Efimova – about 8th place in the 200m individual medley in the final of the Russian Cup: “After 100m it became clear that I had overestimated my strength”

Triple Olympic swimming medalist Yulia Efimova On , she said she had overestimated her own abilities in the 200m medley at the Russian Cup final in Yekaterinburg.

Efimova achieved a result of 2 minutes 21.45 seconds and took eighth place.

— After 100 meters it was clear that I overestimated my own strength, I had to take off in the morning. If the 200m complex was a separate distance, then yes. And so, I was very tired, it was obvious at 100m that I did not make it. Breaststroke is the only way I know how to swim, I worked and gave up because I do not want to become too acidic.

– And then? Do you still have any strength left?

– Tomorrow is my day off. I’ll think about the 200m breaststroke.

— How are you going to spend your day off?

— I don’t know for sure yet. There were great ideas, for example, to go to the pool on the 54th floor of the tower, to see the city, but with this weather I have a feeling that I will spend it at the hotel, “Efimova told .

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