Nika Godun (born 4 March 1997) is a Russian competitive

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. She is a Russian record holder in the

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4×50 metre medley relay and the 4×100 metre medley relay. She competed at the

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and

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European Short Course Championships, medaling in the 4×50 metre medley relay and 50 metre breaststroke. At the 2021 World Short Course Championships she placed fifth in the 50 metre breaststroke and the 4×100 metre medley relay, and sixth in the 100 metre breaststroke and the 4×50 metre medley relay.

Background

Godun was born 4 March 1997 in

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."Nika Godun: Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. She competes for Moscow in Russian competitions.

Career

2012–2016

At the

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, held in

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in July 2012, Godun won a gold medal as part of the 4×100 metre medley relay for her efforts swimming the breaststroke leg of the relay in the prelims heats. In September 2016, at the 2016 Swimming World Cup stop in

, Godun started competition on the first of two days with the prelims heats of the 100 metre breaststroke, where she placed 11th overall with a time of 1:11.05.

(3 September 2016)
"FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 Moscow: Women's 100m Breaststroke Preliminary Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. Later the same morning, she placed 11th in the 50 metre backstroke with a time of 28.99 seconds in the prelims heats.

(3 September 2016)
"FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 Moscow: Women's 50m Backstroke Preliminary Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. In the evening, Godun swam the butterfly leg of the 4×50 metre medley relay to help achieve a fifth-place finish in 1:45.77, splitting a 27.62.

(3 September 2016)
"FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 Moscow: Mixed 4x50m Medley Relay Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. The following day, she swam a 32.27 in the prelims heats of the 50 metre breaststroke to place 11th overall.

(4 September 2016)
"FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 Moscow: Women's 50m Breaststroke Preliminary Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.

2019

For the 2019 World University Games in

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in July, Godun placed 13th in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 1:08.90 in the semifinals.Ross, Andy (5 July 2019)
"2019 World University Games: Grigory Tarasevich, Tayla Lovemore Score Upset Wins in Swimming Action"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. She also placed tenth with a time of 31.60 seconds in the semifinals of the 50 metre breaststroke.

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(July 10, 2019)
"Napoli 2019 30th Summer Universiade: Swimming Results Book"
''Microplus Timing''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.

2019 European Short Course Championships

On the first day of competition at the

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in December 2019, Godun tied

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for ninth rank in the prelims heats of the 50 metre breaststroke with a time of 30.51 seconds.

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(4 December 2019)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2019 Glasgow (GBR): Results Women's 50m Breaststroke Preliminary"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. For the semifinals in the afternoon of the same day, Godun swam a 30.57 and tied Tatiana Chișca of

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for 12th-place overall.

(4 December 2019)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2019 Glasgow (GBR): Results Women's 50m Breaststroke Semi-Final"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. Day three of competition, Godun ranked fourth in the prelims heats of the 100 metre breaststroke with a 1:05.41 and qualified for the semifinals later in the day.

(6 December 2019)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2019 Glasgow (GBR): Results Women's 100m Breaststroke Preliminary"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. In the semifinals, she qualified for the final with a time of 1:05.20 that ranked her fifth overall in the semifinals.

(6 December 2019)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2019 Glasgow (GBR): Results Women's 100m Breaststroke Semi-Final"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. The following day, Godun placed seventh in the final of the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 1:05.40.

(7 December 2019)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2019 Glasgow (GBR): Results Women's 100m Breaststroke Final"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. On the fifth and final day of competition, Godun helped advance the 4×50 metre medley relay to the final ranking first in the prelims heats with a 1:45.81, splitting a 30.26 for the breaststroke leg of the relay.

(8 December 2019)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2019 Glasgow (GBR): Results Women's 4x50m Medley Preliminary"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. In the evening final, she split a 30.11 for the breaststroke leg and contributed to the final relay time of 1:44.96 to win the bronze medal and set a new Russian record in the event.

(8 December 2019)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2019 Glasgow (GBR): Results Women's 4x50m Medley Final"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.Keith, Braden (8 December 2019)
"Maria Kameneva Gets 7th Russian Record Of The 2019 European Championships"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.

2021

2021 Swimming World Cup

At the second stop of the 2021 Swimming World Cup, held at

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in October, Godun won a bronze medal in the 100 metre individual medley with a personal best time of 59.71 seconds on the first day of competition, which was less than one-tenth of a second slower than silver medalist

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(7 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Budapest (HUN): Women's 100m Individual Medley Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.Race, Retta (7 October 2021)
"2021 FINA World Cup Budapest: Day 1 Finals Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. The second day of competition, Godun won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a 1:04.71 and finished over six-tenths of a second ahead of the silver medalist in the event,

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of the

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(8 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Budapest (HUN): Women's 100m Breaststroke Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.D'Addona, Dan (8 October 2021)
"2021 FINA World Cup: Budapest Day 2 Finals: Kyle Chalmers Scorches To 100 Free Victory"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. On the third and final day of competition at the Budapest stop, she won the gold medal in the 50 metre breaststroke in 29.81 seconds, this time finishing 0.16 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Lydia Jacoby.

