European champion Evgenia Chikunova explained how she would like to compete with the three-time Games winner Yulia Efimova at a high level of results and that would be great for both of you.
Efimova pushed back on the question of her future in sport, she misses the Friendship Games. At the first stage of these competitions, Chikunova won the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke. In the 200m breaststroke, she achieved the best result of the season in the world.
– I don’t communicate much with Julia. But it would be good for both of us. If she arrived in top form, she would be there – I’m always happy with the competition. It would be great, Chikunova told reporters, answering the question of whether she would like to compete with Yulia Efimova.
It all depends on Julia. I don’t know how she trains, but I know she’s always good in competition. I would love to swim 200 meters with her, as she did brilliantly in 2013, the only swim I really watched. In such times, I would like to fight. That would be very cool,” added Chikunova, quoted by .
Efimova, 30, is a three-time Olympic medalist in 2012 and 2016, six-time world champion, seven-time European champion and honored master of sports from Russia.
17-year-old Chikunova is a multiple Russian champion, European champion and world champion in juniors, a world-class master of Russian sports.
Source : MatchTV
