By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
Tatiana Belonogoff confirmed to Match TV Russia ahead of last week’s Russian National Swimming Championships that she has retired from professional swimming. The 23-year-old specialized in breaststroke and last competed at the Russian National Swimming Cup in July 2024, earning silver in the 100-meter breaststroke.
Belonogoff began her career racing for Great Britain, winning gold in the girls’ 50-meter breaststroke at the 2018 European Junior Championships. In June 2019, Belonogoff, who had lived in the United Kingdom up to that point, moved to Russia and began training with St. Petersburg. After spending six months across a year-long period living in her new country, she received approval from FINA—now World Aquatics—to change her sporting citizenship from British to Russian in September 2020.
World Aquatics banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from competition in March 2022, so after spending the 2021 ISL racing for the DC Trident, Belonogoff spent most of her post-pandemic career competing in Russia. Belonogoff frequented the women’s 50 and 100 breaststroke podiums at Russian National Championships. Her first national title came in April 2024, when she beat 200-meter breaststroke world record holder Evgeniia Chikunova for the 50-breaststroke crown, 30.54 to 30.75.
She did race in Great Britian several times, representing Guilford at meets like the 2023 British Championships and the 2023 BUCS Short Course Swimming Championships. A month before winning her Russian championship, Belonogoff swam her 50-meter breaststroke lifetime best at the BUCS Championships, where she took home gold in a lifetime best 30.33.
Belonogoff ranks in the top five among Russian women in the long-course 50 and 100-meter breaststroke all-time rankings.
Lifetime Bests (LCM/SCM)
50 breaststroke: 30.33/29.54 100 breaststroke: 1:06.51/1:04.41 200 breaststroke: 2:26.59/2:22.79Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2018 European Junior Champion Tatiana Belonogoff Retires From Swimming
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