2000 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2000 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по лёгкой атлетике в помещении 2000) was the 9th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Russia. It was held on 4–6 February at the WGAFC Indoor Stadium in Volgograd. A total of 26 events (13 for men and 13 for women) were contested over the three-day competition.^[1] It was used for selection of the Russian team for the 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

The Russian Combined Events Indoor Championships was held separately on 18–20 February in Chelyabinsk at the Ural State University of Physical Culture arena.^[2]

Yelena Isinbayeva won her first national indoor title in the women's pole vault with a clearance of 4.45 m (14 ft 7 in), which was a Russian indoor record and a world under-20 record.^[3]

Following the results of the championships, taking into account the qualifying standards, the Russian team for the 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships included: ^[4]

• 60 m: Valeriy Kirdyashev, Dmitri Vasilyev, Sergey Bychkov
• 200 m: Valeriy Kirdyashev
• 400 m: Andrey Semyonov, Boris Gorban, Ruslan Mashchenko
• 4 × 400 m relay: Andrey Semyonov, Boris Gorban, Dmitry Golovastov, Ruslan Mashchenko, Oleg Kovalyov
• 800 m: Yuriy Borzakovskiy^†, Sergey Kozhevnikov, Dmitry Bogdanov
• 1500 m: Vyacheslav Shabunin
• 3000 m: Sergey Drygin
• 60 m hurdles: Andrey Kislykh
• High jump: Vjacheslav Voronin^†, Pyotr Brayko, Aleksey Krysin
• Pole vault: Vadim Strogalev
• Long jump: Vitaliy Shkurlatov
• Triple jump: Gennadiy Markov^†, Igor Spasovkhodskiy, Sergey Kochkin
• Shot put: Sergey Lyakhov

• 60 m: Natalya Ignatova^‡, Marina Kislova
• 200 m: Irina Khabarova, Yekaterina Leshcheva, Natalya Voronova
• 400 m: Natalya Nazarova^†, Irina Rosikhina, Svetlana Pospelova
• 4 × 400 m relay: Natalya Nazarova, Irina Rosikhina, Svetlana Pospelova, Yuliya Sotnikova, Olesya Zykina
• 800 m: Natalya Tsyganova^†
• 1500 m: Olga Kuznetsova, Yuliya Kosenkova, Lyubov Kremlyova
• 3000 m: Olga Yegorova^†
• 60 m hurdles: Yuliya Graudyn
• High jump: Viktorija Seregina, Olga Kaliturina, Viktorija Slivka
• Pole vault: Yelena Isinbayeva, Yelena Belyakova, Svetlana Feofanova
• Long jump: Olga Rublyova^†, Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan
• Triple jump: Tatyana Lebedeva, Oksana Rogova
• Shot put: Svetlana Krivelyova^†, Larisa Peleshenko, Lyudmila Sechko
• Pentathlon: Yelena Prokhorova, Irina Vostrikova

^† Had exemption for selection and allowed not to compete at the national championships ^‡ Later withdrew from the international competition

Results

• Sergey Tikhonov (2000-02-07). "Championship of Russia. In the female pole, we seem to have selected a super team". Sport Express. Archived from the original on 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2014-10-09.