2023 Russian National Swimming Championships Explained

2023 Russian Championships
Hostcity:	Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
Dates:	16–21 April 2023
Venues:	Palace of Water Sports
Nations:	6
Events:	42 (men: 20; women: 20; mixed: 2)
Previous:	2022
Next:	2024

The 2023 Russian National Swimming Championships were held from 16 to 21 April 2023 at the Palace of Water Sports in Kazan, Russia.^[1] ^[2] Competition was conducted in a 50-metre pool.^[3]

Events at the 50-metre and 100-metre distances were contested in a preliminaries, semifinals, finals format. Events in individual events at the 200-metre and 400-metre distances as well as relays were contested in preliminaries and finals format. Events at the 800-metre and 1500-metre distances were contested in a timed finals format with slower heats in the morning preliminaries session and the fastest heat contested in the evening semifinals and finals sessions. A second final, termed a b-final, was contested at the 50-metre, 100-metre, 200-metre, and 400-metre distances for individual events, in which only junior competitors were allowed to compete, year of birth 2005 or more recent for male competitors and year of birth 2006 or more recent for female competitors. Medalists were determined from the final open to all ages, termed the a-final.^[3]

Due to ongoing bans by LEN and World Aquatics on participation of Russians and Belarusians at their competitions, this 2023 edition of the Russian Championships was not a qualifying competition for Russians nor Belarusians for the LEN and World Aquatics competitions with qualifying time periods overlapping with the 2023 Championships.^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

Results

Men's events

50 m freestyle (148 competitors)	width=220		21.91	width=220		22.16	width=220		22.21
100 m freestyle (148 competitors)	width=220		47.97	width=220		48.32	width=220		48.54
200 m freestyle (124 competitors)	width=220		1:45.63	width=220		1:46.80	none awarded
400 m freestyle (69 competitors)	width=220		3:48.01	width=220		3:48.51	width=220		3:48.66
800 m freestyle (54 competitors)	width=220		7:42.47 NR	width=220		7:50.06	width=220		7:55.86
1500 m freestyle (40 competitors)	width=220		14:55.04	width=220		14:57.90	width=220		15:17.57

50 m backstroke (86 competitors)	width=220		24.12	width=220		24.28	width=220		24.66
100 m backstroke (74 competitors)	width=220		52.54	width=220		53.21	width=220		53.26
200 m backstroke (50 competitors)	width=220		1:55.50	width=220		1:57.20	width=220		1:57.21

50 m breaststroke (77 competitors)	width=220	Ilya Shymanovich	26.73	width=220		26.86	width=220		27.07
100 m breaststroke (76 competitors)	width=220	Ilya Shymanovich	58.75	width=220		58.98	width=220		59.04
200 m breaststroke (59 competitors)	width=220		2:07.47	width=220		2:09.82	width=220		2:10.12

50 m butterfly (153 competitors)	width=220		22.94	width=220		23.10	width=220		23.18
100 m butterfly (100 competitors)	width=220		50.88	width=220		51.23	width=220		51.64
200 m butterfly (55 competitors)	width=220		1:55.68	width=220		1:55.80	width=220		1:56.25

200 m individual medley (79 competitors)	width=220		1:57.93	width=220		1:58.64	width=220		2:00.47
400 m individual medley (51 competitors)	width=220		4:09.12	width=220		4:14.52	width=220		4:21.06

4×100 m freestyle relay (9 relays)	width=220	Saint Petersburg Yegor Kornev (49.26) Alexander Shchegolev (49.07) Vasily Kukushkin (48.36) Daniil Kosenkov (49.48)	3:16.17	width=220	Moscow Mikhail Dovgalyuk (49.76) Petr Zhikharev (49.55) Andrey Zhilkin (48.87) Vladislav Grinev (48.62)	3:16.80	width=220	Kaluga Oblast Vladislav Gerasimenko (50.09) Dmitry Savenko (49.28) Anton Voloshin (49.54) Mikhail Vekovishchev (48.07)	3:17.06
4×200 m freestyle relay (8 relays)	width=220	Moscow Mikhail Dovgalyuk (1:47.54) Aleksandr Egorov (1:49.66) Petr Zhikharev (1:50.16) Daniil Shatalov (1:46.87)	7:14.23	width=220	Moscow Oblast Roman Akimov (1:48.02) Andrey Vitryak (1:53.12) Aleksandr Stepanov (1:48.27) Ivan Giryov (1:46.03)	7:15.44	width=220	Saint Petersburg Aleksandr Shchegolev (1:47.92) Aleksandr Chiknaikin (1:49.60) Daniil Kosenkov (1:49.94) Aleksei Rtishchev (1:48.50)	7:15.96
4×100 m medley relay (13 relays)	width=220	Moscow Kliment Kolesnikov (52.75) Danil Semianinov (59.23) Petr Zhikharev (50.65) Vladislav Grinev (47.47)	3:30.10	width=220	Saint Petersburg Miron Lifintsev (54.10) Kirill Prigoda (58.89) Roman Shevliakov (51.61) Egor Kornev (49.22)	3:33.82	width=220	Viktar Staselovich (55.84) Ilya Shymanovich (58.30) Grigory Pekarsky (52.40) Ruslan Skomoroshko (49.04)	3:35.58

