Evgeny Rylov

Evgeny Rylov

Rylov at the 2015 World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Evgeny Mikhailovich Rylov
National team	Russia
Born	(1996-09-23) 23 September 1996 Novotroitsk, Russia
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke
Medal record Men's swimming Representing Russia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m backstroke World Championships (LC) 2017 Budapest 200 m backstroke 2015 Kazan 200 m backstroke 2017 Budapest 4×100 m medley European Championships (LC) 2018 Glasgow 200 m backstroke 2018 Glasgow 4×100 m freestyle 2018 Glasgow 100 m backstroke 2018 Glasgow 4×100 m medley Summer Youth Olympics 2014 Nanjing 50 m backstroke 2014 Nanjing 100 m backstroke 2014 Nanjing 4×100 m medley 2014 Nanjing 200 m backstroke

Evgeny Mikhailovich Rylov (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Рылов; born 23 September 1996) is a Russian competitive swimmer who specializes in backstroke events. He has won three gold medals at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, and a bronze on his major debut at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan.^[1] He also won a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio and a gold at 2017 Fina World Championships in Budapest, both were from the 200 m backstroke event.

Career

Rylov first established himself on the world scene at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, where he achieved a total of four medals, three golds and one silver, and broke two junior world swimming records. In the boys' 100 m backstroke, Rylov shared the top prize with Italy's Simone Sabbioni in a matching time of 54.24 seconds.^[2] On 20 August, he put up a sterling effort of 25.09 to crush the world junior record and pick up his second gold of the meet in the 50 m backstroke, touching out Greece's Apostolos Christou by 0.35 of a second.^[3][4] Less than an hour later, Rylov and his teammates Anton Chupkov, Aleksandr Sadovnikov, and Filipp Shopin led throughout the race to capture the 4×100 m medley relay title in a junior world-record breaking time of 3:38.02.^[3][5] On the final night of the Games, Rylov added a silver to his medal tally in the 200 m backstroke with a time of 1:57.08, losing the title and his chance of breaking another record to China's Li Guangyuan by 14-hundredths of a second.^[6]

When his nation Russia hosted the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Rylov charged his way to round out the podium with a third-place time of 1:54.60 in the 200 m backstroke.^[1][7] Earlier in the meet, Rylov also posted a time of 53.23 to place seventh in the finals of the 100 m backstroke, missing out the podium by more than half a second.^[8]

At the Russian Championships in April 2016, Rylov broke the European record in the 200 m backstroke with a time of 1:54.21.^[9]

At the World Championships in July 2017, Rylov broke the European record in the 200 m backstroke with a time of 1:53.61.^[10] defeating the reigning Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Murphy in the process. The swim places Rylov as the sixth fastest man to ever swim the 200 m backstroke while only Aaron Piersol, Ryosuke Irie, Ryan Lochte, Mitch Larkin and Tyler Clary have swum faster.

References

External links

• Nanjing 2014 Profile
• Eurosport Bio