MY FAVORITE ATHLETE Created: Ekaterina Filippova, group 71107
My favorite athlete Anastasia Zueva ( Fesikova ). Zueva Anastasia Valeryevna was born 8 may 1990 in Voskresensk, Moscow oblast. She is a professional Russian swimmer, participant of Olympic games in 2008.
Anastasia Zueva started swimming with its mother. At the age of 5 years Nastya started to train in the pool. At first the workouts were investigated quite difficult and the girl had to make great efforts in order to achieve good results. But over time, the young athlete began to show their talents and became one of the most promising dolls of Russia. At the age of 16 she was already a part of this great sport. The main direction of Anastasia is swimming on the back, it is in this category it has achieved maximum results.
In 2006 Anastasia Zueva showed an excellent result at the European Championship, the girl took the 1 st place. In 2007 at the national Championships she took 1 st place at the distance of 100 meters, 50 meters and in the 4 x 100 metres relay. On the Cup of Russia on short water sportsmen won 1 st place at distances of 50 and 200 meters, and won in the relay 4 x 50 meters. Also in this year she became 5 th in the world Cup. Also this year she participated in the fourth World military games, where he became 2 nd in the 200 m freestyle, 3 rd 50 -freestyle and 3 rd in the 100 m.
At the winter and summer Championships 2008 athlete became the winner of the main prize positions at distances of 50, 100 and 200 meters. Anastasia Zueva took part in the Olympic games in Beijing. The athlete took 5 th place on 10 -meters, 4 th in the 200 m freestyle and 5 th in the combined relay race 4 x 100 meters. She also took part in the European championship, where he became the 1 st at a distance of 50 and 100 meters and 2 nd in the 200 m and in the 4 x 100 m relay.
At the Olympic games 2012 in London won a silver medal in the 200 m backstroke with a time of 2: 05, 92. The gold was won by American Missy Franklin's world record of 2: 04, 06. At a distance of 100 meters backstroke Zueva took 4 -th place.
At the summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan in the 100 m backstroke won a gold medal, setting a new Universiade record. Two days later won the gold medal at the distance of 50 m on the back. The next day in the Russian team Yulia Efimova, Veronika Popova and Victoria Andreeva won the gold medal in the combined relay race 4× 100 m
16 Aug 2013 Anastasia Zueva was married to a bronze medalist of the Olympic games 2012 in London Sergey Fesikov and took his name. 7 Jun 2014 the couple had a son, Maxim.
the story of Anastasia (Russian language )
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