Evgeny Rylov Breaks European Record in 200 Back 1:54.21

(SP)YOG-CHINA-NANJING-SWIMMING (140820) -- Nanjing, Aug 20,2014 (Xinhua) -- Evgeny Rylov of Russian Federation reacts after the final of Men's 50m Backstroke of Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, capital of east China?s Jiangsu Province, on August 20, 2014. Evgeny Rylov won the gold. (Xinhua/Ding Xu) (lyq)

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Evgeny Rylov continued his amazing week of swimming in Russia by breaking the European record in the men’s 200-meter back at the 2016 Russian Nationals.

Rylov raced his way to a 1:54.21 for the win. That swim beat the European record of 1:54.24 set by Radoslaw Kawecki back in 2013. It also cleared his own Russian record of 1:54.60 set just last year. Only Mitch Larkin has been faster this year with a 1:53.90 in Australia.

Rylov’s swim moved him up to sixth all time in the event’s rankings.

Aaron Peirsol, 1:51.92, 2009
Ryosuke Irie, 1:52.51, 2009
Ryan Lochte, 1:52.96, 2011
Mitch Larkin, 1:53.17, 2015
Tyler Clary, 1:53.41, 2012
Evgeny Rylov, 1:54.21, 2016
Kosuke Hagino, 1:54.23, 2014

Andrei Shabasov also made the Olympic team with a second-place 1:57.38 to clear the Russian Olympic selection time of 1:57.71.

Grigory Tarasevich (1:57.79), Roman Larin (1:59.25), Nikita Babchenko (1:59.26), Kliment Kolesnikov (1:59.58), Nikita Tretyakov (2:01.16) and Igor Sorokin (2:02.43) also competed in the historic heat.

Мужчины
1. RYLOV Evgeny 1996 мсмк Moscow Region 1:54.21 РЕ* мсмк 941
50m: 26.66 26.66 100m: 55.17 28.51 150m: 1:24.38 29.21 200m: 1:54.21 29.83
2. SHABASOV Andrei 1994 мсмк St. Petersburg 1:57.38 * мсмк 866
50m: 27.57 27.57 100m: 56.93 29.36 150m: 1:27.30 30.37 200m: 1:57.38 30.08
3. TARASEVICH Grigory 1995 мсмк Omsk Region 1:57.79 мс 857
50m: 27.19 27.19 100m: 56.40 29.21 150m: 1:26.83 30.43 200m: 1:57.79 30.96
4. LARIN Roman 1998 мс Penza Region 1:59.25 мс 826
50m: 28.01 28.01 100m: 57.90 29.89 150m: 1:29.09 31.19 200m: 1:59.25 30.16
5. BABCHENKO Nikita 1996 мс Krasnodar Territory 1:59.26 мс 826
50m: 28.05 28.05 100m: 58.06 30.01 150m: 1:28.23 30.17 200m: 1:59.26 31.03
6. KOLESNIKOV Kliment 2000 мс Moscow City 1:59.58 мс 819
50m: 27.92 27.92 100m: 58.26 30.34 150m: 1:29.19 30.93 200m: 1:59.58 30.39
7. TRETYAKOV Nikita 1999 мс Udmurtia 2:01.16 мс 788
50m: 28.30 28.30 100m: 59.01 30.71 150m: 1:30.44 31.43 200m: 2:01.16 30.72
8. SOROKIN Igor 1994 мс Moscow City 2:02.43 мс 763
50m: 28.19 28.19 100m: 59.01 30.82 150m: 1:30.50 31.49 200m: 2:02.43 31.93
Финал B
1. TATARENKO Pavel 1999 мс Volgograd Region 2:02.44 мс 763
50m: 28.18 28.18 100m: 59.44 31.26 150m: 1:31.13 31.69 200m: 2:02.44 31.31
2. STUPIN Maksim 2000 мс Moscow City 2:03.03 мс 752
50m: 28.52 28.52 100m: 59.76 31.24 150m: 1:31.43 31.67 200m: 2:03.03 31.60
3. ARTAMONOV Artem 1998 мс St. Petersburg 2:03.78 мс 739
50m: 28.97 28.97 100m: 1:00.13 31.16 150m: 1:32.27 32.14 200m: 2:03.78 31.51
4. GULYAEV Sergei 1998 мс KHMAO-Yugra 2:06.59 мс 691
50m: 28.59 28.59 100m: 59.96 31.37 150m: 1:32.74 32.78 200m: 2:06.59 33.85
5. MYS Dmitry 1998 мс St. Petersburg 2:07.84 мс 671
50m: 29.44 29.44 100m: 1:00.93 31.49 150m: 1:34.35 33.42 200m: 2:07.84 33.49
6. KARASEV Gleb 1999 мс Tatarstan 2:09.75 кмс 641
50m: 28.84 28.84 100m: 1:00.94 32.10 150m: 1:35.20 34.26 200m: 2:09.75 34.55
7. EREMIN Ilya 1999 мс Penza Region 2:10.77 кмс 626
50m: 29.43 29.43 100m: 1:01.70 32.27 150m: 1:36.20 34.50 200m: 2:10.77 34.57
DNS MELNIK Bogdan 1999 кмс Sevastopol

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