(9 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Budapest (HUN): Women's 50m Breaststroke Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.Helminiak, Jeff (13 October 2021)
"Jacoby nabs two 2nds at World Cup"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. Godun returned to the World Cup circuit at the fourth and final stop, held at the

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, where she competed in the 50 metre breaststroke and won the gold medal with a time of 29.64 seconds to finish 0.01 seconds ahead of the silver medalist and fellow Russian

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(30 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Kazan (RUS): Women's 50m Breaststroke Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.

2021 European Short Course Championships

In November 2021, at the

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in Kazan, Godun placed fourth in her first event, the 100 metre breaststroke, with a time of 1:04.67 that was less than half a second slower than bronze medalist in the event,

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(3 November 2021)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2021 Kazan (RUS): Results 100m Breaststroke Women Final"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022."Russia's Chikunova wins silver at 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championship"
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''. 3 November 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2022. For her second event of the Championships, the 200 metre breaststroke, Godun placed tenth in the prelims heats with a 2:23.17 and did not advance to the semifinals stage of competition as she was not one of the two fastest Russians in the event.

(4 November 2021)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2021 Kazan (RUS): Results 200m Breaststroke Women Final"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. The same day as the 200 metre breaststroke, Godun split a 29.47 for the breaststroke leg of the 4×50 metre medley relay, contributing to the final time of 1:44.19, which won the relay team the gold medal and set a new Russian record.

(4 November 2021)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2021 Kazan (RUS): Results 4 x 50m Medley Women Final"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.Sutherland, James (4 November 2021)
"Russians Lead Record Breaking Party In Women's 200 Medley Relay"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. In her final event of the Championships, the 50 metre breaststroke, she won the bronze medal with a time of 29.80 seconds, finishing less than two-tenths of a second behind the gold and silver medalists in the event,

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and

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, both of Italy.

(7 November 2021)
"LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2021 Kazan (RUS): Results 50m Breaststroke Women Final"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.Hamann, Michael (7 November 2021)
"2021 European Short Course Championships: Day 6 Finals Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.

2021 World Short Course Championships

Leading up to the 2021 World Short Course Championships, Godun swam a personal best time of 1:03.77 in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2021 Russian Short Course Championships and became the second-fastest female Russian swimmer in the event behind Yuliya Yefimova.Race, Retta (20 November 2021)
"Nika Godun Rips 1:03.77 SCM 100 Breast At Russian C'Ships"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. The

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enacted a reactionary ban against Russians starting 17 December 2020 and ending 16 December 2022, after allegations that Russians all across the country were doping, which required her and all other Russians going to the World Championships to compete under a name different than their country name, Russian Swimming Federation in this case, and without their national anthem and flag.Dunbar, Graham (17 December 2020)
"Russia can't use its name and flag at the next 2 Olympics"
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''. Retrieved 6 November 2022.Wamsley, Laurel; Kennedy, Merrit (17 December 2020)
"Russia Gets Its Doping Ban Reduced But Will Miss Next 2 Olympics"
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''. Retrieved 6 November 2022.

(14 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Abu Dhabi (UAE): Entries Book"
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''. Retrieved 6 November 2022. At the World Championships, held at

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in December, Godun ranked first in the semifinals of the 50 metre breaststroke, following the disqualification of

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, with a personal best time of 29.42 seconds.

(16 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Women's 50m Breaststroke Semifinals Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022."Atkinson disqualified in 50m breast semis at World Swimming Short Course Championships"
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''. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2022. In the final the following day, she placed fifth with a time of 29.79 seconds.

(17 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Women's 50m Breaststroke Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.Rieder, David (17 December 2021)
"Short Course World Championships: Louise Hansson Leads Sweden to Relay WR, Then Wins Individual Gold (Day Two Women's Recap)"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. Earlier in the same finals session, she helped the 4×50 metre medley relay place sixth in 1:44.51, splitting a 29.56 for the breaststroke leg of the relay.

(17 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Women's 4x50m Medley Relay Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. In the final of the 100 metre breaststroke three days later, she placed sixth in 1:04.43.

(20 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Women's 100m Breaststroke Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022. For her final event of the Championships, the 4×100 metre medley relay, she split a 1:04.53 for the breaststroke leg of the finals relay, which was the third-fastest breaststroke leg in the final only behind

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of Sweden and Qianting Tang of

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, and helped achieve a new Russian record time of 3:49.94 and a fifth-place finish.

(21 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 9 February 2022.

