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 (age 20) 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) 2015 Kazan 200 m backstroke 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 September 23, 1996) is a Russian competitive swimmer who specializes in backstroke events. Rylov currently holds the world junior record in the 50 m backstroke. He has also 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.

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. On August 20, 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. 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. 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.