Tuesday 11 April 2017 13:47, UK
World champion hurdler Sergey Shubenkov and high-jumper Maria Kuchina are among seven Russian athletes granted permission to compete as neutrals at this summer's World Championships in London.
The IAAF will allow seven Russian athletes to take part in international competition, while their track and field team is banned for doping.
The other Russians deemed to be drug-free, and named on Tuesday, are Illia Mudrov (pole vault), Sergei Shirobokov (race walking), Daniil Tsyplakov (high jump), Olga Mullina (pole vault) and Yana Smerdova (race walking).
They will participate under a neutral flag. The Doping Review Board of the IAAF unanimously accepted the applications of the seven athletes.
Russia's athletics team was barred from taking part in the Rio Olympics last summer because of widespread doping, which the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says was state-sponsored.
Moscow has repeatedly denied these allegations. In total, this year, 10 applications from Russian athletes have been approved while 17 were declined, as part of the IAAF's attempt to clean up athletics.
In February, the IAAF extended the ban on Russia's team to the World Championships this August and the country's deputy prime minister Vitaly Mutko said coaches "don't understand how to work without doping."
The three other Russian athletes given the green light to compete internationally by the IAAF earlier this year were pole vaulter Anzhelika Sidorova, sprinter Kristina Sivkova and hammer thrower Aleksei Sokirskii.
