Coach of an Olympic swimming medalist Kliment Kolesnikov Dmitry Lazarev, in a conversation with , admitted that the ratification of the world record was good and fair news, expected, but did not focus on it.
Kolesnikov set a world record in the 50m backstroke on July 27, 2023 – 23.55 seconds. On Tuesday, it became known that the International Swimming Federation (World Aquatics) officially recognized the 23-year-old Russian’s swimming record.
— It’s always about six months after a world record. It’s good that it was ratified. We don’t focus on that. But this is of course the good news we were waiting for. “Everything is fair,” Lazarev told .
Kolesnikov is a silver and bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics.
Source : MatchTV
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