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Ilya Syarheyevich Shymanovich (Belarusian: Ілья Сяргеевіч Шымановіч; born 2 August 1994) is a Belarusian swimmer. He is the world record holder in the short course 100 metre breaststroke and a former world record holder in the short course 50 metre breaststroke. At the 2018 World Championships he won two silver medals, one each in the 100 metre breaststroke and the 50 metre breaststroke. He won two gold medals, one in the 50 metre breaststroke and one in the 200 metre breaststroke, and a silver medal, in the 100 metre breaststroke, at the 2021 European Short Course Championships. At the 2021 World Short Course Championships he won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke.

Ilya Shymanovich

Personal information
Full name	Ilya Syarheyevich Shymanovich
National team	Belarus
Born	(1994-08-02) 2 August 1994 (age 28)
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	88 kg (194 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  Belarus Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships (SC) 1 2 0 European Championships (LC) 0 1 0 European Championships (SC) 2 3 2 Total 3 6 2 World Championships (SC) 2021 Abu Dhabi 100 m breaststroke 2018 Hangzhou 50 m breaststroke 2018 Hangzhou 100 m breaststroke 2016 Windsor 4x50 m medley European Championships (LC) 2020 Budapest 50 m breaststroke European Championships (SC) 2021 Kazan 200 m breaststroke 2021 Kazan 50 m breaststroke 2017 Copenhagen 4×50 m mixed medley 2019 Glasgow 100 m breaststroke 2021 Kazan 100 m breaststroke 2017 Copenhagen 4×50 m medley 2019 Glasgow 4x50 m medley

Career

2017 World Championships

At the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Shymanovich competed in the men's 50 metre breaststroke event.[1][2]

2018 World Championships

Competing on the global level at the 2018 World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, China, Shymanovich won his first medal of the meet in the 100 metre breaststroke, finishing in a time of 56.10 seconds that was nine hundredths of a second behind the gold medalist and then-world-record-holder in the event Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa to earn the silver medal.[3] In his next individual event, the 200 metre breaststroke, Shymanovich placed twelfth overall with a time of 2:04.85 in the prelims heats, which did not advance him to the final.[4] For his final individual event, the 50 metre breaststroke, Shymanovich once again won the silver medal, placing second with a time of 25.77 seconds only behind Cameron van der Burgh.[5]

2020 Belarus National Championships

In December 2020, at the short course Belarus National Championships in Brest, Shymanovich swam a world record time of 55.34 seconds in the 100 metre breaststroke, breaking the world record of 55.41 seconds set by Adam Peaty of Great Britain approximately one month earlier.[6][7]

2020 European Championships

At the 2020 European Aquatics Championships held in Budapest, Hungary in May 2021 and conducted in long course metres, Shymanovich competed in the 50 metre breaststroke winning the silver medal in the event with a time of 26.55 seconds, which was less than four tenths of a second behind the gold medalist in the event, Adam Peaty of Great Britain.[8]

2021 European Short Course Championships

2021 European Championships
	200 m breaststroke	2:01.73
	50 m breaststroke	25.25 (WR)
	100 m breaststroke	55.77

Shymanovich won the gold medal and tied the world record of 25.25 seconds in the 50 metre breaststroke, set in 2009 by Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa, on the last day of the 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships, held at the Palace of Water Sports in Kazan, Russia in November.[9][10][11] His time of 25.25 seconds also set a new European record, Belarusian record, and Championships record in the event.[9] He backed up his world record in the 50 metre breaststroke on the finals relay in the mixed 4x50 metre medley relay, where he swam the fastest 50 metre breaststroke relay split in history with a time of 24.72 seconds and helped the relay place fifth overall.[12][13]

Earlier in the Championships meet and leading up to his world record, Shymanovich set a new Championships record in the 100 metre breaststroke in the semifinals with a time of 55.45 seconds that advanced him to the final ranked first.[14][15] In the final of the 100 metre breaststroke he swam a 55.77 and earned the silver medal in the event, with neither him nor the gold medalist, Nicolò Martinenghi of Italy, matching nor surpassing his time from the semifinals in the final, meaning his Championships record remained unbroken through the Championships.[16][17] After his silver medal win in the 100 metre breaststroke and before his gold medal win in the 50 metre breaststroke, Shymanovich won his first gold medal of the Championships in the 200 metre breaststroke with a time of 2:01.73 in the final.[18][19] Shymanovich equalling the world record in the 50 metre breaststroke was ranked as number one for "The Week That Was" honor from Swimming World for the week of 8 November 2021 along with Szebasztián Szabó of Hungary equalling the world record in the 50 metre butterfly.[20]

