{"id":392059,"date":"2019-08-25T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=392059"},"modified":"2019-08-25T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:18:43","slug":"andrei-minakov-lani-pallister-named-swimmers-of-the-meet-at-world-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/andrei-minakov-lani-pallister-named-swimmers-of-the-meet-at-world-juniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Minakov, Lani Pallister Named Swimmers of the Meet at World Juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"

FINA World Junior Swimming Championships (Andrei Minakov, Lani Pallister)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Budapest 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Day Six Finals (Swimmers of the Meet)<\/em><\/p>\n

The 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships came to a close on Sunday night in Budapest, Hungary as Russia’s\u00a0Andrei Minakov\u00a0<\/strong>and Australia’s\u00a0Lani Pallister\u00a0<\/strong>were named as swimmers of the championships by FINA. Minakov won three gold medals and four silver medals as the 17-year-old won golds in the 100 fly and 100 free, and also swam butterfly on Russia’s 4×100 medley relay. Pallister won three gold medals and three silvers as she won all three distance races from 400 to 1500.<\/p>\n

Andrei Minakov, Russia<\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: FINA \/ Budapest 2019<\/p><\/div>\n

Russia’s Minakov did not break any world junior records individually but did win the most medals of any male swimmer in the meet. His highlight of the week was when he swam the butterfly leg on Russia’s world junior record setting 4×100 medley relay to close out the meet on Sunday night. That relay gold spoiled the US’ attempt at sweeping all eight relays on the program as the Russians were able to win gold there after winning the silver in five of the relays. Minakov won individual golds in the 100 fly and 100 free and also won silver in the 50 fly. He was on three of Russia’s silver medal winning relay teams.<\/p>\n