Evgeny Rylov

Evgeny Rylov is a retired Russian competitive swimmer, born on 23 September 1996, who specialised in backstroke. He first made his name at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, where he won three gold medals and a silver and set two world junior records. At senior level he took bronze in the 200 metre backstroke at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan and again at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, then won the 200 metre backstroke at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest. He won the European title in that event in 2018 and the world title again in 2019. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo he won gold in both the 100 metre and the 200 metre backstroke. His father Mikhail is a former footballer who became a coach, and Rylov competes for the Moscow Oblast region in Russian domestic events.