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2026 RUSSIAN SHORT COURSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Friday, November 6th – Wednesday, November 11th Nevskaya Volna Water Sports Center, St. Petersburg, Russia SCM (25m) SwimSwam Preview Meet Central Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap Live ResultsThe final night of action at the 2026 Russian Short Course National Championships took place in St. Petersburg this evening, with additional athletes adding their names to the provisional roster for next month’s Short Course World Championships.
We saw ties in both the women’s and men’s 50m freestyle finals as a testament to how closely packed these main events were to begin the session.
In the women’s, it was 50m fly gold medalist here, Arina Surkova, who got her hand on the wall first, clocking 23.82 as the sole medalist to get under the 24-second barrier.
She led a duo in Alina Gafutdinova and Alexandra Kurilkova, who touched simultaneously in 24.01 to share silver medal honors, both getting under the 24.33 SC Worlds selection standard in the process.
Gaifutdinova’s hardware this evening was added to the 50m back gold and 100m free bronze she already collected over the course of the competition.
The men’s edition of the splash n’ dash saw Egor Proshin double up on his 100m free victory, delivering an outing of 21.27.
But he wasn’t alone at the wall, as Egor Yurchenko also hit the time pad at the exact same moment.
Unfortunately for these men, they were chasing a QT of 21.19, so they fell just outside that benchmark en route to topping the podium.
The women’s 200m back saw Sofia Molchanova turn in the quickest time, hitting 2:05.24 to put the gold medal around her neck.
Molchanova, who is just 15 years of age, unleashed a monster personal best with tonight’s outing, obliterating her former PB of 2:08.14 established at last year’s version of these championships. Both she and runner-up Darya Ustinova cleared the 2:05.54 QT, as Irina Zvyagintseva rounded out the podium in 2:06.29.
The men’s 200m back saw Georgey Smirnov beat his competitors, registering one of two sub-1:50 performances in the main event.
Smirnov posted 1:49.17 to establish a huge new lifetime best, easily overwriting the 1:51.19 he put on the books last year.
Dmitry Sanko was next to the wall in 1:49.64, as Alexey Tkachev bagged the bronze in 1:50.50.
World Record holder Evgenia Chikunova was denied a sweep of the women’s breaststroke events, with Ralina Gilyazova reaping gold in the 50m sprint in a time of 29.66.
That checked in as the 3rd-fastest time of her career, one which boasts a PB of 29.54 from last month’s World Aquatics Swimming World Cup as well as from last night’s semi-final.
Chikunova turned in a time of 30.08 to also earn SC Worlds qualification, while Veronika Norichkova just missed out, but still earned bronze in 30.30.
Oleg Kostin was the top performer in the men’s 50m breast, posting 25.62 to clear the SC Worlds QT of 26.26 with ease.
Kirill Prigoda added another piece of hardware to his haul here, touching in 25.71 for runner-up status. Ivan Kozhakin, the 100m breast champion, entered tonight’s final as the top seed but fell to the bronze medal position in 25.92.
Additional winners included Milana Stepanova taking the women’s 200m free in 1:55.07 the only time of the pack that was Beijing-worthy.
Ivan Grinev proved too quick to catch on the men’s side, hitting 1:42.60 to get to the wall nearly half a second ahead of his peers.
Silver went to Mikhail Shcherbakov in 1:43.05, with Roman Akimov‘s performance of 1:43.33 garnering him the bronze medal.
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