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RIO DE JANEIRO, 14 August. / TASS /. The Russian national swimming team completed its performance at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and Main coach the team does not consider the results of the team's performance as a failure.

At the 2016 Games, the Russian national team won four medals. Yulia Efimova won two silver medals at 100 and 200 meters breaststroke. Two more bronze medals were won by Evgeny Rylov (200 meters backstroke) and Anton Chupkov (200 meters breaststroke). Thus, the Russian national team was left without gold medals for the fifth Olympics in a row.

"There is no complete satisfaction, we were ready to win one or two gold medals," the head coach of the Russian team Sergey Kolmogorov admitted to reporters. a conversation with a number of coaches who could not bring their athletes to peak form for the main start of the year. "

According to the coach, he does not consider the Russians' performance at the Olympics to be a failure. "I will not accept only one assessment of the performance of the Russian national team - a failure," said Kolmogorov.

The national team does not need major changes

Kolmogorov has been leading the Russian national team since the fall of 2015. The decision on his future fate, as the coach himself said, will be taken by the leadership of the All-Russian Swimming Federation.

According to the team's mentor, serious changes in the Russian national team are not required, but it is enough only to improve the qualifications of some coaches.

"The decision about my future should be made by my superiors. I believe that no major changes are required. The main thing is that the coaches improve their qualifications faster," said Kolmogorov.

"Yulia Efimova proved that she is" clean "

The four-time world champion Yulia Efimova, who won two silver medals at 100 and 200 meters breaststroke in Rio de Janeiro, became a real heroine of the Olympic Games.

Due to the lengthy proceedings of her doping case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, as well as the subsequent waiting for the final verdict of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Russian woman approached the main start of the four-year-old exhausted and tired.

In this case, already along the way Olympic tournament the rivals staged a powerful psychological attack on the 24-year-old Russian woman, accusing her of an anti-doping violation three years ago and not wanting to accept any arguments about the swimmer's innocence.

During the swimmers' exits to the pool, individual fans whistled at her. Nevertheless, the athlete managed not to react to obstruction from competitors and to prove herself as a real fighter and leader of the Russian national team.

The behavior of swimmers and fans, who publicly condemned Efimova, was sharply criticized by the president International Federation Swimming (FINA) Julio Maglione. “This is very, very bad,” Maglione said. “Everyone here needs to understand that sport should unite people and do good, so I condemn such behavior. Moreover, Efimova proved that she is“ pure ”since she performs at the Olympic Games. ".

On the final day of the Olympic swimming tournament, Efimova performed as part of the Russian national team in the combined 4x100 m relay. The team, where Anastasia Fesikova, Svetlana Chimrova and Veronika Popova also sailed, took sixth place. "I was very tuned in to the relay, the results are very tight, and we did not have enough luck until 2-3 places. I tried very hard in the relay, after personal distances I was already released a little, I slept for the first time after (distance) 200 meters," said Efimova ...

According to the Russian woman, she was upset by the lack of the Russian national team in the top three. “When you take the baton, it’s already easier to swim, because there is the support of the girls, - emphasized Efimova. - We had a good mood, and therefore now it is very insulting.”

Efimova will return to Russia

Until recently, the Russian woman trained in the United States under the guidance of American specialist David Salo, but in the spring she stopped working with a specialist.

The final segment before the 2016 Games, the athlete was coached by her father Andrei Efimov. According to the head coach of the Russian national team, Sergei Kolmogorov, in the near future Efimov may return to Russia, where he will continue to study according to an individual program.

"I suppose that after the Olympics, Yulia (Efimova. - TASS note) will remain in Russia and will train according to an individual program, we discussed this," said Kolmogorov.

Phelps unmatched

One of a kind, now 23-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps, confirmed his highest class in Rio de Janeiro, winning five gold medals (one less than the Games in Beijing and one more than four years ago in London) ...

At the 2016 Games, Phelps started in all possible disciplines and only in one of them he gave himself a slack (or showed mercy) at the hundred-meter butterfly, losing his usual gold medal to young swimmer from Singapore Joseph Skooling.

In the rest of the finals, Phelps has consistently won. As the American said earlier, he has no plans to play after the Games in Rio de Janeiro and wants to finally end his career.

Hungarian star Katinka Hossu, whose collection, until the current Games, lacked only Olympic awards, also delighted her fans. In Rio de Janeiro, a swimmer nicknamed "The Iron Lady" won four medals, three of them gold, and became one of the main stars of the competition.

The best team in the Olympic swimming pool was once again the US team, which won 33 medals - 16 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze. The second place was taken by the Australians (3-4-3), the third - by the national team of Hungary (3-2-2). The American team has consistently excelled in Olympic swimming from the 1992 Barcelona Games. In 1988, in Seoul, the GDR team took the first place in the swimmers' medal standings, which won 11 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze medals, and the Americans became the second (8-6-4).

