Our athletes are ahead of Great Britain, Germany and Hungary
Ukraine entered the top 10 medal standings World Aquatics Championships 2022 in Budapest. Our team has 10 medals (2 gold, 6 silver, 2 bronze).
In artistic swimming Ukraine won 2 gold and 5 silver medals. Ukrainian women became champions twice in group exercises. Marta Fedina took two silver medals in solo, while sisters Marina and Vladislava Alekseev took second place twice in the duet competition.
In swimming, Mikhail Romanchuk won two bronze medals – at a distance of 800 meters freestyle and in open water (5 km).
In addition, Sofia Lyskun and Aleksey Sereda became silver medalists in mixed synchronous diving (10 m platform).
The top five in the World Cup medal count included the USA, China (18 gold medals each), Italy, Australia and Canada. At the same time, Ukraine outperformed such traditionally strong teams in water sports as Germany, Hungary and Great Britain in the medal standings.
Recall that Ukrainian swimmers and other representatives of water sports have made a petition to the International Swimming Federation (FINA).
The statement, which was signed by 41 Ukrainian athletes, requires the exclusion of Russian Maria Polyakova from the FINA Athletes’ Commission.
Source: Sportarena
