From January 27 to 29, 2022 the Republic of Tatarstan swimming championships (50m) was held in Kazan, where our scholarship holders of the FINA Development Center managed to show good results even on the beginning of the training cycles.

In total, our team have 11 personal bests, 4 national records.

Head coach of the FINA Development Center Pavel Kutashev commented on the performance of our athletes: "This competition was a first one of the year and I generally pleased with results of our swimmers. The fact that under training conditions on this stage of preparation swimmers still able to get some PBs is very good and showing that we are on a right track".

The results of our scholarship holders:

Abeiku Jackson (Ghana)
100m freestyle (butterfly) – 53.85
100m butterfly – 54.23
50m freestyle – 23.99
50m butterfly – 24.68

Rabejaona Holy Antsa (Madagascar)
100m freestyle – 1:02.77 (personal best)
100m butterfly – 1:09.22 (personal best)
50m freestyle – 28.49
50m butterfly – 29.91

Kirabo Namutebi (Uganda)
100m freestyle – 1:01.47
50m backstroke – 32.31
50m freestyle – 27.18
50m butterfly – 30.33

Fahim Anwari (Afghanistan)
50m breastroke – 32.62
100m butterfly – 1:04.76 (new national record of Afghanistan)
50m freestyle – 27.52 (new national record of Afghanistan)
50m butterfly – 28.58 (new national record of Afghanistan)

Colins Obi Ebingha (Nigeria)
100m freestyle – 51.94 (personal best)
50m freestyle – 24.23
50m butterfly – 24.83 (personal best)

Lorena de los Angeles Gonzalez Mendoza (Cuba)
100m freestyle – 59.22
100m butterfly – 1:06.69 (дисквалификация)
50m freestyle – 28.07
50m butterfly – 29.13

Ali Imaan (Maldives)
100m freestyle – 59.52
50m backstroke – 30.87
100m butterfly – 1:06.23 (personal best)
50m freestyle – 27.40
100m backstroke – 1:07.71 (new national record of Maldives)
50m butterfly – 28.78 (personal best)

Lev Cherepanov (Kazakhstan)
100m freestyle – 54.98 (personal best)
200m freestyle – 2:00.61
50m freestyle – 25.79

Lev is an open water athlete, for him this start was very successful and unusual, because the difference between 10km and 25km in open water and events like 50-100-200m in the swimming pool is huge!

The athlete commented his performance: "The competition was great! I am glad that I managed to improve my results, even though I only trained for a week. I am also happy for my teammates, who also managed to improve their time. We are working and preparing for the next competitions".

Eloi Maniraguha (Rwanda)
100m freestyle – 57.38
100m butterfly – 1:03.39 (personal best)
50m freestyle – 25.25
50m butterfly – 27.90

Tendo Mukalazi (Uganda)
100m freestyle – 53.28
50m backstroke – 28.24 (personal best)
50m freestyle – 24.56
50m butterfly – 26.55 (personal best)

And the results of our graduate of the FINA Development Center Arina Baikova (Latvia)
100m freestyle – 58.93
200m backstroke – 2:19.86
200m freestyle – 2:06.42
100m backstroke – 1:06.36
200m Individual Medley – 2:22.15 (personal best)

Congratulations!!!

Results will be posted on: http://www.swim-rt.ru/protocols/champ-rt-2022-january/index.html

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