CAS 2016/O/4684 Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Lyukman Adams, Kseniya Aksyonova, Victor Butenko, Timofey Chalyy, Elena Cherniaeva (Kozlova), Dmitriy Chizhikov, Artem Denmukhametov, Gulshat Fazlitdinova, Aleksey Fedorov, Ekaterina Galitskaia, Georgy Gorokhov, Elena Isinbaeva, Pavel Ivashko, Darya Klishina, Oxana Kondratyeva, Ekaterina Koneva, Vasiliy Kopeikin, Elena Korobkina, Ilia Krasnov, Vladimir Krasnov, Antonina Krivoshapka, Maria Kuchina, Denis Kudryavtsev, Anna Kukushkina, Alla Kuliatina, Alexandr Lesnoi, Sergej Litvinov, Danil Lysenko, Yuliya Maltseva, Alena Mamima, Nikolay Markov, Aleksandr Menkov, Anna Misochenko, Olga Mullina, Marina Pandakova, Elena (Yuelena) Panova, Marina Panteleyeva, Yulia Pidluzhnaya, Evgeniya Polyakova, Sergey Polyanskiy, Mariya Ponomareva, Alina Prokopeva, Vera Rebrik (Rebryk), Ekaterina Renzhina, Aleksey Reunkov, Vera Rudakova, Ilgizar Safiullin, Ivan Shablyuev (Shablyuyev), Sergey Sharypov, Anna Shchagina, Ilya Shkurenev, Sergey Shubenkov, Maksim Sidorov, Anzhelika Sidorova, Kristina Sivkova, Aleksei Sokirskii, Ekaterina Sokolenko, Ekaterina Strokova, Dmitri Tarabin, Irina Tarasova, Pavel Trenikhin, Sardana Trofimova, Daniil Tysplakov, Ivan Ukhov, Roman Yevstifeyev, Svetlana Vasilyeva, Natalia Vlasova, Tatyana Arkhipova v. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
Court of Arbitration for Sport · Sports (CAS) · International (Switzerland) · 21/07/2016
Why it matters
Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Lyukman Adams, Kseniya Aksyonova, Victor Butenko, Timofey Chalyy, Elena Cherniaeva (Kozlova), Dmitriy Chizhikov, Artem Denmukhametov, Gulshat Fazlitdinova, Aleksey Fedorov, Ekaterina Galitskaia, Georgy Gorokhov, Elena Isinbaeva, Pavel Ivashko, Darya Klishina, Oxana Kondratyeva, Ekaterina Koneva, Vasiliy Kopeikin, Elena Korobkina, Ilia Krasnov, Vladimir Krasnov, Antonina Krivoshapka, Maria Kuchina, Denis Kudryavtsev, Anna Kukushkina, Alla Kuliatina, Alexandr Lesnoi, Sergej Litvinov, Danil Lysenko, Yuliya Maltseva, Alena Mamima, Nikolay Markov, Aleksandr Menkov, Anna Misochenko, Olga Mullina, Marina Pandakova, Elena (Yuelena) Panova, Marina Panteleyeva, Yulia Pidluzhnaya, Evgeniya Polyakova, Sergey Polyanskiy, Mariya Ponomareva, Alina Prokopeva, Vera Rebrik (Rebryk), Ekaterina Renzhina, Aleksey Reunkov, Vera Rudakova, Ilgizar Safiullin, Ivan Shablyuev (Shablyuyev), Sergey Sharypov, Anna Shchagina, Ilya Shkurenev, Sergey Shubenkov, Maksim Sidorov, Anzhelika Sidorova, Kristina Sivkova, Aleksei Sokirskii, Ekaterina Sokolenko, Ekaterina Strokova, Dmitri Tarabin, Irina Tarasova, Pavel Trenikhin, Sardana Trofimova, Daniil Tysplakov, Ivan Ukhov, Roman Yevstifeyev, Svetlana Vasilyeva, Natalia Vlasova, Tatyana Arkhipova v. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), an eligibility dispute in athletics decided by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, the final tribunal of world sport. For a student, it shows how CAS balances a federation's rules on who may compete against the athlete's rights.