Women's events

50 m freestyle (116 competitors)	width=220		24.58	width=220		24.97	width=220		25.25
100 m freestyle (126 competitors)	width=220		54.29	width=220		54.49	width=220		54.69
200 m freestyle (102 competitors)	width=220		1:58.63	width=220		1:58.71	width=220		1:59.02
400 m freestyle (64 competitors)	width=220		4:07.17	width=220		4:07.41	width=220		4:10.99
800 m freestyle (47 competitors)	width=220		8:31.72	width=220		8:38.50	width=220		8:40.10
1500 m freestyle (41 competitors)	width=220		16:27.73	width=220		16:31.22	width=220		16:33.18

50 m backstroke (90 competitors)	width=220		28.01	width=220		28.44	width=220		28.57
100 m backstroke (73 competitors)	width=220	Anastasiya Shkurdai	59.87	width=220		59.99	width=220		1:00.68
200 m backstroke (56 competitors)	width=220	Anastasiya Shkurdai	2:08.13	width=220		2:10.72	width=220		2:11.36

50 m breaststroke (77 competitors)	width=220		30.78	width=220	Alina Zmushka	30.90	width=220		30.98
100 m breaststroke (67 competitors)	width=220		1:04.92	width=220		1:06.84	width=220	Alina Zmushka	1:06.89
200 m breaststroke (48 competitors)	width=220		2:17.55 WR	width=220	Alina Zmushka	2:26.19	width=220		2:28.56

50 m butterfly (100 competitors)	width=220		25.30 NR	width=220		26.01	width=220		26.08
100 m butterfly (78 competitors)	width=220		57.34	width=220		57.93	width=220		58.35
200 m butterfly (39 competitors)	width=220		2:08.09	width=220		2:09.52	width=220		2:13.92

200 m individual medley (77 competitors)	width=220		2:13.20	width=220		2:13.27	width=220		2:15.67
400 m individual medley (46 competitors)	width=220		4:44.20	width=220		4:45.22	width=220		4:45.25

4×100 m freestyle relay (10 relays)	width=220	Novosibirsk Oblast Ekaterina Nikonova (55.48) Vasilissa Buinaia (56.47) Anastasia Duplinskaya (56.09) Daria Trofimova (54.54)	3:42.58	width=220	Moscow Anastasia Zhuravleva (56.81) Daria Mullakaeva (55.33) Elizabeta Susorova (56.44) Maria Poleshchuk (55.87)	3:44.45	width=220	Saint Petersburg Daria Ustinova (56.06) Alexandra Kuznetsova (55.95) Alexandra Kurilkina (56.95) Jana Shakirova (55.72)	3:44.68
4×200 m freestyle relay (11 relays)	width=220	Republic of Tatarstan Sofya Dyakova (2:00.75) Daria Ustinova (2:00.84) Anastasia Kolpakova (2:01.97) Valeriya Salamatina (1:58.60)	8:02.16	width=220	XMAO-Yugra Polina Nevmovenko (2:00.71) Elizaveta Agapitova (2:05.98) Anastasia Guzhenkova (1:59.48) Anna Egorova (1:58.37)	8:04.54	width=220	Voronezh Oblast Anastasia Saratova (1:59.74) Alexandra Tsvetkovskaya (2:00.95) Alexandra Litvinenko (2:10.24) Daria Klepikova (2:00.06)	8:10.99
4×100 m medley relay (13 relays)	width=220	Saint Petersburg Vlada Eggi (1:01.18) Evgeniia Chikunova (1:05.09) Svetlana Chimrova (58.19) Daria Ustinova (55.35)	3:59.81	width=220	Novosibirsk Oblast Anastasia Duplinskaya (1:01.10) Vitalina Simonova (1:08.78) Arina Surkova (58.83) Daria Trofimova (54.30)	4:03.01	width=220	Moscow Daria Vaskina (1:01.71) Nika Godun (1:07.77) Anastasia Zhuravleva (1:00.08) Daria Mullakaeva (55.17)	4:04.73

