Igor Plotnikov is a paralympic swimmer from Russia competing mainly in category S6 events.
Igor Plotnikov is a paralympic swimmer from Russia competing mainly in category S6 events.
Igor travelled with the Russian Paralympic swimming team to two Paralympics games, first in 2004 and then in 2008. At the 2004 games he competed in the 50m freestyle finishing eighth in the final, won silver in the 50m Butterfly despite being the fastest in the heats with a new world record and broke the world record in the heats and final on his way to winning gold in the 100m backstroke. At the 2008 games he was part of the Russian team that finished sixth in the 4 × 100 m medley, he also finished in the same position in the 50m butterfly, failed to make the final of the 400m freestyle but did defend his title in the 100m backstroke [1]
Jessica Tatiana Long is a Russian-American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. She has held many world records and competed at five Paralympic Games, winning 29 medals. She has won over 50 world championship medals.
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Denis Tarasov is a Paralympic swimmer from Russia competing mainly in category S8 events. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London he won five medals, including gold in the 50 metre freestyle S8 event. He has represented Russia at two IPC World Championships with a total of 12 medals. At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow he set four world records, two as part of Russian relay teams and two individual records, in the 50m and 100m freestyle S8 events.
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