Russia at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships

Russia competed at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from 14 July to 30 July.

Russia at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
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FINA code	RUS
National federation	All Russian Swimming Federation
Website	www.russwimming.ru
in Budapest, Hungary
Competitors	91 in 6 sports
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold 11 Silver 6 Bronze 8 Total 25
World Aquatics Championships appearances
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Other related appearances
Soviet Union (1973–1991)

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Svetlana Kolesnichenko	Synchronized swimming	Solo technical routine	July 15
Gold	Evgeny Kuznetsov Ilya Zakharov	Diving	Men's 3 m synchronized springboard	July 15
Gold	Svetlana Kolesnichenko Alexandra Patskevich	Synchronized swimming	Duet technical routine	July 16
Gold	Anastasia Arkhipovskaya Anastasia Bayandina Daria Bayandina Vlada Chigireva Maryna Goliadkina Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Maria Shurochkina Varvara Subbotina Darina Valitova	Synchronized swimming	Team technical routine	July 18
Gold	Svetlana Kolesnichenko	Synchronized swimming	Solo free routine	July 19
Gold	Svetlana Kolesnichenko Alexandra Patskevich	Synchronized swimming	Duet free routine	July 20
Gold	Anastasiia Arkhipovskaia Anastasia Bayandina Daria Bayandina Vlada Chigireva Maryna Goliadkina Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Maria Shurochkina Varvara Subbotina Darina Valitova	Synchronized swimming	Team technical routine	July 21
Gold	Mikhaela Kalancha Aleksandr Maltsev	Synchronized swimming	Mixed duet free routine	July 22
Gold	Evgeny Rylov	Swimming	Men's 200 m backstroke	July 28
Gold	Yuliya Yefimova	Swimming	Women's 200 m breaststroke	July 28
Gold	Anton Chupkov	Swimming	Men's 200 m breaststroke	July 28
Silver	Nadezhda Bazhina	Diving	Women's 1 m springboard	July 15
Silver	Mikhaela Kalancha Aleksandr Maltsev	Synchronized swimming	Mixed duet technical routine	July 17
Silver	Aleksandr Bondar Viktor Minibaev	Diving	Men's 10 m synchronized platform	July 17
Silver	Mikhail Dovgalyuk Danila Izotov Alexander Krasnykh Nikita Lobintsev* Mikhail Vekovishchev	Swimming	Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	July 28
Silver	Yuliya Yefimova	Swimming	Women's 50 m breaststroke	July 30
Silver	Svetlana Chimrova Natalia Ivaneeva* Veronika Popova Yuliya Yefimova Anastasia Zuyeva	Swimming	Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay	July 30
Bronze	Nadezhda Bazhina Kristina Ilinykh	Diving	Women's 3 m synchronized springboard	July 17
Bronze	Ilya Zakharov	Diving	Men's 3 metre springboard	July 20
Bronze	Evgeny Drattsev	Open water swimming	Men's 25 km	July 21
Bronze	Kirill Prigoda	Swimming	Men's 100 m breaststroke	July 24
Bronze	Yuliya Yefimova	Swimming	Women's 100 m breaststroke	July 25
Bronze	Alexander Krasnykh	Swimming	Men's 200 m freestyle	July 25
Bronze	Russia women's national water polo team Anastasia Verkhoglyadova Veronika Vakhitova Ekaterina Prokofyeva Elvina Karimova Maria Borisova Olga Gorbunova Alena Serzhantova Anastasia Simanovich Anna Timofeeva Tatiana Tolkunova Evgeniya Ivanova Daria Ryzhkova Anna Karnaukh	Water polo	Women's tournament	July 28
Bronze	Anton Chupkov* Danila Izotov* Vladimir Morozov Daniil Pakhomov* Alexander Popkov Kirill Prigoda Evgeny Rylov Grigory Tarasevich*	Swimming	Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay	July 30

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships

Russia has entered 12 divers (six male and six female).^[1]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ilya Molchanov	1 m springboard	373.70	7 Q	—		122.10	11
Nikita Shleikher		360.05	13	—		Did not advance
Evgeny Kuznetsov	3 m springboard	423.85	12 Q	464.75	7 Q	458.70	8
Ilya Zakharov		502.30	2 Q	471.30	6 Q	505.90
Aleksandr Bondar	10 m platform	436.30	10 Q	509.10	1 Q	484.80	4
Viktor Minibaev		466.30	5 Q	463.40	8 Q	463.60	8
Evgeny Kuznetsov Ilya Zakharov	3 m synchronized springboard	436.86	2 Q	—		450.30
Aleksandr Bondar Viktor Minibaev	10 m synchronized platform	415.02	4 Q	—		458.85

