Russia at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Russia at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
World Aquatics code	RUS
National federation	All Russian Swimming Federation
Website	russwimming.ru (in Russian)
in Gwangju, South Korea
Competitors	91 in 6 sports
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold 12 Silver 11 Bronze 7 Total 30
World Aquatics Championships appearances
1994 1998 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2022–2025
Other related appearances
Soviet Union (1973–1991)

Russia competed at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Svetlana Kolesnichenko	Artistic swimming	Solo technical routine	13 July
Gold	Svetlana Kolesnichenko Svetlana Romashina	Artistic swimming	Duet technical routine	14 July
Gold	Mayya Gurbanberdieva Aleksandr Maltsev	Artistic swimming	Mixed duet technical routine	15 July
Gold	Anastasia Arkhipovskaya Vlada Chigireva Mayya Doroshko Marina Goliadkina Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina	Artistic swimming	Team technical routine	16 July
Gold	Svetlana Romashina	Artistic swimming	Solo free routine	17 July
Gold	Svetlana Kolesnichenko Svetlana Romashina	Artistic swimming	Duet free routine	18 July
Gold	Anastasia Arkhipovskaya Vlada Chigireva Marina Goliadkina Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Varvara Subbotina	Artistic swimming	Team free routine	19 July
Gold	Mayya Gurbanberdieva Aleksandr Maltsev	Artistic swimming	Mixed duet free routine	20 July
Gold	Anastasia Arkhipovskaya Vlada Chigireva Mayya Doroshko Marina Goliadkina Mikhaela Kalancha Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Varvara Subbotina	Artistic swimming	Free routine combination	20 July
Gold	Yuliya Yefimova	Swimming	Women's 200 m breaststroke	26 July
Gold	Evgeny Rylov	Swimming	Men's 200 m backstroke	26 July
Gold	Anton Chupkov	Swimming	Men's 200 m breaststroke	26 July
Silver	Viktor Minibaev Ekaterina Beliaeva	Diving	Mixed synchronized 10 m platform	13 July
Silver	Aleksandr Bondar Viktor Minibaev	Diving	Men's synchronized 10 m platform	15 July
Silver	Sergey Nazin Yulia Timoshinina	Diving	Team event	16 July
Silver	Kirill Belyaev	Open water swimming	Men's 25 km	19 July
Silver	Vladislav Grinev Kliment Kolesnikov Andrei Minakov* Vladimir Morozov Evgeny Rylov	Swimming	Men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay	21 July
Silver	Oleg Kostin	Swimming	Men's 50 m butterfly	22 July
Silver	Evgeny Rylov	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke	23 July
Silver	Yuliya Efimova	Swimming	Women's 100 m breaststroke	23 July
Silver	Mikhail Dovgalyuk Ivan Girev* Aleksandr Krasnykh Martin Malyutin Mikhail Vekovishchev	Swimming	Men's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay	26 July
Silver	Andrey Minakov	Swimming	Men's 100 m butterfly	27 July
Silver	Evgeny Rylov	Swimming	Men's 50 m backstroke	28 July
Bronze	Aleksandr Bondar	Diving	Men's 10 m platform	20 July
Bronze	Martin Malyutin	Swimming	Men's 200 m freestyle	23 July
Bronze	Vladislav Grinev	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	25 July
Bronze	Daria Vaskina	Swimming	Women's 50 m backstroke	25 July
Bronze	Kliment Kolesnikov	Swimming	Men's 50 m backstroke	28 July
Bronze	Yuliya Yefimova	Swimming	Women's 50 m breaststroke	28 July
Bronze	Anton Chupkov Vladislav Grinev Kliment Kolesnikov Andrey Minakov Vladimir Morozov Kirill Prigoda Evgeny Rylov Mikhail Vekovishchev	Swimming	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	28 July

Artistic swimming

Main article: Artistic swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Russia's artistic swimming team consisted of 14 athletes (1 male and 13 female). ^[1]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Svetlana Kolesnichenko	Solo technical routine	94.1126	1 Q	95.0023
Svetlana Romashina	Solo free routine	96.4667	1 Q	97.1333
Svetlana Kolesnichenko Svetlana Romashina	Duet technical routine	95.9501	1 Q	95.9010
	Duet free routine	96.6667	1 Q	97.5000
Anastasia Arkhipovskaya Vlada Chigireva Mayya Doroshko Marina Goliadkina Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina	Team technical routine	96.2253	1 Q	96.9426
Anastasia Arkhipovskaya Vlada Chigireva Marina Goliadkina Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Varvara Subbotina	Team free routine	97.7667	1 Q	98.0000
Anastasia Arkhipovskaya Vlada Chigireva Mayya Doroshko Marina Goliadkina Mikhaela Kalancha Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Varvara Subbotina	Free routine combination	96.5667	1 Q	98.0000