The final action on the main arena of Brazil was accompanied by a downpour, which slightly spoiled the mood of the participants in the "parade of heroes", spectators in the stands and the organizers of the ceremony. Although for those who leave Rio in good spirits, with a sense of accomplishment and with a won medal, such a trifle as rain hardly spoiled the experience of the first Olympic Games in South America.

Medal credit

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Few doubted that the US team would win the team event. In 1992, during the Games in Barcelona, ​​the Americans took the second place, losing to the united CIS team. Since then, they have invariably been among the leaders of the overall team classification. The only "misfire" happened in Beijing in 2008, where they ceded leadership to the Chinese.

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The British, who did not even get into the top ten at the Games in Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996), and finished it in Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004), became the second.

Until the penultimate day of the competition, Russia waged a desperate struggle with Germany for the fourth line and was ultimately able to outstrip its competitors, winning two more golds. The final medal of the highest dignity was brought to the collection of the Russian national team by the freestyle wrestler Soslan Ramonov.

The Georgian national team at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro won seven medals and, in terms of the total number of awards won, repeated the result of the London Games. However, it surpassed them in a qualitative ratio. Four years ago, Georgians only once rose to the highest step of the podium. This time the Georgian anthem was played twice in Rio de Janeiro.

Georgian medalists of the XXXI Summer Olympic Games

Lasha Talakhadze (weightlifting, +105 kg)

Vladimir Khinchegashvili (freestyle wrestling, -57 kg)

Varlam Liparteliani (judo, -90 kg)

Lasha Shavdatuashvili (judo, -73 kg)

Irakli Turmanidze (weightlifting, +105 kg)

Shmagi Bolkvadze (Greco-Roman wrestling, -66 kg)

Geno Petriashvili (freestyle wrestling, -125 kg)

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One cannot fail to note the amazing progress of the Azerbaijani Olympians, who won 18 medals at the Games in Brazil (1-7-10). They exceeded the London figure by eight awards.

Heroes of the Olympics ...

Swimmer Michael Phelps, who, for a moment, is already 31 years old, again "came, saw, won." At the Games in Rio, the American won five gold medals and became the 23 (!) Multiple Olympic Champion. It is even difficult to assume that someone will at least be able to approach such indicators in the near future.

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Michael Phelps (USA), winner of the gold medal in the men's 200m swimming complex, at the awards ceremony XXXI summer Olympic Games.

American women Katie Ledecky (swimming) and Simone Biles (artistic gymnastics) lagged behind Phelps with four gold medals each.

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Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt again won three gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters and a 4x100 relay, becoming a nine-time Olympic champion. In the last three Olympics, Bolt has consistently won these disciplines.

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Usain Bolt (Jamaica) after finishing in the final race of the 200 m during the men's competition. athletics at the XXXI Summer Olympics.

... and the "heroes of the Olympics"

Athletes of the US women's national team in the semifinals of the 4x100 meter relay dropped the baton and could not qualify for the decisive race. The American women filed an appeal, claiming that they were prevented by Brazilian athletes. The appeal was upheld. The USA national team was allowed to run the semifinals in splendid isolation. In the re-run, they showed better time than their opponents from China, and the latter were "asked" from the final. The appeal of the Asian athletes was not granted, and the American women became Olympic Champions.

Georgian heroes of Rio

If you do not take into account the Georgian athletes who won medals at the Games in Rio, then there are other heroes in Georgia who won the hearts of fans not only in their homeland, but also in the world.

Canoeist Zaza Nadiradze was incredibly happy when he was able to qualify for the Olympics. You couldn't even dream of more. But Nadiradze successfully performed in qualification and reached the semifinals of the single canoe competition at a distance of 200 meters. In the semifinals, he finished first, leaving behind the reigning Olympic Champion Ukrainian Yuriy Cheban and four-time World and European Champion Valentin Demyanenko. But in the final, nervousness and lack of experience in participating in competitions of this rank affected. As a result, Nadiradze finished fifth, but won the hearts of thousands of fans.

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Seoul Olympic Champion (1988) in Shooting sports pistol Nino Salukvadze came to Rio for her eighth Games of her career. A unique achievement among women in this sport. Salukvadze was able to reach the final of the competition, but in the end she was left without a medal. After the completion of the speeches, she said that most likely she would be preparing for the Tokyo Olympics - the ninth in a row.

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David Kharazishvili became the first marathon runner in the history of Georgia who won a license for the Olympic Games. The Georgian athlete had a good start, but at the 25th kilometer he felt a sharp pain in his side. He did not run for almost two kilometers, but simply walked and even thought to withdraw from the distance. However, he found the courage and crossed the finish line. As a result, he finished 72nd, but ended up in the first half of the finishers and left 93 athletes behind.

