Moscow (RWH) Olympic champion Alexander Tretyakov and Olympic bronze medallist Elena Nikitina will lead the Russian skeleton team for the first stations of BMW IBSF World Cup 2015-2016. 2013 World Champion Tretyakov in the men's team will be joined by Junior World champion Nikita Tregubov and Pavel Kulikov who showed some good performance in the Russia Cup. The women’s skeleton team also includes Maria Orlova, who came in fifth at the Sochi Olympic Games and junior athlete Yulia Kanakina.

The men's bobsleigh team will consist of the pilots Alexander Kasyanov, Nikita Zakharov and Alexey Stulnev. The push athletes are Aleksei Pushkarev, Dmitry Trunenkov, Vasiliy Kondratenko, Ilvir Huzin, Yuri Chubakov, Kirill Antukh, Maxim Mokrousov, Roman Koshelev, Maxim Belugin, Pavel Utkin and Ilfat Sadeev. The Russian women's bobsleigh team with pilots Aleksandra Rodionova and Nadezhda Sergeeva and push athletes Nadezhda Paleeva, Yulia Shokshueva, Nadezhda Viederker and Yulia Egoschenko will start the season at the European Cup circuit. ©RWH2015-2016