The two-day event will see the city host 312 competitors from 53 nations at the Tyumen Athletic Centre, just over a month before the World Championships are due to take place from August 24 to 30. 

The official draw was held at the West Siberian Innovation Centre today as the delegations discovered who their athletes will be going up against in the preliminary rounds.

Baku Grand Slam winner Adlan Bisultanov will be tasked with guiding the home team to the summit of the men’s under 100 kilograms podium.

Olympic bronze medallist Dimitri Peters and Abu Dhabi Grand Slam runner-up Karl-Richard Frey are the number one and two seeds respectively as their battle for Germany's sole place at Rio 2016 looks set to go down to the wire

Algeria's Abu Dhabi Grand Slam bronze medallist and African champion Lyes Bouyacoub is another potential threat. 

Double world bronze medallist Musa Mogushkov is expected to figure for the hosts in the men’s under 73kg, a category led by Mongolia’s Olympic bronze medallist Nyam-ochir Sainjargal and former world champion Tsagaanbaatar Khashbaatar, the first and second seeds respectively.

Among Mogushkov's other opponents is Brazil’s Marcelo Contini, runner-up at last year’s Tyumen Grand Slam.

In the women’s under 48kg class, Baku 2015 European Games and World Judo Masters bronze medallist Irina Dolgova, 19, will be looking to get on the podium on home turf, as will Spain’s Julia Figueroa, the Tbilisi Grand Prix silver medallist.

Romania's Baku Grand Slam winner Monica Ungureanu starts as the top seed.

Zagreb Grand Prix bronze medallist Valentina Moscatt of Italy, the bronze medallist in Tyumen a year ago, is also in the mix.

Ezio Gamba, the Italian who is Russia' general team manager and a member of International Judo Federation's Hall of Fame, said: "For us at the draw we look for our athletes to be among the top seeds, then we know we are on track.

“We have entered many judoka with four per weight category and if they are well placed for the draw in terms of their seeding then they are in a good position.

"I don't want to single any judoka out, as we have a very large team here and I am confident that they can all compete well and everyone is very excited to see the Russian team compete in Tyumen."

Elsewhere, world silver medallist and 2013 world champion Yarden Gerbi will believe that she is primed for a tilt at her third straight world medal if she can win the women’s under 63kg category.

The Israeli, winner of a bronze medal at last month’s European Games, will face opposition from double world bronze medallist Anicka van Emden of The Netherlands and Tokyo Grand Slam silver medallist Edwige Gwend of Italy.

Tyumen, located on the Tura River, 2,500 kilometres east of Moscow, was the first Russian settlement in Siberia and has a population of 600,000 people.

“This is a great honour for the region and especially as seven judoka from Tyumen will take part in the event,” said Sergey Kushkov, President of the Tyumen Judo Federation.

Tomorrow's action features the women under 48kg, under 52kg, under 57kg and under 63kg categories, and the men’s under 60kg, under 66kg and under 73kg classes.

Watch the latest action on Judo TV here. 

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