Russian swimmer Lifintsev wins third gold at the World Cup in Budapest

Russian swimmer Miron Lifintsev won a gold medal in the 50m backstroke final at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Budapest, December 10-15.

He covered the distance in 22.47 seconds and won his third gold medal of the tournament. Australia's Isaac Cooper (+0.02) was the silver medalist, while Ireland's Shane Ryan (+0.09) rounded out the top three.

Another Russian - Pavel Samusenko - was sixth, 0.27 seconds behind the leader, writes "Sport-Express".

In addition, on the same day, Russian Evgenia Chikunova won silver in the 200-meter breaststroke. Also the second place in this category took Kirill Prigoda.

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Earlier, on December 11, Lifintsev won gold at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in the 100m backstroke. He showed a result of 48.76 seconds.

It also became known that the Russian Kirill Prigoda updated the Russian record at a distance of 100 m breaststroke at the World Cup in short water swimming. It was noted that the athlete swam the distance in 55.82 seconds in the preliminary swim.