European Swimming League: the Russian national swimming team was deprived of the European Championship silver due to violation of the regulations water in the mixed relay 4 x 50 meters freestyle is associated with the violation of the competition regulations by the team. This was reported to “Sport-Express” in the press service of the European Swimming League (LEN).
The Russians violated the declared order of the arrangement for the swim. “The incident was examined by the judges after the fact, analyzing the video of the swim,” they explained in LEN.
Vladimir Morozov, Kliment Kolesnikov, Arina Surkova and Maria Kameneva played in the Russian national team. They tied for second place with the Italian national team and won silver medals. They were deprived of their awards after the protest of the Polish national team.
The tournament was held in Kazan. The competition ended on Sunday, November 7th.