Russian Athletics Championships

The Russian Athletics Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по лёгкой атлетике) is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF), which serves as the Russian national championship for the sport. It is typically held as a four-day event in the Russian summer around late June to early August. The venue of the championships is decided on an annual basis.

Russian Athletics Championships

Current season, competition or edition: 2023 Russian Athletics Championships
Sport	Athletics
Founded	1908 & 1992
Country	Russia

The competition was first held in 1908, during the time of the Russian Empire. The competition had nine editions during this period, lasting up to 1916, at which point it was ceased as a result of the October Revolution and was effectively replaced in 1920 by the inauguration of the Soviet Athletics Championships. During this period, separate championships for the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic were occasionally held (with the first two editions occurring in 1922 and 1927 in Moscow), though mostly the Russian championships was merged into the larger Soviet one. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia was restored as an independent country and the Russian Athletics Championships was re-initiated, starting from 1992 after a shared CIS Athletics Championships in 1991.

The modern Russian Championships are using as a qualifying event for selection for the international team for major events including the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics.

Events

On the current programme a total of 38 individual Russian Championship athletics events are contested, divided evenly between men and women. For each of the sexes, there are six track running events, three obstacle events, four jumps, four throws, and two relays.

Track running

• 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres, 1500 metres, 5000 metres

Obstacle events

• 100 metres hurdles (women only), 110 metres hurdles (men only), 400 metres hurdles, 3000 metres steeplechase

Jumping events

• Pole vault, high jump, long jump, triple jump

Throwing events

• Shot put, discus throw, javelin throw, hammer throw

Relays

• 4 × 100 metres relay, 4 × 400 metres relay

Separate championships are held for the 10,000 metres, combined track and field events, racewalking, road running, cross country running (spring and autumn), mountain running (uphill and downhill), 24-hour run, and relay races. A winter outdoor throwing championships is also held in discus, javelin and hammer throw, while the shot put is incorporated into the Russian Indoor Athletics Championships.

Editions

Russian Empire

Edition	Year	Venue	Date	Stadium
1	1908	St. Petersburg	14–15 June	Krestovsky Island
2	1909	St. Petersburg	20–21 June
3	1910	Riga	26–27 June
4	1911	St. Petersburg	9–10 July
5	1912	Moscow	8 September
6	1913	St. Petersburg	20–22 July
7	1914	Riga	6–11 July	Riga Hippodrome
8	1915	Moscow	15–16 August	OLLS Stadium
9	1916	Petrograd	27–29 August

Russian Federation

Edition	Year	Venue	Date	Stadium	Notes
1	1992	Moscow	18–21 July	Lokomotiv Stadium
2	1993	Moscow	18–20 June	Lokomotiv Stadium
3	1994	St. Petersburg	14–16 July	Petrovsky Stadium
4	1995	Moscow	16–18 June	Lokomotiv Stadium
5	1996	St. Petersburg	1–5 July	Petrovsky Stadium
6	1997	Tula	7–10 July	Arsenal Stadium
7	1998	Moscow	31 July–3 August	Luzhniki Stadium
8	1999	Tula	29 July–1 August	Arsenal Stadium
9	2000	Tula	22–26 July	Arsenal Stadium
10	2001	Tula	12–15 July	Arsenal Stadium
11	2002	Cheboksary	11–14 July	Cheboksary Olympic Stadium
12	2003	Tula	7–10 August	Arsenal Stadium
13	2004	Tula	24–25 July, 29 July–1 August	Arsenal Stadium
14	2005	Tula	10–13 July	Arsenal Stadium
15	2006	Tula	11–15 June	Arsenal Stadium
16	2007	Tula	31 July–3 August	Arsenal Stadium
17	2008	Kazan	17–20 July	Central Stadium
18	2009	Cheboksary	23–26 July	Cheboksary Olympic Stadium	Results
19	2010	Saransk	12–15 July	Start Stadium	Results
20	2011	Cheboksary	21–24 July	Cheboksary Olympic Stadium	Results
21	2012	Cheboksary	3–6 July	Cheboksary Olympic Stadium	Results
22	2013	Moscow	22–25 July	Luzhniki Stadium	Results
23	2014	Kazan	23–26 July	Central Stadium	Results
24	2015	Cheboksary	3–5 August	Cheboksary Olympic Stadium
25	2016	Cheboksary	20–23 June	Cheboksary Olympic Stadium
26	2017	Zhukovskiy	28–30 July	Meteor Stadium
27	2018	Kazan	19–22 July	Central Stadium
28	2019	Cheboksary	24–27 July	Cheboksary Olympic Stadium
	2022	Cheboksary	2–5 August	Cheboksary Olympic Stadium

