SibFU swimmers to gather medal harvest

Russian Students Swimming Championship was held on December 26, 2009 in Moscow. The Championship became a head-start for the best swimmers of Russia to be selected for the student national team and participate in the World Universiade.

9 Honoured Masters of Sports, 48 International Masters of Sports, World and European Champions took part in the Event. The entry list of the Championship was more impressive than the list of the first Russian Universiade. Russian records were registered at the Championship for the first time so each medal won at the Championship was considered to be a valuable achievement.

SibFU team has already showed successful performance at different competitions so it did not fail to win this time. Andrei Arbuzov, Vladimir Nevrov, Maksim Mironov and Konstantin Zotov won silver medals in 4 х 100 m relay at the first day of the Championship. Svetlana Pening won bronze medal in 100 m Butterfly. Next day Svetlana Pening competed at her best distance of 50 m Butterfly and won gold medal of the Russian Champion for the first time.

Andrei Arbuzov, Viktor Kondratiev, Maksim Mironov and Konstantin Zotov won silver medals in the medley relay at the third day of the Championship.

Sports club, 5 february 2010