2021 Belarus Open
- Apr. 21-24, 2021
- FINA Olympic Qualifying Standards
- Brest, Belarus
- Meeting Info
- Live Results
The 2021 Belarus Open in Brest kicked off yesterday with its first of four finals session. Before the competition began, an opening ceremony was held to award 21 athletes with the sporting title of Master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus and the their corresponding badge. Presenting the awards were Nikolai Nikolaevich Glushenya, Brest regional executive head of the sports and tourism department, Yuri Romanovich Kuchuruk, Brest regional water sports director, and Sergei Vladislavovich Khozhempo, general secretary of the NGO “BFP”.
- Read more about the opening ceremony here.
Among the honorees was Ilya Shymanovich, who was recognized for his 100 breast SCM world record of 55.34 from the 2020 Belarusian Short Course Championships. Yesterday, Shymanovich qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with his winning time of 58.77, easily eclipsing the automatic qualification standard of 59.93. Shymanovich is now just one one-hundredth off the top five times in the world this season.
2020-2021 LCM Men 100 Breast
Peaty
57.37
| 2 | Arno Kamminga | NED | 57.80 | 07/24 |
| 3 | Michael Andrew | USA | 58.14 | 06/13 |
| 4 | Nicolo Martinenghi | ITA | 58.28 | 07/25 |
| 5 | Ilya Shymanovich | BLR | 58.46 | 05/17 |
| 6 | Nic Fink | USA | 58.50 | 06/13 |
Three Belarusian national junior records also went down on Wednesday night. In the women’s 50 breast, Angelina Malaschenko swam 31.86/31.85 in prelims and finals to go under Yulia Zubina‘s 2017 junior record of 31.93. Malaschenko took second in the final to Alina Zmushka‘s winning time of 31.02. Into the men’s 50 back, Ivan Buevich took down the national junior record in prelims at 25.52.
Buevich gained in finals and placed second at 26.08 to event winner Nikita Tsmyg‘s 24.86. Tsmyg now ranks just outside of the top five times in the world this season, now the second Belarusian to enter the world top ten.
2020-2021 LCM Men 50 Back
Kolesnikov
23.80
| 2 | Robert Glinta | ROU | 24.42 | 05/18 |
| 3 | Hugo Gonzalez | ESP | 24.47 | 05/18 |
| 4 | Apostolos Christou | GRE | 24.49 | 05/18 |
| 5 | Grigory Tarasevich | RUS | 24.66 | 04/03 |
| 6 | Mitch Larkin | AUS | 24.67 | 04/15 |
Then, Alesya Akinchits took down her 2020 national junior record in the 1500 free with a 17:11.54, dropping ten seconds from her former record of 17:21.51.
Picking up her second automatic Olympic qualifying cut was 18-year-old Anastasiya Shkurdai, whose winning 100 back time of 59.89 was under the 1:00.25 cut. Shkurdai swam her 100 fly lifetime best of 56.95 at the July 2020 Brest sprint meet. Shkurdai also won the
Russian Vladislav Grinev took the men’s 200 free title in Brest with a 1:48.84. Countryman Roman Shevlyakov touched out Belarus’ Evgenii Tsurkin for the men’s 100 fly title by 0.08s, 52.28 to 52.36.
Wild that 58 is now normal. Crazy that it might be required to make the Olympic final.
At first, I thought there was an error between the first two times (.39 for 1st then .37 for 2nd) and then I realized….
How many dolphin kicks?
Not enough apparently if he’s going 58.
I figured this would be the first comment, ha! Did he swim “butterstroke” or perhaps more appropriate “breastfly”
He can kick the whole 100 and still lose to the king peaty