World Aquatics Bureau <\/strong>on the cusp of the worlds in Fukuoka on a potential pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to be invited to compete at future international aquatics events as individual neutral athletes.<\/p>\nZheltyakov served notice of his intentions in the semis when he set a national mark of 1:56.49 for his first voyage inside 1:57.<\/p>\n
Come the final and he propelled himself to fourth in the rankings, 0.76 off Ryan Murphy’<\/strong>s world lead of 1:55.03 from the US trials.<\/p>\nEvgeny Rylov<\/strong> currently stands second in the rankings with 1:55.50 from the Russian Championships but he’ll not be competing at the World Championships given Russia are still banned from international competition.<\/p>\nIt sliced 0.04 from Kliment Kolesnikov’<\/strong>s championship record of 1:55.83 set at the Helsinki edition in 2018 with the Russian’s world and European junior mark 1:55.14 still intact for now.<\/p>\nIt was Zheltyakov’s first gold medal in three editions of European Juniors following 50 back silver earlier in the week, second-place finishes in the 100, 200 and medley relay at Otopeni 2022<\/strong> which followed 100 silver and two relay bronzes the previous year in Rome.<\/p>\nSplits:<\/strong> 27.23\/56.44\/1:26.24\/1:55.79<\/p>\nBehind him came Merlin Ficher<\/strong> of France in 1:57.15, Greek Apostolos Siskos<\/strong> (1:58.37) and John Shortt<\/strong>, who lowered his Irish record to 1:58.63.<\/p>\n2023 Rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n1:55.03: Ryan Murphy, US Trials, June 2023<\/p>\n
1:55.50: Evgeny Rylov, Russian Championships, April 2023<\/p>\n
1:55.63: Destin Lasco, US Trials, June 2023<\/p>\n
1:55.79: Oleksandr Zheltyakov, European Juniors, July 2023<\/p>\n
1:55.95: Bradley Woodward, Australian Trials, June 2023<\/p>\n
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