2019 RUSSIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- April 8th-12th, 2019
- Moscow, Russia
- LCM (50m) pool
- Meet Results
- Live Stream
- Selection Procedures
Watch the full video replay of day 2 at the Russian Swimming Championships, bookmarked at 1:45 for the start of the men’s 100 free final, below.
As previously reported:
After swimming a 47.56 anchor split on Moscow’s 400 free relay on Monday, Vladislav Grinev went even faster – on a flat start – during Tuesday’s individual 100 free semi-final.
The 22-year old posted the top qualifying time in 47.43, which broke the old Russian Record of 47.59 done in 2009 by Andrey Grechin when he was only 21. That reduces Russia to 19 remaining national senior records from the polyurethane suit eras of 2008 and 2009, which is still more than most nations.
Grechin’s old record-breaking swim was done in the same pool in Moscow also at a semi-final at the Russian Championships. He was slower, but still won, the final in 47.98.
Comparative Splits:
- Grechin ’09 = 23.14/24.45 = 47.59
- Grinev ’19 = 22.76/24.67 = 47.43
Grinev was out much faster than Grechin’s record-breaking swim was, though Grechin closed very well – as was a trademark during the supersuit era. Outside of that era, he wasn’t generally as good of a closer.
Grinev’s previous best time was a 48.36 from last summer’s European Championships where he placed 4th. Before the 2018 season, he had only been 49.55.
He now ranks 11th all-time in the event (performers), and bumps Kyle Chalmers’ 47.48 from Aussie Nationals earlier this week as the world’s best time so far this season.
Evgeny Rylov was the 2nd qualifier in 48.56 and Vlad Morozov was 3rd in 48.58. Kliment Kolesnikov qualified 4th in 48.64.
What an amazing technique. Pulls so much water.
Do not forget – Grechin’s record was “suit assisted” swimming.
On a non-related note, Rylov’s free is the opposite of his back: he has a wonderful backstroke and an awful (stylistically) free.
Delightful swim. With all these fast dudes from around the globe, the 100 free at Worlds will be dynamite — I wonder how much testosterone will be flowing in the ready room!
So fun to watch when the host venue uses colored lane line (yellow in the center, etc.). It makes it so much easier to follow the various competitors when the tv director jumps around in her shot selection (overhead, underwater, pool side, and back). I wish American meets used this lane system.
Man, you must be the guy selling colored lane lines, so many times you wrote this before.
He’s just passionate about coloured lanes I guess.
Knew this was coming. Didnt wanna be the one to announce the elephant in the room. It is actually sad though that a swimmer cant have a breakout swim in Russia or China without everyone raising their eyebrows. But at the same time the skepticism is at least somewhat deserved.
I’d say that “somewhat deserved” is still a pretty generous description tbh.
Grinev has a very “slow” stroke. At least it looks that way from the video, so he is definitely catching water and using those legs properly. Kudos to the new record, always fun with fast swimming.
noticed that also, looked incredibly controlled on that last 50 for splitting 24.6… and he wore swedes
Exactly, controlled is the word I was looking for.
Yeah I’d really like to see some underwater footage of his race. The changing camera angles make it hard to get a great stroke count, but to go 24.6 with that stroke rate is crazy. There is definitely something to be learned from his stroke.
Popov style in terms of kick. Slow tempo, crazy speed generated by legs.
Just a small remark: it would be more correct to transcribe his last name as Griniov (or Grinyov) since he is Гринёв in Russian
While I’m certainly not an expert in Russian, these translations are always tricky. We try to operate under the presumption that All-Russia Swimming has submitted the preferred Anglicizations of athletes’ names when they travel to international meets. They went with “Grinev,” so we followed their lead. It’s not a perfect science, as you know.
Oh, he is Grinev on the fina homepage as well,
No questions then