{"id":451084,"date":"2020-10-28T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=451084"},"modified":"2020-10-28T12:18:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:18:53","slug":"vaskina-flies-to-national-50m-record-in-26-25-chupkov-seals-double-at-russian-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vaskina-flies-to-national-50m-record-in-26-25-chupkov-seals-double-at-russian-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Chupkov Seals Breaststroke Double With 2:07.32 Over 200 At Russian Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anton Chupkov <\/strong>completed the breaststroke double with victory by almost three seconds over 200m at the Russian Championships in Kazan.<\/p>\n

There was another notable performance for 15-year-old Evgenia Chikunova<\/strong> in the 100 breaststroke while Daniil Shatalov<\/strong> and Mikhail Dovgaluk <\/strong>provided more evidence of Russian strength in the 4×200, including an anchor leg of 1:45.18 by the former in a club race.<\/p>\n

Chupkov, the Olympic bronze medallist, had lowered his own national 100m record to 58.83 on Monday<\/a> and he returned to the Aquatics Palace on Wednesday to take the 200m in 2:07.32.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Singapore Swimming Federation<\/p><\/div>\n

Chupkov, who set the world record of 2:06.12 en-route to his second world title at the 2019 worlds, led from the off with an opening 50 of 29.64. His splits thereafter were metronomic: 32.92\/32.20\/32.56.<\/p>\n

Alexander Palatov<\/strong> and Ilya Khomenko<\/strong> shared the runners-up places as they did over 100m but with the positions reversed.<\/p>\n

Palatov was second in 2:10.22 with Khomenko moving from fifth to third on the final 5o in 2:10.52.<\/p>\n

Russian Championships Results<\/a><\/p>\n

Chikunova Goes 1:06; Shatalov Underlines Russian Strength<\/h3>\n

Chikunova’s star continues to rise with the teenager winning the 100m breaststroke with some ease.<\/p>\n

Out in 31.81 and back in 34.82 to touch in 1:06.63 – exactly a second quicker than the time that secured bronze at the 2019 European Junior Championships.<\/p>\n

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Evgenia Chikunova – Photo Courtesy: FINA \/ Budapest 2019<\/p><\/div>\n

It meant double gold so far in Kazan for Chikunova following her 50m victory with the silver medallist over the one-length race Maria Temnikova<\/strong> again second in 1:07.28.<\/p>\n

Olympic silver medallist and Russian record holder Yulia Efimova<\/strong> is not competing in Kazan because of travel and quarantine measures applied in light of the pandemic which means she did not travel from her California base.<\/p>\n

Shatalov<\/strong> anchored a Moscow club 4×200 quartet to victory in 1:45.18 – swifter than Martin Malyutin’<\/strong>s time of 1:45.42 that guided Russia to second at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju.<\/p>\n

Dovgaluk<\/strong> had swum the lead-off in 1:46.39 before Alexander Egorov<\/strong> (1:48.38) and Nikita Danilov<\/strong> (1:48.41) handed over to Shatalov who brought them home in 7:08.36.<\/p>\n

Ivan Kuzmenko<\/strong> won the 50 free in 22.21 – with 0.15 separating the first three – ahead of Daniel Markov<\/strong> (22.28) and Eugene Sedov<\/strong> (22.36).<\/p>\n

Daria Vaskina<\/strong> won the 50 fly in 26.25,\u00a0Valeria Salamantina<\/strong> won the women’s 400 free in 4:10.58 and Anna Chernysheva took the 200IM in 2:14.15.<\/p>\n

Grigory Tarasevich\u00a0<\/strong>added the 50 back to the 100 title he won on Monday in 24.77.<\/p>\n

Andrei Minakov<\/strong> headed the men’s 50 fly semis in 23.05 ahead of world silver medallist Oleg Kostin<\/strong> (23.30) with Daria Vaskina<\/strong> leading the women’s 50 back semis in 28.79.<\/p>\n

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