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Mayya Gurbanberdieva Aleksandr Maltsev	Duet technical routine	91.5878	1 Q	92.0749
	Duet free routine	93.1000	1 Q	92.9667

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Russia has entered 13 divers (6 male and 7 female). ^[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sergey Nazin	1 m springboard	303.45	29	—		Did not advance
Evgeny Kuznetsov	3 m springboard	416.10	12 Q	447.55	8 Q	434.55	10
Nikita Shleikher		436.30	5 Q	452.15	5 Q	442.95	9
Aleksandr Bondar	10 m platform	483.55	5 Q	426.60	10 Q	541.05
Igor Mialin		398.50	13 Q	403.60	14	Did not advance
Evgeny Kuznetsov Nikita Shleikher	3 m synchronized springboard	345.00	12 Q	—		396.81	5
Aleksandr Bondar Viktor Minibaev	10 m synchronized platform	407.37	3 Q	—		444.60

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Kristina Ilinykh	1 m springboard	245.50	3 Q	—		252.80	5
Maria Polyakova		212.25	23	—		Did not advance
Elena Chernykh	3 m springboard	266.70	17 Q	264.45	18	Did not advance
Uliana Kliueva		251.70	22	Did not advance
Anna Chuinyshena	10 m platform	235.30	30	Did not advance
Yulia Timoshinina		233.25	31	Did not advance
Kristina Ilinykh Maria Polyakova	3 m synchronized springboard	267.90	7 Q	—		292.80	4
Ekaterina Beliaeva Yulia Timoshinina	10 m synchronized platform	288.00	5 Q	—		291.30	5

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Sergey Nazin Kristina Ilinykh	3 m synchronized springboard	273.24	10
Viktor Minibaev Ekaterina Beliaeva	10 m synchronized platform	311.28
Sergey Nazin Yulia Timoshinina	Team	390.05

High diving

Main article: High diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Russia qualified three male high divers. ^[3]

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Nikita Fedotov	Men's high diving	327.75	12
Igor Semashko		184.50	22
Artem Silchenko		230.45	17

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Russia qualified four male and five female open water swimmers. ^{[4] [5]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kirill Abrosimov	Men's 5 km	53:35.5	8
	Men's 10 km	1:48:55.9	19
Denis Adeev	Men's 5 km	53:43.6	25
Kirill Belyaev	Men's 25 km	4:51:06.5
Evgeny Drattsev	Men's 10 km	1:49:37.4	22
	Men's 25 km	4:51:19.6	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Anastasia Basalduk	Women's 25 km	Did not finish
Valeriia Ermakova	Women's 5 km	58:17.5	22
Sofia Kolesnikova	Women's 25 km	5:12:30.0	11
Anastasiya Krapyvina	Women's 10 km	1:55:24.9	20
Mariia Novikova	Women's 5 km	58:17.3	20
	Women's 10 km	1:55:26.0	21

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kirill Abrosimov Denis Adeev Anastasia Basalduk Valeriia Ermakova	Team	55:19.1	10

