Yevgenia Chikunova and Yulia Yefimova took fourth and fifth places in the swimming at the Olympic Games

Russian Yevgenia Chikunova took the fourth place in the final 100-meter swim at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The second representative of the Russian national team - Yulia Yefimova - became the fifth.

The gold medal went to the representative of the United States, Lydia Jacobi, who was able to cover the distance in a minute of 04.95 seconds. The silver medalist was South African Tatiana Shenmeikenr, swimming 100 meters in a minute of 05.22 seconds, and another athlete from the United States, Lily King, got a bronze, her time is 05.54 minutes. Chikunova's result is 1.05.90, Efimova's is 1.06.02.

It's worth reminding that on July 27, Russian swimmers were able to win gold and silver medals in the 100-meter backstroke swimming. The first was Evgeny Rylov, the second - Kliment Kolesnikov. This is the first gold medal for the Russian team in this discipline in 25 years.