Championships records

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Place	Ref
100 metres	10.12 (+ 0.6 m/s)	Alexander Porkhomovsky	1994
200 metres	20.51 (+ 1.7 m/s)	Oleg Sergeyev	2004
400 metres	44.83	Anton Galkin	2004
800 metres	1:44.72	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	2004
1500 metres	3.36.14	Valentin Smirnov	2011
5000 metres	13:29.40	Vladimir Nikitin	2017
10,000 metres	27:53.12	Sergey Ivanov	2008
Marathon	2:11:26	Fedor Shutov	2016
3000 metres steeplechase	8:19.19	Maksim Yakushev	2017
110 metres hurdles	13.19 (- 0.1 m/s)	Sergey Shubenkov	2013
400 metres hurdles	48.54	Boris Gorban	2001
High jump	2.39 m	Ivan Ukhov	2012
Pole vault	6.01 m	Igor Trandenkov	1996
Long jump	8.34 m (+ 1.4 m/s)	Andrey Ignatov	1995
Triple jump	17.68 m (+ 0.4 m/s)	Danil Burkenya	2004
Shot put	21.51 m	Maksim Sidorov	2012
Discus throw	65.93 m	Bogdan Pishchalnikov	2010
Hammer throw	82.28 m	Ilya Konovalov	2003
Javelin throw	90.33 m	Sergey Makarov	2005
Decathlon	8601 points	Ilya Shkurenyov	2017
	10.89 (100 m) , 7.58 m (long jump) , 14.15 m "(shot put)", 2.12 m "(high jump) , 49.00 (400 m) / 13.95 (110 m with barriers) , 44.91 m (discus throwing) , 5.30 m ' '(pole vault)' ', 60.29 m' '(javelin throw)' ', 4:28.35' '(1500 m)' '
10000 m walk (track)	38:14.24	Vasiliy Mizinov	2 August 2022	Chelyabinsk
20 km walk	1:16:43	Sergey Morozov	2008
50 km walk	3:35:29	Denis Nizhegorodov	2004
4 × 100 m relay	39.55	Saint Petersburg Vyacheslav Shevelyov Konstantin Petryashov Alexander Khutte Arthur Reysbich	2013
4 × 400 m relay	3:04.72	Saint-Petersburg Maxim Rafilovich Andrey Rudenko Andrey Kukharenko Mikhail Filatov	2017

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Year
100 metres	10.89 (+1.9 m/s)	Irina Privalova	1992
200 metres	22.05 (+1.7 m/s)	Irina Privalova	1992
400 metres	49.16	Antonina Krivoshapka	2012
800 metres	1:56.00	Tatyana Andrianova	2008
1500 metres	3:58.68	Yuliya Fomenko	2005
5000 metres	14:23.75	Liliya Shobukhova	2008
10,000 metres	30:29.36	Liliya Shobukhova	2009
Marathon	2:28:34	Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova	2016
3000 metres steeplechase	9:08.21	Gulnara Samitova-Galkina	2008
100 metres hurdles	12.47 (+1.1 m/s)	Marina Azyabina	1993
400 metres hurdles	52.34 NR	Yuliya Pechonkina	2003
High jump	2.07 m NR	Anna Chicherova	2011
Pole vault	4.90 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	2016
Long jump	7.33 m (+0.4 m/s)	Tatyana Lebedeva	2004
Triple jump	15.14 m (+1.9 m/s)	Nadezhda Alekhina	2009
Shot put	20.79 m	Larisa Peleshenko	2001
		Irina Korzhanenko	2004
Discus throw	67.58 m	Natalya Sadova	2004
Hammer throw	78.51 m	Tatyana Lysenko	2012
Javelin throw	66.00 m	Tatyana Shikolenko	2003
Heptathlon	6765 pts	Yelena Prokhorova	2000
	13.54 (100 m with barriers), 1.82 m (jump in height), 14.30 m (shot put), 23.37 (200 m) / 6.72 m (long jump), 43.40 m (javelin throw), 2:04.27 (800 m)
20 km walk	1:24:58	Elena Lashmanova	2016
4 × 100 metres relay	43.30	Moscow Marina Panteleyeva Natalia Rusakova Elizabeth Savlinis Christina Sivkova	2014
4 × 400 metres relay	3:25.18	Sverdlovsk Region Olga Kotlyarova Tatyana Veshkurova Yulia Mulyukova Svetlana Pospelova	2006

See also

• List of Russian records in athletics