Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Russia)

RUS

18th	23	22nd

Russia took 149 athletes, one of the larger contingents at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Alexei Ashapatov . The most successful participant of the team was the swimmer Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Kokarew with three gold and one silver medal.

Russia won a total of 18 gold medals and is eighth in the national ranking. If you take the total number of medals won (63), the team is in sixth place.

Medals

Medal table

Medal table Russia
space	sport				total
1	swim	11	9	7th	27
2	athletics	3	7th	6th	16
3	shoot	2	1	3	6th
4th	Table tennis	1	1	-	2
5	Judo	1	-	5	6th
6th	Powerlifting (bench press)	-	4th	-	4th
7th	Soccer	-	1	-	1
8th	Sitting volleyball	-	-	1	1
Total		18th	23	22nd	63

Participants by sport

Archery

Men

• Timur Tuchinov

Football (teams of 7)

Men

Men (silver )
Pavel Borisov Alexei Chesmin Mamuka Dzimistarishvili Stanislaw Kolychalow Andrei Kuwayev Alexander Lekov Andrei Lozhechnikow Lascha Murwanadze Georgi Nadzharjan Ivan Potechin Oleg Smirnov Aleksei Tumakov

Judo

Women

• Ekaterina Busmakova
• Irina Kaljanowa , 1 × (class over 70 kg)
• Madina Kasakowa , 1 × (class up to 63 kg)
• Wiktoria Potapowa , 1 × (class up to 48 kg)
• Tatiana Sawostjanowa , 1 × (class up to 70 kg)
• Alesja Stepanyuk , 1 × (class up to 52 kg)

Men

• Oleg Kretsul , 1 × (class up to 90 kg)
• Shakbhan Kurbanow
• Alexander Parasyuk
• Said Shachmanov
• Anatoly Vlasov

athletics

Women

• Rima Batalova
• Elena Burdykina
• Elena Chistilina , 1 × (100 meters, class T46)
• Elena Frolova
• Natalia Gudkova
• Margarita Koptilowa , 2 × (100 meters, 200 meters; class T38)
• Julia Linewitsch
• Alexandra Moguchaja
• Elena Pautowa , 2 × (800 meters, class T12 / 13; 1500 meters, class T13)
• Nikol Rodomakina
• Aygyul Sakhibzadayeva
• Olga Semyonova
• Svetlana Sergeyeva
• Olga Sergienko
• Aleksandra Surkova
• Evgenia Trushnikova

Men

• Vladimir Andryushchenko , 1 × (shot put, class F11 / 12)
• Artem Arefjew , 1 × (800 meters, class T36), 1 × (400 meters, class T36)
• Alexei Aschapatow , 2 × (discus throw, shot put; class F57 / 58)
• Vlasdislaw Barinow
• Denis Galimov
• Jewgeni Gudkow , 1 × (javelin throw, class F42 / 44)
• Alexei Ivanov
• Yevgeny Kegelew
• Pawel Charagesow , 1 × (800 meters, class T36)
• Andrei Kholostyakov
• Maxim Kirillov
• Andrei Koptew
• Alexei Kuznetsov
• Alexei Labzin , 2 × (100 meters, 200 meters; class T13)
• Alexei Leznych
• Maxim Naroschnyi , 1 × (shot put, class F42)
• Alexei Naumow
• Yuri Nosulenko
• Ildar Pomykalow , 1 × (marathon, class T12)
• Mikhail Sevostyanov
• Sergei Sevostyanov
• Igor Shafikov
• Sergei Shilov
• Artem Tayganov
• Fedor Trikolich
• Alexander Jalchik
• Alexander Swerev

Powerlifting (bench press)

Women

• Irina Kasanzewa , 1 × (class up to 56 kg)
• Olga Kiseljowa
• Olesja Lafina , 1 × (class up to 48 kg)
• Tamara Podpalnaja , 1 × (class up to 52 kg)

