2019 EUROPEAN JUNIOR SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, July 3rd – Sunday, July 7th
- Aquatics Palace, Kazan, Russia
- LCM
- Meet Site
- Entry List
- Day 1 Prelims Recap/Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap
- Live Result
- Live Stream
14-year-old Russian phenom Evgenia Chikunova swam a massive best time in the semifinals of the women’s 200 breaststroke at the 2019 European Junior Championships in Kazan, Russia this evening. Hitting the wall in 2:21.07, Chikunova blew past her previous lifetime best of 2:22.67 set at the 2019 Russian national championships, which had stood as the Russian Junior Record.
A comparison of Chikunova’s splits reveals she is significantly faster on all but one leg of the race:
| Chikunova – July 2019 | Chikunova – April 2019 | |
| 1st 50 | 32.52 | 33.39 |
| 2nd 50 | 36.12 (1:08.64) | 37.00 (1:10.39) |
| 3rd 50 | 36.49 (1:45.13) | 36.18 (1:46.57) |
| 4th 50 | 35.94 | 36.10 |
| Total Time | 2:21.07 | 2:22.67 |
Chikunova’s time is only 3/10ths off Team USA’s Annie Lazor‘s world-leading time of 2:20.77 set at the Bloomington stop of the 2019 PSS in May. 100 breaststroke World Record holder Lilly King is now bumped to 3rd in the world rankings with her 2:21.39, also from the Bloomington stop of the PSS. Fellow Russian and 2017 World Champion in the 200 breast Yulia Efimova now sits 4th in the world rankings with a 2:21.59 from the FINA Champions Series in Indianapolis in May.
2018-2019 LCM WOMEN 200 BREAST
EFIMOVA
2.20.17
| 2 | Annie LAZOR | USA | 2.20.77 | 05/19 |
| 3 | Evgenia CHIKUNOVA | RUS | 2.21.07 | 07/04 |
| 4 | Lilly KING | USA | 2.21.39 | 05/31 |
| 5 | Tatjana SCHOENMAKER | RSA | 2.21.79 | 07/25 |
The official result is 2:23.07 for Chiknuva according to the organizers website
Yousef – 2:23.07 is her final time; the 2:21.0 was in the semifinals yesterday.
South African, Karen Muir. August 1965. Blackpool, England. 12years and 10months old. Women’s 110yards backstroke, World Record.
Ian Thorpe was only 15 when he won gold at the 1998 World Championships and only 16 when he obliterated the world record with his 3.41.83 at the 1999 Pan Pacs. It’s one thing to set a really fast time at a relatively minor meet where there’s no real pressure and another thing to do it on the big global stage.
. In 92 96 , 2000 & 2012 ,14- 15 year olds won gold . If you’ve got that unique set of ligaments then it can happen .
Is she swimming this at worlds?
RI DI CU LOUS for a 14 year old😝 ……what to say ? Annie , keep training ……☝️
I could do that.
I’m male, five years older, and I’d have to be doing backstroke. But I could do that.
lol😜
I’m sorry…am I reading this right? A 14-year-old girl just went a 2:21.07 200BR… in LCM? That might very well be the single most impressive 14&U swim of all time.
I would say u have to break a world record to be best 14yr old every. It’s been done a number of times
Name those instances then
Tracy Caulkins set the 200 fly WR with a 2:09.87 in 1978. In 1979 as a 14 year old Mary T Meagher went 2:07.01. That’s obviously the most impressive 14&U swim of all time.
Mary T broke the 200 fly record three times when she was 14, taking it all the way from that 2:09.87 by Caulkins to 2:07.01 in the space of just over a month. Quite impressive stuff.
You can find video online of her 2:05 world record at Brown Deer when she was 16, and she would have very likely gone a 2:04 in modern kit and if her coach had known to teach her better streamlines. One of the sport’s all time great wunderkids
in recent decades the only thing I can think of is Phelps and 200 fly – he was 15 or 16.
What 14 year old are you talking about?
You have to go way back to Jenny Turrall, she was 13.
it is nuts. The American NAG is 2:25, a legendary swim by Amanda Beard four seconds slower than this swim!!
But that was also 23 years ago. It’s hard to just compare times.