Career
Considered one of the most promising swimmers in the world scene, he currently holds three world junior records each in the 50 and 100 m backstroke, and in the 400 m medley relay. In the boys" 100 m backstroke, Rylov shared the top prize with Italy"s Simone Sabbioni in a matching time of 54.24 seconds. On August 20, he put up a sterling effort of 25.09 to crush the world junior record and pick up his second gold of the meet in the 50 m backstroke, touching out Greece"s Apostolos Christou by 0.35 of a second.
Less than an hour later, Rylov and his teammates Anton Chupkov, Aleksandr Sadovnikov, and Filipp Shopin led throughout the race to capture the 4×100 m medley relay title in a junior world-record breaking time of 3:38.02.
On the final night of the Games, Rylov added a silver to his medal tally in the 200 m backstroke with a time of 1:57.08, losing the title and his chance of breaking another record to China"s Li Guangyuan by 14-hundredths of a second. When his nation Russia hosted the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Rylov charged his way to round out the podium with a third-place time of 1:54.60 in the 200 m backstroke.
Earlier in the meet, Rylov also posted a time of 53.23 to place seventh in the finals of the 100 m backstroke, missing out the podium by more than half a second.
