More than 700 swimmers will compete at the championships with Andrei Minakov who won silver in the 100 fly among three medals at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju – and 50 fly silver medallist Oleg Kostin joining world-record holder Chupkov and Grinev.
Andrei Minakov – Photo Courtesy: FINA / Budapest 2019
Eugenia Chikunova – the European junior champion who won the 200br at the Russian Swimming Cup earlier this month in 2:22.95 – and world 50 back bronze medallist Daria Vaskina are also set to feature.
However, Vlad Morozov and Kirill Prigoda – who beat Chupkov over 200m breaststroke at the Russian Swimming Cup – will be absent, competing at the International Swimming League for Tokyo Frog Kings and London Roar respectively.
So too Maria Kameneva – triple 2018 European medallist – who was integral to Roar’s crushing victory in the opening match of the ISL, contributing 47.5pts.
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