Tag: Ilya Borodin
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2021 European Short-Course Swimming Championships, Kazan (RUS) – Day 6, Summary
WR for Shymanovich and the Dutch, ER for Paltrinieri, Sjostrom grabs 4th gold The 25th-anniversary edition of the European Short-Course Swimming Championships couldn’t have ended in a more festive way: records fell in succession. First Ilya Shymanovich from Belorussia equaled the world record in the 50m breast, then Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri smashed the 800m free…
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Russian Swimmer Borodin Tests Positive for COVID-19 and Will Miss Tokyo Olympics
Russia’s European swimming champion Ilya Borodin will skip the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, which kick off this week after his COVID-19 test returned a positive result, a senior official with the All-Russian Swimming Federation told TASS on Wednesday. “Borodin’s PCR [polymerase chain reaction] test returned a positive result [for COVID-19],” All-Russian Swimming Federation…
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The Weirdest Thing I’ve Seen In Freestyle | Effortless Swimming
One of the strangest things I’ve seen in a freestyle stroke came during the European Championships this week. Up-and-coming Russian swimmer Ilya Borodin has a unique dolphin kick after each breath. What are your thoughts on it?
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European Aquatics Championships, Budapest (HUN) – Day 14, Summary
GB tops the medal chart, Italy claims the Team Trophy Team GB was really a team here in Budapest, by adding two more relay titles – clinched 7 in 9 events – they finished atop in the medal charts with 11 golds. Italy earned the most medals, 27, and also claimed the Team Trophy –…