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Nadezhda Bazhina	1 m springboard	254.10	10 Q	—		304.70
Maria Polyakova		260.80	6 Q	—		289.05	5
Kristina Ilinykh	3 m springboard	317.85	4 Q	311.90	7 Q	319.40	7
Maria Polyakova		288.75	11 Q	294.60	11 Q	299.20	9
Anna Chuinyshena	10 m platform	287.05	20	Did not advance
Yulia Timoshinina		281.75	22	Did not advance
Nadezhda Bazhina Kristina Ilinykh	3 m synchronized springboard	304.80	3 Q	—		312.60
Valeria Belova Yulia Timoshinina	10 m synchronized platform	290.04	7 Q	—		291.96	8

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Maria Polyakova Ilya Molchanov	3 m synchronized springboard	270.63	9
Yulia Timoshinina Viktor Minibaev	10 m synchronized platform	310.08	4
Yulia Timoshinina Evgeny Kuznetsov	Team	335.60	11

High diving

Main article: High diving at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships

Russia qualified three male high divers.^[2]

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Nikita Fedotov	Men's high diving	231.25	13
Igor Semashko		204.15	19
Artem Silchenko		229.30	15

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships

Russia has entered eight open water swimmers^[3][4]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kirill Abrosimov	Men's 5 km	54:45.9	4
	Men's 10 km	1:52:35.50	19
Kirill Belyaev	Men's 5 km	55:29.9	32
Kirill Abrosimov	Men's 25 km	1:52:35.5	19
Evgeny Drattsev	Men's 10 km	1:52:10.10	8
	Men's 25 km	5:02:49.80
Valeriia Ermakova	Women's 5 km	1:00:51.9	14
	Women's 25 km	5:45:13.90	17
Mariya Novikova	Women's 5 km	1:02:03.1	35
Anastasiya Krapyvina	Women's 10 km	2:01:55.2	15
	Women's 25 km	5:24:03.70	6
Daria Kulik	Women's 10 km	2:07:18.0	33
Valeria Ermakova Mariya Novikova Kirill Abrosimov Kirill Belyaev	Mixed team	55:55.1	10

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships

Russian swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anton Chupkov	200 m breaststroke	2:08.23	1 Q	2:07.14 CR	1 Q	2:06.96 CR
Mikhail Dovgalyuk	200 m freestyle	1:46.47	3 Q	1:45.74	6 Q	1:46.02	7
Ilya Druzhinin	800 m freestyle	8:00.27	18	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	15:03.05	13	—		Did not advance
Danila Izotov	100 m freestyle	48.56	=9 Q	48.78	15	Did not advance
Ilya Khomenko	200 m breaststroke	2:10.43	14 Q	2:08.58	6 Q	2:09.18	7
Kliment Kolesnikov	50 m backstroke	25.23	17	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	54.51	16 Q	53.84	=9	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	1:56.74	4 Q	1:55.15 WJ	4 Q	1:55.14 WJ	4
Oleg Kostin	50 m butterfly	23.68	17	Did not advance
Alexander Krasnykh	200 m freestyle	1:46.51	5 Q	1:45.47	5 Q	1:45.23
	400 m freestyle	3:47.35	13	—		Did not advance
Vladimir Morozov	50 m freestyle	21.72	4 Q	21.45	2 Q	21.46	4
	100 m freestyle	48.99	24	Did not advance
Daniil Pakhomov	100 m butterfly	52.47	23	Did not advance
	200 m butterfly	1:56.07	9 Q	1:55.84	=10	Did not advance
Alexander Popkov	100 m butterfly	51.84	14 Q	52.00	15	Did not advance
Kirill Prigoda	50 m breaststroke	26.91	5 Q	26.85 NR	4 Q	27.01	7
	100 m breaststroke	59.36 NR	6 Q	59.24 NR	8 Q	59.05 NR
	200 m individual medley	2:00.81	18	Did not advance
Evgeny Rylov	200 m backstroke	1:57.28	7 Q	1:54.96	3 Q	1:53.61 EU
Evgeny Sedov	50 m freestyle	22.20	17	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	23.49	10 Q	23.72	16	Did not advance
Grigory Tarasevich	50 m backstroke	24.88	8	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	53.18	3 Q	53.06	5 Q	53.12	5
Vsevolod Zanko	50 m breaststroke	27.39	16**	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	59.56	8 Q	59.76	=13	Did not advance
Nikita Korolev Nikita Lobintsev Vladimir Morozov Alexander Popkov	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:13.84	6 Q	—		3:12.58	4
Mikhail Dovgalyuk Danila Izotov Alexander Krasnykh Nikita Lobintsev* Mikhail Vekovishchev	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:07.21	3 Q	—		7:02.68
Anton Chupkov* Danila Izotov* Vladimir Morozov Daniil Pakhomov* Alexander Popkov Kirill Prigoda Evgeny Rylov Grigory Tarasevich*	4×100 m medley relay	3:32.12	3 Q	—		3:29.76