40 Georgian athletes went to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which is a record figure. For the first time in the history of independent Georgia, the country was represented in such sports as: women's weightlifting (Anastasia Gottfried), women's judo (Esther Stam), shot put for men (Benik Abrahamyan), high jumping for women (Valentina Lyashenko).

Rio green water

The water in the swimming pool of the Rio de Janeiro Aquatics Center, where the diving competition was to be held, suddenly turned green, which baffled even the technical staff. It was later revealed that this was due to 160 liters of hydrogen peroxide accidentally poured into the pool. The substance neutralized chlorine, which promoted the growth of "organic compounds", including, possibly, algae. Despite the fact that the water did not pose a threat to the health of the athletes, it still had to be replaced.

Swimming in Russia is called all disciplines where athletes have to overcome distances by swimming. In international terminology, swimming also refers to sports such as water polo, rowing and the like. For them in Russia, the term “ water sports". Swimming competitions are traditionally included in the summer Olympic Games... The number of disciplines and medals is only slightly inferior to athletics. Discipline has been present at the Games for a long time, since 1896. Then only men swam, but since 1912 women began to compete as well. But swimming in the open space joined the official program just a few years ago, in 2008.

Swimming Games Participants

Participants in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are 900 athletes from different countries. From each country, no more than two participants can be nominated for one sports discipline. If we are talking about a relay race, then no more than one team.

Part of the competition will be held in open water, the other part in swimming pools.

In total, athletes will receive 34 sets of awards in various disciplines.

Teams are deemed to have passed the qualifying tournament if they have shown an appropriate swimming result that demonstrates their suitability for such a tough competition. The qualification of the competition will end in July, shortly before the start of the games. If some places from 900 quotas remain unfilled, further selection will be made by a special commission.

Russia has won 48 swimming quotas, so summer olympics promises to be especially interesting for Russian fans.

Male disciplines:

• Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 1500 m.
• Butterfly: 100, 200 m.
• Back: 100, 200 m.
• Breaststroke: 100, 200 m.
• Open water: 10 km.

Women's disciplines:

• Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 m.
• Butterfly: 100, 200 m.
• Back: 100, 200 m.
• Breaststroke: 100, 200 m.
• Complex swimming: 200, 400 m.
• Relays: freestyle 4x100, freestyle 4x200, combined style 4x100.
• Open water: 10 km.

Swimming competition calendar

The Summer Olympic Games include swimming competitions, which will be held from August 6 to August 16.

There will be several preliminary heats and semi-finals every day.

Finals of the competition, schedule:

• August 6.

Men: Freestyle, 400 m. Complex Swimming, 400 m.

Women: Freestyle, relay race 4x100 m. Complex swimming 400 m.

• August 7.

Men: Breaststroke, 100 m. Freestyle, relay 4x100 m.

Women: Freestyle, 400 m.Butterfly, 100 m.

• 8 August.

Men: Freestyle, 200 m. Back, 100 m.

Women: Back, 100m. Breaststroke, 100m.

• August 9.

Men: Butterfly, 200 m. Freestyle, relay 4x200 m.

Women: Freestyle, 200 m. Complex swimming 200 m.

• August 10.

Men: Freestyle 100m Breaststroke 200m

Women: Butterfly, 200 m. Freestyle, relay 4x200 m.

• 11th August.

Men: Back, 200 m. Complex swimming 200 m.

Women: Freestyle 100 m. Breaststroke 200 m.

• 12th of August.

Men: Freestyle 50 m.Butterfly 100 m

Women: Freestyle, 800 m. Back, 200 m.

• August 13.

Men: Freestyle, 1500 m. Complex swimming, relay 4x100 m.

Women: Freestyle, 50 m. Complex swimming, relay race 4x100 m.

• August 15.

Women: Open water, 10 km.

• August 16.

Men: Open water, 10 km.

The competition will take place at the Rio Olympic Aquatic Center, which seats 18,000 spectators.

Olympic Games - 2012. London (UK)

At the Games in London, American swimmer Michael Phelps, having added 4 gold and 2 silver medals to his piggy bank, became the only 18-fold in the history of sports Olympic champion Having won a total of 22 Olympic medals, he broke the medal record of Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina (18 Olympic medals), which lasted 48 years.
For the first time, an athlete successfully competed in the pool and open water. It was the Tunisian Osama Melluli, who won in the pool bronze medal at a distance of 1500 m and became an Olympic champion, participating in a 10 km marathon.
At the London Olympics, Russian swimming pool athletes won four awards. Two silver medals were won by Anastasia Zueva in the 200m backstroke and Evgeny Korotyshkin in the 100m butterfly, who was second only to Michael Phelps. Two bronzes were won by Yulia Efimova in 200 m breaststroke and men's freestyle relay 4x100 m (Andrey Grechin, Sergey Fesikov, Danila Izotov, Vladimir Morozov, Evgeny Lagunov and Nikita Lobintsev).
Yulia Efimova set a record for Russia and Europe in the 200 m breaststroke - 2.20.92. The national records were conquered by Veronika Popova in the 200 m freestyle - 1.56.84, and the women's team consisting of Anastasia Zueva, Yulia Efimova, Irina Bespalova and Veronika Popova in the combined relay 4x100 m - 3.56.03.

