The Russian swimmers took gold and silver in one heat for the first time for 41 year

The Russian swimmer Eugenie Mikhaylovich Rylov won a gold medal of the Olympic Games to Tokyo at a hundred-meter distance on a back, and his compatriot Kliment Kolesnikov received a silver award. Last time two Russian swimmers took the first and second places at one distance at the Olympic Games 1980 in Moscow. Then Sergei Koplyakov won a heat at a distance of 200 meters freestyle, and Krylov Andrey became the second. Salnikov Vladimir, the same Krylov Andrey and Stukolkin Ivar occupied all pedestal at a distance of 400 meters with freestyle. At a distance of 1500 meters the Soviet swimmers occupied with freestyle two...