The head coach of the Russian visually impaired swimming team, Sergei Punko, told that swimmer Daria Lukyanenko has every chance of winning the Paralympic Games in Paris.
On Thursday, at the training center of the Russian national teams “Lake Krugloye”, an open training session of Russian swimmers took place ahead of the Paralympic Games in the French capital, which will take place from August 28 to September 8.
— The leader of our team is Daria Lukyanenko. She will compete in five disciplines, we will support her. Her results are good and she has every chance of winning.
In addition, Vladimir Sotnikov has progressed very well. In Tokyo, he was still a young athlete, at the very last moment he flew into the team and immediately won the 100-meter backstroke. This year, at the European Championships, he overtook the world leader in swimming, Igor Bokiy, who lost for the first time in 16 years. Vladimir is very busy.
Egor Kuzmin is one of the new people in the team, who qualified in March in Italy, and then was invited to the European Championship and immediately won. It will be much more difficult for him at the Paralympic Games, but, as practice has shown, he knows how to pull himself together.
The other guys are also loaded, they will work, and then we will see what happens, because everything depends on them. We can win as much as we want, but we can also lose to anyone,” Punko told .
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