Olga Agapowa, one of the most successful Russian U23 triathletes
Anastasia Gorbunova, best Russian junior
The Russian Triathlon Association (Russian Федерация триатлона России; also FTR or RTV) is the umbrella organization of all Russian triathlon and duathlon clubs and represents Russia in the ITU .
President of the RTV is Sergej Bystrow (Russian Сергей Алексеевич Быстров, born April 13, 1957 in the Tver district ). In 2000, Bystrow was the deputy campaign manager for Vladimir Putin in the Tver district. From 2001 to 2004 he was Vice Minister for Labor and Social Development, since 2004 he has worked in various leading positions in the Ministry of Transport. a. responsible for infrastructure and logistics for the Olympic Games in Sochi .
Russian state champions
In Russia, national triathlon championships are held at different distances.
In the year before the Olympic Games in London, three triathletes emerged as the greatest Olympic hopes at the last World Championships: Alexander Brjuchankow and Dmitri Polyansky for men, and old champion Irina Abyssova for women.
Igor Syssojew successfully participated in two Olympic Games and can thus be considered the best Russian triathlete of the last decade. His wife Irina Abyssova had a hard crash in Beijing in 2008, but would have had good chances after her World Cup results.
The RTV is not only one of the largest, but also an influential triathlon association, as the following incidents prove:
Inna Zyhanok , a native of Ukraine, took part in various ITU competitions for six months after moving to Russia, despite apparently lacking citizenship. The ITU invented the nationality “representing ITU” for this special case, although Zyhanok apparently did not meet the criteria for nationality .
Anastassija Gorbunowa, who was listed as a DNS case (did not start) in the official result lists at the Junior European Cup in Tabor (July 31, 2011) , suddenly appeared neither in the ITU result lists nor in the ITU start lists after the race . Apparently she was deleted from the official ITU start and result lists by the ITU in order to enable her to take part in the European Youth Triathlon Championship in Lausanne (August 27, 2011) as the best Russian junior. Triathletes who have their entry deleted too late or who appear on the starting site in full gear after check-in but do not report to the line-up and start for inexplicable reasons should be struck off all ITU starting lists for 30 days So Russia would have had to forego the participation of the best female junior.
An internationally insignificant competition from the Russia Cup series in Penza was suddenly declared a European Cup or Junior European Cup (July 3 and 2, 2011), although the official ETU calendar did not include any competitions in Russia. The participating Russian triathletes were able to collect ITU / ETU points without international competition.
↑ See p. 65 in the ITU Competition Rules (PDF file; 6.3 MB). Retrieved on September 10, 2011. The ITU did not respond to numerous inquiries about the mysterious subsequent deletion of the Russian triathlete from the Tabor-ITU start / results lists, which ensured her participation in Lausanne.