Men

• Ildar Bedderdinov
• Nikolai Marfin
• Wadim Rakitin
• Sergei Sychew
• Ayrat Sakiew , 1 × (class up to 60 kg)

horse riding

Women

• Maria Sagorskaya

Wheelchair fencing

Women

• Lyudmila Vasilyeva

Men

• Ivan Andreev
• Sergei Frolov
• Vladimir Poleshchuk
• Marat Yusupov

Wheelchair tennis

Men

• Leonid Shevchik

rowing

Women

• Elena Akimova
• Valentina Pschenichnaja

Men

• Valery Bisarnov
• Nikolai Bogomolov
• Anatolyn Krupin

shoot

Women

• Natalia Dalekowa , 1 × (10 meter air pistol, class SH1)
• Anastasia Panteleeva

Men

• Andrej Lebedinskij , 1 × (25 meter sport pistol, class SH1)
• Sergei Malyshev , 1 × (10 meter air pistol, class SH1)
• Sergei Notschewnoi
• Valery Ponomarenko , 1 × (10 meter air pistol, class SH1), 2 × (25 meter sport pistol, class SH1; 50 meter free pistol, class SH1)

swim

Women

• Anastasia Diodorowa , 1 × (50 meter butterfly, class S6)
• Anna Efimenko , 3 × (50 meters, 100 meters, 400 meters freestyle, class S13), 1 × (100 meters back, class S13)
• Irina Graschdanowa , 1 × (50 meters freestyle, class S9)
• Oxana Gusewa
• Julia Nikitina
• Oxana Savchenko , 3 × (50 meters, 100 meters freestyle, class S12; 200 meters medley , class SM12)
• Olga Sokolova
• Anna Wengerovskaya
• Olesja Wladykina , 1 × (100 meters chest, class SB8)

Men

• Albert Bakayev
• Mikhail Bokarin
• Alexander Chekurow , 1 × (50 meters freestyle, class S11)
• Denis Dorogajew , 1 × (100 meters chest, class SB9)
• Igor Erochin
• Alexej Fomenkow , 1 × (100 meters chest, class SB6)
• Ivan Khmelnitsky
• Dmitri Kokarew , 3 × (50 meters back, 100 + 200 meters freestyle, class S2), 1 × (50 meters freestyle, class S2)
• Konstantin Lisenkow , 1 × (100 meters back, class S8), 1 × (100 meters freestyle, class S8), 1 × (50 meters freestyle, class S8)
• Alexander Newolin-Swetow , 1 × (100 meters back, class S12), 2 × (50 meters freestyle, class S12; 200 meters medley, class SM12), 1 × (100 meters freestyle, class S12)
• Rustam Nurmuchametov
• Alexander Pikalov
• Igor Plotnikow , 1 × (100 meters back, class S6)
• Dmitri Polin
• Ruslan Sadwakasov
• Eduard Samarin
• Alexander Shchelochkov
• Nikita Shevchenko
• Mikhail Sidnin
• Kirill Sokolov
• Andrei Strokin , 2 × (50 meters freestyle, 100 meters butterfly; class S13)
• Konstantin Tychkov
• Artem Sakharov
• Yevgeny Simin
• Mikhail Simin

Sitting volleyball

Men (bronze )
Alexander Baychik Tanatkan Bukin Dmitri Gordiyenko Yevgeny Kuzovnikov Andrei Lavrinovich Viktor Milenin Sergei Posdejew Alexander Savichev Maksim Timchenko Sergei Uporov Alexei Volkov Sergei Yakunin

Table tennis

Women

• Inna Karmaeva
• Olga Komlewa
• Natalia Martjaschewa , 1 × (single, grade 6/7)
• Julia Ovsjannikowa , 1 × (individual, grades 6/7)
• Nadezhda Pushpasheva

Men

• Wadim Busin
• Alexander Esaulov
• Pavel Lukyanov
• Sergei Poddubnyi

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )