2023 Belarus Open Swim Championships
- April 4 to 8, 2023
- LCM (50m)
- Brest, Belarus
- Live Results
In prelims on day three of the 2023 Belarus Open Swim Championships, Belarusian swimmer Ilya Shymanovich clocked a time of 26.28 in the 50-meter breast to become the second-fastest performer of all-time. Later in the day, he went 28.51 in semi-finals and 26.65 to win finals, with both the semis and finals coming in the same session.
The only swimmer in history who has been faster than Shymanovich in the 50 breast is world record holder Adam Peaty, who holds a best time of 25.95 and has recorded six different performances that either matched or beat out what Shymanovich just went.
All-Time Top Performers, Men’s 50-Meter Breaststroke
- Adam Peaty, Great Britain — 25.95 (2017)
- Ilya Shymanovich, Belarus — 26.28 (2023)
- Felipa Lima, Brazil (2019)/Nicolo Martinenghi, Italy (2022) – 26.33
- None
- Joao Gomes Junior, Brazil (2019) — 26.42 (2019)
Prior to this swim, Shymanovich’s personal best was a 26.45 from last year, which had him tied with Nic Fink as the #6 performer of all-time.
Shymanovich will also be racing finals of 100 breast in the Belarus Open championship on Friday. He was the top seed out of prelims, clocking a 1:01.14 and negative splitting his race 30.76/30.38.
Shymanovich is the current World Record holder in the 100 breaststroke in short course meters.
Despite becoming the top 50 breaststroker in the world right now, Shymanovich probably will not be getting much competition this year, with World Aquatics announcing on Wednesday that they would not be making a decision on Russian and Belarusian participation in World Aquatics-organized events until July, which is the same month as the 2023 World Championships. Currently, Russia and Belarusian athletes remain banned indefinitely from LEN and World Aquatics-sanctioned events.
There is a possibility that Shymanovich will be able to compete at the 2023 Asian Games starting this September, as Russia and Belarus received an invite from Olympic Council of Asia to participate in the competition.
Al romper el agua con una ventaja tan larga (casi un cuerpo) da lugar a sospechar que hace trampa. Si en realidad su estilo fuera tan dominante a lo largo de los 50 metros, la diferencia se incrementaría aún más y eso no sucede.
Trust me, he’s good within his stroke cycle. It’s been dissected quite a bit with the underwater cameras.
Want to have more questions about breaststrokers? Watch the videos going INTO the walls…….
I really don’t understand the accusations here, there isn’t proof in the video that he did dolphin kicks illegally. Has he ever been caught doing kicks in the past?
All these downvotes and snide comments and yet no one can provide any evidence. Where is this disrespect for the Italian or Brazilian breaststrokers who have routinely been caught sneaking in extra kicks?
Narrator: they are also cheaters.
Man’s doing dolphin dives….
Shymanovich’s kick is legal. It’s just the natural progression of the narrow kick that’s dominated the sprint breaststroke for the past half decade. As far as I’ve seen, he’s also kept his pullout legal to one kick but if anyone’s got any video evidence of him doing otherwise I’ll switch up.
One of the comments on an NCAA recap said that guys like Whitley and Marchand swim at many high level meets and are not disqualified so their technique must be valid. Why is this benefit of the doubt not offered to Shymanovich?
Dolphinovich strikes again.
Here’s the video if anyone’s interested (with commentary from Swimsuit Guy):
https://youtu.be/YAeUujf4jUE
When even military state propaganda thinks it wouldn’t be believable for you to beat one of Peaty’s WRs