By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
World Aquatics and Russian sporting officials have confirmed two administrative points regarding the results of the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Budapest, where swimmers from Russia, Belarus, and Mexico competed under a neutral banner.
Neutral Athlete Records
The first is that any World Records set by athletes from those countries at the meet will be credited to “neutral athletes.” That includes the men’s 400 medley relay record where the neutral athletes holding Russian passports swam 3:18.68. The official listed country that will hold the record is “Neutral Athletes B,” which were athletes with Russian passports.
Neutral athletes with Belarusian passports were “Neutral Athletes A” and neutral athletes with Mexican passports were “Neutral Athletes C” at the meet.
This creates kind of a peculiar distinction, because when Russian athletes set World Records outside of World Aquatics competition, like Kliment Kolesnikov’s 22.11 in the 50 back, the records were credited to “Russia” because at that meet, athletes were not required to represent “neutral athletes” – a subtle difference.
While “neutral athletes” don’t have a continent, World Aquatics confirmed that they will still be recognized on the continents where their passports are from. So if everything is approved, Russian swimmers will set European Records – at least based on World Aquatics’ record keeping.
Neutral Athletes Prize Money
In an interview with Russian state-run news outlet TASS, Vladimir Salnikov says that athletes will receive their prize money from World Aquatics.
“We [the Russian swimming body] are tackling this matter head on, and it will be settled within the framework of cooperation,” Salnikov said.
Neutral Athletes B amassed the third-most prize money at the meet with $220,500, behind only the United States ($974,000) and Canada ($241,000).
Neutral Athletes A (Belarus) earned $45,000, while Neutral Athletes C (Mexico) earned no dollars with no finals swims from their two entered athletes.
Some Belarus and Russian athletes were allowed to compete under neutral banners at a World Aquatics meet for the first time since the February 2022 invasion in Ukraine if they could disassociate themselves with the war effort.
The Mexican federation was expelled late last year after years of internal political turmoil including “repeated failure…to comply with FINA’s good standards.”
28 Russians, 5 Belarusians, and 2 Mexicans competed at the meet.
Prize Money Earned by Neutral Athletes
last first Nation nation gender money wr double crown total PRIGODA Kirill Neutral Athletes B AQU M 27785.71 6250 0 34035.71 LIFINTSEV Miron Neutral Athletes B AQU M 24285.71 6250 0 30535.71 MINAKOV Andrei Neutral Athletes B AQU M 12628.57 6250 0 18878.57 KORNEV Egor Neutral Athletes B AQU M 12485.71 6250 0 18735.71 SAMUSENKO Pavel Neutral Athletes B AQU M 16342.86 0 0 16342.86 ZMUSHKA Alina Neutral Athletes A AQU F 15000 0 0 15000 BORODIN Ilia Neutral Athletes B AQU M 14666.67 0 0 14666.67 SHYMANOVICH Ilya Neutral Athletes A AQU M 14000 0 0 14000 CHIKUNOVA Evgeniia Neutral Athletes B AQU F 13833.33 0 0 13833.33 SURKOVA Arina Neutral Athletes B AQU F 13747.62 0 0 13747.62 ZHIGALOV Aleksandr Neutral Athletes B AQU M 12857.14 0 0 12857.14 SHKURDAI Anastasiya Neutral Athletes A AQU F 12000 0 0 12000 KLEPIKOVA Daria Neutral Athletes B AQU F 11090.48 0 0 11090.48 TROFIMOVA Daria Neutral Athletes B AQU F 6947.62 0 0 6947.62 STEPANOVA Milana Neutral Athletes B AQU F 4400 0 0 4400 ZHAVORONKOV Dmitrii Neutral Athletes B AQU M 4152.38 0 0 4152.38 PEKARSKI Grigori Neutral Athletes A AQU M 4000 0 0 4000 DIAKOVA Sofia Neutral Athletes B AQU F 3200 0 0 3200 MARTYNYCHEV Kirill Neutral Athletes B AQU M 3000 0 0 3000 SAVENKO Dmitrii Neutral Athletes B AQU M 3000 0 0 3000 GAIFUTDINOVA Alina Neutral Athletes B AQU F 2057.14 0 0 2057.14 SHCHEGOLEV Aleksandr Neutral Athletes B AQU M 1866.67 0 0 1866.67 KOSTIN Oleg Neutral Athletes B AQU M 1428.57 0 0 1428.57 MISHARINA Kseniia Neutral Athletes B AQU F 1200 0 0 1200 SHEVLIAKOV Roman Neutral Athletes B AQU M 857.14 0 0 857.14 AGAPITOVA Elizaveta Neutral Athletes B AQU F 833.33 0 0 833.33 EFIMOVA Yuliya Neutral Athletes B AQU F 833.33 0 0 833.33 AKIMOV Roman Neutral Athletes B AQU M 666.67 0 0 666.67 SUDAREV Aleksei Neutral Athletes B AQU M 666.67 0 0 666.67 LUZIN Savelii Neutral Athletes B AQU M 666.67 0 0 666.67Read the full story on SwimSwam: Russian, Belarusian Athletes Will Receive Worlds Prize Money; Will Have “Neutral” Records
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