2024 RUSSIAN SWIMMING CUP
- Tuesday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 28th
- Yekaterinburg, Russia
- LCM (50m)
- Entries/Results
While athletes around the world are descending upon Paris, France for the 2024 Olympic Games, Russian swimmers are getting prepared to race at the Russian Swimming Cup.
Taking place July 23rd through July 28th, the Russian Swimming Cup in Yekaterinburg is an opportunity for the nation’s swimmers to showcase their talents outside of the Games where they are not allowed to compete as a nation.
As a refresher, US-based Russian swimmer Yuliya Efimova was among athletes granted permission to race in Paris as ‘individual neutral athletes.’ However, 32-year-old Efimova missed nabbing a qualification time in order to do so.
Instead, she is among swimmers taking full advantage of the domestic racing opportunity, along with big guns Evgeny Rylov, Kliment Kolesnikov and Evgenia Chikunova who are entered in multiple events at the competition.
Below are key entries and be sure to look for daily recaps once action gets underway.
Notable Men’s Entries
- Ilya Borodin – 200m free, 200m/400m IM
- Ivan Girev – 50m/100m/200m free
- Vladislav Grinev – 50m/100m/200m free
- Kliment Kolesnikov – 50m/100m free, 50m/100m back
- Egor Kornev – 50m/100m free, 50m fly
- Oleg Kostin – 50m/100m/200m breast
- Miron Lifincev – 50m free, 50m/100m/200m back
- Martin Malyutin – 200m/400m free
- Kirill Martynychev – 800m/1500m free
- Andri Minakov – 50m/100m/200m free, 50m/100m fly
- Kirill Prigoda – 50m/100m/200m breast
- Pavel Samusenko – 50m/100m free, 50m/100m back, 100m fly
- Dmitrii Savenko – 50m/100m/200m back
- Evgeny Rylov -50m/100m/200m back
Key Women’s Entries
- Evgenia Chikunova – 50m/100m/200m breast
- Yuliya Efimova – 50m/100m/200m breast, 200m IM
- Arina Surkova – 50m/100m free, 50m/100m fly
- Daria Ustinova – 50m/100m/200m free, 50m/100m/200m back
- Daria Vaskina – 50m/100m back, 50m/100m fly
Would love to see someone swim faster than a gold medal Paris swim
Russia has a state-sponsored doping system. What makes anyone hoping for a faster than Paris swim think that any of these athletes is clean?
I hope we get to see videos of Chikunova swims
Finals sessions will be streamed on the RusSwimming website.
https://russwimming.ru/competitions/kubok-rossii-po-plavaniyu-final-2024/#comp-streams
Thank you!
If Evgeny “Z” (nobody likes you) Rylov is the lone 1:53 in the 200 back this year the world will end immediately
This is basically going to be their Olympics so I want to see what the Kolesnikov can throw down
Watch Chikunova beat the Olympic winning time by 1.5 seconds
Meanwhile in Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/21/i-felt-the-water-tremble-ukraines-olympic-swimmers-train-as-bombs-fall
Hope they enjoy sitting at the kids table
Better than swimming in the kiddies pool.
Watch them break some WRs and have our heads spin.