Medals of the Russian national swimming team,
won at the Games of the XXX Olympiad in 2012 in London (0-2-2):

Olympic Games - 2008. Beijing (China)

On Games XXI 11 099 athletes from 204 countries of the world took part in the X Olympiad in the capital of the PRC. 302 sets of awards were played in 28 sports. Most of the swimming competitions were held at the specially built Beijing National Aquatic Center. Only open water swims took place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing Park. The swimming program at the Beijing Games has been expanded. It included swimming in open water (marathon distance 10 km). The total number of playable sets of awards increased to 34: Freestyle: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m (women), 1500 m (men), relay races 4x100 m, 4x200 m. Marathon 10 km. Backstroke: 100m, 200m Breaststroke: 100 m, 200 m. Butterfly: 100 m, 200 m. Complex swimming: 200 m, 400 m, relay race 4x100 m.

won at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad 2008 in Beijing (1-1-2):

Olympic Games - 2004. Athens (Greece)

Medals of the Russian swimming team,
won at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in 2004 in Athens (0-1-0):

Olympic Games - 2000. Sydney (Australia)

Medals of the Russian swimming team,
won at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in 2000 in Sydney (0-1-1):

Olympic Games - 1996. Atlanta (USA)

10,500 athletes from 197 countries of the world gathered at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad. In 26 sports, 271 sets of medals were played. The Games were held in the year of the celebration of the centenary of the modern Olympics. Softball debuted at the Olympics Beach volleyball, mountain biking, women's football and lightweight rowing. American swimmer Amy Van Dyken won the largest number of gold medals, four. She won the 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly; and also participated in the 4x100 freestyle relay and the combined relay. Russian swimmer Alexander Popov won the 50 and 100 meters freestyle at the second Games in a row. Swimming competitions were held at the Georgia Tech Swimming Complex.

Medals of the Russian swimming team,
won at the 1996 Games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta (4-2-2):

Olympic Games - 1992. Barcelona (Spain)

9356 athletes from 172 countries took part in the Games of the XXV Olympiad. After the collapse of the USSR, 12 republics of the former USSR participated in the United Team. The games were remembered for their impeccable organization. The Olympic Flame was effectively lit by the Paralympian Antonio Reboglio, an arrow from a bow. For the first time, the American professional basketball team from the NBA took part in the games. 286 sets were played in 32 sports. As part of the OK CIS, when awarding representatives of three republics that already had national Olympic committees (Russia, Belarus and Ukraine), the flag was raised and the anthem of the corresponding country sounded. When the relay team was awarded, the IOC flag with the Olympic rings was raised and the "Ode to Joy" from Ludwig Van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony sounded. A similar procedure was used when awarding the athletes of the united German team at the games in 1956, 1960 and 1964. Thus, when Alexander Popov and Yevgeny Sadovy were awarded, the Russian anthem sounded, Elena Rudkovskaya - Belarusian, and the relay team of the CIS - "Ode to Joy". At the Games, one technical novelty appeared: shortly before the start of the Olympic Games, Mike Barrowman and Dara Torres presented a new model of a "swimsuit" (including a men's version), made of polyurethane and polyester, which, according to the manufacturers, has a lower coefficient of resistance. than leather. Another novelty is television. These are "mini cameras" that move on the guides behind the swimmer and can track all his movements, including underwater.

Joint Swimming Team Medals,
won at the Games of the XXV Olympiad 1992 in Barcelona (6-3-1):

Olympic Games - 1988. Seoul (South Korea)

V Games XXIV The Olympiad was attended by 9414 athletes from 160 countries of the world. The 1984 games in Los Angeles were missed by the USSR national team due to a political boycott. Therefore, at the Seoul Olympics, Soviet athletes were faced with the task of proving that they, as before, are trendsetters in world sports. The USSR national team took first place in the team event, having won 132 medals, of which 55 are gold, 31 are silver and 46 are bronze. Football team Soviet athletes won the Olympic Games for the first time. The performance of the Canadian runner Ben Johnson became scandalous - he was disqualified for doping and he was forced to return the gold medal.

won at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in 1988 in Seoul (2-2-5):

Olympic Games - 1984. Los Angeles (USA)

In response to a mutual boycott, the USSR and most of the socialist countries (except China, Romania, Yugoslavia) refused to come to the Games of the XXIII Olympiad. The USSR, meanwhile, held their own alternative competition - "Friendship-84". 6,797 athletes from 140 countries took part in the Olympic Games. They competed for 221 sets of medals in 23 sports. The protagonist of the Games was the American runner Carl Lewis, who won 4 gold medals. On the eve of the Olympic Games, world records in swimming in Olympic program(29 distances, 15 - for men and 14 - for women) belonged to swimmers of the GDR - 10, USA - 9, Germany - 3, USSR - 3, Canada and Australia - 2 each. For all the days of the Olympic swimmers tournament, only 10 world records were updated, and only among men. Out of 13 world records that belonged to the swimmers of the GDR and the USSR before the Games, only one managed to surpass in Los Angeles - by 400 m in complex swimming for men.

Olympic Games - 1980. Moscow (USSR)

5,217 athletes came to the Games of the XXII Olympiad in Moscow. Some types of competitions were held in other cities of the USSR. Tallinn - sailing regattas; in Kiev, Leningrad and Minsk - preliminary football tournament. During the period of preparation for the Olympic Games, new sports facilities were built and reconstructed: the Olympic sports complex; Terminal No. 2 of Sheremetyevo Airport; Olimpic village; rowing canal and cycle track "Krylatskoye"; equestrian sports complex in Bitsa; hotel Cosmos; reconstruction of the Central Lenin Stadium; the new building of the Ostankino television center. For advertising the Olympic Games and obtaining additional funds for organizing competitions, various souvenirs, badges, sports literature, postage envelopes, a series of sports stamps were issued, posters were hung, and Olympic lotteries were held. July 19, 1980 - About 17,000 people took part in the opening ceremony of the Games. Soviet basketball player Sergei Belov lit the Olympic flame.

From the information board, the Soviet cosmonauts greeted the Olympians and wished them happy starts.
203 medals were awarded in 23 sports.
80 countries took part in the Moscow Games. But, some countries did not come (athletes from the USA, Canada, Turkey, South Korea), having arranged a boycott associated with political confrontation. But despite the boycott, a big sports festival took place!
At the closing ceremony - a huge bear, accompanied by the sound of the song "Goodbye, Moscow!" (poet Nikolai Dobronravov and composer Alexandra Pakhmutova), rose in balloons over the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium, waving his paw goodbye. It was an unforgettable sight and tears sparkled in the eyes of the audience.
Sports meetings of swimmers at the Moscow Olympic Games were held in the new Olympic pool, built on Prospekt Mira.
The new pool is loved by swimmers from different countries. Athletes and their coaches called it speedy.
No coincidence in days Olympic competitions athletes have updated 238 national swimming records, including 10 world and 22 Olympic. More than 300 athletes took part in competitions in 26 kinds of swimming (13 for men and the same amount for women). Compared to the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the competition program has not changed. For the second time in a row, the men's 4x100m freestyle relay was absent from the swimming program. The competition was attended by 333 athletes from 41 countries.
Swimmers from the GDR performed most successfully, they won almost half of all the gold medals played - 12, moreover, in the women's part of the program, the Germans won 11 out of 13 events, and in 6 out of 11 types of the individual program, swimmers from the GDR occupied the entire pedestal. Swimmers of the USSR won 22 medals, 8 of which were gold. Compared to the Games in Montreal, Soviet athletes performed much more successfully, then they had 9 awards on their account, only one of which was gold. In only one type of program out of 26, there was not a single representative of the GDR or the USSR on the podium of the Moscow Games - a 200-meter backstroke for men. In total, representatives of 11 countries won awards, and 6 of them won at least one gold.
The hero of the Games was the 20-year-old Soviet swimmer Vladimir Salnikov, who won 3 gold - 400 and 1500 m freestyle, as well as in the 4x200 m freestyle relay. At the same time, at a distance of 1,500 meters, Salnikov set a world record, becoming the first in history to swim this distance in less than 15 minutes - 14 minutes 58.27 seconds. The silver medalist was more than 16 seconds behind Vladimir.
Among women, 16-year-old German woman Ines Diers distinguished himself, she won medals in all types of freestyle swimming, including the 4x100 m relay. Germans Barbara Krause, Rika Rainisch and Karen Mechuk won 3 gold each (she also won one silver).
Following the results of the Games in Moscow, new world records were set at 7 distances:
in addition to the already mentioned achievement of Salnikov, 6 more records were set by German swimmers. 17-year-old Petra Schneider won gold in the 400m medley with a world record, more than 10.5 seconds ahead of the silver medalist. Schneider's time would have allowed her to win gold in this distance in the next 4 Olympic Games until 1996.
Subsequently, it turned out that German swimmers, like other athletes from the GDR, took testosterone-based anabolic steroids, but then the doping services did not reveal this, and all the medals of the Moscow Games remained with their owners. 3-time Olympic champion 15-year-old Rika Rainisch ended her sports career a year after the Moscow Games, as her mother feared for her daughter's health.

