Russian athletes that have changed nationalities

[intoronto 6,410]

37 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Arina Valitova (tennis)

I think she purchased citizenship well before the war.

[Olympian1010 8,230]

19 minutes ago, intoronto said:

I think she purchased citizenship well before the war.

Hard to tell nowadays 

[Dmitry 92]

Seven Russian athletes have appeared in Syria National team squad at Pan Arab Games and some of them have changed names and birthdays. Russian officials in federations claimed they even didn't know about it. Russian ministry of sport claimed that only two of them Milana Mugu (Mrad) (judo) and Alexandra Maximova (gymnastics) changed their citizenship officially and the information about the others on the official Games website is a mistake.

https://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/dalniyles/3173691.html#supertop

[Dmitry 92]

Six time World Championsips bronze medalist Yelizaveta Golubeva and Kristina Silaeva are going to compete for  Speed Skating team since next season.

[Dmitry 92]

63rd in the World Ranking chess player Kirill Alekseenko have started play for 

[Dmitry 92]

Nikita Klevchenya (Speed Skating) will compete for  too. 

[heywoodu 16,004]

2 hours ago, Dmitry said:

Nikita Klevchenya (Speed Skating) will compete for  too. 

Judging by his results, I doubt he'll ever really be visible internationally, but the name is very interesting! Son of? If so, that would explain the Kazakhstan move as well, I believe the big Klevchenya has been Kazakhstan's coach at least for a while.

Edited July 17, 2023 by heywoodu

[Dmitry 92]

On 7/17/2023 at 8:36 PM, heywoodu said:

Judging by his results, I doubt he'll ever really be visible internationally, but the name is very interesting! Son of? If so, that would explain the Kazakhstan move as well, I believe the big Klevchenya has been Kazakhstan's coach at least for a while.

Yes, he is the son and the big Klevchenya is training Golubeva and Silaeva in Kazakhstan too.

[Dmitry 92]

Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin (figure skating) will compete for  since the new season.

[NearPup 3,496]

4 hours ago, Dmitry said:

Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin (figure skating) will compete for  since the new season.

Lol, rumors was they would represent . Guess that would have been too much a betrayal for Eteri’s daughter.

 

(Davis is an American citizen, Smolkin has a green card and they both live in the US. Their link to Georgia is… one of Davis’ grandparenrs is from there.

Edited July 21, 2023 by NearPup