* Zanko tied for sixteenth place, but lost in a three-way swim-off to Slovenia's Peter John Stevens and did not advance.^[6]

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Viktoriya Andreeva	200 m individual medley	2:13.16	17	Did not advance
Svetlana Chimrova	50 m butterfly	26.49	18	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	57.85	8 Q	57.64	8 Q	57.24	7
	200 m butterfly	2:09.86	20	Did not advance
Anastasia Guzhenkova	200 m freestyle	2:00.24	25	Did not advance
	200 m butterfly	2:13.65	26	Did not advance
Natalia Ivaneeva	50 m breaststroke	30.81	9 Q	30.82	11	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:07.97	21	Did not advance
Rozaliya Nasretdinova	50 m freestyle	25.23	20	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	56.34	32	Did not advance
Arina Openysheva	400 m freestyle	4:15.45	19	—		Did not advance
Veronika Popova	200 m freestyle	1:57.06	8 Q	1:55.08 NR	3 Q	1:55.26	4
	400 m freestyle	4:06.40	7 Q	—		4:07.59	8
Daria Ustinova	50 m backstroke	28.73	30	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	59.90	10 Q	59.74	7 Q	59.50	6
	200 m backstroke	2:09.99	12 Q	2:07.08	4 Q	2:07.35	7
Yuliya Yefimova	50 m breaststroke	29.99	2 Q	29.73	2 Q	29.57
	100 m breaststroke	1:05.60	2 Q	1:04.36 NR	1 Q	1:05.05
	200 m breaststroke	2:25.63	11 Q	2:21.49	1 Q	2:19.64
	200 m individual medley	2:12.41	13 Q	2:12.88	14	Did not advance
Anastasia Zuyeva	50 m backstroke	27.96	=10 Q	27.65	11	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	59.58	4 Q	59.26	5 Q	58.83	5
Viktoriya Andreeva Anastasia Guzhenkova* Arina Openysheva Veronika Popova Daria Ustinova	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:55.67	6 Q	—		7:48.59	4
Svetlana Chimrova Natalia Ivaneeva* Veronika Popova Yuliya Yefimova Anastasia Zuyeva	4×100 m medley relay	3:57.53	4 Q	—		3:53.38

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Viktoriya Andreyeva Danila Izotov Nikita Korolev* Aleksandr Popkov Veronika Popova	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:26.94	7 Q	3:25.49 NR	7
Kliment Kolesnikov* Kirill Prigoda Grigory Tarasevich Vsevolod Zanko* Viktoriya Andreeva* Svetlana Chimrova Veronika Popova	4×100 m medley relay	3:46.09	5 Q	3:43.02	6

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships

Russia's synchronized swimming team consisted of 14 athletes (1 male and 13 female).^[7]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Svetlana Kolesnichenko	Solo technical routine	94.0229	1 Q	95.2036
	Solo free routine	95.5000	1 Q	96.1333
Svetlana Kolesnichenko Alexandra Patskevich Varvara Subbotina (R)	Duet technical routine	95.0062	1 Q	95.0515
	Duet free routine	96.6333	1 Q	97.0000
Anastasia Arkhipovskaya (R) Anastasia Bayandina Daria Bayandina Vlada Chigireva Maryna Goliadkina Veronika Kalinina Polina Komar Maria Shurochkina Varvara Subbotina (R) Darina Valitova	Team technical routine	95.0121	1 Q	96.0109
	Team free routine	96.8000	1 Q	93.9333

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Mikhaela Kalancha Aleksandr Maltsev	Duet technical routine	88.4847	1 Q	90.2639
	Duet free routine	92.0000	1 Q	92.6000

Legend: (R) = Reserve Athlete

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster

• Vitaly Statsenko
• Nikolay Lazarev
• Egor Yasilyev
• Nikita Dereviankin
• Alexey Bugaychuk
• Artem Ashaev
• Daniil Merjulov
• Ivan Nagaev
• Ivan Suchkov
• Dmitrii Kholod
• Sergey Lisunov
• Roman Shepelev
• Victor Ivanov