Medals of the USSR national swimming team,
won at the Games of the XXII Olympiad in 1980 in Moscow (8-9-5):

Olympic Games - 1976. Montreal (Canada)

At the Games of the XXI Olympiad, the Olympic flame was delivered to the stadium by satellite. Athletes from 92 countries arrived in Montreal - 6028 athletes. Soviet athletes rank first in the overall team classification. 125 medals were won, including 49 gold, 41 silver and 35 bronze. 198 sets of medals were played in 21 sports. For the first time, basketball was included in the Games program, in which Soviet athletes won, becoming champions. Olympic competitions were held in 26 types of swimming (13 among men and the same number among women) - 3 less than in Mexico City and Munich (due to the exclusion of the complex swimming 200 m for men and women and the men's relay 4x100 m high / st). Thus, for the first time in the history of the Games, the women's program turned out to be equal in the number of distances to the men's, thereby ending the inequality that had lasted for more than 60 years.

For 7 days of the competition, 77 new Olympic records were set (women - 40, men - 37), 29 world (women - 11, men - 18), 25 European (women - 11, men - 14) and 30 USSR records (women - 19, men - 11). Olympic records were updated at 25 distances (except for the 100 m butterfly for men, where the world and Olympic record set in Munich by the American Mark Spitz - 54.27) remained unbeaten. Out of 77 new Olympic records, swimmers in the USA hold 33, the GDR - 23, the USSR - 7 (Marina Kosheva - 2, Tamara Shelofastova, Andrey Bogdanov, Andrey Krylov, Arvydas Juozaitis, Vladimir Raskatov and the national team in the 4x200 m relay race - 1 each ), Canada - 5, Great Britain - 3, Holland - 2, New Zealand, Brazil, Hungary and Germany - 1 each.
World records were registered in 22 types of swimming (except for 200 m butterfly, 100 and 200 m backstroke for women, 100 m butterfly for men. At 100 m butterfly for women, the world record was repeated, which according to FINA rules is considered a world record ); 18 of them were installed by swimmers from the USA, 9 - from the GDR, 1 each - from Great Britain and the USSR. Of the 25 European records, 11 are also world records. European records were set by swimmers from the GDR - 11, the USSR - 9, Germany - 3, Great Britain - 2.
The Soviet team, which took part in the Olympic swimming competitions in Montreal, included 31 athletes (11 women and 20 men) - 7 more than at the Munich Olympics. The 1976 Olympic team included 2 veterans - participants in two previous (XIX and XX) Olympiads: Honored Masters of Sports of the USSR Vladimir Bure and Nikolai Pankin. The remaining 29 swimmers joined the national team after the Munich Olympics and participated in the Olympic competitions for the first time. Of these, 7 people (Lyubov Kobzova, Natalya Popova, Lyubov Rusanova, Tamara Shelofastova, Vladimir Mikheev, Valentin Parinov and Andrei Smirnov) were included in the 1973 national team and were participants in the 1st World Swimming Championship in Belgrade. The above and 9 more swimmers (Irina Vlasova, Marina Klyuchnikova, Nadezhda Stavko, Klavdia Studennikova, Marina Yurchenya, Andrey Bogdanov, Andrey Krylov, Alexander Manachinsky and Igor Omelchenko) participated in the summer 1975 in the second world swimming championship (in Cali). Finally, 13 swimmers (Marina Koshevaya, Larisa Tsareva, Mikhail Gorelik, Vladimir Dementyev, S. Mikolutsky, Vladimir Raskatov, Vladimir Salnikov, Evgeny Serednin, Anatoly Smirnov and Arvydas Juozaitis) first entered the national team in 1976.The youngest were in the team is Marina Koshevaya and Vladimir Salnikov (16 years old), the eldest are Lyubov Rusanova (22 years old) and Nikolai Pankin (27 years old).
In total, swimmers from 6 republics and 15 cities were included in the Soviet Olympic team: the RSFSR - 19 (Moscow - 9, Leningrad - 8, Krasnodar and Lipetsk - 1 each); Ukraine - 6 (Kharkov - 2, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Kiev - 1 each); Belarus - 2 (Minsk and Mogilev), Georgia - 2 (Tbilisi and Batumi); Lithuania - 1 (Vilnius); Latvia - 1 (Riga).
In 1976, under the leadership of Sergei Vaytsekhovsky, our swimmers took 3rd place in the overall team competition, leaving the USA and GDR national teams ahead.

Medals of the USSR national swimming team,
won at the Games of the XXI Olympiad in 1976 in Montreal (1-3-5):

Olympic Games - 1972. Munich (Germany)

At the Games of the XX Olympiad, Soviet athletes again took first place in the team classification, having won 99 medals. Among which are 50 gold, 27 silver, 22 bronze. Valery Borzov won the 100 and 200 meters, thereby breaking the monopoly of victories for American athletes. Alexander Medved became a three-time Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling. Another Soviet athlete Ivan Yarygin also showed excellent performance in freestyle wrestling. The record holder for the number of gold medals in the entire history of the Olympics is the American swimmer Mark Spitz. The XX Olympiad left tragic memories in history - a terrorist act. But, despite attempts to disrupt the competition, at the IOC meeting, it was decided to continue the Olympic Games. The continuation of the Games allowed us to see new sports achievements, records and victories.

