Swimmer Sibirtsev, who joined the Uzbekistan national team, qualified for the 2024 Olympics
European swimming champion Ilya Sibirtsev, who moved from the Russian team to the Uzbekistan team, qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Match TV reports this.
The athlete fulfilled the qualifying conditions for the 800-meter race at the competition in Vancouver. He covered the distance in 7 minutes and 50.05 seconds.
Sibirtsev is a silver and bronze medalist at the 2019 Junior World Championships; in the same year he became the European champion. In the fall of 2019, the Russian became a student at the University of Louisville in the USA. He changed his sports citizenship at the beginning of the year.
Earlier it became known that Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova failed the selection for the 2024 Olympics in Paris in the 200-meter breaststroke. On June 23, she will try to qualify for the games in the 100-meter breaststroke.
Source: Lenta
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