Comparing Winning Russian Times To Those Of Olympics With Cash At Stake

2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES

We made it through the 4th day of finals at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France but still have 5 more days of action to unfold at La Défense Arena.

Throughout the Olympic competition, we’re keeping tabs on how the times hold up against the Russian Swimming Cup which concluded on Sunday, July 28th.

The primary reason is that Russian athletes, who are unable to race in Paris save for those competing as neutral athletes, were incentivized with a carrot of 2 million rubles (~$23,000 USD) from the Russian Swimming Federation should their winning time from the Cup beat that of their Olympic counterparts.

2024 Russian Swimming Cup Results

Through the events completed in Paris thus far, just one Russian athlete’s winning time outperformed that of her Olympic counterpart’s. That came in the form of Evgenia Chikunova‘s 1:05.26 in the women’s 100m breaststroke.

The 19-year-old Russian’s outing was .02 faster than what South African Tatjana Smith (nee Schoenmaker) put up for gold in Paris.

We’ll update this once additional swims have transpired at the Olympics.

 

Event Winning Time at Russian Swimming Cup
Winning Time at 2024 Olympic Games
Men’s
50m free 21.70 – Egor Kornev
100m free 47.82 – Egor Kornev
200m free 1:46.13 – Martin Malyutin 1:44.72 – David Popovici (ROU)
400m free 3:49.22 – Saveliy Luzin 3:41.79 – Lukas Maertens (GER)
800m free 8:13.92 – Maxim Kozyr 7:38.91 – Daniel Wiffen (IRL)
1500m free 16:08.81 – Vadim Mannapov
100m back 52.52 – Miron Lifincev 52.00 – Thomas Ceccon (ITA)
200m back 1:54.63 – Evgeny Rylov
100m breast 59.54 – Ivan Kozhakin 59.03 – Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA)
200m breast 2:09.08 – Mikhail Dorinov
100m fly 51.31 – Roman Shevlyakov
200m fly 1:56.24 – Aleksandr Kudashev
200m IM 1:56.75 – Ilya Borodin
400m IM 4:11.71 – Ilya Borodin 4:02.95 – Leon Marchand (FRA)
Women’s
50m free 24.61 – Arina Surkova
100m free 53.36 – Daria Klepikova
200m free 1:59.51 – Polina Nevmovenko 1:53.27 – Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS)
400m free 4:05.16 – Sophia Diakova 3:57.49 – Ariarne Titmus (AUS)
800m free 8:32.43 – Sophia Diakova
1500m free 17:02.12 – Anastasia Kuvichko
100m back 59.87 – Alina Gayfutdinova 57.33 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS)
200m back 2:12.50 – Daria Ustinova
100m breast 1:05.26 – Evgenia Chikunova 1:05.28 – Tatjana Smith (RSA)
200m breast 2:18.98 – Evgenia Chikunova
100m fly 58.25 – Daria Klepikova 55.59 – Torri Huske (USA)
200m fly 2:10.89 – Anastasia Markova
200m IM 2:14.49 – Yana Shakirova
400m IM 4:47.26 – Daria Rogozhinova 4:27.71 – Summer McIntosh (CAN)

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Swimmer.thingz
2 months ago

Double cash for Chikunova!

MarchandApologist
2 months ago

Most impressive day ever, I do not care.

The unoriginal Tim
2 months ago

Looks like 4 million rubles for Chikunova.

Bob
2 months ago

Russia hates distance swimming. We should send them Lia as a goodwill gesture.

swimster
2 months ago

their pool is slower than our pool?

Nick B
2 months ago

They should’ve allowed Chikunova to swim in Paris. Just pay her a ton of under the table money to say she doesn’t like vodka, AKs, and Adidas tracksuits. Doesn’t have to say anything about the war or the Russian government. She is the Russian swimmer we’re missing the most. Rylov….not missed….obviously.

Dan
Reply to  Nick B
2 months ago

What does Adidas have to do with anything, isn’t that a German company?

Nick B
Reply to  Dan
2 months ago
Last edited 2 months ago by Nick B
There's no doubt that he's tightening up
2 months ago

Katie Ledecky faster than the Russian men in distance free

YellowSubMarine

I like this stat

Oleg
2 months ago

Why would we care about Russian times. ? Ban and forget about them

Aragon Son of Arathorne
Reply to  Oleg
2 months ago

I used to think this way but they aren’t all doping, and many of them are actually great people that silently DO NOT support the war.

Agree they should be banned right now.

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