Two-time winner of the 2020 Olympic Games in swimming in the pool Mikhail Romanchuk will not be able to take part in the open water competitions of the European Championship 2022.

He was not included in the application.. The swimmer explained why this happened.

" Due to the fact that I started to compete in open water at the end of May 2022, from that moment there was only one start: in Serbia, just on the dates when I was at a training camp in Spain, I could not go there. , the European federation did not give me permission to compete at Euro 2022 in open water,"

The continental tournament will be held from 11 to 21 August in Rome.

Mikhail Romanchuk is the reigning 800m and 1500m European champion, both gold medals he received at Euro 2020.

At the 2022 World Championships, Romanchuk won two medals: bronze in the 800m swim and bronze in the 5km open water swimming..