Yulia Efimova won the 100m breaststroke, but did not qualify for the Olympics

Triple Olympic medalist, six-time world champion Yulia Efimova won the 100m breaststroke at the Bahamas National Championships, but did not qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Yulia Efimova, 32, clocked 1:07.98 in the 100m breaststroke, taking first place. But that wasn’t enough to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Standard A is 1.06.79, Standard B is 1.07.12.

— I also swam the final in the rain. And after my performance, the tents were blown over by gusts of wind and the competition was stopped. A kind of apocalypse has begun. I’m surprised this didn’t happen during my swim.

It was all real. A few more days and I would be blurry. It would show 1.06 to a hundred. But it was also possible on 1.07.12 according to the “B” standard, I am the only one in the country. There was also a chance to go to the Olympics. It’s a shame that I showed normal times in training before. These are funny results for me. But today there are no real muscles, and that’s to be expected. I believed in it, I hoped, but I’m still not old enough to make such trips. My father compared everything: “You also swam at the Rio 2016 Olympics, I don’t understand where. » But before that, I trained in Miami in the same time zone. And she still flew to Brazil in advance.

Everyone here thinks I’m from America. No one can even imagine that on the eve of the competition I took a 25-hour flight from Russia. In the 100 final, I gave everything I had at the moment. And in the last 15 meters I got stuck. My father told me: “Go all out.” Even if you’re not ready, what if it works? So I went all in. I literally didn’t have enough for the last seven meters. I got up and at the last blow, it seemed to me, I gave up – I lowered my hands and waited until the side itself floated towards me. It is shameful! Everyone was supporting me – the whole pool, the whole Bahamas. It’s boring, but oh well. I did everything I could. But that did not work. That means bad luck. I’m philosophical about this. So it’s not necessary,” Efimova said for .

Yulia Efimova participated in the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021 Olympic Games, where she won two silver and one bronze medals. She was granted neutral status from World Aquatics in June and won three gold medals at the Bahamas National Championships, but failed to meet Olympic standards in the 100 and 200m breaststroke.

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