World record at the “Doped Games”, in the fastest swimming event. One million dollar bonus

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A world record unsanctioned was established at the Enhanced Games, a competition where doping is permitted and regulated. Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev set a world best, which will logically not be ratified, with a time of 20.81 seconds in the 50m freestyle.

However, Gkolomeev will receive a million dollars thanks to this “record“, in addition to the $250,000 promised for the win.

In the final event of the evening, Kristian Gkolomeev broke Cameron McEvoy’s world record of 20.88 seconds, set in March last year. In addition to performance-enhancing substances, swimmers are allowed to wear swimsuits prohibited in traditional competitions. Kristian Gkolomeev swam his race in a polyurethane swimsuit. “It was a great race… I did it,” Gkolomeev said. “I’ll keep going. Maybe next year I’ll knock him down again.”

However, Kristian Gkolomeev failed to break the world record in the 100 m freestyle. Although he broke his personal best, set in 2016 with a time of 48.68 seconds (up from 46.60 seconds on Sunday), he missed Pan Zhanle’s record by a few hundredths of a second (46.40 seconds). “It was so close… I really wanted to do it, but it’s okay,” commented the Greek swimmer.

The vast majority of participants, including Olympic medalist swimmers James Magnussen, Cody Miller and Ben Proud, were thus able to take testosterone, growth hormone, peptides, anabolic steroids and other substances banned from competitions such as the Olympics. These enhanced Games have been denounced as dangerous by the sport’s global governing bodies, who have said they will not recognize records set at the event.

to athleticsformer 100m champion Fred Kerley, one of the few athletes competing without doping in the competition, set the pace in the men’s heats with a time of 9.93 seconds, followed by Emmanuel Matadi, who was clocked in 9.95 seconds despite using doping substances. 2022 100m world champion and two-time Olympic medalist Fred Kerley won Sunday’s final in 9.97 seconds.

Usain Bolt’s world record, set in 2009, is 9.58 seconds.