Russian athletes that have changed nationalities

[Monzanator 4,604]

Laguta and Sayfutdinov had Polish citizenship for a while now and there was a debate last year whether we should treat them as Poles anyway. Obviously speedway is a niche sport nobody cares about in the big picture

[vlad 374]

The fact that Russian athletes competes for other countries doesn't change their nationality, many of them did this to continue to earn money from the sport and not because they are really against this war, unfortunatly. 

[Biathlonfan 687]

Yes,because they don't feel like their sport careers should be stopped,it's not their fault if that option is on the table,they would be dumb to not consider taking advantage off it

[Makedonas 2,193]

  On 4/1/2023 at 10:42 PM, MHSN said:

just checked again to make sure they didn't change the rule

 

"The new national federation of a wrestler who wishes to change his/her sports nationality shall send a request in writing with complete file and payment(s) to United World Wrestling in the period between 1 and 31 December."

https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-07/change_nationality_june_2022_final_eng.pdf?VersionId=J.DIBoIwL1TqZV1PmTcNu0NhOz0kQQqM

 

but maybe Greek federation sent the request earlier but if they didn't he has to wait until 2024 to be eligible.

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He is competing for Greece at the upcoming European Championships! It was announces yesterday by our media.

[Agger 1,664]

Speedskater Sofia Thorup (former Prosvirnova) wants to represent Denmark in the future.

[dcro 10,210]

Dressage riders Elena Starr (RUS) and Olga Safronova (BLR) have switched to  and , respectively.

[NMQ 243]

Swimmers Kirpichnikova and Nikolaev want to switch to France and Australia.

 

https://m.sports.ru/aquatics/1115076548-chempionka-evropy-po-plavaniyu-kirpichnikova-i-serebryanyj-prizer-chr-.html

[dullard 721]

I think that Nikolaev will have trouble changing his sports nationality to Australia with World Aquatics' updated nationality rules because he hasn't even been living Australia for a year yet let alone three years. Kirpichnikova on the other hand has been living in France for quite a while hasn't she?

 

I wonder if World Aquatics changed the rules because they were anticipating a flood of Russians switching nationality.

[Dmitry 92]

Russian rowing officials confirmed that silver Olympic medalist in rowing Hanna Prakatsen is going to start for 

Edited April 23, 2023 by Dmitry

[Benolympique 2,398]

  On 4/21/2023 at 11:22 PM, dullard said:

I think that Nikolaev will have trouble changing his sports nationality to Australia with World Aquatics' updated nationality rules because he hasn't even been living Australia for a year yet let alone three years. Kirpichnikova on the other hand has been living in France for quite a while hasn't she?

 

I wonder if World Aquatics changed the rules because they were anticipating a flood of Russians switching nationality.

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I confirm, Kirpichnikova lives in France and trains in France. she has French nationality because yesterday she competed in the French open water championships in Martinique.