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Maria Savinova, Russian athlete

Maria Savinova, Russian athlete

Maria Savinova, Russian athlete


Maria Savinova is a Russian athlete, who specializes in the 800 meters. By the way, she is Honored Master of Sports of Russia and the best athlete in Europe in 2011. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, she won gold. And at the 2012 Olympic Games in London she also won a gold medal. On August 13, 2012 Maria was awarded the Order of Friendship for outstanding contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high achievements in sports at the Games of the XXX Olympiad 2012 in London (UK).
Pretty girl was born on August 13, 1985 in Chelyabinsk. As a child, the girl spent a long time looking for her place in the sport. She was engaged in dancing and badminton, achieving the title of candidate for master of sports. In her youth she was noted by coach Tatyana Maslova, who persuaded the girl to try her hand in running.
You know, in 2009, Savinova became the European indoor champion in the 800 m and the World indoor champion one year later.
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Yevgeniya Kanayeva, rhythmic gymnast

Yevgeniya Kanayeva, rhythmic gymnast

Yevgeniya Kanayeva, rhythmic gymnast

Yevgeniya Kanayeva is a Russian rhythmic gymnast, Honored Master of Sports of Russia (2008). By the way, she is a two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics in 2008 and 2012. You know, she is the only two-time Olympic champion in all-round events in the history of rhythmic gymnastics. In addition, she is a three-time world champion in all-around, multiple world and European champion in individual all-around events.
Pretty girl was born on April 2, 1990 in Omsk, Soviet Union. Her mother is a famous sportswoman, master of sports in rhythmic gymnastics, Svetlana Kanaeva. And she did not want give her daughter to a sports school. However, her grandmother saw the girl’s desire to become a gymnast and took her granddaughter to rhythmic gymnastics classes when Yevgeniya was six years old.
When Yevgeniya was 12 years old, she had a chance to show her skills. The girl was lucky to go to the capital for sports training. In Moscow, the young athlete received an invitation to study at the Olympic Reserve School. The girl accepted the offer and began studying under the strict guidance of Vera Stelbaums.
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Tatyana Lysenko, hammer thrower

Tatyana Lysenko, hammer thrower

Tatyana Lysenko, hammer thrower


Tatyana Lysenko is a Russian hammer thrower, two-time world champion (2011, 2013), European Champion (2006), champion of Russia (2005, 2009-2012). By the way she is Russian record holder and former world record holder, Honored Master of Sports of Russia. In addition, Tatyana is Lieutenant of the RF Armed Forces.
At the 2012 Olympics, she won the gold medal, but during the re-examination of samples taken during the Games in Beijing and London, traces of the forbidden substance were found. The International Olympic Committee canceled the result of the games in London. However, the athlete refused to return the gold medal.
Pretty girl was born on September 17, 1983 in Bataysk, Russia. Nikolai Beloborodov became her coach when she was 17 years old.
On July 15, 2005 in Moscow Tatyana achieved her first world record 77.06 meters. A month and a half later, she won a bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. On June 24, 2006 Lysenko set a new world record in Zhukovsky, reaching 77.41 m. At the 2006 European Championships, she won the gold with a result of 76.67 m, setting a championship record. On August 15 of the same year in Tallinn she broke her own record with the result 77.80 m.
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Anna Chicherova, high jumper

Anna Chicherova, high jumper

Anna Chicherova, high jumper


Anna Chicherova is a Russian leading high jumper, 2012 Olympic champion. By the way, she is a World and European champion, eight-time champion of Russia. Pretty girl is Honored Master of Sports of Russia, member of the Russian national athletics team. To tell the truth, Chicherova is the first athlete in history who managed to win medals at five world championships in a row.
She was born into a family of sportsmen on July 22, 1982 in Yerevan (Armenia). Then her family moved to Belaya Kalitva, Rostov region, and later to Moscow. The girl was engaged in the high jump at the age of seven. Her father, well-known high jumper, became her first coach. And her mother was a basketball player and played for the Armenian SSR.
17-year-old girl entered the Academy of Physical Culture in Moscow.
In 1999 Chicherova won the World Youth Championship in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz with the result of 1.89 m. In 2000, she took the 4th place at the World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chile.
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Anzhelika Timanina, synchronized swimmer

Anzhelika Timanina, synchronized swimmer

Anzhelika Timanina, synchronized swimmer


Anzhelika Timanina is a Russian synchronized swimmer, the former captain of the Olympic team of Russia in synchronized swimming, member of the Moscow team. She won a gold medal in team competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Anzhelika is eleven-time World Champion, seven-time European champion and 2012 Olympic champion. By the way, she is Honored Master of Sports of Russia.
Pretty girl was born on April 26, 1989, in Sverdlovsk. At the age of five she was engaged in swimming.
In 2009, as a member of the Russian team in synchronized swimming (Anastasia Davydova, Natalia Ishchenko, Daria Korobova, Anna Nasekina, Alexandra Patskevich, Svetlana Romashina, Alla Shishkina) Anzhelika made her debut at the World Championship, held in Rome. There she won two gold medals.
At the World Aquatics Championships held in Shanghai (China) in 2011, Timanina became a triple world champion.
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Natalia Vorobyeva, Wrestling Champion

Natalia Vorobyeva, Wrestling Champion

Natalia Vorobyeva, Wrestling Champion


Natalia Vorobyeva is Honored Master of Sports of Russia in freestyle wrestling, 2012 Olympic champion, silver medalist of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, 2013 European champion, 2012 champion of Russia. By the way, she is 2015 World Champion. In 2015, she won bronze at the 1st European Games in Baku. Awesome girl is a Senior lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Pretty girl was born on May 27, 1991 in Tulun.
Kamil Dzhiganchin became her first coach by chance. The girl and her friends came to see medals and cups in the school hall, which was near her house. Dzhiganchin noticed Natalia and offered to start training. Under the leadership of Kamil Natalia became the second at the inter-regional tournament in Tulun twice. Also she was the winner in the personal classification of the Irkutsk region championship among boys.
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Nataliya Antyukh, Russian athlete – Olympic Champion

Nataliya Antyukh, Russian athlete - Olympic Champion

Nataliya Antyukh, Russian athlete – Olympic Champion


Nataliya Antyukh is a Russian athlete who primarily competes in the 400 meters and 400 meter hurdles. You know, she is a repeated World and European champion, Olympic champion. Unfortunately, in 2017, the athlete was deprived of the 2012 Olympic Games silver medal due to the disqualification of the Russian team after the discovery of doping in the Antonina Krivoshapka’s tests.
Pretty girl was born on June 26, 1981 in Leningrad. She has younger brother Kirill (born in 1986), who is also an athlete. When Natalia was eight years old, her mother offered to choose between music and athletic.
Vadim Platonovich Pinchuk became a coach of the 10-year-old girl in 1991. He saw her at the championship of the district and immediately decided that the athlete would be work with him. And in 1998 Natalia became the winner of the first world youth games. When Antyukh was 21 years old she left Vadim Pinchuk.
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