Mykhailo Romanchuk

Mykhailo Mykhailovych Romanchuk is a Ukrainian retired swimmer, born in Rivne on 7 August 1996, who specialised in distance freestyle. At the Singapore leg of the World Cup in October 2016 he set a world cup record of 14:15.49 in the short course 1500 metre freestyle, breaking the previous record by more than twelve seconds. He holds several Ukrainian distance freestyle national records and the Olympic record in the 800 metre freestyle. In autumn 2019 he was a member of the inaugural International Swimming League, swimming for Energy Standard, which won the team title in Las Vegas that December. On 27 July 2021 he set a Ukrainian record of 7:41.28 in the 800 metre freestyle and reached the final at the Tokyo Olympics with the best qualifying result. He is married to the Ukrainian athlete Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk.