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Anastasia Kirpichnikova; Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

Kirpichnikova dominated the 1500 free to lap her nearest challenger and win by almost 40 seconds in 15:58.98, well inside the cut for Tokyo where the event will make its debut on the women’s programme.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old – who represented Russia at the 2019 worlds – has already booked her spot in the 400 free and her performance in the longest race cut almost 10secs off her heat time of 16:08.18.<\/p>\n

On the start lists they give the Russian record as Kirpichnikova’s heat time which she subsequently lowered.<\/p>\n

However, she swam 15:53.18 at the French Elite Championships<\/strong> in December.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Khailova<\/strong> was second in 16:38.77.<\/p>\n

A second 100 of 60.52 propelled Alexander Kudashev<\/strong> to victory and a Tokyo ticket in the 200 fly.<\/p>\n

Aleksandr Pribytok<\/strong> – who had registered the fastest time in the semis – was second home in 1:56.92 but he was outside the cut.<\/p>\n

Veronika Andrusenko<\/strong> came from fifth at the final turn to win the women’s 200 free although her time of 1:57.97 was outside the 1:57.28 required for Tokyo, despite a final 50 of 29.37.<\/p>\n

Anastasia Guzenkova<\/strong> was next home in 1:58.54 with Anna Egorova<\/strong> – who set a Russian record en-route to 400fr gold<\/a> – third in 1:58.77.<\/p>\n

Anastasia Sorokina<\/strong> – who had toppled the Russian 400IM junior record that had stood since 1984 on the first finals session<\/a> –\u00a0won the 200IM in 2:13.12.<\/p>\n

It was though outside the standard for Tokyo.<\/p>\n

In the last final of the session, a Moscow quartet won the men’s 4x200fr in 7:12.21.<\/p>\n

Balandin And Chupkov Through In 200Br<\/h3>\n
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Anton Chupkov: Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n
Reigning Olympic champion Dmitriy Balandin<\/strong> of Kazakhstan led the way in the 200br semis in 2:08.42 ahead of world record-holder Anton Chupkov<\/strong> (2:08.54) and 100br winner Kirill Prigoda<\/strong> (2:08.84).<\/p>\n
Russian record holder Svetlana Chimrova<\/strong> set the fastest time in the semis of the women’s 200 fly in 2:09.25.<\/p>\n
Alexandra Sabitova<\/strong> was second through in 2:09.67, breaking the Russian junior record of 2:10.60 set by Maria Bulakhova<\/strong> in 2004 with the then 15-year-old competing at the Athens Olympics that same year.<\/p>\n
It was the second junior record of the meet for Sabitova who lowered the 100 fly mark to 57.96<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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