Bronze medal Russian team in swimming, winner of the 4×200 m freestyle relay at the 2014 World Championships in Doha, was transferred to the team Brazil who became the sixth in this race.
The International Swimming Federation (FINA), at an extraordinary congress of the organization on Sunday, presented other teams with the medals of the Russian national team’s world championships in relay races, where the now disqualified Artem Lobuzov . The bronze medal of the 2014 World Championship was awarded to the representative of the Brazilian federation. Joao De Lucca, Gustavo Godoy, Fernando Santos, Gabriel Ogawa finished sixth in this final. The fourth was the South African team, the fifth – the Belgian team. The reasons for this decision are under investigation.
On February 11, FINA disqualified Lobuzov for an anti-doping rule violation based on data from the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory (LIMS). All its results of July 27, 2014 are cancelled. Lobuzov was deprived of medals in the short course – the gold of the 2016 World Championships in Windsor, Canada, in the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay, where Mikhail Dovgalyuk, Mikhail Vekovishchev, Alexander Krasnykh, Daniil Pasynkov started in addition to him, and the bronze medal of the 2014 world championships in Doha in the same kind of program. Then Krasnykh, Danila Izotov, Vyacheslav Andrusenko, Dmitry Ermakov and Mikhail Polishchuk swam in this relay.
Source : MatchTV
