Aleksandr Menkov forms part of team of 71 athletes as he defends his long jump title in Beijing

Russia has announced a team of 71 athletes for the IAAF World Championships in Beijing from August 22-30.

Aleksandr Menkov, who won long jump gold in Moscow two years ago, is the only athlete out of the nation's six individual reigning champions who will be defending his title.

Joining Menkov in China will be the likes of two-time European 100m hurdles champion and world bronze medallist Sergey Shubenkov, Olympic high jump champions Anna Chicherova and Ivan Ukhov and Natalya Antyukh, who won 400m hurdles gold at the London Olympics.

Just a single athlete - Aleksandr Yargunkin - is set to contest a race walk event.

Russian team for IAAF World Championships (via iaaf.org)

MEN
400m: Pavel Ivashko
800m: Konstantin Tolokonnikov
Marathon: Aleksey Reunkov
3000m steeplechase: Nikolay Chavkin, Ilgizar Safiulin
110m hurdles: Sergey Shubenkov
400m hurdles: Timofey Chalyy, Denis Kudryavtsev, Ivan Shablyuyev
High jump: Daniil Tsyplakov, Ivan Ukhov
Pole vault: Ivan Gertleyn, Georgiy Gorokhov, Aleksandr Gripich
Long jump: Aleksandr Menkov, Sergey Polyanskiy
Triple jump: Lyukman Adams, Dmitriy Sorokin
Shot put: Maksim Sidorov, Aleksandr Lesnoy
Hammer: Sergey Litvinov
Javelin: Dmitri Tarabin, Valeriy Iordan
Decathlon: Ilya Shkurenev
50km race walk: Aleksandr Yargunkin
4x400m: Pavel Ivashko, Pavel Trenikhin, Artyom Denmukhametov, Denis Alekseyev, Vladimir Krasnov, Denis Kudryavtsev

WOMEN
400m: Yekaterina Renzhina, Kseniya Ryzhova, Kseniya Zadorina
800m: Anastasiya Bazdyreva, Yevgeniya Subbotina
1500m: Ekaterina Sharmina, Anna Shchagina, Tatyana Tomashova
5000m: Gulshat Fazlitdinova, Elena Korobkina
Marathon: Maria Konovalova, Alina Prokopeva
3000m steeplechase: Natalya Aristarkhova, Ekaterina Doseykina, Lyudmila Lebedeva
100m hurdles: Ekaterina Galitskaya, Nina Morozova
400m hurdles: Natalya Antyukh, Darya Korableva, Vera Rudakova
High jump: Anna Chicherova, Maria Kuchina
Pole vault: Anzhelika Sidorova
Long jump: Darya Klishina, Yuliya Pidluzhnaya, Elena Sokolova
Triple jump: Ekaterina Koneva
Discus: Yuliya Maltseva, Elena Panova, Ekaterina Strokova
Javelin: Maria Abakumova, Vira Rebryk
Heptathlon: Lyubov Tkatch
4x100m: Elizaveta Demirova, Anna Egorova, Anna Kukushkina, Marina Panteleyeva, Kseniya Ryzhova, Ekaterina Smirnova, Viktoriya Yarushkina
4x400m: Kseniya Aksyonova, Nadezhda Kotlyarova, Alena Mamina, Mariya Mikhailyuk, Ekaterina Renzhina, Ksenia Zadorina

» Further team news can be found on Athletics Weekly's dedicated Beijing World Championships sub-site here