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We made it through the 4th day of finals at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France but still have 5 more days of action to unfold at La Défense Arena.
Throughout the Olympic competition, we’re keeping tabs on how the times hold up against the Russian Swimming Cup which concluded on Sunday, July 28th.
The primary reason is that Russian athletes, who are unable to race in Paris save for those competing as neutral athletes, were incentivized with a carrot of 2 million rubles (~$23,000 USD) from the Russian Swimming Federation should their winning time from the Cup beat that of their Olympic counterparts.
2024 Russian Swimming Cup Results
Through the events completed in Paris thus far, just one Russian athlete’s winning time outperformed that of her Olympic counterpart’s. That came in the form of Evgenia Chikunova‘s 1:05.26 in the women’s 100m breaststroke.
The 19-year-old Russian’s outing was .02 faster than what South African Tatjana Smith (nee Schoenmaker) put up for gold in Paris.
We’ll update this once additional swims have transpired at the Olympics.
| Event | Winning Time at Russian Swimming Cup |
Winning Time at 2024 Olympic Games
|
| Men’s | ||
| 50m free | 21.70 – Egor Kornev | |
| 100m free | 47.82 – Egor Kornev | |
| 200m free | 1:46.13 – Martin Malyutin | 1:44.72 – David Popovici (ROU) |
| 400m free | 3:49.22 – Saveliy Luzin | 3:41.79 – Lukas Maertens (GER) |
| 800m free | 8:13.92 – Maxim Kozyr | 7:38.91 – Daniel Wiffen (IRL) |
| 1500m free | 16:08.81 – Vadim Mannapov | |
| 100m back | 52.52 – Miron Lifincev | 52.00 – Thomas Ceccon (ITA) |
| 200m back | 1:54.63 – Evgeny Rylov | |
| 100m breast | 59.54 – Ivan Kozhakin | 59.03 – Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA) |
| 200m breast | 2:09.08 – Mikhail Dorinov | |
| 100m fly | 51.31 – Roman Shevlyakov | |
| 200m fly | 1:56.24 – Aleksandr Kudashev | |
| 200m IM | 1:56.75 – Ilya Borodin | |
| 400m IM | 4:11.71 – Ilya Borodin | 4:02.95 – Leon Marchand (FRA) |
| Women’s | ||
| 50m free | 24.61 – Arina Surkova | |
| 100m free | 53.36 – Daria Klepikova | |
| 200m free | 1:59.51 – Polina Nevmovenko | 1:53.27 – Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS) |
| 400m free | 4:05.16 – Sophia Diakova | 3:57.49 – Ariarne Titmus (AUS) |
| 800m free | 8:32.43 – Sophia Diakova | |
| 1500m free | 17:02.12 – Anastasia Kuvichko | |
| 100m back | 59.87 – Alina Gayfutdinova | 57.33 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS) |
| 200m back | 2:12.50 – Daria Ustinova | |
| 100m breast | 1:05.26 – Evgenia Chikunova | 1:05.28 – Tatjana Smith (RSA) |
| 200m breast | 2:18.98 – Evgenia Chikunova | |
| 100m fly | 58.25 – Daria Klepikova | 55.59 – Torri Huske (USA) |
| 200m fly | 2:10.89 – Anastasia Markova | |
| 200m IM | 2:14.49 – Yana Shakirova | |
| 400m IM | 4:47.26 – Daria Rogozhinova | 4:27.71 – Summer McIntosh (CAN) |
Double cash for Chikunova!
Most impressive day ever, I do not care.
Looks like 4 million rubles for Chikunova.
Russia hates distance swimming. We should send them Lia as a goodwill gesture.
their pool is slower than our pool?
They should’ve allowed Chikunova to swim in Paris. Just pay her a ton of under the table money to say she doesn’t like vodka, AKs, and Adidas tracksuits. Doesn’t have to say anything about the war or the Russian government. She is the Russian swimmer we’re missing the most. Rylov….not missed….obviously.
What does Adidas have to do with anything, isn’t that a German company?
Link for you below:
Why is Russia in love with (Adidas) tracksuits? – Russia Beyond (rbth.com)
Katie Ledecky faster than the Russian men in distance free
I like this stat
Why would we care about Russian times. ? Ban and forget about them
I used to think this way but they aren’t all doping, and many of them are actually great people that silently DO NOT support the war.
Agree they should be banned right now.