On the second competition day Alina Zmushka clocked 1:07.48 to grab gold in the women’s 100m breaststroke. Earlier, the Belarusian celebrated victory in the women’s 50m breaststroke.
Sopova decided she wanted to learn to swim, and her mother put her in lessons when they returned to Russia. Sopova and her mother lived in Blagoveshchensk then, a small city along the eastern ...
In March 2023, World Aquatics (known as FINA until December 2022) decided to bar Russia and Belarus from participating in any future FINA-sanctioned international swimming events. Before the World ...