2019 LEN EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, December 4th – Sunday, December 8th
- Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
- SCM
- Entry List
- Competition Schedule
- Live Results
- Results Documents
- Live Video – LEN TV
The Russians are responsible for the first World Record of the 2019 European Short Course Swimming Championships, coming on the 2nd day of competition. Swimming in the final of the mixed 200 medley relay on Thursday, the Russian foursome of Kliment Kolesnikov, Vlad Morozov, Arina Surkova, and Maria Kameneva combined to swim a 1:36.22.
That broke the old World Record of 1:36.40 that was set at the 2018 World Short Course Championships by an American relay that included Olivia Smoliva, Michael Andrew, Kelsi Dahlia, and Caeleb Dressel.
Comparative Splits:
|
New World Record
|
Old World Record
|
||
| Swimmers | Russia | Swimmers | United States |
| Back – Kliment Kolesnikov | 22.67 | Olivia Smoliga | 25.85 |
| Breast – Vlad Morozov | 25.40 | Michael Andrew | 25.75 |
| Fly – Arina Surkova | 24.94 | Kelsi Dahlia | 24.71 |
| Free – Maria Kameneva | 23.21 | Caeleb Dressel | 20.09 |
| 1:36.22 | 1:36.40 |
The Russians used the more traditional male-male-female-female lineup in their record-setting swim, as compared to the Americans who cobbled together the best available group at that year’s Short Course Worlds. The Russian relay included Vlad Morozov, who on Wednesday broke the European Record in the 50 breaststroke in short course meters (25.51), and Maria Kameneva, who earlier in the session broke the Russian Record in the 100 back (but swam freestyle on the relay).
“We have a team with the best specialists in each stroke,” Morozov said after his team’s win. “Still, you never know what can happen in this type of race – though today everything has happened as planned.”
Kolesnikov’s swim was within a tenth of a second of Evgeny Rylov’s Russian Record from last year’s World Short Course Championships.
The swim broke all of these Records in the process:
- World Record – 1:36.40, United States, 2018
- Championship Record – 1:37.71, Netherlands, 2017
- European Record – 1:37.05, Netherlands – 2018
- Russian Record – 1:37.33, Kolesnikov, Kostin, Nasretdinova, Kamenega – 2018
Vlad is the king of all the nonessential events
While this is true…he also does the 50 and 100 free at a very high level
If by high level you mean underwhelming at all major international meets then sure
He’s making a pretty nice living out of it though.
MA is jealous
Dressel had a 20.09 relay split? Bruh. I would love to see him do something like that at the ISL.
Just wait for Vegas
Not many USA records in SCM. Couple relays and Lochte come to mind
USA barley does scm because we use scy more.
they still won a lot of relays in dec last year ……
Mixed medley is such a fun event from a strategy perspective. Would’ve loved to see these two head-to-head
This is only the beginning of the Russian take over💪
Why only one hand of strong body is shown in your post? Is it female and you just don’t want to get censored showing whole picture. 😀 Since you use the same icon when referring to the Mother Russia I’m getting confused: is it Russian females you believe will take over entire swimming world?
yozhik to english translation please? why is one arm indicative of female?
While I dislike yozhik as much as anybody, he didn’t say that one arm is indicative of female. My translation would be; the original comment has this „💪“ emoji in it and they are talking about „mother Russia“, so more or less a female. Then he mentions how the rest of the body (presumably naked, like the arm is too) would be censored.
I read only the first sentence until the comma sign and immediately gave you the + vote….
you mispelled “end”… the ban is coming comrade. it will be a cold winter.
I read headline and was thinking which russian couldve single-handedly broken this record, especially since it was mixed medley
Russia hey?!