2022: Double ban for being Russian

In 2022, the development of her senior international career was stunted first by

, the European governing body for aquatic sport, which banned her and all other Russians and Belarusians from their competitions indefinitely, at least for the foreseeable future, effective immediately on 3 March."LEN agrees not to invite Russian and Belarusian teams and supports Ukrainian athletes"
''

''. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022. Then on 21 April, she was denied the opportunity to improve upon her placings and times from the 2021 World Short Course Championships when she and all Russians and Belarusians were banned from

competitions by FINA through 31 December, which included the

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and the 2022 World Short Course Championships.Koos, Torin (21 April 2022)
"PRESS RELEASE , FINA Bureau meets, acknowledges decision to suspend Russian swimmer Evgeny Rylov"
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''. Retrieved 31 October 2022. Her times achieved between 21 April and 31 December 2022 at various non-FINA competitions did not count for FINA world rankings or world records, same as the times achieved by her fellow Russians.Keith, Braden (23 April 2022)
"Russia Confirms that Suspended Rylov Will Be Allowed at Russian Championships"
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''. Retrieved 6 November 2022. Developing her competition experience nationally instead, Godun won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2022 Russian Championships in April with a personal best time of 1:06.66. She also competed at the long course metres swimming portion of the 2022 Russian Solidarity Games in July, a multi-sport and multi-country competition broken into two parts, winning the silver medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a 1:06.81.Lohn, John (24 July 2022)
"Kliment Kolesnikov Continues to Show Speed at Russian Solidarity Games; Evgeniia Chikunova Wins Again"
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''. Retrieved 21 February 2023. At the second part of the Games, held in November in Kazan, she achieved a personal best time of 58.68 seconds in the final of the 100 metre individual medley and won the gold medal.Sutherland, James (23 November 2022)
"Kolesnikov's WR, Russian Records From Surkova & Kameneva Highlight Day 4 In Kazan"
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''. Retrieved 21 February 2023. In the 100 metre breaststroke, she won the silver medal with a personal best time of 1:03.71."Event 131 Women, 100m Breaststroke Women 24.11.2022"
''Russian Swimming Federation''. 24 November 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2023. For the final of the 200 metre breaststroke, she lowered her personal best time to a 2:19.94 and won the bronze medal, finishing 5.24 seconds behind the gold medalist.
''athletistic.com''. 25 November 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2023.

2023

In April 2023, Godun was announced as having entered to compete at the year's Russian National Championships, starting 16 April in Kazan."In arrivo i Campionati Nazionali di Russia. Dal 17 aprile in gara Kolesnikov, Chikunova, Prigoda, Rylov …"
(in Italian). ''nuoto.com''. 14 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023. On the first day, she ranked sixth in the semifinals of the 50 metre breaststroke with a time of 31.49 seconds and qualified for the final the next day."ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 201 Женщины, 50m Брасс Женщины"
(in Russian). ''Russian Swimming Federation''. 16 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023. She placed sixth in the final on day two with a time of 31.36 seconds."ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 101 Женщины, 50m Брасс Женщины"
(in Russian). ''Russian Swimming Federation''. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023. Twelve days earlier, and before the start of the Championships,

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announced it was retaining its ban on Russians and Belarusians as still in effect for its competitions indefinitely."PRESS RELEASE , World Aquatics Bureau meets, discusses the status of athletes from Russia and Belarus"
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''. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023. For the 100 metre breaststroke preliminaries on day three of the Championships, she swam a 1:09.60 and qualified for the semifinals ranking seventh."ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 18 Женщины, 100m Брасс Женщины"
(in Russian). ''Russian Swimming Federation''. 18 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023. In the evening, she ranked fifth in the semifinals and qualified for the final with a 1:08.61."ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 218 Женщины, 100m Брасс Женщины"
(in Russian). ''Russian Swimming Federation''. 18 April 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023. In the final of the 100 metre breaststroke on day four, she placed fourth in 1:07.67, which was 2.75 seconds behind gold medalist

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and 0.78 seconds behind bronze medalist

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."ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 118 Женщины, 100m Брасс Женщины"
(in Russian). ''Russian Swimming Federation''. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2023. The sixth and final day, Godun started with a 2:33.88 in the preliminaries of the 200 metre breaststroke, qualifying for the evening final ranking seventh."ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 37 Женщины, 200m Брасс Женщины"
(in Russian). ''Russian Swimming Federation''. 21 April 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023. In the final, she placed fourth with a 2:28.93."ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 137 Женщины, 200m Брасс Женщины"
(in Russian). ''Russian Swimming Federation''. 21 April 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023. For her final event of the Championships, the 4×100 metre medley relay, she helped the Moscow relay team win the bronze medal in 4:04.73, swimming the breaststroke leg of the relay in 1:07.77."ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ 2023: Дистанция 141 Женщины, 4 х 100m Комбинированная Женщины"
(in Russian). ''Russian Swimming Federation''. 21 April 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
''athletistic.com''. 21 April 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023.

International championships

: Godun swam only in the prelims heats.

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Legend: sf – semifinal

National records

Short course metres (25 m pool)

References

External links

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Background

Career

2012–2016

2019

2019 European Short Course Championships

2021

2021 Swimming World Cup

2021 European Short Course Championships

2021 World Short Course Championships

2022: Double ban for being Russian

2023

International championships

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (25 m pool)

National records

Short course metres (25 m pool)

See also

References

External links