22 Facts About Evgeny Rylov

Evgeny Rylov won three gold medals at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, and a bronze medal at his senior international debut at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan.

Evgeny Rylov won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and a gold medal at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, both were in the 200 metre backstroke event.

Evgeny Rylov won the gold medal in the 100 metre backstroke and 200 metre backstroke at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Rylov's father Mikhail Rylov is a former footballer, who now serves as a coach.

Evgeny Rylov is a staff police sergeant of the Moscow Oblast Police of the town district of Lobnya.

Evgeny Rylov competes for the Moscow Oblast region in Russian competitions.

Evgeny 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 world junior records.

When Russia hosted the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Evgeny Rylov charged his way to round out the podium with a third-place and Russian record time of 1:54.60 in the 200 metre backstroke.

At the Russian Championships in April 2016, Evgeny Rylov broke the European record in the 200 metre backstroke with a time of 1:54.21.

At the World Aquatics Championships, held in July 2017 at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Evgeny Rylov broke his own European record in the 200 metre backstroke with a time of 1:53.61, winning the gold medal and defeating the silver medalist in the event, and 2016 Olympic champion in the event, Ryan Murphy of the United States by 0.60 seconds in the process.

At the 2018 European Aquatics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland in August, Evgeny Rylov won the gold medal in the 200 metre backstroke with a European record and Championships record time of 1:53.36.

Evgeny Rylov's time moved him up in rankings to the second-fastest performer in the event all-time, only behind world record holder Florent Manaudou.

Evgeny Rylov won silver medals in the 50 metre backstroke, finishing 0.06 seconds behind gold medalist Zane Waddell of South Africa with a 24.49, and the 100 metre backstroke, where he swam a 52.67 to finish 24-hundredths of a second behind gold medalist Xu Jiayu of China.

Evgeny Rylov won the 100 metre backstroke with and 200 metre backstroke events at both the Budapest and London matches after winning just the 100 metre backstroke in Naples.

At the 2021 Russian Championships in April, Evgeny Rylov set a new 100 metre backstroke Russian record with a time of 52.12 seconds before setting a new 200 metre backstroke European record with a time of 1:53.23 three days later.

Evgeny Rylov became Russia's first indoor Olympic swimming champion in 25 years.

Stoloto conducted a poll to determine the best Russian athlete of the 2020 Summer Olympics, with Evgeny Rylov placing first and winning the award.

Evgeny Rylov was the MVP of the 9th match in the regular season of ISL season 3 in 2021.

On 18 March 2022, Evgeny Rylov participated in the Moscow rally in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Evgeny Rylov was suspended from the Energy Standard International Swimming Club of the International Swimming League along with all other support staff and athletes from Russia.

At the multi-country and multi-sport 2022 Russian Solidarity Games segment in November 2022, with swimming competition held in Kazan and conducted in short course metres, Evgeny Rylov won the bronze medal in the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 50.03 seconds on day three of competition, 21 November.

Evgeny Rylov entered to compete at the 2023 Russian National Championships, held in April at the Palace of Water Sports in Kazan.