MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. Russian athletes will participate in the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Serbia next month, the press office of the Russian Rowing Federation announced in a statement on Tuesday.

The Russian team will be represented by Alexander Vyazovkin and Alexander Yakovlev in men’s singles, and by Kira Yuvchenko and Anastasiya Lyubich in women’s singles.

The 2023 World Rowing Championships will be held in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on September 3-10. The Russian athletes will be competing in the championship under a neutral status according to the decision of the the world’s governing body for rowing sports, World Rowing

On March 2, 2022, World Rowing announced a decision to impose a temporary ban on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in international competitions. However, the organization stated in mid-April this year that it had set up a working group to decide on the criteria for Russian and Belarusian athletes’ participation in international events as well as qualifying for the upcoming Olympics in France.

According to the World Rowing’s official website, "The 2023 World Rowing Championships, Belgrade will be the first opportunity for Member Federations to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games."

After Tokyo was home to the Olympic flame at the 2020 Summer Games, it will travel to Paris for the Summer Games in 2024, and then to Los Angeles in 2028. In 2021, at the 138th IOC (the International Olympic Committee) session in Tokyo, Australia’s Brisbane was selected to host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games.

The senior World Rowing Championships are held every year at the end of the international rowing season and World Champions are crowned in 14 Olympic boat classes - seven for men and seven for women, as well as eight International boat classes for lightweight rowers.

Para-rowers compete in nine boat classes, five are Paralympic boat classes.