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Kliment Kolesnikov Wins Three Events at Impressive Russian Championships Kliment Kolesnikov showed himself to be in fine form at the Russian Championships last week in Kazan, winning three events. The two-time Olympic medalist displayed his versatility by winning the men’s 50 freestyle, 50 backstrok...

Evgeniia Chikunova of Russia broke the world junior record in the 200 breast in short course meters on Saturday at the Salnikov Cup in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Chikunova swam a 2:17.71 to break her won world junior record that she set last month at 2:18.59. She won ahead of sister Daria (2:20.75) a...

ISL Match 8 Notes: MVP Caeleb Dressel Everywhere Condors Need Him to Be There are two ways to view the MVP race in the International Swimming League, the quantity lens or the quality lens. With swimmers like Lilly King or Siobhan Haughey, with well-defined specialties over stroke or distance, it’s a...

Russian Championships: Andrei Minakov Lowers His 100 Fly National Record Andrei Minakov lowered his Russian record in the men’s 100 butterfly on Tuesday, the third day of the Russian National Championships. The highlight of Wednesday’s action in Kazan, Day 4 of the six-day meet, brought a second imp...

The third day of the Russian Solidarity Games concluded in Kazan with Andrei Nikolaev's 26.86 in the 50 breaststroke the most notable performance. Results Days 1 & 2 wrap Nikolaev's time was 0.20 outside his national record of 26.66 from April and would have secured him fourth at the recent World Ch...

ISL Semi Final 1: Energy Standard & London Roar in Tussle The ISL post season continued Sunday from Budapest with last year's top two - Energy Standard and the London Roar meeting for the first time since coming down to the Skins in last year's Las Vegas final. Energy won with a comfortable margin t...

Arina Surkova Downs National Fly Records As Russian Short-Course Championships Conclude Arina Surkova set two national records as the Russian Short-Course Championships ended in St Petersburg on Saturday. Link to results Four-time European short-course relay champion Surkova set Russian standards of...

Russian Short-Course Championships came to a close in Kazan today with a hint of the potential of 15-year-old Eugenia Chikunova, who took the 200m breaststroke in 2:18.59 ahead of a rival nine years her senior, Maria Temnikova, on 2:19.73. Chikonova had entered the race with a best of 2:26.17 from a...

Kliment Kolesnikov swam the joint second-fastest 50 backstroke in history before returning to claim the 50 free title on day four of the Russian Championships in Kazan. Arina Surkova lowered her own Russian 50 fly record to 25.61, taking 0.01 off the previous mark of 25.62 she set in November 2019 a...

Russia's Vladislav Grinev had the swim of the day on Saturday at the FINA World Cup in Kazan as he swam a 47.78 in the 100 free to break the meet record of 47.88 set by Vladimir Morozov earlier this year in Singapore. Grinev took down Morozov as the World Cup leader settled for second here with a 48...

Anton Chupkov won the 100m breaststroke in 59.79 as he stopped the clock 0.01secs ahead of Kirill Prigoda at the Russian Swimming Cup. Prigoda had taken gold over four lengths on Saturday, touching first in 2:07.58 ahead of the fast-finishing Chupkov. Roles were reversed in the final session of the ...

Budapest 2024, Day 2 Finals: Neutral Athletes Set European Record in Mixed 200 Medley Relay The return to competition of athletes from Russia and Belarus showed its impact on Wednesday at the 2024 World Short-Course Championships, with the Neutral Athletes winning the mixed 200 medley relay to cap t...

Kliment Kolesnikov set a Russian 100 backstroke record of 52.42 and Anna Egorova dismantled the national 400 free mark by almost two seconds in 4:04.10 at the Russian Swimming Championship which doubles as the Olympic trials in Kazan. Arina Surkova and Svetlana Chimrova both made the cut for Tokyo i...

The 2019 Russian Championships featured plenty of fast swimming from many of the country’s top performers, but it was a record on the final night that stole the show this week in Moscow. Arina Surkova set the Russian record in the 50 fly with a swim of 25.85 in the final session. She was one of 29 s...

Andrei Nikolaev set a national 50 breaststroke record of 26.66 and Arina Surkova claimed a golden double as the Russian Championships concluded in Kazan. Results Day five wrap Day four wrap Day three wrap Nikolaev took 0.06 off the previous mark of 26.72 set by Kirill Prigoda at the 2019 World Champ...

Budapest 2024, Day 2 Finals: Gretchen Walsh Caps Record Run with Gold in 50 Fly Gretchen Walsh packed a loaded meet into the first day of the 2024 Short-Course World Championships in Budapest Tuesday. Wednesday didn’t bring a fourth world record of the meet. But it did secure individual gold. Walsh ...

Ilya Borodin lowered his own national 400IM record to 4:09.86 at the Russian Championships in Kazan. Results Day four wrap Day three wrap Borodin set the previous mark of 4:10.02 en-route to gold at last year's European Championships in Budapest, a time that still stands as a world junior record. Th...

Andrei Minakov set a European junior short-course 100 fly record of 50.12 as he claimed two silver medals on day two of the Vladimir Salnikov Cup in St Petersburg. Minakov split 23.45/26.67 to take a sliver of 0.01 off his own mark from 2018 as he took second behind, 0.03 behind Mikhail Vekovishchev...

Something has to give in ISL Match Eight: Both the Cali Condors and London Roar enter their third match of the International Swimming League without a loss to their records. The teams are tied for second in the season standings with eight points each, trailing only LA Current (which has the benefit ...

World Cup, Kazan Russia's Anton Chupkov has seemed to master the 200 breaststroke the last few years since winning the world title in 2017. He had the fastest time in the world in 2018 and nearly broke the world record at the European Championships. He broke that world record this summer at the Worl...