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anton Chupkov	100 m breaststroke	59.31	9 Q	59.15	7 Q	59.19	8
	200 m breaststroke	2:08.22	2 Q	2:06.83	2 Q	2:06.12
Mikhail Dovgalyuk	200 m freestyle	1:46.72	11 Q	1:46.20	12	Did not advance
Ilya Druzhinin	800 m freestyle	7:54.07	18	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	15:07.93	18	—		Did not advance
Vladislav Grinev	50 m freestyle	22.52	31	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	47.92	2 Q	47.82	4	47.82
Kliment Kolesnikov	50 m backstroke	24.61	1 Q	24.35	1 Q	24.51
	100 m backstroke	53.89	14 Q	53.44	9	Did not advance
Oleg Kostin	50 m butterfly	23.01	3 Q	22.88	4 Q	22.70
Alexander Krasnykh	400 m freestyle	3:46.65	9	—		Did not advance
Martin Malyutin	200 m freestyle	1:46.29	3 Q	1:45.60	7	1:45.63
	400 m freestyle	3:47.43	11	—		Did not advance
Andrei Minakov	100 m butterfly	51.54	3 Q	50.94	2 Q	50.83
Vladimir Morozov	50 m freestyle	21.70	3 Q	21.65	5	21.53	4
	100 m freestyle	49.09	24	Did not advance
Andrei Nikolaev	50 m breaststroke	26.99	9 Q	27.17	=11	Did not advance
Aleksandr Palatov	200 m breaststroke	2:12.06	26	Did not advance
Kirill Prigoda	50 m breaststroke	26.93	6 Q	27.08	=8 so	26.72	4
	100 m breaststroke	59.32	10 Q	59.21	8 Q	59.09	5
Evgeny Rylov	50 m backstroke	25.16	15 Q	24.56	3 Q	24.49
	100 m backstroke	53.45	6 Q	52.44	=2 Q	52.67
	200 m backstroke	1:56.76	2 Q	1:55.48	1 Q	1:53.40
Grigory Tarasevich	200 m backstroke	1:57.99	13 Q	1:57.72	12	Did not advance
Andrey Zhilkin	50 m butterfly	23.27	7 Q	23.21	8 Q	23.11	8
	200 m individual medley	1:58.73	7 Q	1:58.16	9	Did not advance
Vladislav Grinev Kliment Kolesnikov Andrei Minakov* Vladimir Morozov Evgeny Rylov	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:12.64	3 Q	—		3:09.97
Mikhail Dovgalyuk Ivan Girev* Aleksandr Krasnykh Martin Malyutin Mikhail Vekovishchev	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:05.28	2 Q	—		7:01.81
Anton Chupkov* Vladislav Grinev* Kliment Kolesnikov* Andrey Minakov Vladimir Morozov Kirill Prigoda Evgeny Rylov Mikhail Vekovishchev*	4×100 m medley relay	3:30.72	1 Q	—		3:28.81

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Veronika Andrusenko	100 m freestyle	54.78	24	Did not advance
	200 m freestyle	1:57.77	10 Q	1:57.65	13	Did not advance
	400 m freestyle	4:06.28	6 Q	—		4:08.60	8
Anastasiia Avdeeva	200 m backstroke	2:10.34	11 Q	2:09.78	10	Did not advance
Viktoriya Belyakova	200 m individual medley	2:14.65	20	Did not advance
Anna Belousova	50 m breaststroke	31.20	=13 Q	31.56	15	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:07.56	14 Q	1:07.17	13	Did not advance
Svetlana Chimrova	50 m butterfly	26.64	21	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	58.10	13 Q	57.78	11	Did not advance
	200 m butterfly	2:08.26	4 Q	2:08.30	7 Q	2:08.70	7
Anna Egorova	400 m freestyle	4:07.10	8 Q	—		4:06.16	7
	800 m freestyle	8:34.73	12	—		Did not advance
Anastasia Fesikova	50 m backstroke	28.02	8 Q	28.01	11	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:00.38	13 Q	1:00.33	14	Did not advance
Maria Kameneva	50 m freestyle	24.44	=4 Q	24.33	5 Q	24.31	5
	100 m freestyle	53.68	9 Q	53.45	=10	Did not advance
Anastasiia Kirpichnikova	800 m freestyle	8:37.90	16	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	16:27.59	15	—		Did not advance
Valeriya Salamatina	200 m freestyle	1:57.98	11 Q	1:57.25	10	Did not advance
Arina Surkova	50 m freestyle	25.19	=21	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	26.32	=16 so	26.06	9	Did not advance
Maria Temnikova	200 m breaststroke	2:25.98	12 Q	2:24.55	10	Did not advance
Daria Ustinova	200 m backstroke	2:12.64	23	Did not advance
Daria Vaskina	50 m backstroke	28.29	16 Q	27.79	8	27.51
	100 m backstroke	1:00.66	16 Q	59.46	7 Q	59.74	8
Yuliya Yefimova	50 m breaststroke	30.63	5 Q	30.12	2 Q	30.15
	100 m breaststroke	1:06.58	2 Q	1:05.56	1 Q	1:05.49
	200 m breaststroke	2:25.01	=5 Q	2:21.20	1 Q	2:20.17
Maria Kameneva Sofya Lobova Arina Openysheva Daria S. Ustinova	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:38.94	9	—		Did not advance
Veronika Andrusenko Anastasia Guzhenkova Anna Egorova Daria Mullakaeva* Valeriya Salamatina	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:52.66	3 Q	—		7:48.25	5
Anna Belousova Svetlana Chimrova Daria S. Ustinova Daria Vaskina	4×100 m medley relay	4:02.26	12	—		Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Veronika Andrusenko* Ivan Girev* Vladislav Grinev Maria Kameneva Vladimir Morozov Daria S. Ustinova Mikhail Vekovishchev*	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:25.38	6 Q	3:22.72	5
Svetlana Chimrova Maria Kameneva Andrei Minakov* Kirill Prigoda Evgeny Rylov Daria Vaskina*	4×100 m medley relay	3:43.30	3 Q	3:40.78	4