In Munich, 551 swimmers (297 men and 254 women) from 51 countries participated. The Soviet Union was represented at the Games of the XX Olympiad by 26 strongest swimmers (14 athletes and 12 athletes). For the third time, Galina Prozumenshchikova-Stepanova, Vladimir Kosinsky and Viktor Mazanov took part in the Olympic Games, the second time - Vladimir Bure, Georgy Kulikov, Nikolai Pankin, Viktor Sharygin and Tinatin Lekveishvili. For the first time, rabbits Igor Grivennikov (Moscow), Alexander Samsonov (Moscow region), Viktor Aboimov (Karaganda), Tatyana Zolotnitskaya (Novosibirsk), Elena Timoshenko, Nadezhda Matyukhina and Olga Petruseva (all - Moscow), brassists Igor Cherdakov, Viktor Stulikov (both - Leningrad), Tatyana Prudnikova (Lvov) and Lyudmila Porubayko (Krasnodar), butterfly players Vladimir Krivtsov (Baku) and Irina Ustimenko (Donetsk), USSR champion in backstroke Natalia Ershova (Minsk), representatives of complex swimming Mikhail Sukharev (Astrakhan), Valentin Partyka (Donetsk), Nina Petrova (Moscow) and Birute Uzhkuraitite (Kaunas).
The team leader of the swimmers was A.P. Murysev, the head coach was K.A. Inyasevsky, the coaches were V.V.Bure, N.I. Ustimenko and M.G. Tatishvili.
All Olympic heats were held on the 50-meter waterways of the indoor pool, specially built in Munich for the Games of the XX Olympiad. There were five baths, two of which (located in front of the stands for 10 thousand spectators) were intended for competitions in swimming, water polo and diving, and three for training and warm-ups.
All the pools were well equipped technically: the water was automatically heated to the required temperature and purified; the drain boards usual for most sports pools were absent, and instead of them, gently sloping "banks" were arranged, perfectly dampening the wave; pool dividing paths were removed automatically to the basement; when the start was disrupted, the cross cord, designed to stop the swimmers, was lowered into the water by pressing a button. The most notable technical improvement of the Olympic pool was the electronic television installation of the Longin system, which controlled the entire course of wrestling on waterways (including the order of swimmers coming to the finish line), recording all 8 results shown in the swim on a large scoreboard. If the chief arbiter or members of the jury of appeal had any doubts about the correctness of the finish or turn made by the swimmers, the videotape was immediately watched on the TV screen. Thanks to this technical equipment, the Olympic competitions were held for the first time without timekeepers and judges at the finish line, which made it possible to reduce the number of judges by almost 3 times (compared to previous Olympiads).
In Munich, records were updated: 30 world records (2 times more than in Tokyo, and 5 times more than in Mexico City), 79 Olympic and 313 national (including 14 from the USSR).
In the overall standings, our swimmers took 4th place, letting the teams of the USA, Australia and the GDR team go ahead.

Medals of the USSR national swimming team,
won at the Games of the XX Olympiad in 1972 in Munich (0-2-3):

Olympic Games - 1968. Mexico City (Mexico)

In Mexico City, 5530 athletes from 112 countries gathered for the Games of the XIX Olympiad. One of the youngest Olympic champions became a 15-year-old gymnast from the USSR - Lyubov Burda. The winners in the running program - American black athletes Tommy Smith and John Carlos, raised their hands in black gloves during the award ceremony, as they protested against racism. They competed for 172 sets of medals at the Olympics. In Mexico City, 478 swimmers (269 men and 209 women) from 52 countries participated. The most numerous were the teams of the USA - 52 swimmers, the USSR - 32, the GDR and Mexico - 27 each, the FRG - 25, Australia and Great Britain - 24 each, Japan - 21, Hungary - 18, Holland - 17, Canada, France and Sweden - each 16, El Salvador - 14 and Spain - 13. The Games of the XIX Olympiad were held in the middle mountains, at an altitude of more than 2200 m above sea level. Soviet swimmers were preparing for the Olympic starts and held the qualifying championship of the country in Tsakhkadzor (about the same height as in Mexico City).