Mixed events

4×100 m freestyle relay (7 relays)	width=220	Saint Petersburg Egor Kornev (48.73) Vasily Kukushkin (48.15) Daria Ustinova (54.32) Alexandra Kuznetsova (54.93)	3:26.13	width=220	Novosibirsk Oblast Maxim Ablovatsky (49.34) Alexander Borovtsov (49.56) Ekaterina Nikonova (54.56) Daria Trofimova (54.02)	3:27.48	width=220	Moscow Vladislav Grinev (48.47) Andrey Zhilkin (48.72) Daria Mullakaeva (54.56) Maria Poleshchuk (54.02)	3:27.97
4×100 m medley relay (10 relays)	width=220	Saint Petersburg Miron Lifintsev (54.01) Kirill Prigoda (59.33) Svetlana Chimrova (57.81) Daria Ustinova (54.84)	3:45.99	width=220	Anastasiya Shkurdai (1:00.96) Ilya Shymanovich (57.94) Anastasiya Kuleshova (58.64) Ruslan Skomoroshko (49.09)	3:46.63	width=220	Republic of Tatarstan Nicholai Zuev (53.71) Ralina Gilyazova (1:08.94) Andrey Minakov (50.98) Valeriya Salamatina (55.53)	3:49.16

Continental and national records

Day	Date	Start time	Event	Stage	Time	Name	Club / Country	Type
3	18 April 2023	18:00	50 m butterfly (women's)	Semifinals	25.59	Arina Surkova	Novosibirsk Oblast	Russian	^[13] ^[14]
3	18 April 2023	18:25	100 m breaststroke (women's)	Semifinals	1:06.44	Alina Zmushka	Belarus	Belarusian	^[15]
3	18 April 2023	18:50	800 m freestyle (men's)	Final	7:42.47	Aleksandr Stepanov	Moscow Oblast	Russian	^[16] ^[17]
4	19 April 2023	18:15	50 m butterfly (women's)	Final	25.30	Arina Surkova	Novosibirsk Oblast	Russian	^[18]
4	19 April 2023	20:00	50 m butterfly (men's)	Time trial	22.62	Oleg Kostin	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	Russian	^[19] ^[20]
6	21 April 2023	16:53	200 m breaststroke (women's)	Final	2:17.55	Evgeniia Chikunova	Saint Petersburg	European, Russian

Participating nations

The following nations participated in the Championships.^[2]

Externals links

Results

Notes and References

https://www.nuoto.com/2023/04/14/in-arrivo-i-campionati-nazionali-di-russia-dal-17-aprile-in-gara-kolesnikov-chikunova-prigoda-rylov/ "In arrivo i Campionati Nazionali di Russia. Dal 17 aprile in gara Kolesnikov, Chikunova, Prigoda, Rylov …"
https://eng.belta.by/sport/view/belarus-taking-part-in-russian-swimming-championship-in-kazan-158135-2023/ "Belarus taking part in Russian Swimming Championship in Kazan"
https://new.russwimming.ru/upload/live/4R_LC_2023/index.html# "Чемпионат России по плаванию: 50м"
http://www.len.eu/?p=19198 "LEN agrees not to invite Russian and Belarusian teams and supports Ukrainian athletes"
https://www.worldaquatics.com/news/3137952/press-release-world-aquatics-bureau-meets-discusses-the-status-of-athletes-from-russia-and-belarus "PRESS RELEASE | World Aquatics Bureau meets, discusses the status of athletes from Russia and Belarus"
[Associated Press]
https://new.russwimming.ru/upload/live/4R_LC_2023/ResultList_137F.pdf "ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 137 Женщины, 200m Брасс Женщины"
[Belga (news agency)|Belga]
Pérez, Marta (21 April 2023). "Chikunova destroza el récord del mundo de 200 braza" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
Ricci, Dario (21 April 2023). "Nuoto, la 18enne russa annienta il record del mondo nei 200 rana: segnatevi questo nome" (in Italian). Tutto Notizie. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
https://tass.ru/sport/17581301 "Россиянка Чикунова побила мировой рекорд на дистанции 200 метров брассом"
https://www.nuoto.com/2023/04/22/campionati-nazionali-russia-day-6-wr-er-yevgeniya-chikunova-200-rana-2-17-55/ "Campionati Nazionali Russia. Day 6. WR-ER Yevgeniya Chikunova: 200 rana (2.17.55)"
https://new.russwimming.ru/upload/live/4R_LC_2023/ResultList_216S.pdf "ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 216 Женщины, 50m Баттерфляй Женщины"
https://athletistic.com/other-sports/251901.html "Surkova on Russia's record in the Czech Republic in swimming: "I didn't expect it to be so fast""
https://new.russwimming.ru/upload/live/4R_LC_2023/ResultList_218S.pdf "ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 218 Женщины, 100m Брасс Женщины"
https://new.russwimming.ru/upload/live/4R_LC_2023/ResultList_122.pdf "ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 122 Мужчины, 800m Вольный стиль Мужчины"
https://rweek.ru/2023/04/19/%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86-%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB-%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2/ "Рыбинец стал чемпионом России по плаванию"
https://new.russwimming.ru/upload/live/4R_LC_2023/ResultList_116F.pdf "ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 116 Женщины, 50m Баттерфляй Женщины"
https://new.russwimming.ru/upload/live/4R_LC_2023/ResultList_43.pdf "ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 43 Мужчины, 50m Баттерфляй Мужчины"
https://athletistic.com/other-sports/251698.html "Kostin in a special swimming set a Russian record in the 50m butterfly and topped the world ranking"