Russian water polo players in neutral status won World Cup gold at the Masters

Russian water polo players in neutral status won gold at the World Masters Swimming Championships in the 35 and over category.

The World Masters Championship takes place in Doha. During this tournament, teams in the 35+, 30+ and 40+ age categories were grouped into one group. The Hungarian Bull’s Blood competed in the 40 and over category and the Romanian Pol in the 30 and over category. Cluj-Napoca. A team with a neutral status, consisting of Russian players, won against Romanian opponents and lost against the Hungarian team. The team included an Olympic medalist Nadezhda Glyzina .

— As there was a team in each of these ages, we played among ourselves. Each of these teams received gold. The Hungarians had a team that played in the second division of their championship. They haven’t lost to anyone in six years and they have two Olympic champions on their roster. They played well, but not us, we lost to them, but we beat the Romanians,” Pavel Mikhailov, one of the Russians who played in a neutral team, told .