Russia expands lead with 15 golds, 28 medals in Baku after day 4

The young Russian swim team continues to impress at the 2015 Baku European Games, expanding their lead in the medal counts after day 4.

It was a five-gold-medal performance for Russia on Friday, their best day in total golds so far, and they swept every final but one on the day, that being the men’s 200 back from Great Britain’s Luke Greenbank. The timed final men’s 800 free also went away from Russia, with Frenchman Nicolas D’Oriano taking the win.

Arina Openysheva won maybe the race of the night, topping the Netherlands’ Marrit Steenbergen by six tenths in the 200 free. Later in the night, Mariia Kameneva beat Steenbergen for gold in the 50 free.

Polina Egorova was the final female individual winner for Russia, taking the 100 fly.

On the boys side, Filipp Shopin won the 50 back, and both genders combined to take the 4×100 mixed medley relay with a team of Kameneva, Anton Chupkov, Daniil Pakhomov and Openysheva.

Chupkov and Pakhomov both have shots at gold tomorrow after leading semifinals of the 100 breast and 100 fly, respectively. Russia also won semifinals of the men’s 200 free and women’s 100 breast.

Rank	Country	Gold Medal	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal	Total
1	Russia	15	5	8	28
2	Great Britain	6	5	6	17
3	Germany	2	4	6	12
4	France	2	1	2	5
5	Austria	2	0	0	2
6	Italy	1	6	0	7
7	Netherlands	1	4	0	5
8	Ukraine	1	0	2	3
9	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
10	Spain	0	1	2	3
11	Greece	0	1	1	2
11	Hungary	0	1	1	2
13	Belarus	0	1	0	1
13	Croatia	0	1	0	1
13	Poland	0	1	0	1
16	Denmark	0	0	2	2
17	Israel	0	0	1	1
17	Serbia	0	0	1	1