# 2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по лёгкой атлетике в помещении 2001) was the 10th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Russia. It was held on 16–18 February at the Alexander Gomelsky Universal Sports Hall CSKA in Moscow. A total of 28 events (14 for men and 14 for women) were contested over the three-day competition. It was used for selection of the Russian team for the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Three individual championship records were set at the competition: Lyudmila Galkina won the women's long jump in 7.00 m (22 ft 11+1⁄2 in), Tatyana Lebedeva won the women's triple jump in 15.00 m (49 ft 2+1⁄2 in), and Olga Kotlyarova set a time of 50.72 seconds to win the women's 400 metres.
The Russian Combined Events Indoor Championships was held separately on 16–18 February in Chelyabinsk at the Ural State University of Physical Culture arena. In the decathlon, fourth placer Nikolai Averyanov set a Russian under-23 record of 5571 points.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres | Sergey Bychkov Omsk Oblast | 6.68 | Dmitriy Vasilev Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 6.70 | Aleksandr Smirnov Karelia | 6.71 |
| 200 metres | Oleg Sergeyev Tyumen Oblast | 21.21 | Sergey Bychkov Omsk Oblast | 21.31 | Sergey Blinov Moscow/Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 21.54 |
| 400 metres | Boris Gorban Moscow | 46.33 | Andrey Semyonov Saint Petersburg/Sverdlovsk Oblast | 46.42 | Ruslan Mashchenko Moscow/Voronezh Oblast | 46.71 |
| 800 metres | Yuriy Borzakovskiy Moscow Oblast | 1:49.95 | Sergey Kozhevnikov Moscow/Ryazan Oblast | 1:50.60 | Boris Kaveshnikov Sverdlovsk Oblast/Moscow Oblast | 1:51.67 |
| 1500 metres | Vyacheslav Shabunin Moscow | 3:44.43 | Roman Tarasov Rostov Oblast | 3:48.52 | Aleksandr Skvortsov Chuvashia | 3:48.64 |
| 3000 metres | Sergey Drygin Moscow | 8:08.51 | Rustam Yakupov Moscow | 8:09.59 | Evgeniy Konoyko Sverdlovsk Oblast | 8:11.42 |
| 3000 m s'chase | Roman Usov Moscow/Kursk Oblast | 8:29.56 | Andrey Olshanskiy Moscow/Volgograd Oblast | 8:29.68 | Pavel Potapovich Kursk Oblast | 8:31.84 |
| 60 m hurdles | Evgeny Pechonkin Novosibirsk Oblast | 7.66 | Andrey Kislykh Kemerovo Oblast | 7.88 | Yuriy Volkov Moscow | 7.90 |
| High jump | Vyacheslav Voronin Moscow/North Ossetia–Alania | 2.30 m | Yaroslav Rybakov Moscow/Yaroslavl Oblast | 2.28 m | Aleksey Kravtsov Moscow/Stavropol Krai | 2.24 m |
| Pole vault | Pavel Gerasimov Moscow | 5.70 m | Vasiliy Gorshkov Moscow | 5.70 m | Pavel Burlachenko Moscow | 5.65 m |
| Long jump | Yevgeniy Tretyak Krasnodar Krai | 8.11 m | Vladimir Malyavin Moscow | 8.06 m | Vitaliy Shkurlatov Volgograd Oblast/Bashkortostan | 8.05 m |
| Triple jump | Igor Gavrilenko Krasnodar Krai | 17.00 m | Andrey Kurennoy Moscow/Krasnodar Krai | 16.75 m | Igor Sautkin Khabarovsk Krai | 16.64 m |
| Shot put | Pavel Chumachenko Irkutsk Oblast | 20.91 m | Ivan Yushkov Irkutsk Oblast/Novosibirsk Oblast | 19.11 m | Aleksandr Salnikov Tatarstan | 18.78 m |
| 4 × 200 m relay | Sverdlovsk Oblast Vladimir Erykalov Aleksandr Usov Denis Sivov Dmitry Forshev | 1:26.44 | Kaliningrad Oblast Aleksandr Okhin Anton Spiridonov Aleksandr Sokolov Dmitriy Pronin | 1:26.84 | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Dmitriy Vasilev Aleksey Ofitserov Dmitriy Buynov Sergey Blinov | 1:26.84 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres | Marina Kislova Saint Petersburg | 7.19 | Larisa Kruglova Murmansk Oblast | 7.24 | Natalya Mikhaylovskaya Sverdlovsk Oblast | 7.28 |
| 200 metres | Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Moscow | 23.24 | Natalya Mikhaylovskaya Sverdlovsk Oblast | 23.31 | Oksana Ekk Moscow | 23.37 |
| 400 metres | Olga Kotlyarova Sverdlovsk Oblast | 50.72 CR | Olesya Zykina Tula Oblast | 51.33 | Yuliya Sotnikova Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 52.13 |
| 800 metres | Yelena Afanasyeva Moscow Oblast | 1:58.73 | Olga Kuznetsova Moscow | 1:58.94 | Natalya Gorelova Moscow | 1:59.15 |
| 1500 metres | Natalya Gorelova Moscow | 4:09.35 | Yelena Zadorozhnaya Irkutsk Oblast | 4:10.03 | Olga Kuznetsova Moscow | 4:10.12 |
| 3000 metres | Olga Yegorova Chuvashia | 8:55.35 | Yelena Zadorozhnaya Irkutsk Oblast | 8:57.40 | Alla Zhilyaeva Kursk Oblast | 8:57.53 |
| 3000 m s'chase | Tatyana Vilisova Sverdlovsk Oblast | 9:53.35 | Natalya Cherepanova Moscow Oblast | 9:54.82 | Svetlana Sayfusheva Irkutsk Oblast | 9:57.50 |
| 60 m hurdles | Svetlana Laukhova Saint Petersburg | 7.99 | Mariya Koroteyeva Moscow Oblast | 8.40 | Nataliya Chulkova Vladimir Oblast | 8.41 |
| High jump | Yuliya Lyakhova Moscow | 1.96 m | Yelena Gulyayeva Moscow | 1.94 m | Yelena Sivushenko Volgograd Oblast | 1.92 m |
| Pole vault | Svetlana Feofanova Moscow | 4.50 m | Yelena Isinbayeva Volgograd Oblast | 4.45 m | Yelena Belyakova Moscow | 4.40 m |
| Long jump | Lyudmila Galkina Saratov Oblast | 7.00 m CR | Tatyana Kotova Altai Krai/Moscow | 6.80 m | Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan Saint Petersburg | 6.68 m |
| Triple jump | Tatyana Lebedeva Volgograd Oblast | 15.00 m CR | Oksana Rogova Tambov Oblast | 14.25 m | Nadezhda Bazhenova Vladimir Oblast | 14.24 m |
| Shot put | Larisa Peleshenko Saint Petersburg | 20.12 m | Svetlana Krivelyova Moscow Oblast | 19.53 m | Lyudmila Sechko Saint Petersburg | 18.52 m |
| 4 × 200 m relay | Moscow Irina Titova Irina Rosikhina Tatyana Levina Oksana Ekk | 1:33.18 | Tula Oblast Yuliya Tabakova Natalya Scherbak Olga Khalandyreva Olesya Zykina | 1:33.31 | Sverdlovsk Oblast Margarita Konoyko Natalya Khrushcheleva Olesya Krasnomovets Irina Khabarova | 1:34.84 |