2021 International Swimming League

In his second playoffs season match of the 2021 International Swimming League, Shymanovich lowered the world record he set in the short course 100 metre breaststroke in 2020 at 55.34 seconds to a time of 55.32 seconds.[21][22][23] Prior to setting the world record, Shymanovich narrowly outperformed Sarah Sjöström, also swimming representing the Energy Standard Swim Club, to win the match most valuable player, MVP, honour in the first playoffs match of the season.[24] Earlier, during the regular season, Shymanovich won his first match most valuable player honour of the year in the eighth match of the regular season.[25] In the fifth playoffs match, sixteenth match of the whole season, Shymanovhich lowered his own world record in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 55.28 seconds.[26][27] For the sixteenth match he also won match most valuable player honors with a total score of 83.5 points.[28] Shymanovich's new world record was the number one item for "The Week That Was" honour.[29] He won a total of 16 breaststroke events throughout the 2021 season.[30] Shymanovich ranked fifth out of 488 competitors at the end of the 2021 season for the total number of most valuable player points earned by a competitor in the duration of the International Swimming League with 711.5 points.[31] With his world records in the 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke from 2021, Shymanovich was the only swimmer to set a world record in two or more individual events for the year.[32]

2021 World Short Course Championships

2021 World Championships
	100 m breaststroke	55.70 (CR)

Shymanovich entered to compete in the 50 metre, 100 metre, and 200 metre breaststroke individual events at the 2021 World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.[33] In the prelims heats of the 100 metre breaststroke, Shymanovich ranked second overall with a time of 56.20 seconds and qualified for the semifinals later in the day.[34] For the semifinals, Shymanovich ranked third with a 56.54, qualifying for the final the next day.[35][36] Shymanovich won the gold medal in the final of the 100 metre breaststroke in a Championships record time of 55.70 seconds.[37] With his win, Shymanovich earned his first world title.[38] On the third day of competition, Shymanovich ranked tenth overall in the prelims heats of the 200 metre breaststroke with a 2:04.99 and did not qualify for the final.[39] In the evening, Shymanovich split a 24.93 for the breaststroke leg of the 4×50 metre medley relay in the final, helping achieve a fifth place finish of 1:37.97.[40] Day five, Shymanovich qualified for the semifinals of the 50 metre breaststroke ranking first in the prelims heats with a time of 25.77 seconds.[41] In the semifinals he ranked first, qualifying for the final with a 25.55.[42] On the sixth and final day, Shymanovich placed fourth in the final of the 50 metre breaststroke with a time of 25.84 seconds.[43]

2022

Towards the beginning of the 2022 season, Shymanovich and all other Belarusians, and Russians, were banned indefinitely from LEN competitions, effective 3 March 2022, and banned from FINA competitions in the time frame of 21 April to 31 December 2022.[44][45]

World records

Short course metres (25 m pool)

No.	Event	Time		Meet	Location	Date	Age	Status	Notes	Ref
1	100 m breaststroke	55.34		2020 Belarus National Championships	Brest, Belarus	19 December 2020	26	Former	Former ER, NR	[6][7]
2	50 m breaststroke	25.25	=	2021 European Short Course Championships	Kazan, Russia	7 November 2021	27	Former	NR, Former ER	[9][10][11]
3	100 m breaststroke (2)	55.32		2021 International Swimming League	Eindhoven, Netherlands	19 November 2021	27	Former	Former ER, NR	[21][22][23]
4	100 m breaststroke (3)	55.28		2021 International Swimming League	Eindhoven, Netherlands	26 November 2021	27	Current	ER, NR	[26][27]

Awards and honours

• Swimming World, International Swimming League Swimmer of the Year (male): 2021[30]
• SwimSwam, Top 100 (Men's): 2022 (#18)[46]
• International Swimming League, Match Most Valuable Player: 2021 Match 8,[25] 2021 Match 12,[24] 2021 Match 16[28]
• Swimming World, The Week That Was: 8 November 2021 (#1),[20] 29 November 2021 (#1)[29]

See also

• List of World Swimming Championships (25 m) medalists (men)
• List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
• List of European Short Course Swimming Championships medalists (men)

References

External links

• Ilya Shymanovich at FINA
• Ilya Shymanovich at SwimRankings.net
• Ilya Shymanovich at Olympics.com
• Ilya Shymanovich at Olympedia

Records
Preceded by Cameron van der Burgh	Men's 50-metre breaststroke world record holder (short course) 7 November 2021 – 27 December 2021 with Cameron van der Burgh	Succeeded by Emre Sakçı
Preceded by Adam Peaty	Men's 100-metre breaststroke world record holder (short course) 19 December 2020 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent

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