Russian media just lately caught up with Andrey Shishin, the coach of 4x Olympic medalist Evgeny Rylov, and world document holder Evgenia Chupikova.
Shishin wasn’t impressed with the lads’s backstroke outcomes from the 2024 Paris Olympics.
MatchTV, a Russian sports activities channel, reported this quote from Shishin (translated from Russian):
“It’s fairly unhappy that each leads to backstroke swimming have been slower than on the final Olympics. With out our guys, the backstroke appeared fairly modest.”
Rylov received each backstroke occasions on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and fellow Russian Kliment Kolesnikov completed second behind Rylov within the 100 backstroke. World Aquatics banned Russian swimmers from competing within the Olympics as a consequence of Russia’s warfare in Ukraine. Some Russian athletes have been capable of compete underneath a impartial flag if they didn’t assist the warfare amongst different standards. Nevertheless, just one swimmer ended up competing underneath the impartial flag. Rylov stated he wouldn’t signal any political declaration to compete.
In Rylov’s absence, Olympic males’s backstroke podium instances have been slower throughout the board in Paris in comparison with Tokyo. Depth-wise, the ultimate qualifying instances acquired quicker in Paris whereas the semifinal qualifying instances remained barely quicker in Tokyo.
Gold Medal
Silver Medal
Bronze Medal
Ultimate QT
Semifinal QT
100 backstroke – Tokyo 2020
Evgeny Rylov (RUS) – 51.98
Kliment Koleskinov (RUS) – 52.00
Ryan Murphy (USA) – 52.19
53.2
53.77
100 backstroke – Paris 2024
Thomas Ceccon (ITA) – 52.00
Xu Jiayu (CHI) – 52.18
Ryan Murphy (USA) – 52.39
52.95
53.93
200 backstroke – Tokyo 2020
Evgeny Rylov (RUS) – 1:53.27
Ryan Murphy (USA) – 1:54.15
Luke Greenbank (GBR) – 1:54.72
1:56.69
1:57.96*
200 backstroke – Paris 2024
Hubert Kos (HUN) – 1:54.26
Apostolous Christou (GRC) – 1:54.82
Roman Mityukov (SUI) – 1:54.85
1:56.52
1:57.98
*observe: 1:57.96 was the semifinal qualifying time, however it represents seventeenth place as there was a scratch. The sixteenth place time was 1:57.86.
Rylov has not competed in an Olympic Video games or World Championships since Tokyo. He supposed to compete on the World Friendship Video games, Russia’s substitute for the Olympic Video games, this September. Nevertheless, these have been postponed to 2025. Shishin has coached Rylov on and off all through the final quad in accordance with Match TV.
Shishin was impressed by high male Olympic swimmers in non-backstroke occasions.
“In some disciplines there was actually a celebration and vibrant outcomes. I wish to observe, in fact, the Chinese language within the 100-meter crawl, it is a large step ahead,” Shishin stated in reference to Pan Zhanle. “And naturally (Léon) Marchand.”
Chikunova
Russian world document holder Evgenia Chikunova plans to proceed competing solely domestically, saying the trail again to worldwide competitors is tough.
In response to a query about competing underneath impartial standing, the 19 year-old instructed Sport Specific “… I talked about what path I must take to attempt to return to worldwide competitions. It’s not simple, and that is placing it mildly.” (translated from Russian)
To ensure that Russian swimmers to return to worldwide competitors underneath a impartial flag, they have to make an enchantment and never present any assist to Russia for its warfare in Ukraine. On the 2024 Olympics in Paris, just one Russian competed underneath the impartial flag. Notably, former Russian swimmer Anastasia Kirpichnikova started competing underneath the French flag amid the ban and received a silver medal for France within the 1500. Chikunova says she was glad for Kirpichnikova’s success.
Chikunova says that she is going to finally return to worldwide competitors, however she plans to start the season competing solely domestically. Within the absence of worldwide opponents, she’s planning to hone the ability of swimming her personal race.
“I prepare with the concept that I must battle solely with myself. With my data.”
Chikunova made worldwide headlines in April 2023 when she took 1.4 seconds off the 200 breaststroke world document, swimming a 2:17.55. Her 100 and 200 breaststroke instances from the Russia Cup in July have been quicker than the Olympic profitable instances in Paris. She stated the earlier 200 world document holder, Tatjana Smith, reached out to her and hoped to see her in Paris.
