Sopova decided she wanted to learn to swim, and her mother put her in lessons when they returned to Russia. Sopova and her mother lived in Blagoveshchensk then, a small city along the eastern ...

On the second competition day Alina Zmushka clocked 1:07.48 to grab gold in the women’s 100m breaststroke. Earlier, the Belarusian celebrated victory in the women’s 50m breaststroke.

Russian Swimming Cap Lady is a series of memes based on promotional images of a woman wearing a swim cap sold by the swimwear company Arena. The photos, wh ...

Alina Zmushka claimed the champion title in the women’s 200m medley, clocking 2:16.77. Second placed Anastasia Sorokina from Krasnodar Krai. Earlier, Alina Zmushka secured victories in the women’s ...