At the 2017 World Cup water sports sports, the Russian national swimming team won 10 medals - three gold, three silver and four bronze, becoming the third in the team event. This result was the best since 1994, when Russian swimmers won 11 medals (4-5-2) at the World Championships in Rome.

In the medal standings, the US team is in first place - 38 (18-10-10), the UK team is in second place - 7 (4-1-2), the third place is shared by the teams of Russia and China - 10 (3-3-4).

In the team standings, which was determined by the amount of rating points scored, the Russian swimming team was in fourth place (500). World Cup trophy team championship won by the US team (1094), in second place - the team of China (521), in third - Australia (507).

For Russian athletes, the heats of Yulia Efimova in the 200m breaststroke, Evgeny Rylov in the 200m backstroke and Anton Chupkov in the 200m breaststroke became gold medals. Silver was won by Yulia Efimova in the 50m breaststroke and the relay teams - the men's freestyle 4x200m and the women's combined 4x100m. Bronze went to Kirill Prigoda in the 100m breaststroke, Yulia Efimova in the 50m breaststroke, Alexander Krasnykh in the 200m freestyle and the men's combined relay.

Russian athletes have set two world championship records, four European records, and 14 Russian records. The young athlete Kliment Kolesnikov has updated the youth records of the world, Europe and Russia in backstroke three times.

MEDALS OF THE RUSSIAN TEAMS IN SWIMMING AND OPEN WATER SWIMMING AT THE 2017 FINA World Championships

1. Evgeny Rylov - 200 m backstroke - 1.53.61 RE, RR
2. Yulia Efimova - 200m breaststroke - 2:19.64
3. Anton Chupkov - 200 m breaststroke - 2.06.96 RS, RE, RR

1. Yulia Efimova - 50m breaststroke
2. Men's crawl relay 4x200 m - Mikhail Dovgalyuk, Mikhail Vekovishchev, Danila Izotov, Alexander Krasnykh (preliminary swimmer Nikita Lobintsev) - 7.02.68.
3. Women's combined relay 4x100 m - Anastasia Fesikova, Yulia Efimova, Svetlana Chimrova, Veronika Popova (preliminary swim teacher Natalya Ivaneeva) - 3.53.38 PE, RR

1. Alexander Krasnykh - 200m freestyle - 1.45.23
2. Kirill Prigoda - 100 m breaststroke - 59.05 RR
3. Yulia Efimova - 100m breaststroke - 1.05.05
4. Men's 4x100m medley relay - Evgeny Rylov, Kirill Prigoda, Alexander Popkov, Vladimir Morozov (preliminary swimmers Grigory Tarasevich, Anton Chupkov, Daniil Pakhomov, Danila Izotov) - RR 3.29.76
5. Evgeniy Dratsev - 25 km

COMPETITION RECORDS

EUROPEAN RECORDS

1. Anton Chupkov - 200m breaststroke - final - 2:06.96
2. Anton Chupkov - 200m breaststroke - semifinal - 2:07.14

RUSSIAN RECORDS

1. Anton Chupkov - 200m breaststroke - final - 2:06.96
2. Anton Chupkov - 200m breaststroke - semifinal - 2:07.14
3. Kirill Prigoda - 50m breaststroke - semifinal - 26.85
4. Kirill Prigoda - 50m breaststroke - preliminary swim - 26.91
5. Kirill Prigoda - 100m breaststroke - final - 59.05
6. Kirill Prigoda - 100m breaststroke - semifinal - 59.24
7. Kirill Prigoda - 100m breaststroke - preliminary swim - 59.36
8. Veronika Popova - 200m freestyle - semifinal - 1.55.08
9. Yulia Efimova - 100m breaststroke - semi-finals - 1.04.36
10. Evgeny Rylov - 200 m backstroke - final - 1.53.61
11. 4x200m freestyle - Veronika Popova, Victoria Andreeva, Daria Ustinova and Arina Opyonysheva - final - 7:48.59.
12. Women's combined relay 4x100 m - Anastasia Fesikova, Yulia Efimova, Svetlana Chimrova, Veronika Popova - final - 3.53.38
13. Men's 4x100m medley relay - Evgeny Rylov, Kirill Prigoda, Alexander Popkov, Vladimir Morozov - final - 3:29.76
14. Mixed medley relay 4x100 m - Grigory Tarasevich, Kirill Prigoda, Svetlana Chimrova. Veronika Popova - final - 3:43.02

YOUTH WORLD RECORDS

EUROPEAN YOUTH RECORDS

1. Kliment Kolesnikov - 100 m backstroke - swam in the semi-finals - 53.38
2. Kliment Kolesnikov - 200 m backstroke - final - 1:55.14
3. Kliment Kolesnikov - 200m backstroke - semifinal - 1:55.15

