Russia at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Russia at the
2015 World Aquatics Championships
Russia at the; 2015 World Aquatics Championships
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FINA code	RUS
National federation	All Russian Swimming Federation
Website	www.russwimming.ru
in Kazan, Russia
Competitors	97 in 6 sports
Medals; Ranked 3rd	Gold 9 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 17
World Aquatics Championships appearances
	1994; 1998; 2001; 2003; 2005; 2007; 2009; 2011; 2013; 2015; 2017; 2019; 2022–2023; 2024;
Other related appearances
	Soviet Union (1973–1991)

Russia competed as the host nation at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan from 24 July to 9 August 2015.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Svetlana Romashina	Synchronized swimming	Solo technical routine	July 25
Gold	Natalia Ishchenko Svetlana Romashina	Synchronized swimming	Duet technical routine	July 26
Gold	Vlada Chigireva Mikhaela Kalancha* Svetlana Kolesnichenko Liliia Nizamova* Aleksandra Patskevich Elena Prokofyeva Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Angelika Timanina Gelena Topilina	Synchronized swimming	Team technical routine	July 27
Gold	Natalia Ishchenko	Synchronized swimming	Solo free routine	July 29
Gold	Aleksandr Maltsev Darina Valitova	Synchronized swimming	Mixed duet free routine	July 30
Gold	Natalia Ishchenko Svetlana Romashina	Synchronized swimming	Duet free routine	July 30
Gold	Vlada Chigireva Svetlana Kolesnichenko Liliia Nizamova* Aleksandra Patskevich Elena Prokofyeva Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Angelika Timanina Gelena Topilina Darina Valitova*	Synchronized swimming	Team free routine	July 31
Gold	Vlada Chigireva Mikhaela Kalancha Svetlana Kolesnichenko Liliia Nizamova Aleksandra Patskevich Elena Prokofyeva Svetlana Romashina* Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Angelika Timanina Gelena Topilina Darina Valitova*	Synchronized swimming	Free routine combination	August 1
Gold	Yuliya Yefimova	Swimming	Women's 100 m breaststroke	August 4
Silver	Aleksandr Maltsev Darina Valitova	Synchronized swimming	Mixed duet technical routine	July 26
Silver	Evgeny Kuznetsov Ilya Zakharov	Diving	Men's 3 m synchronized springboard	July 28
Silver	Ilya Zakharov	Diving	Men's 3 m springboard	July 31
Silver	Andrey Grechin Danila Izotov* Nikita Lobintsev Vladimir Morozov Alexander Sukhorukov	Swimming	Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	August 2
Bronze	Roman Izmailov Viktor Minibaev	Diving	Men's 10 m synchronized platform	July 26
Bronze	Artem Silchenko	High diving	Men's high diving	August 5
Bronze	Evgeny Rylov	Swimming	Men's 200 m backstroke	August 7
Bronze	Yuliya Yefimova	Swimming	Women's 50 m breaststroke	August 9

Diving

Russian divers qualified for the individual spots and the synchronized teams at the Worlds through the National Championships.^[1]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ilya Molchanov	1 m springboard	343.05	17	—		Did not advance
Evgeny Novoselov	1 m springboard	337.15	18	—		Did not advance
Evgeny Kuznetsov	3 m springboard	470.15	5 Q	499.80	4 Q	516.90	5
Ilya Zakharov	3 m springboard	474.00	4 Q	524.30	3 Q	547.60
Viktor Minibaev	10 m platform	518.95	2 Q	510.95	4 Q	486.40	6
Nikita Shleikher	10 m platform	466.75	8 Q	468.95	9 Q	482.70	7
Evgeny Kuznetsov Ilya Zakharov	3 m synchronized springboard	448.68	1 Q	—		459.18
Roman Izmailov Viktor Minibaev	10 m synchronized platform	443.07	3 Q	—		441.33

