Russian Paralympians won 18 gold, 11 silver and 17 bronze medals after five days of the European Swimming Championships | RCC

The International Paralympic Committee European Open Swimming Championships are taking place in Portugal from 21 to 27 April.

More than 400 athletes took part in the competition.

On the fifth day of competition, Russian swimmers won 8 medals – 2 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze.

Victoria Ishiulova (50 meters freestyle, S8) and Ani Palyan (50 meters butterfly, S7) became European champions

The silver medalists of the European Championship were Valeria Shabalina (200 meters individual medley, SM14), Andrey Granichka (100 meters breaststroke, SB5), Natalya Butkova (50 meters freestyle, S4), Daria Lukyanenko (100 meters freestyle, S11).

Bronze medalists were Roman Zhdanov (50 meters freestyle, S4) and Zoya Shchurova (50 meters freestyle, S3)

Following the results of five days of competition, Russian Paralympians won 18 gold, 11 silver and 17 bronze medals

47 Russian Paralympians wage the struggle for the medals of the competition: Dmitry Bartasinsky, Dmitry Boronin, Natalia Butkova, Dmitry Chernyaev, Vladimir Danilenko, Irina Devylenko, Egor Efrosinin, Maxim Emelyanov, Aleksey Ganyuk, Ilnur Garipov, Andrey Gladkikh, Dmitry Grigoryev, Artem Isaev Isaev , Victoria Ishiulova, Andrey Kalina, Nikita Kazachiner, Elena Klyachkina, Diana Koltsova, Egor Kuzmin, Mira Larionova, Maria Latritskaya, Daria Lukyanenko, Alexey Melnikov, Alexander Molkov, Bogdan Mozgovoy, Maxim Nikiforov, Andrey Nikolaev, Anya Palyan, Artem Pavlenko, Natalia Pavlyukova, Maria Pavlova, Kirill Pulver, Adelina Razetdinova, Arthur Sayfutdinov, Valeria Shabalina, Milana Shchelokova, Zoya Shchurova, Anastasia Shevchenko, Yulia Shishova, Elizaveta Sidorenko, Alexander Skaliukh, Daniil Smirnov, Vladimir Sotnikov, Denis Tarasov, Roman Zhdanov and Alexandra Zyablitseva.

Participation in the European Swimming Championships is a prerequisite for qualifying for the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.

Live broadcasts of the competition are available on the International Paralympic Committee’s YouTube page at: https://youtube.com/@paralympics/streams

You can follow the schedule and results at the link: https://www.paralympic.org/swimming/live-results

The Russian Paralympic Committee congratulates the athletes on winning medals on the fifth day of the European Championships and wishes them success in the upcoming days of competition!

Swimming is one of the first sports disciplines in Paralympic sports, which was included in the competitive program at the 1st Paralympic Summer Games in 1960 in Rome (Italy). The development of the sport is carried out by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Swimming is one of the most medal-winning sports in the Paralympic Games. It involves men and women with musculoskeletal disorders, visual impairment and intellectual disabilities. At the Paralympic Games, athletes compete in a 50-meter pool on 8 lanes of the International Aquatics Federation (FINA) standard. At the XVI Paralympic Games, Russian swimmers won 17 gold, 14 silver and 18 bronze medals.