YOUTH RECORDS OF RUSSIA

1. Kliment Kolesnikov - 100 m backstroke - swam in the semi-finals - 53.38
2. Kliment Kolesnikov - 200 m backstroke - final - 1:55.14
3. Kliment Kolesnikov - 200m backstroke - semifinal - 1:55.15

The 2017 FINA World Championships have ended in Budapest. The Russian team repeated its own record for the number of medals won. Like ten years ago in Melbourne, the Russians took away 25 awards (11 gold) from the championship, finishing third in the team event. China and the US are ahead, respectively. In 2007, however, only the United States was ahead. about the success of Russian athletes.

Predictable triumph

The hegemony of Russian representatives of synchronized swimming at the Olympics and World Championships has long become commonplace. For a decade and a half, synchronized swimmers have been making a huge contribution to the Russian team in the medal standings of competitions. Budapest is predictably no exception. Representatives of this type of program won seven gold and one silver medal. This is almost a third of the total Russian awards at the tournament!

The Russians were represented in eight out of nine disciplines. It was decided to refuse participation in the combination. As the president of the Russian Synchronized Swimming Federation said, they took such a step to give up one gold, giving the other team a chance to rejoice at the victory and increase interest in synchronized swimming in the world.

But the eighth gold was included in the plans, but the mixed duet of Michaela Calanci and let Manila Flamini and Giorgio Minisini from Italy go ahead in technical program. The Russians lost 0.034 points to their rivals, however, according to many experts, our athletes were simply sued. In favor of this version is the presence of Father Minisini in the composition of the arbitrators.

Photo: Giorgio Perottino / RIA Novosti

Jumping to victory

Gold, two silvers and two bronzes were brought to the Russian national team by athletes competing in springboard diving. For representatives of this type of program, the performance at the 2017 World Cup was the most successful since the 2003 tournament in Barcelona, ​​when the Russians won two medals of each value.

Silver medalists of the 2012 Olympics in London in synchronized diving from a three-meter springboard and froze on the second line in this discipline and in the championships of the planet. Since 2011, three world championships have invariably ended for the duet in silver, but in Budapest, the ambitious Russians still managed to break this tradition, leaving behind the main contenders for gold - the Chinese Xie Siyi and Cao Yuan. Zakharov also won bronze on the three-meter springboard.

The Chinese took revenge in synchronized jumps from a ten-meter tower - and became second, letting athletes from the Celestial Empire Chen Aisen and. Keep up with Russian men and their teammates of the weaker sex. and won bronze in the 3m springboard synchronized diving. Bazhina also won silver on the meter springboard.

Triple triumph

The World Championships in Budapest were also super-successful for Russian swimmers, who won three golds, three silvers and four bronzes. Russians are better performed at the world championships only in 1994, when there were 11 medals in the piggy bank (5, 4, 2). A complete collection of awards was collected by the leader of the Russian national team, which is under constant pressure from competitors. The 25-year-old athlete won gold in the 200m breaststroke, silver in the 50m breaststroke, second place in the 4x100 medley relay and bronze in the 100m breaststroke.

Men also achieved historic achievements at the World Championships. 20-year-olds and won gold medals in the 200-meter backstroke and breaststroke, respectively. These are the first individual victories of swimmers since the 2003 world championship in Barcelona. He swam great in the hundred-meter breaststroke, although he took only bronze. He won another award, becoming third in the 200-meter freestyle.

Replenished the piggy bank of the Russian team and men's relay teams. They won silver in the 4x200m freestyle and bronze in the 4x100m medley relay. Another bronze award on the account, who competed in open water swimming at a distance of 25 kilometers.

Dali ball

Special attention in Budapest was riveted to playful mind sports - water polo. The Russian women's team arrived at the tournament in the status bronze medalist The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and Hungary managed to confirm the status of one of the leading teams in the world. The competition for the wards was not easy: in the group, the team took third place, after which they barely defeated the Netherlands national team in the 1/8 finals (11:10). Further, in a tense duel, the Italians were beaten (9:8), but in the semifinals, the future world champions of the Americans turned out to be stronger (14:9). In the meeting for third place, the Russian team defeated Canada (11:9).

For the Russian men's water polo team, getting to the World Cup is a great success. Since 2007, the Russians have not been able to qualify for three world championships, and at the 2015 tournament in Kazan, where the team was selected as the host of the competition, it became the 14th. In Budapest, men managed not only to overcome group stage, but also beat the Spaniards in the 1/8 finals (11:10). After that, there was a sensitive defeat (5:14) from the hosts of the tournament in the quarterfinals and the same outcome in the meetings of the repechage stage with Montenegro (8:9) and Australia (7:10). As a result, the Russians took eighth place in the tournament, which, taking into account latest results teams can be considered a success.

