping issue, The UIPM decided to revoke the quota place held by Kustov and thereby awarded it to Ruslan Nakoņečnijs of Latvia.^[89]

Athlete	Event	Fencing (épée one touch)				Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Combined: shooting/running (10 m air pistol)/(3200 m)			Total points	Final rank
		RR	BR	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points
Aleksander Lesun	Men's	28–7	0	1	268 OR	2:05.58	22	324	21	21	279	11:32.35	20	608	1479
Gulnaz Gubaydullina	Women's	8–27	0	36	148	2:07.94 OR	1	317	10	15	290	12:30.76	5	550	1305	15
Donata Rimšaitė		17–18	0	17	202	2:22.09	30	274	16	19	284	12:32.67	6	548	1308	12

Rowing

Russia had qualified a total of six boats for each of the following rowing classes into the Olympic regatta. Four rowing crews had confirmed Olympic places for their boats in the women's lightweight double sculls and large-boat classes (men's four, men's & women's eight) at the 2015 FISA World Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France, while rowers competing in the men's lightweight four and quadruple sculls were further added to the Russian roster with their top two finish at the 2016 European & Final Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

A total of 32 rowers (21 men and 11 women) were named to the Olympic roster on 13 June 2016, with Athens 2004 gold medalist Sergey Fedorovtsev leading the quadruple sculls crew at his fourth straight Games.^[90] On 1 July 2016, Fedorovtsev and his men's quadruple sculls crew were disqualified from the Games for failing an off-season doping test on the former's banned substance trimetazidine, cutting the rowing team size to 28.^[91]

On 25 July 2016, the International Rowing Federation (FISA) announced the first stage of its decision on Russian eligibility, following the decision of the International Olympic Committee in relation to the nation's athletes for the Games. According to the decision issued by the IOC on the previous day, FISA declared that one registered rower, Ivan Balandin, who had been implicated in the 'disappearing positive methodology', was ineligible to compete and could not be replaced. Two more rowers, namely Anastasiia Karabelshchikova and Ivan Podshivalov, were ruled ineligible by reason of previous bans. While the qualified rowers may be moved to the affected boats, the decision placed the entry of the women's eight in doubt, as Russia will only have seven qualified rowers in the open weight category.^[92]

The following day, FISA announced the second stage of its decision on Russian eligibility. Having considered the 'international' doping record of the remaining Russian rowers, others had evidently committed doping offences; thus, FISA could not be confident that all but six rowers entered by ROC had undergone sufficient international testing. As such, FISA could only accept entries from six rowers, including one lightweight four, namely Aleksandr Chaukin, Georgy Efremenko, Artyom Kosov, Nikita Morgachyov, Vladislav Ryabtsev and Anton Zarutskiy.^[93] No other rowers were sufficiently qualified to fill any of the boats, except the men's coxless four. FISA indicated that it was seeking clarification from Russian rowing as to whether they intended to take such place in the Games.^[94] On 31 July 2016, FISA confirmed that the Russian team had accepted he invitation to field a men's coxless four, manned by four of the six cleared rowers; Anton Zarutskiy, Artyom Kosov, Vladislav Ryabtsev and Nikita Morgachyov.^[95]

Consequently, out of the original 28 rowers named to the official Olympic roster only 6 were allowed to compete in the Olympics.^[93] Forfeited quota places were provisionally awarded to Greece (men's lightweight four), Italy (men's eight and women's lightweight double sculls), and Australia (women's eight). All three nations accepted their invitations.^[95] On 3 August 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected a final appeal by seventeen of the excluded rowers, confirming the single boat for Russia at the Games.^[96]

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Russian sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, the individual fleet Worlds, and European qualifying regattas.^[97] Following the completion of the Princess Sofia Trophy Regatta, the entire Russian sailing team was announced on 2 April 2016, with former Ukrainian windsurfer Maksym Oberemko aiming to appear at his sixth Olympics under a new banner.^[98]

On 26 July 2016, World Sailing announced that 470 sailor Pavel Sozykin was deemed ineligible, as a result of his implication in the McClaren Report on Russian state-sponsored doping allegations. On 4 August 2016, Sozykin's removal was reversed and all five sailors were cleared to participate.^[70]