## Russian Combined Events Championships
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Heptathlon | Vadim Bashinskiy Stavropol Krai | 5777 pts | Dmitriy Ivanov Saint Petersburg | 5772 pts | Nikolay Tishchenko Moscow/Krasnodar Krai | 5581 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Pentathlon | Irina Belova Irkutsk Oblast | 4752 pts | Svetlana Parfenova Adygea/Rostov Oblast | 4402 pts | Svetlana Sokolova Belgorod Oblast | 4396 pts |

## International team selection

Following the results of the championships, taking into account the qualifying standards, the Russian team for the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships included:

### Men

* 60 m: Sergey Bychkov, Dmitriy Vasilev
* 200 m: Oleg Sergeyev
* 400 m: Boris Gorban, Andrey Semyonov
* 4 × 400 m relay: Boris Gorban, Andrey Semyonov, Ruslan Mashchenko, Aleksandr Ladeyshchikov, Dmitry Forshev
* 800 m: Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Sergey Kozhevnikov
* 1500 m: Vyacheslav Shabunin
* 60 m hurdles: Evgeny Pechonkin, Andrey Kislykh$^‡$
* High jump: Vyacheslav Voronin, Yaroslav Rybakov
* Pole vault: Pavel Gerasimov
* Long jump: Yevgeniy Tretyak$^‡$, Vitaliy Shkurlatov, Vladimir Malyavin
* Triple jump: Igor Gavrilenko
* Shot put: Pavel Chumachenko
* Heptathlon: Lev Lobodin

### Women

* 60 m: Marina Kislova, Larisa Kruglova
* 200 m: Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Natalya Mikhaylovskaya
* 400 m: Olga Kotlyarova, Olesya Zykina
* 4 × 400 m relay: Olga Kotlyarova, Olesya Zykina, Yuliya Sotnikova, Yuliya Nosova, Natalya Khrushcheleva, Natalya Antyukh
* 800 m: Yelena Afanasyeva, Svetlana Cherkasova
* 1500 m: Natalya Gorelova, Olga Kuznetsova$^‡$
* 3000 m: Olga Yegorova, Yelena Zadorozhnaya
* 60 m hurdles: Svetlana Laukhova, Mariya Koroteyeva$^‡$
* High jump: Yuliya Lyakhova, Yelena Gulyayeva
* Pole vault: Svetlana Feofanova, Yelena Isinbayeva
* Long jump: Lyudmila Galkina, Tatyana Kotova
* Triple jump: Tatyana Lebedeva, Oksana Rogova
* Shot put: Larisa Peleshenko, Svetlana Krivelyova
* Pentathlon: Yelena Prokhorova$^†$, Natalya Roshchupkina$^†$
$^†$ Had exemption for selection and allowed not to compete at the national championships $^‡$ Later withdrew from the international competition