Russian swimmers Miron Lifintsev And Kliment Kolesnikov fulfilled the Olympic standard in the 100 meter backstroke during international competitions in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
The victory was won by Lifintsev, who showed a result of 53.38 seconds, Kolesnikov (53.64) finished second, another representative of Russia, Pavel Samusenko (54.16), closed the leading trio . The Olympic standard for the Paris Games in this discipline is 53.74 seconds.
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. Kolesnikov and Lifintsev said in an interview with that under the current admission conditions they would not participate in the Olympics.
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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