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	3	3	0	0	38	21	+17	6	Quarterfinals
2	Russia	3	1	0	2	34	32	+2	2[a]	Playoffs
3	Japan	3	1	0	2	29	38	−9	2[a]
4	United States	3	1	0	2	28	38	−10	2[a]

Source: Sportresult^{[dead link]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) better result against higher placed team.
Notes:

1. Russia 2 Pts, +4 GD; Japan 2 Pts, +1 GD; United States 2 Pts, −5 GD

17 July 2017 21:30	Report[dead link]	Japan	8–15	Russia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Daniel Flahive (AUS), Stanko Ivanovski (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 1–5, 2–3, 2–3, 3–4
		three players 2	Goals	four players 3

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19 July 2017 13:30	Report[dead link]	Russia	8–10	Croatia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Radoslaw Koryzna (POL), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–3, 1–4, 1–2
		Lisunov 2	Goals	Joković 4

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21 July 2017 12:10	Report[dead link]	United States	14–11	Russia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Alessandro Severo (ITA), Matan Schwartz (ISR)
		Score by quarters: 6–1, 3–5, 3–1, 2–4
		Bowen, Cupido 4	Goals	four players 2

Playoffs

23 July 2017 22:00	Report[dead link]	Spain	10–11	Russia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 2–4, 3–3, 3–1
		Tahull 4	Goals	Lisunov, Merkulov 3

Quarterfinals

25 July 2017 20:30	Report[dead link]	Hungary	14–5	Russia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Alessandro Severo (ITA), Francesc Buch (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 5–0, 3–1, 3–3, 3–1
		Hosnyánszky, Varga 4	Goals	Bugaychuk 2

5th–8th place semifinals

27 July 2017 13:30	Report[dead link]	Montenegro	9–8	Russia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–2, 2–4, 2–1
		Dr. Brguljan 4	Goals	Lisunov, Merkulov 2

Seventh place game

29 July 2017 12:00	Report[dead link]	Russia	7–10	Australia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Stanko Ivanovski (MNE), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 2–2, 1–3, 1–1
		Kholod 3	Goals	Younger 2

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster

• Anastasia Verkhoglyadova
• Veronika Vakhitova
• Ekaterina Prokofyeva
• Elvina Karimova
• Maria Borisova
• Olga Gorbunova
• Alena Serzhantova
• Anastasia Simanovich
• Anna Timofeeva
• Tatiana Tolkunova
• Evgeniya Ivanova
• Daria Ryzhkova
• Anna Karnaukh

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	3	2	0	1	37	22	+15	4[a]	Quarterfinals
2	Australia	3	2	0	1	32	20	+12	4[a]	Playoffs
3	Russia	3	2	0	1	29	21	+8	4[a]
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	0	3	15	50	−35	0

Source: Sportresult^{[dead link]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
Notes:

1. Greece 2 Pts, +1 GD; Australia 2 Pts, 0 GD; Russia 2 Pts, −1 GD

16 July 2017 21:30	Report[dead link]	Russia	9–7	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Francesc Buch (ESP), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–3, 2–3, 1–0
		Karimova, Simanovich 3	Goals	three players 2

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18 July 2017 17:30	Report[dead link]	Australia	8–5	Russia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Alessandro Severo (ITA), Francesc Buch (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–1, 3–1, 2–1
		three players 2	Goals	Borisova 2

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20 July 2017 12:10	Report[dead link]	Russia	15–6	Kazakhstan	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Natacha Florestano (BRA), Mikhail Dykman (CAN)
		Score by quarters: 5–1, 3–2, 4–2, 3–1
		Simanovich 3	Goals	Mirshina 3

Playoffs

22 July 2017 20:30	Report[dead link]	Netherlands	10–11	Russia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 4–3, 2–3, 2–1
		Stomphorst 3	Goals	Prokofyeva 3

Quarterfinals

24 July 2017 14:50	Report[dead link]	Italy	8–9	Russia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 0–3, 4–1, 3–3, 1–2
		Emmolo 3	Goals	Ivanova 3

Semifinals

26 July 2017 20:30	Report[dead link]	Russia	9–14	United States	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 4–5, 1–6, 2–2, 2–1
		Prokofyeva 3	Goals	Fattal 5

Third place game

28 July 2017 15:00	Report[dead link]	Russia	11–9	Canada	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Péter Molnár (HUN), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 4–2, 2–2, 2–2
		Ryzhkova 3	Goals	Eggens 4

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