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Nadezhda Bazhina	1 m springboard	252.05	8 Q	—		273.45	6
Maria Polyakova	1 m springboard	275.15	5 Q	—		255.20	9
Nadezhda Bazhina	3 m springboard	283.90	17 Q	291.30	13	Did not advance
Kristina Ilinykh	3 m springboard	267.90	20	Did not advance
Yekaterina Petukhova	10 m platform	301.10	23	Did not advance
Yulia Timoshinina	10 m platform	327.95	10 Q	310.25	15	Did not advance
Nadezhda Bazhina Kristina Ilinykh	3 m synchronized springboard	282.60	5 Q	—		297.30	6
Yekaterina Petukhova Yulia Timoshinina	10 m synchronized platform	274.80	11 Q	—		310.68	5

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Ilya Molchanov Maria Polyakova	3 m synchronized springboard	306.27	6
Nikita Shleikher Yulia Timoshinina	10 m synchronized platform	304.14	5
Viktor Minibaev Nadezhda Bazhina	Team	418.50	4

High diving

Russia has qualified one high diver at the World Championships.^[2]

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Igor Semashko	Men's high diving	366.30	15
Ilya Shchurov		309.85	19
Artem Silchenko		593.95

Open water swimming

Russia fielded a full team of eight swimmers to compete in the open water marathon.^[3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kirill Abrosimov	10 km	1:51:37.1	33
Sergey Bolshakov	5 km	55:25.3	12
Evgeny Drattsev	5 km	55:20.4	4
Evgeny Drattsev	25 km	4:57:11.9	8
Roman Karyakin	25 km	5:15:53.8	21
Daniil Serebrennikov	10 km	1:53:11.9	43

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Anastasiya Azarova	5 km	59:19.8	14
Anastasiya Azarova	10 km	2:05:59.4	40
Olga Kozydub	25 km	5:22:46.1	11
Anastasiya Krapyvina	5 km	59:12.7	8
Anastasiya Krapyvina	10 km	1:58:28.6	5

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Sergey Bolshakov Anastasiya Krapyavina Daniil Serebrennikov	Team	56:47.0	10

Swimming

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):^[4] Swimmers must qualify at the 2015 Russian Championships in Moscow (for pool events) to confirm their places for the Worlds.

