{"id":654492,"date":"2026-10-05T06:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=654492"},"modified":"2026-10-05T06:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:04:34","slug":"asian-record-for-michel-arkhangelskiy-a-potential-arrival-for-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/asian-record-for-michel-arkhangelskiy-a-potential-arrival-for-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Record for Michel Arkhangelskiy a Potential Arrival for Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Asian Record for Michel Arkhangelskiy a Potential Arrival for Bahrain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of countries you don\u2019t expect to see on the international podium at last week\u2019s Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>There was Chinese Taipei with 200 butterflier <strong>Wang Kuan-hung,<\/strong> though it wasn\u2019t his first time on the Asian Games podium. There was Kyrgyzstan with breaststroker <strong>Denis Petrashov,<\/strong> though he has medaled at the World Championships and made an Olympic semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>And then there was Bahrain. With a swimmer whose name is not very Bahraini. Though it is an indication of Bahrain\u2019s global swimming ambitions for this Olympic quad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michel Arkhangelskiy<\/strong> made waves by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/asian-games-day-five-finals-shin-ohashi-rips-wr-in-200-breaststroke-china-pops-asian-record-in-400-freestyle-relay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winning the men\u2019s 50 butterfly<\/a> in 22.91, the first swimming medal for the island kingdom. It\u2019s the second time that Arkhangelskiy has posted that time, doing so at the French Championships in June. That erased the Asian record set by Singapore\u2019s <strong>Joseph Schooling<\/strong> of 22.93 from the 2017 World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Arkhangelskiy has had a long journey to the international stage. He was raised in France, calling Nice home. His father was born in Kazakhstan, his mother in Eastern Russia, both fleeing that country and unable to return. He was not given eligibility to represent France, and going to either of hits parents\u2019 homes was not politically feasible.<\/p>\n<p>So Arkhangelskiy looked for another option during a college career in the United States that included stops at Florida State and the University of California. Which brought him to Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was waiting for a long time and at one point I was \u200bjust disappointed,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/frustrated-with-france-arkhelangskiy-savours-asian-games-gold-adopted-bahrain-2026-09-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <em>Reuters<\/em> last week<\/a>. &#8220;I was pissed off about all this, all the politics, because you know it&#8217;s quite difficult to be the son of a political refugee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It has worked out well for Arkhangelskiy. He got to swim at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Games in May, chopping a second off the national record in the 50 free and nearly two seconds off the 100. He trimmed the 50 back record \u2013 though that no longer exists; more on that later \u2013 as well as the 50 fly and 100 fly marks. The latter was seven seconds quicker than the national mark that <strong>Ahmed Helal<\/strong> posted at the 2025 Arab Championships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have all the \u200bbest conditions to swim \u2060for &#8230; everything is covered so I&#8217;m in the best condition to perform \u2013 as you see with the Asian Games gold medal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Arkhangelskiy is not alone. Also representing Bahrain at the Asian Games was <strong>Stephan Goncharov,<\/strong> who was born in Tonso, Russia. He\u2019s swum collegiately in the United States at Pitt and LSU. He undercut Arkhangelskiy\u2019s national mark in the 50 back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsofbahrain.com\/sports\/141801.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by taking fourth place<\/a> at the Asian Games. Also in the water for Bahrain <a href=\"https:\/\/gccgames.qa\/frontend\/sport\/Swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the GCC Games<\/a> was <strong>Rob Bonsall,<\/strong> who swam at the Australian Swimming Trials in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Swimming has had an odd history with nationality changes. The closest brush to controversy in this era came two decades ago when sprinter <strong>Duje Draganja,<\/strong> who won a silver medal in the men\u2019s 50 free in the 2004 Athens Olympics, flirted with changing his representation from Croatia to Qatar. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/draganja-to-remain-in-croatian-colors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">optics of that deal torpedoed it<\/a>, a pretty clear pay-for-play agreement. The journey that Arkhangelskiy has taken is more circuitous than that. 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His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com","https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Arkhangelskiy.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-2Kgk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654547,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654492\/revisions\/654547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}