Nadezhda Petrova is a Russian professional tennis player. You know, she is the winner of two WTA Final Championships (2004 and 2012) in doubles; finalist of two Grand Slam tournaments in doubles (US Open 2010, Roland Garros-2012). At the Olympic Games in London she became a bronze medalist in doubles. Awesome girl is the winner of 37 WTA tournaments (13 – in singles). In 2007, Nadezhda became the winner of the Fed Cup and Hopman Cup. By the way, she is the former third world racket in singles and doubles.
At the junior level she also was the third racket of the world and winner of one Junior Grand Slam tournament in singles (Roland Garros-1998).
In 1999, Nadezhda was the finalist of the junior Grand Slam (US Open) and the finalist of one Junior Grand Slam tournament in doubles (Roland Garros).
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Olga Korbut is a Soviet gymnast, four-time Olympic champion, absolute champion of the USSR (1975), three-time world champion, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1972). The legendary Soviet gymnast became the first girl to perform a dangerous somersault on a log at the Olympic Games (Korbut Loop). She is famous for unique tricks and bright achievements in sports.
Pretty girl was born on May 16, 1955 in Grodno, Belorussian SSR, USSR. Her parents were simple people: the father was an engineer, and the mother was a cook. The girl has three sisters.
In 1963, little Olga was engaged in gymnastic and by the end of the 1960s was among the best Soviet gymnasts.
When Korbut was 10 years old, she entered the sports school. Olympic champion Elena Volchetskaya was her coach. A year later, in 1965, Olga was in the group of Honored Coach of the USSR Renald Knish. He wanted to create something new, unknown to the sports community. The coach invented special elements and actively introduced them with the help of the young gymnast. It was a hard cooperation full of tears. But as a result there were success, popularity and fame.
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Aleksandr Kerzhakov is a Russian football player, Honored Master of Sports of Russia (2007). By the way, he is a top scorer in the history of Russian football, top scorer in the history of Zenith and the Russian team. In addition, he is the third in the list of Grigory Fedotov club.
The boy was born on November 27, 1982 in Kingisepp, Leningrad Oblast. The boy has a younger brother, who is a professional football goalkeeper. Their father became the boys’ first coach. At the age of 11 Sasha was admitted to the boarding Sports School Zenith, where Sergei Romanov was his coach.
After the sports school, Kerzhakov joined the amateur football club Svetogorets. As a result of the pre-season tournament of 2000, Alexander was recognized as the best striker. So, he received a long-awaited invitation to the St. Petersburg club Zenith and played there for 6 years.
Already in 2001 he was one of 33 best players of Russia. As a member of Zenith Kerzhakov won bronze at the championship of Russia in 2001 and silver in 2003.
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Ilya Kovalchuk is a Russian professional ice hockey player. He became the first Russian to be drafted first overall in the NHL’s history.
The boy was born on April 15, 1983 in Tver. He was named after the Russian hero Ilya Muromets, who was born in Kalinin (now Tver). Father of the famous hockey player Valery Kovalchuk had a tremendous influence on his son and predetermined his fate.
“Hockey was a choice of my father. I was only four years old, and we already went to the gym. My father was an athlete, played basketball. And he decided that I should play hockey”.
Kovalchuk studied at the Moscow school of Olympic reserve, where his classmate was Alina Kabaeva, the future famous gymnast.
After tournament in Minnesota he earned the title of top scorer. His father didn’t miss any workout.
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Marat Safin is a Russian tennis player, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, former first racket of the world in singles. Actually, he was a Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2011-2017). You know, he is a winner of two Grand Slam singles titles (US Open-2000, Australian Open-2005), two-time winner of the Davis Cup (2002, 2006), winner of 17 ATP tournaments (15 of them – in singles). His younger sister, Dinara Safina, is a professional tennis player and a silver medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. To tell the truth, they are the first brother-sister tandem in tennis history to both achieve No. 1 rankings.
In addition, Marat is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame since 2016.
Handsome boy was born on January 27, 1980 in Moscow, USSR. His mother, ten years before the birth of her son, was one of the most successful tennis players of the Soviet Union. Later she became a coach. Little Marat wanted to play football and wasn’t fond of tennis. Although, he played fine even in the early stages of his career.
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$tuFF (Svyatoslav Bystrov) was born on April 29, 1988 in Moscow.
He is a musician, hip-hop singer, rapper. You know, he became popular because of collaboration with famous Russian singer Mitya Fomin. Also Svyatoslav participated in the TV project Vacation in Mexico on MTV.
In his childhood the boy became interested in hip-hop. And at the age of 15 he began writing his first rap songs.
He is not only a singer, but also a Master of Sport in Sambo and Judo. Svyatoslav has won two bronze medals at the World Championship.
Sport has become a significant part of his life and the first songs were dedicated to it. The young musician quickly gained recognition in certain circles, where people appreciate the desire to win and willpower. Because of a back injury he had to quit the sport.
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Oxana Samoylova is a Russian fashion model and her husband GeeGun (his real name is Denis Ustimenko-Vaynshtein) is a hip-hop singer, who became famous in 2009-2011.
GeeGun performed together with Anna Sedokova (Cold Heart, 2009), Julia Savicheva (song Release, 2011), Jeanne Friske (You’re Next, 2011).
At the age of 19 GeeGun became the Master of Sports in Kickboxing, twice champion of Ukraine, the silver medalist of European kickboxing championship.
GeeGun was born on August 2, 1985 in Odessa. He was one of the first persons who started to arrange hip-hop parties in Odessa.
In 2005 Denis met DJ DLEE, official DJ of Timati. This meeting became very important for the rapper.
Later, in 2007, he graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education. In the same year Denis became the official artist of the Black Star Inc. and released the first track and music video for the song Odnoklassnitsa (Classmate).
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