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The Russian team retained the third place in the medal standings following the results of the next competitive day of the World Aquatics Championship in Budapest.

On Saturday Russian athletes failed to replenish the treasury of awards after the golden triumph of Russian swimming the day before. The Russian team still has 11 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze medals. The leadership in the overall standings was taken by the Americans, who already have 38 awards (16-12-10). The Chinese team, which dropped to second place in the rankings, has won 30 medals so far (12-12-6).

World Aquatics Championship. Budapest-2017. medal standings

M	Team	W	WITH	B	IN
1	USA	16	12	10	38
2	China	12	12	6	30
3	Russia	11	4	7	22
4	Great Britain	5	2	3	10
5	France	5	1	2	8
6	Australia	3	5	2	10
7	Italy	3	3	8	14
8	Brazil	2	4	2	8
9	Sweden	2	1	0	3
10	Hungary	1	4	2	7
11	Spain	1	4	0	5
12	Netherlands	1	3	1	5
13	Canada	1	1	4	6
14	Malaysia	1	0	1	2
15	South Africa	1	0	1	2
16	Croatia	1	0	0	1
17	Japan	0	3	4	7
18	Germany	0	2	1	3
19	Mexico	0	2	0	2
20	Ukraine	0	1	7	8
21	North Korea	0	1	1	2
22	Poland	0	1	0	1
23	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
24	Belarus	0	0	2	2
25	Denmark	0	0	1	1
26	Egypt	0	0	1	1
27	Serbia	0	0	1	1
28	Singapore	0	0	1	1

The main hopes of the Russian fans that day were associated with Vladimir Morozov and Daria Ustinova, who in their disciplines reached the final with the second and fourth results, respectively. However, Morozov in the 50-meter crawl stopped 0.03 seconds from the bronze medal, and Ustinova in the 200-meter backstroke showed only the seventh result.

Russian swimmers performed modestly in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle mixed relay.

Synchronized swimmers Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Alexandra Patskevich brought Russia the sixth gold medal at the FINA World Championships in Budapest

World champions in synchronized swimming Alexandra Patskevich (left) and Svetlana Kolesnichenko (Photo: @Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Global Look Press)

The final of the competition in the synchronized duet free program at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest ended with the victory of Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Alexandra Patskevich, who received 97.0000 points from the judges. Second place was taken by Chinese women Jiang Tingting and Jiang Wenwen (95.3000), bronze was won by Anna Voloshina and Yelyzaveta Yakhno from Ukraine (93.2667).

For the Russian team, this victory was the sixth at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest. Earlier, Kolesnichenko won in the technical and free programs of soloists and in the technical program of duets with Patskevich. Also, the Russian team won gold in the technical program of the team competition, and Evgeny Kuznetsov and Ilya Zakharov won in synchronized diving from a three-meter springboard.

In terms of the number of gold medals at the World Aquatics Championships, the Russian team came out on top, ahead of the Chinese, who won all their victories in diving (6 against 5). In third place is France, which has won four awards of the highest standard (three in open water swimming and one in diving).

Kolesnichenko became the 13-time world champion. Previously, at competitions in Shanghai in 2011, in Barcelona in 2013 and in Kazan in 2015, she won three gold medals each. At the current World Championship, the Russian woman made her solo debut, winning both the technical program and the free program. Also in Budapest, Kolesnichenko won gold in the technical duet program along with Patskevich.

Thursday's medal program kicked off at the World Championships mixed relay on open water. The French Ocean Maris Jeannie Cassignol, Logan Fontaine, Aurelie Muller and Marc-Antoine Olivier were the fastest to overcome the distance of 5 km. At the finish line, they were 12.2 seconds ahead of the Americans Brendan Casey, Ashley Twichell, Haley Anderson and Jordan Wilimowski. Third place was taken by the Italian team (Rachele Bruni, Giulia Gabbrielleschi, Federico Vanelli and Mario Sanzullo). Russians Sergey Bolshakov, Daria Kulik, Kirill Abrosimov and Maria Novikova showed the tenth result.

At the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Kolesnichenko won gold in the team competition. Together with her, Vlada Chigireva, Natalya Ishchenko, Alexandra Patskevich, Svetlana Romashina, Alla Shishkina, Maria Shurochkina, Gelena Topilina and Elena Prokofieva performed at the Games. Silver was won by the Chinese, bronze by the Japanese.