Five Kaluga swimmers will go to the World Cup

Five athletes representing the Kaluga region won the right to perform at the World Swimming Championships.

This result was a record for the region in the number of participants in the world championship. In total, at the Russian Championship, our team won 11 awards.

To the six previously received medals, Kaluga athletes added two more gold and three silver.

The winner at the distance of 100 meters butterfly was Polina Malakhova from SSHORE “Youth”. That's 56.07 seconds.

Two awards were won by Alina Gayfutdinova from Olympus Obninsk Shore. She won the 50 meters back swim with a score of 26.12 seconds, and also became a silver medalist in the same distance freestyle.

Silver medals also went to Daria Trofimova, who performed at a distance of 200 meters in freestyle, and Dmitry Savenko from SSHOR Olympus, who showed the second result at 200 meters on the back.

At the World Cup, Russia will be represented by Alina Gaifutdinova, Dmitry Savenko, Grigory Vekovishchev (SHOR “Olympus”), Polina Malakhova (SHOR “Youth”) and Daria Trofimova, who plays in the parallel standings for the Kaluga and Novosibirsk regions.

As told earlier “MK in Kaluga”, Kaluga swimmers took 11 medals at the Russian Swimming Championship.