2024 RUSSIAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, November 21st – Tuesday, November 26th
- St. Petersburg, Russia
- SCM (25m)
- Entries/Results
The 2024 Russian Short Course Championships are nearly upon us, with the action kicking off Thursday, November 21st from St. Petersburg.
Nearly 900 athletes across more than 70 regions of Russia are set to compete, vying for national titles and World Aquatics points, which factor into the overall male and female winners of cash prizes.
The competition, which spans six days, features a ‘who’s who’ of Russian swimming.
Backstroking ace Evgeny Rylov is set to make an appearance, although the 28-year-old Olympic medalist from Tokyo is entered solely in the men’s 200m back.
Versatile Kliment Kolesnikov is expected to race a packed schedule which includes the 100m free, 50m, back, 100m back and 100m IM.
Oleg Kostin, Ilya Borodin and Kirill Prigoda are also among the key men to watch as the meet unfolds.
As for the women, Olympic medalist Yuliya Efimova will take on her usual trio of breaststroke events but is also entered in the 100m and 200m IM races.
She’ll battle world record holder Evgenia Chikunova in all 3 breast events.
Additional females set to race include Arina Surkova, Svetlana Chimrova and Daria Ustinova.
While I understand the ban, if we’re being honest, Putin isn’t stopping his advance in Ukraine over if these athletes can compete or not. North Korea is still allowed to participate in international soccer competitions such as the World Cup (if they can qualify), why can’t Russia send their swimmers to a much less televised event? I don’t know I understand it but we’re missing out on some of the worlds best
I think it’s about a collective isolation of a bad actor. The further they’re isolated, the harder it becomes for them to influence the world, make friends, etc.
It’s less about what the ban will stop them from doing and more about what a not-ban will allow them to do.
At the end of the day, the IOC boiled it down to one very specific thing: if you’re going to annex other countries’ sporting organizations against their will (which Russia did), you can’t compete in international sport. I’m not gullible enough to believe that this was the baseline idea of the bans when they began, but it is a convincing final argument.
Why is Belarus banned then? I don’t think they annexed any other countries’ sporting organizations? It’s obvious they just ban whoever they want and find a rule to fit in.
Which sporting organisation did Belarus annex?
Totally agree. USA have basically sided with Russia at this point anyway and Israel are committing worse atrocities with zero consequences.
It’s nonsensical.
Efimova’s just gotta be doing this for fun at this point
Pic looks more like Milak to me.
I am so over this Russian athlete ban… Swimming is more fun when these guys are swimming at big meets!
Good thing you aren’t in charge.
The name “Snarky” fits you will 😉
Agreed think how good the Russian medley relay could be with Somov
oofff look out.
To confirm- Russia is not going to SC worlds, right?
The Meldonium Games