Russians Evgenia Chikunova And Kirill Prigoda fulfilled the Olympic standard for participation in the Paris Games in a distance of 200 meters breaststroke during the international Swim Wars competitions in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Chikunova won the final heat with a time of 2 minutes 22.66 seconds. Croatian Ana Blazevic finished second (2:30.02), Niya Gerdej (Slovenia, 2:37.41) third.
Prigoda won this event with a score of 2:08.73. Russian Danil Semyaninov took second place (2:13.23), while Dutchman Ivo Cruz (2:15.06) took third place.
Earlier, President of the All-Russian Swimming Federation (RSF) Vladimir Salnikov said that for Russian swimmers, participation in the Paris Olympics was a turning point due to the admission requirements.
The competition in Banja Luka will take place on April 27 and 28. For many leaders of the Russian team, this is the first international competition abroad since 2022.
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Source : MatchTV
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