Hence, six named sailors were eligible to compete, pending confirmation by a CAS arbitrator in line with the procedures set out on 24 July by IOC.^[99]

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*
Stefania Elfutina	RS:X	2	5	3	6	2	9	8	4	6	3	16	7	14	69
Liudmila Dmitrieva Alisa Kirilyuk	470	UFD 21	DSQ 21	6	9	11	7	18	10	14	11	N/A		EL	107	14

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Russian shooters have achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2014 and 2015 International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships, the 2015 ISSF World Cup series, and European Championships or Games, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 31 March 2016.^[100]

On 26 July 2016, the ISSF approved the entire 18 athlete team to participate in the Olympics. This was done on the basis of none of the athletes ever being tested as positive for doping and none were included in WADA report on the systemic Russian doping program.^[93] On 4 August 2016, the IOC confirmed the ruling and cleared all of the shooters to participate.^[70]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Alexey Alipov	Trap	117	7	Did not advance
Anton Astakhov	Skeet	119	12	Did not advance
Vitaly Fokeev	Double trap	133	11	Did not advance
Vladimir Gontcharov	10 m air pistol	580	8 Q	N/A		98.9	7
	50 m pistol	557	4 Q	N/A		111.0	6
Kirill Grigoryan	50 m rifle prone	628.9	2 Q	N/A		187.3
Vladimir Isakov	10 m air pistol	574	31	N/A		Did not advance
Sergey Kamenskiy	10 m air rifle	623.2	16	N/A		Did not advance
	50 m rifle prone	629.0 OR	1 Q	N/A		165.8	4
	50 m rifle 3 positions	1184	1 Q	N/A		458.5
Alexei Klimov	25 m rapid fire pistol	581	9	N/A		Did not advance
Denis Kulakov	50 m pistol	548	23	N/A		Did not advance
Vladimir Maslennikov	10 m air rifle	629.0	2 Q	N/A		184.2
Vasily Mosin	Double trap	132	13	Did not advance
Fedor Vlasov	50 m rifle 3 positions	1176	6 Q	N/A		403.1	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Tatiana Barsuk	Trap	62	18	Did not advance
Vitalina Batsarashkina	10 m air pistol	390	1 Q	N/A		197.1
	25 m pistol	578	13	Did not advance
Ekaterina Korshunova	10 m air pistol	387	2 Q	N/A		73.5	8
	25 m pistol	582	8 Q	16	5	Did not advance
Ekaterina Rabaya	Trap	65	11	Did not advance
Albina Shakirova	Skeet	69	7	Did not advance
Daria Vdovina	10 m air rifle	417.4	4 Q	N/A		143.5	5
	50 m rifle 3 positions	579	15	N/A		Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

Russian swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[101][102] To assure their selection to the Olympic team, swimmers must finish in the top two of each individual event with the federation's corresponding standard slightly faster than the FINA A-cut at the Russian Championships & Olympic Trials (April 16 to 23) in Moscow.^[103]

A total of 37 swimmers (24 men and 13 women) were selected to the Russian roster for the Olympics, including London 2012 medalists Anastasia Valeryevna Zuyeva, Yuliya Yefimova, and Vladimir Morozov, and 2014 Youth Olympic backstroke champion Evgeny Rylov.^[104]

On 25 July 2016, FINA, following the guidelines set out by the International Olympic Committee, announced that seven swimmers declared by the Russian Olympic Committee for the Rio games were deemed ineligible – four, Mikhail Dovgalyuk, Yuliya Yefimova, Nataliya Lovtsova and Anastasiya Krapyvina, because of previous doping bans, and three, Nikita Lobintsev, Vladimir Morozov and Daria Ustinova, because of being implicated in the 'disappearing positive methodology' uncovered by the McClaren report. The status of relay teams involving these ineligible swimmers remained unclear.^[105] On August 4, 2016, Morozov and Lobintsev were reported to be cleared for participation by the IOC.^[106] On 5 August 2016, the date of the opening ceremony, Yuliya Yefimova, Natalya Lovtsova, Daria Ustinova, Mikhail Dovgalyuk, and Anastasiya Krapyvina were cleared for participation.^[64] Consequently, all of the declared Russian swimmers were allowed to participate.