The 1968 Olympic team included 32 swimmers, including 10 participants from the previous Olympiad: Valentin Kuzmin, Semyon Belits-Geiman, Vladimir Kosinsky, Vladimir Nemshilov, Viktor Mazanov, Galina Prozumenschikova, Svetlana Babanina, Tatyana Devyatova, Natalya Ustinova and Tatyana Savelya ... Two thirds of the team were Olympic debutants: rabbits Leonid Ilyichev, Vladimir Bure, Sergei Gusev (all - Moscow), Georgy Kulikov (Khabarovsk), Akhmed Anarbaev (Frunze), Evgeny Spiridonov (Leningrad), Lydia Grebets (Poltava), 3rd Dus ( Lugansk) and Tamara Sosnova (Moscow); young breaststrokes Evgeny Mikhailov (Poltava), I. Marchukov (Smolensk), Nikolay Pankin and Alla Grebennikova (both from Moscow); butterfly players Yuri Suzdaltsev (Astrakhan), Sergey Konov (Tashkent) and Viktor Sharygin (Moscow); 14-year-old national champion among girls in backstroke Tinatin Lekveishvili (Tbilisi); European champion in swimming 200 m on the back Yuri Gromak (Lvov); the then rapidly progressing 16-year-old backstroke athlete Leonid Dobroskokin (Volgograd); representatives of integrated swimming Andrey Dunaev, Vladimir Kravchenko (both from Moscow) and Larisa Zakharova (Perm). The head of the swimmers' team was Zakhari Pavlovich Firsov, his deputy was the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR N. M. Kryukov, the head coach was A. A. Korneev, the coaches were B. P. Ananiev, V. V. Bure and E. L. Alekseenko.
In the overall standings, our swimmers took 3rd place, leaving behind only the teams of the USA and Australia.

Medals of the USSR national swimming team,
won at the Games of the XIX Olympiad in 1968 in Mexico City (0-4-4):

Olympic Games - 1964. Tokyo (Japan)

The Olympic Games are being held for the first time in the East. 5140 athletes from 93 countries took part in Tokyo. On Games XVIII The Olympics were played in 163 sets in 19 sports. The Olympic flame was carried out by a 19-year-old young man, Yoshinori Sakai, who has become a symbol of life that has rebelled against atomic death. 422 swimmers (255 athletes and 167 athletes) from 41 countries arrived in Tokyo. The competitions were held in a specially constructed indoor Olympic pool with two central baths (one is 50 meters long for swimming and final water polo games, the other for diving), a warm-up pool and stands with a capacity of about 12 thousand spectators.

The results of the Tokyo swimmers' competition significantly surpassed the level of achievements of the participants in Rome, testifying to the great progress in world sports swimming. If in Rome Olympic records were updated 30 times, and world records - 7, then in Tokyo there were almost 2 times more of them, 55 and 14, respectively.
The Soviet team of swimmers consisted of 21 people (13 men and 8 women), of which only two participants in the Games in Rome: Valentin Kuzmin and Georgy Prokopenko, who became European champions in 1962, two world record holders in breaststroke swimming: Sevastopol schoolgirl Galina Prozumenshchikova (200 m - 2.45.4) and a student from Tashkent Svetlana Babanina (100 m - 1.17.2). In addition, rabbits Vladimir Shuvalov, Yuri Sumtsov, Semyon Belits-Geyman, Evgeny Novikov and Alexander Paramonov (all from Moscow), Vladimir Berezin and Viktor Semchenkov (both from the Moscow region), Natalya Bystrova, Natalya Mikhailova ( both - Moscow) and Natalia Ustinova (Tashkent); brassists Alexander Tutakayev (Tbilisi) and Vladimir Kosinsky (Vorkuta, Leningrad); butterfly players Oleg Fotin (Moscow), Tatiana Devyatova (Kharkov) and Valentina Yakovleva (Lvov); backstroke representatives Viktor Mazanov (Moscow) and Tatyana Savelyeva (Leningrad). The head of the swimmers' team was Zakhariy Pavlovich Firsov, the head coach was Kirill Aleksandrovich Inyasevsky.
These Games became a turning point in our swimming, from that moment our team broke into the elite of world swimming and began to compete on equal terms with the recognized giants of world swimming.

Medals of the USSR national swimming team,
won at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad in 1964 in Tokyo (1-1-2):

The regular FINA Congress took place in Tokyo, which considered and approved a number of significant amendments to its Statutes and Rules. At the suggestion of the United States, Japan and Great Britain, by a majority of votes (representatives of the socialist countries voted against), it was decided to expand the program of Olympic competitions from 18 to 29 numbers and to increase the size of the Olympic team of one country to 68 athletes. This decision gave the strongest countries in swimming (such as the United States) additional opportunities to receive Olympic awards. Small countries (and most of them are in FINA) did not receive any advantages.
Congress has elected a new FINA President, Sydney (Australia) lawyer Bertil Phillips. The Soviet representative, Z. P. Firsov, was again elected to the FINA Bureau. All three FINA committees (swimming, diving and water polo) included Soviet representatives - K. A. Inyasevsky, G. A. Burov and A. Yu. Kistyakovsky.