# Russia at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

Russia competes at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August. A team of over 100 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition, one of the largest squads in the competition. Selected athletes have achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards. Yelena Isinbayeva, Tatyana Lebedeva, Yekaterina Volkova, and Olga Kaniskina are the defending champions in their respective events. The 2008 Olympic champion Valeriy Borchin, and world record holder Gulnara Galkina-Samitova, are also competing. Russia will be represented in all the women's events, and furthermore, only five men's events will not feature a Russian competitor.

## Team selection

| Event | Athletes | Athletes |
| Event | Men | Women |
| 100 metres | | Yevgeniya Polyakova Anna Geflikh |
| 200 metres | Roman Smirnov | Yuliya Gushchina Yelena Bolsun Olga Zaitseva |
| 400 metres | Maksim Dyldin | Antonina Krivoshapka Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Lyudmila Litvinova |
| 800 metres | Yuriy Borzakovskiy | Mariya Savinova Svetlana Klyuka Elena Kofanova |
| 1500 metres | | Anna Alminova Natalya Yevdokimova Oksana Zbrozhek |
| 5000 metres | | Elizaveta Grechishnikova Natalya Popova |
| 10,000 metres | Anatoliy Rybakov | Liliya Shobukhova Mariya Konovalova Kseniya Agafonova |
| Marathon | Oleg Kulkov Yuriy Abramov Sergei Rybin Mikhail Limaev | Svetlana Zakharova Nailiya Yulamanova Olga Glok Alevtina Biktimirova Lyubov Morgunova |
| 100 metres hurdles | — | Yuliya Kondakova Tatyana Dektiareva Yekaterina Shtepa |
| 110 metres hurdles | | — |
| 400 metres hurdles | Aleksandr Dereviagin | Yuliya Pechonkina Natalya Antyukh Yelena Churakova Natalya Ivanova (reserve) |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Ildar Minshin | Yekaterina Volkova Gulnara Galkina-Samitova Yuliya Zarudneva Yelena Sidorchenkova |
| 20 km race walk | Valeriy Borchin Petr Trofimov Andrey Krivov | Olga Kaniskina Anisiya Kirdiapkina Vera Sokolova Larisa Emelianova |
| 50 km race walk | Denis Nizhegorodov Sergey Kirdiapkin Yuriy Andronov | — |
| 4×100 metres relay | | Yevgeniya Polyakova Yuliya Gushchina Natalya Rusakova Yuliya Chermoshanskaya Aleksandra Fedoriva |
| 4×400 metres relay | Maksim Dyldin Konstantin Svechkar Valentin Krugliakov Anton Kokorin | Antonina Krivoshapka Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Lyudmila Litvinova Natalya Nazarova Tatyana Firova Natalya Antyukh |
| Event | Athletes | Athletes |
| Event | Men | Women |
| Pole vault | Viktor Chistiakov Aleksandr Gripich Igor Pavlov | Yelena Isinbayeva Yuliya Golubchikova Aleksandra Kiryashova Tatyana Polnova |
| High jump | Ivan Ukhov Yaroslav Rybakov Andrei Tereshin | Anna Chicherova Yelena Slesarenko Svetlana Shkolina |
| Long jump | Aleksandr Menkov | Tatyana Lebedeva Yelena Sokolova Irina Meleshina Olga Kucherenko |
| Triple jump | Igor Spasovkhodskiy Yevgeniy Plotnir | Tatyana Lebedeva Nadezhda Alekhina Anna Pyatykh |
| Shot put | Maksim Sidorov Pavel Sofin Valeriy Kokoev | Anna Avdeeva |
| Discus throw | Bogdan Pishchalnikov Nikolay Sedyuk | Natalya Sadova Svetlana Saikina |
| Hammer throw | Aleksey Zagorniy | Tatyana Lysenko |
| Javelin throw | Sergei Makarov Ilya Korotkov Aleksandr Ivanov | Valeriya Zabruskova Maria Abakumova |
| Heptathlon | — | Tatyana Chernova |
| Decathlon | Aleksei Sysoev Aleksandr Pogorelov Vasiliy Kharlamov | — |