Summary
Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Lyukman Adams, Kseniya Aksyonova, Victor Butenko, Timofey Chalyy, Elena Cherniaeva (Kozlova), Dmitriy Chizhikov, Artem Denmukhametov, Gulshat Fazlitdinova, Aleksey Fedorov, Ekaterina Galitskaia, Georgy Gorokhov, Elena Isinbaeva, Pavel Ivashko, Darya Klishina, Oxana Kondratyeva, Ekaterina Koneva, Vasiliy Kopeikin, Elena Korobkina, Ilia Krasnov, Vladimir Krasnov, Antonina Krivoshapka, Maria Kuchina, Denis Kudryavtsev, Anna Kukushkina, Alla Kuliatina, Alexandr Lesnoi, Sergej Litvinov, Danil Lysenko, Yuliya Maltseva, Alena Mamima, Nikolay Markov, Aleksandr Menkov, Anna Misochenko, Olga Mullina, Marina Pandakova, Elena (Yuelena) Panova, Marina Panteleyeva, Yulia Pidluzhnaya, Evgeniya Polyakova, Sergey Polyanskiy, Mariya Ponomareva, Alina Prokopeva, Vera Rebrik (Rebryk), Ekaterina Renzhina, Aleksey Reunkov, Vera Rudakova, Ilgizar Safiullin, Ivan Shablyuev (Shablyuyev), Sergey Sharypov, Anna Shchagina, Ilya Shkurenev, Sergey Shubenkov, Maksim Sidorov, Anzhelika Sidorova, Kristina Sivkova, Aleksei Sokirskii, Ekaterina Sokolenko, Ekaterina Strokova, Dmitri Tarabin, Irina Tarasova, Pavel Trenikhin, Sardana Trofimova, Daniil Tysplakov, Ivan Ukhov, Roman Yevstifeyev, Svetlana Vasilyeva, Natalia Vlasova, Tatyana Arkhipova v. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF): an eligibility dispute in athletics before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, decided 21/07/2016. The full award is available from CAS.
The detail
Parties: Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Lyukman Adams, Kseniya Aksyonova, Victor Butenko, Timofey Chalyy, Elena Cherniaeva (Kozlova), Dmitriy Chizhikov, Artem Denmukhametov, Gulshat Fazlitdinova, Aleksey Fedorov, Ekaterina Galitskaia, Georgy Gorokhov, Elena Isinbaeva, Pavel Ivashko, Darya Klishina, Oxana Kondratyeva, Ekaterina Koneva, Vasiliy Kopeikin, Elena Korobkina, Ilia Krasnov, Vladimir Krasnov, Antonina Krivoshapka, Maria Kuchina, Denis Kudryavtsev, Anna Kukushkina, Alla Kuliatina, Alexandr Lesnoi, Sergej Litvinov, Danil Lysenko, Yuliya Maltseva, Alena Mamima, Nikolay Markov, Aleksandr Menkov, Anna Misochenko, Olga Mullina, Marina Pandakova, Elena (Yuelena) Panova, Marina Panteleyeva, Yulia Pidluzhnaya, Evgeniya Polyakova, Sergey Polyanskiy, Mariya Ponomareva, Alina Prokopeva, Vera Rebrik (Rebryk), Ekaterina Renzhina, Aleksey Reunkov, Vera Rudakova, Ilgizar Safiullin, Ivan Shablyuev (Shablyuyev), Sergey Sharypov, Anna Shchagina, Ilya Shkurenev, Sergey Shubenkov, Maksim Sidorov, Anzhelika Sidorova, Kristina Sivkova, Aleksei Sokirskii, Ekaterina Sokolenko, Ekaterina Strokova, Dmitri Tarabin, Irina Tarasova, Pavel Trenikhin, Sardana Trofimova, Daniil Tysplakov, Ivan Ukhov, Roman Yevstifeyev, Svetlana Vasilyeva, Natalia Vlasova, Tatyana Arkhipova v. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
Case number: CAS 2016/O/4684
Outcome: See the award.
Applicable law: The relevant federation regulations; Swiss law; the CAS Code.
Issues in play: an eligibility dispute
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