Evgeny Sedov


Evgeny Vadimovich Sedov is a Russian competitive swimmer. Sedov and his teammates won the gold medal in the 2014 [FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 50 metre freestyle relay|4×50 m freestyle] relay at the 2014 [FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)|2014 short course world championships] in Doha, breaking the List of [world records in swimming|world record]. Together with his teammates, he also broke the 2014 FINA [World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 50 metre medley relay|4×50 meter medley relay] world record in the heats, but this record was broken in the final by Brazil.
At the 2015 [European Short Course Swimming Championships|2015 European Short Course Championships] Sedov won his first international senior medal in an individual event, winning the gold medal in the 50 meter freestyle, 0.05 ahead of Marco Orsi of Italy.