The Russian team consists of 37 swimmers (22 men and 15 women). Among the official roster featured sprint freestyle sensation Vladimir Morozov, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Anastasia Zuyeva, and two-time defending World champion Yuliya Yefimova.^[5]^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anton Chupkov	200 m breaststroke	2:09.97	8 Q	2:09.64	8 Q	2:09.96	7
Andrey Grechin	50 m freestyle	22.38	13 Q	22.66	16	Did not advance
Danila Izotov	200 m freestyle	1:46.65	6 Q	1:47.66	15	Did not advance
Ilya Khomenko	200 m breaststroke	2:10.13	9 Q	2:09.86	9	Did not advance
Evgeny Koptelov	100 m butterfly	52.38	20	Did not advance
Evgeny Koptelov	200 m butterfly	1:58.06	19	Did not advance
Alexander Krasnykh	200 m freestyle	1:46.91	9 Q	1:46.45	8 Q	1:46.88	7
Alexander Krasnykh	400 m freestyle	3:51.93	34	—		Did not advance
Alexander Kudashev	200 m butterfly	1:59.33	26	Did not advance
Semen Makovich	200 m individual medley	2:01.05	20	Did not advance
Semen Makovich	400 m individual medley	4:18.61	17	—		Did not advance
Ernest Maksumov	800 m freestyle	8:12.65	36	—		Did not advance
Ernest Maksumov	1500 m freestyle	15:26.64	27	—		Did not advance
Vladimir Morozov	50 m freestyle	21.97	4 Q	22.02	=8 Q	21.56	4
	100 m freestyle	48.46	3 Q	DSQ		Did not advance
	50 m backstroke	25.27	=13 Q	25.77	6 Q	24.73	5
Alexander Osipenko	400 m individual medley	4:16.35	11	—		Did not advance
Alexander Popkov	50 m butterfly	23.75	17	Did not advance
Kirill Prigoda	50 m breaststroke	27.43	11 Q	27.47	11	Did not advance
Kirill Prigoda	100 m breaststroke	59.81	7 Q	59.60	5 Q	59.84	7
Vyacheslav Prudnikov	100 m butterfly	52.47	22	Did not advance
Evgeny Rylov	100 m backstroke	53.74	9 Q	53.14	5 Q	53.23	7
Evgeny Rylov	200 m backstroke	1:56.78	4 Q	1:55.54	=4 Q	1:54.60
Alexander Sukhorukov	100 m freestyle	48.64	9 Q	48.40	7 Q	48.28	6
Grigory Tarasevich	50 m backstroke	25.27	=13 Q	25.42	16	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	53.69	8 Q	53.64	11	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	1:57.77	11 Q	1:58.30	16	Did not advance
Andrey Grechin Nikita Lobintsev Vladimir Morozov Alexander Sukhorukov Danila Izotov*	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:12.46	1 Q	—		3:11.19
Danila Izotov Alexander Krasnykh Mikhail Dovgalyuk Alexander Sukhorukov Nikita Lobintsev* Artem Lobuzov*	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:10.84	7 Q	—		7:06.89	4
Ilya Khomenko* Vladimir Morozov Daniil Pakhomov Kirill Prigoda Evgeny Rylov Alexander Sukhorukov* Grigory Tarasevich*	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:34.02	8 Q	—		3:30.90	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Viktoriya Andreeva	200 m freestyle	1:58.31	=13 Q	1:58.14	14	Did not advance
Viktoriya Andreeva	200 m individual medley	2:16.85	27	Did not advance
Maria Astashkina	50 m breaststroke	32.18	37	Did not advance
Maria Astashkina	100 m breaststroke	1:08.27	=26	Did not advance
Anastasia Fesikova	50 m backstroke	28.15	=9 Q	28.11	9	Did not advance
Anastasia Fesikova	100 m backstroke	59.84	6 Q	59.55	6 Q	59.66	6
Maria Kameneva	50 m freestyle	25.18	16 Q	24.97	15	Did not advance
Nataliya Lovtsova	50 m freestyle	25.62	33	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	54.68	14 Q	54.44	13	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	27.11	34	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	59.11	26	Did not advance
Arina Openysheva	400 m freestyle	4:11.71	18	—		Did not advance
Anna Polyakova	100 m butterfly	59.42	28	Did not advance
Veronika Popova	100 m freestyle	54.90	=16	Did not advance
Veronika Popova	200 m freestyle	1:57.18	5 Q	1:56.56	5 Q	1:56.16	4
Irina Prikhodko	200 m backstroke	2:10.81	14 Q	2:10.36	11	Did not advance
Valeriya Salamantina	800 m freestyle	9:11.78	37	—		Did not advance
Vitalina Simonova	200 m breaststroke	2:23.99	8 Q	2:22.72	4 Q	2:23.59	7
Daria Ustinova	50 m backstroke	28.52	16 Q	28.39	14	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:01.00	22	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:09.16	4 Q	2:08.74	5 Q	2:07.64 WJ	4
Yuliya Yefimova	50 m breaststroke	30.45	5 Q	30.14	2 Q	30.13
	100 m breaststroke	1:06.31	1 Q	1:05.60	1 Q	1:05.66
	200 m breaststroke	2:26.11	17	Did not advance
Veronika Popova Nataliya Lovtsova Viktoriya Andreeva Maria Kameneva	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:38.63	10	—		Did not advance
Viktoriya Andreeva Veronika Popova Arina Openysheva Daria Mullakaeva	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:55.19	9	—		Did not advance
Nataliya Lovtsova Veronika Popova Vitalina Simonova Daria Ustinova	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:01.12	10	—		Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Vladimir Morozov Alexandr Sukhorukov Veronika Popova Nataliya Lovtsova Andrey Grechin* Nikita Lobintsev*	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:25.23	2 Q	3:24.21	4
Anastasia Fesikova Yuliya Yefimova Daniil Pakhomov Vladimir Morozov Daria Ustinova* Kirill Prigoda* Veronika Popova*	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:45.87 NR	4 Q	3:44.83 NR	5

Synchronized swimming

Russia sent a full squad of twelve synchronized swimmers (one male and eleven female), including 2012 Olympic champions Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, to compete in each of the following events.

