Elena Vesnina (Елена Веснина)
Tennis [beijing2008, wiki]
Event: Women’s Doubles
Victoria Gurova (Виктория Гурова)
Athletics [beijing]
Event: Women’s Triple Jump
Vladimir Karpets (Владимир Карпец)
Cycling Road [beijing, wiki]
Events: Men’s Individual Time Trial, Men’s Road Race
* sochi2014.com reports he’s Sochi native, but everywhere else I look – he’s from St.-Petersburg. Important thing he’s from Russia 🙂
Tatiana Bazyuk (Татьяна Базюк)
Sailing [beijing]
Event: RS:X Women
Best of luck to you guys!!
Meanwhile, Russia got it’s first medal — silver in shooting by Lioubov Galkina! Yay!!