Honored Master of Sports of Russia, a multiple champion of Europe and the world Kirill Prigoda received the right to become the standard-bearer of the Russian team at the opening of the 2019 Universiade, the Russian Federation announced.
The opening ceremony of the Universiade 2019 will be held in Naples on July 3. Competitions swimmers in the 50-meter pool, which is attended by 660 athletes from 72 countries around the world, will start on July 4 and will last until July 10.
At student games will be played 222 sets of awards in 18 sports. The Russian national team at the Universiade-2019 consisted of 275 athletes, of which 31 are swimmer, led by Kirill Prigoda.
The Russian Swimming Federation named its team for the 2019 World University Games in Naples, Italy this summer. They will send 18 men and 13 women to the Games that will start July 3-14. The biggest names in attendance for Russia are probably 2017 World Championship bronze medalist Kirill Prigoda and 2016 Olympian Grigory Tarasevich, who swam collegiately at the University of Louisville.
2017 World Juniors silver medalist (100 fly) Egor Kuimov will also be in attendance at the Games along with World Juniors bronze medalist (200 free) Irina Krivonogova and 2018 Youth Olympic Games gold medalists Daniel Markov (50 free, 50 fly) and Polina Egorova (100 fly).
2018 European Juniors gold medalist (400 IM) Maxim Stupin is also on the team for the Russian team.
Joining Kirill Prigoda, the Russian Swimming Federation named its team for the World Championships.
Men’s Roster
- Maxim Ablovatsky (Novosibirsk region)
- Vladimir Dubinin (Moscow)
- Ilya Khomenko (Rostov Region)
- Alexander Kudashev (Samara Region)
- Vladimir Kudryashov (Kemerovo Region)
- Egor Kuimov (Republic of Tatarstan)
- Ivan Kuzmenko (Volgograd Region)
- Roman Larin (Penza region)
- Semen Makovich (Moscow)
- Ernest Maksumov (Republic of Tatarstan)
- Daniel Markov (Novosibirsk region)
- Anton Nikitin (St. Petersburg)
- Mark Nikolaev (Leningrad Region)
- Kirill Prigoda (St. Petersburg)
- Alexander Sadovnikov (Volgograd region st)
- Nikolay Snegirev (Moscow)
- Maxim Stupin (Moscow)
- Grigory Tarasevich (Republic of Tatarstan)
Women’s Roster
- Maria Baklakova (Perm Territory)
- Vasilissa Buinaia (Nizhny Novgorod Region)
- Daria Chikunova (St. Petersburg)
- Alexandra Denisenko (St. Petersburg)
- Polina Egorova (Republic of Bashkortostan)
- Klevanovich Elizaveta (Tyumen Region)
- Nikon Godun (Moscow)
- Irina Krivonogova (Samara Region)
- Rosalia Nasretdinova (Moscow)
- Anastasia Osipenko (Krasnoyarsk Territory)
- Irina Prikhodko (Republic of Tatarstan)
- Sofya Spodarko (Tyumen Region)
- Ksenia Vasilyonok (Novgorod Region)
Reserves:
- Nikita Korolev (Republic of Tatarstan)
- Natalia Mozhina (Irkutsk Region)
- Alexander Fedorov (St. Petersburg)
- Roman Shevlyakov (St. Petersburg)
- Daniel Semyaninov (Moscow)
- Evgenii Somov (St. Petersburg)
- Peter Zhikharev (Moscow)