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Svetlana Romashina	Solo technical routine	94.3860	1 Q	95.2680
Natalia Ishchenko	Solo free routine	96.5000	1 Q	97.2333
Natalia Ishchenko Svetlana Romashina	Duet technical routine	94.5715	1 Q	95.4672
Natalia Ishchenko Svetlana Romashina	Duet free routine	97.2667	1 Q	98.2000
Vlada Chigireva Mikhaela Kalancha* Svetlana Kolesnichenko Liliia Nizamova* Aleksandra Patskevich Elena Prokofyeva Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Angelika Timanina Gelena Topilina	Team technical routine	95.1829	1 Q	95.7457
Vlada Chigireva Svetlana Kolesnichenko Liliia Nizamova* Aleksandra Patskevich Elena Prokofyeva Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Angelika Timanina Gelena Topilina Darina Valitova*	Team free routine	97.6333	1 Q	98.4667
Vlada Chigireva Mikhaela Kalancha Svetlana Kolesnichenko Liliia Nizamova Aleksandra Patskevich Elena Prokofyeva Svetlana Romashina* Alla Shishkina Maria Shurochkina Angelika Timanina Gelena Topilina Darina Valitova*	Free routine combination	96.4000	1 Q	98.3000

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Aleksandr Maltsev Darina Valitova	Duet technical routine	88.8539	1 Q	88.2986
Aleksandr Maltsev Darina Valitova	Duet free routine	89.3667	2 Q	91.7333

Water polo

Men's tournament

Team roster

Anton Antonov
Alexey Bugaychuk
Artem Odintsov
Igor Bychkov
Albert Zinnatullin
Artem Ashaev
Vladislav Timakov
Ivan Nagaev
Konstantin Stepaniuk
Dmitrii Kholod
Sergey Lisunov
Lev Magomaev
Victor Ivanov

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	3	3	0	37	31	+6	6	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	United States	3	2	1	28	26	+2	4	Advanced to playoffs
3	Italy	3	1	2	28	28	0	2	Advanced to playoffs
4	Russia	3	0	3	23	31	−8	0

Source: SportResult.com
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.

27 July 2015 18:50	Report	United States	7–6	Russia	Kazan Attendance: 1,932 Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 1–2, 2–2, 1–1
		Azevedo, Cupido 3	Goals	Bugaychuk 3

29 July 2015 18:50	Report	Russia	6–9	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 2,350 Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 0–5, 3–1, 2–2
		Kholod 3	Goals	Giorgetti 2

31 July 2015 18:50	Report	Greece	15–11	Russia	Kazan Attendance: 2,285 Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Francesc Buch (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 3–2, 5–3, 2–4
		Fountoulis 4	Goals	Nagaev 3

13th–16th place semifinals

2 August 2015 10:50	Report	China	10–10	Russia	Kazan Attendance: 2,263 Referees: Stanko Ivanovski (MNE), Masoud Rezvani (IRI)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 4–4, 2–1, 3–3 PSO: 1–4
		Tan Feihu 4	Goals	four players 2

13th place game

4 August 2015 10:50	Report	Russia	9–13	Japan	Kazan Attendance: 821 Referees: György Kun (HUN), Masoud Rezvani (IRI)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 1–3, 2–5, 2–2
		Bychkov 3	Goals	Okawa 3

Women's tournament

Team roster

Anastasia Verkhoglyadova
Tatiana Zubkova
Ekaterina Prokofyeva
Elvina Karimova
Ekaterina Zubacheva
Anastasia Simanovich
Ekaterina Lisunova
Evgeniia Abdriziakova
Anna Timofeeva
Ekaterina Tankeeva
Evgeniya Ivanova
Nadezhda Iarondaikina
Anna Karnaukh

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	3	2	1	0	38	25	+13	5	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	China	3	2	1	0	31	21	+10	5	Advanced to playoffs
3	Hungary	3	1	0	2	37	25	+12	2	Advanced to playoffs
4	France	3	0	0	3	12	47	−35	0