The final day of the Republic of Tatarstan Swimming Cup turned out to be successful for the FINA Development Centre scholarship holders.
Bisma Khan (Pakistan) – 27.92, Musa Zhalaev (Turkmenistan) – 24.71 and Davor Petrovski (North Macedonia) – 26.50 competed in 50m freestyle. Bisma has improved her personal best.
At 50m butterfly Musa had an excellent race, swam at 26.30 (personal best), Davor's result was 27.52, while in that event Bisma showed a time of 29.84.
There was no equal to Arina Baikova (Latvia) in the 400m freestyle. She excelled with a result of 4:21.48 close to her personal best and just a two seconds out of the Latvian national record.
"Competitions revealed what need to be paid attention to and what to work on during trainings. Despite this, the athletes showed good time at the distances, close to their best results. Arina, Musa and Bisma have managed to set personal bests in several events. We will correct technical mistakes and prepare hard for the next events in order to be in the best shape," said Gulnara Garipova, head coach of the FINA Development Centre in Kazan.