Graduate student of Volga Academy of sport Alexander Krasnykh won the gold on her crown of the distance of the 400m freestyle on the first day of the championship of Russia in swimming at long course in Moscow.
In qualifying Krasnykh, speaking for the sports club "Synthesis", showed the second time – 3:51.27, less than one tenth of a second behind omich Martin Malyutin, the press service of the SC air force "Synthesis". In the ending it just over one tenth of he beat his rival, breaking the distance in 3:45.55 sec.
"Gold" on 400 m freestyle became the fifth in the collection of awards of Alexander Krasnykh, who wins the main start of the Russian season in this type of program since 2015.  
The difficult road to the final at 50 m butterfly turned out to be another "academician" Nikita Korolev. Swim 10th in qualifying with a score of 24.26, the athlete reached the semi-finals, where he showed the same time with Sadovnikova from Volgograd. In the "swim" Korolev won a ticket to the main swim of the day. Unfortunately, the prizes could not be reached. I guess I was tired. Korolev finished fifth, breaking the distance in 23.73 seconds.