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster ^{[6] [7]}

Head coach: Alexandr Gaidukov

№	Name	Pos.	Height	Weight	L/R	Date of birth	Club
1	Evgeniia Golovina	GK				(1999-07-14)14 July 1999 (aged 20)	Uralochka Zlatoust
2	Maria Bersneva	FP	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)			(1998-12-17)17 December 1998 (aged 20)	Uralochka Zlatoust
3	Ekaterina Prokofyeva (C)	FP	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)			(1991-03-13)13 March 1991 (aged 28)	Kinef Kirishi
4	Elvina Karimova	FP	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)			(1994-03-25)25 March 1994 (aged 25)	Uralochka Zlatoust
5	Tatiana Tolkunova	FP	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)			(1999-05-15)15 May 1999 (aged 20)	Spartak Volgograd
6	Olga Gorbunova	FP				(1993-08-27)27 August 1993 (aged 25)	Spartak Volgograd
7	Alena Serzhantova	FP	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)			(1998-05-06)6 May 1998 (aged 21)	SKIF-CSP Krylatskoye
8	Anastasia Simanovich	FP	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)			(1995-01-23)23 January 1995 (aged 24)	Kinef Kirishi
9	Anna Timofeeva	FP	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)			(1987-07-18)18 July 1987 (aged 31)	Yugra
10	Evgenia Soboleva	FP				(1988-08-26)26 August 1988 (aged 30)	Kinef Kirishi
11	Evgeniya Ivanova	FP	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)			(1987-07-26)26 July 1987 (aged 31)	Kinef Kirishi
12	Daria Ryzhkova	FP				(1995-02-08)8 February 1995 (aged 24)	Kinef Kirishi
13	Anna Karnaukh	GK	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)			(1993-08-31)31 August 1993 (aged 25)	Kinef Kirishi

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	3	3	0	0	65	23	+42	6	Quarterfinals
2	Hungary	3	2	0	1	91	31	+60	4	Playoffs
3	Canada	3	1	0	2	46	35	+11	2
4	South Korea (H)	3	0	0	3	3	116	−113	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Hosts

14 July 2019 11:10	Report	Canada	10–18	Russia	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Alessandro Severo (ITA), Nenad Periš (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–5, 4–5, 3–6
		Christmas 3	Goals	Prokofyeva 3

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16 July 2019 08:30	Report	South Korea	1–30	Russia	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Jaume Teixidó (ESP), Dion Willis (RSA)
		Score by quarters: 0–7, 0–9, 0–8, 1–6
		Kyung 1	Goals	ten players 3

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18 July 2019 20:30	Report	Hungary	12–17	Russia	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Vojin Putniković (SRB), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 4–6, 3–5, 1–2, 4–4
		Vályi 4	Goals	Bersneva 4

Quarterfinal

22 July 2019 15:30	Report	Russia	7–9	Australia	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Alessandro Severo (ITA), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 0–2, 3–2, 3–3
		Karimova 2	Goals	Webster 3

5–8th place semifinal

24 July 2019 14:00	Report	Greece	4–13	Russia	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Stanko Ivanovski (MNE), Jaume Teixidó (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–2, 2–4, 1–5
		Plevritou 2	Goals	Bersneva, Karimova 3

Fifth place game

26 July 2019 15:30	Report	Russia	10–9	Italy	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN), Sebastien Dervieux (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 1–2, 5–2, 1–2
		three players 2	Goals	Bianconi, Chiappini 3

References

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