History

The Russian Federation made its first Summer Olympic appearance in 1996, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and has competed ever since. Prior to the Soviet Union they competed as the Russian Empire which the International Olympic Committee considers to be a different entity. The nation sends one of the largest delegations with over 400 athletes competing at most Olympics. The athletes compete in almost all sports available on the Olympic program.

In total Russia has won around 435 medals across 21 sports. They have constantly finished in the top 5 on the medal table. Their most successful sports include aquatics, athletics, gymnastics and wrestling. The most successful athlete is gymnast Alexei Nemov whom won 12 medals during the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. In 1996 he won two golds (team all-around & vault), one silver (individual all-around) and three bronze (floor, high bar & pommel horse) and in 2000 he won two golds (individual all-around & high bar), one silver (floor) and three bronze (team all-around, pommel horse & parallel bars).

Qualified Quotas

Archery

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Individual	Elena Osipova
	Ksenia Perova
	Inna Stepanova
Women’s Team	Elena Osipova Ksenia Perova Inna Stepanova

Artistic Swimming

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Team	Anastasiia Arkhipovskaia Vlada Chigireva Mayya Dorochko Marina Goliadkina Mikhaela Kalancha Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Alla Shishkina Mariia Shurochkina Varvara Subbotina
Women’s Duet	From Team Quota

Athletics

Men’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 110m Hurdles	Sergey Shubenkov
Men’s 20km Walk	Over 3 Eligible Athletes

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 20km Walk	Over 3 Eligible Athletes

Gymnastics

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Individual Artistic Events	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
Men’s Team Artistic All-Around	David Belyavskiy Artur Dalaloyan Nikolai Kuksenkov Dmitrii Lankin Nikita Nagornyy
Women’s Individual Artistic Events	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
	From Team Quota
Women’s Team Artistic All-Around	Liliia Akhaimova Irina Alekseeva Angelina Melnikova Aliia Mustafina Angelina Simakova
Women’s Rhythmic Group All-Around	Mariia Kravtsova Evgeniia Levanova Kseniia Poliakova Anastasia Shishmakova Anastasiia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva

Sailing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s RS:X	Stefania Elfutina

Shooting

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (1) (2)	Yulia Karimova
	Yuliya Zykova
Men’s 10m Air Rifle (1) (2)	Sergey Kamenskiy
	Grigory Shamakov
Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle	Anastasiia Galashina Vladimir Maslennikov
Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (1) (2)	Alexei Klimov
	Alexander Alifirenko
Women’s 25m Pistol	Vitalina Batsarashkina
Men’s 10m Air Pistol	Artem Chernousov
Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol	Vitalina Batsarashkina Artem Chernousov
Mixed Team Trap	Ekaterina Rabaya Alexey Alipov
Women’s Skeet	Natalia Vinogradova

Swimming

Men’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 50m Freestyle	Vladimir Morozov
Men’s 100m Freestyle	Over 2 Eligible Athletes
Men’s 200m Freestyle	Over 2 Eligible Athletes
Men’s 400m Freestyle	Aleksandr Krasnykh
	Martin Malyutin
Men’s 800m Freestyle	Ilya Drazhinin
	Aleksandr Egorov
Men’s 1500m Freestyle	Ilya Druzhinin
Men’s 100m Backstroke	Over 2 Eligible Athletes
Men’s 200m Backstroke	Evgeny Rylov
	Eliment Kolesnikov
Men’s 100m Breaststroke	Kirill Prigoda
	Anton Chupkov
Men’s 200m Breaststroke	Over 2 Eligible Athletes
Men’s 100m Butterfly	Andrei Minakov
Men’s 200m Individual Medley	Andrey Zhilkin

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 50m Freestyle	Maria Kameneva
Women’s 100m Freestyle	Marian Kameneva
Women’s 200m Freestyle	Veronika Andrusenko
Women’s 400m Freestyle	Veronika Andrusenko
	Anna Egorova
Women’s 1500m Freestyle	Anastasia Kirpichnikova
Women’s 100m Backstroke	Daria Vaskina
	Anastasia Fesikova
Women’s 200m Backstroke	Anastasia Avdeeva
	Dasha Ustinova
Women’s 100m Breaststroke	Anna Belousova
	Yulia Yefimova
Women’s 200m Breaststroke	Over 2 Eligible Athletes
Women’s 100m Butterfly	Svetlana Chimrova